LAUNDRY ROOM ORGANIZATION REFRESH

I have partnered with At Home as a member of the At Home Inspiration Team for this sponsored post and am happy to share their products with you!  All opinions are mine alone. It's hard to believe, but it's been 5 years since I completed my laundry room makeover .  In fact, it was probably my first big reveal after I started blogging!  While it's still mostly ok on the design side, things have really gone downhill organization wise and I needed to get in there and do a little re-vamp! I can't believe I'm actually going to show you these, but this was the current state of the room last week: Ugh!  If it isn't obvious, I had reached the point where everything was just kind of shoved in the cabinets without any kind of rhyme or reason.  And, I know for sure there were things in those cabinets that I hadn't touched in 5 years. Here's the other side, complete with one of my BIGGEST design headaches... the litter box!! I mean, yuck.  It&#...

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DINING AREAS SWITCH UP... SHOP THE HOUSE!

I've been wanting to use a pair of mirrors in the dining room for a long time, and finally got around to putting some up in there this week.  Once I started working on the wall, the ball started rolling for other changes, too! Nesting Place is probably the first home blog I started reading 8 years or so ago, and I think that's the first time I ever heard the term "shop the house."  Love it, because that's what I do all the time!  The idea is to look at things in various rooms and use them in a different way or place than how or where you originally intended. So, I shopped the house and without purchasing one little thing, have a new look in both of our dining areas!  First, the dining room. I started by removing the bird prints and small mirrors that surrounded the china cabinet previously, and hung a pair of mirrors from my bedroom flanking the cabinet. Since I'm thinking about Fall decorating, the blue and white pieces that have been in the...

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DIY CUSTOM MONOGRAMMED DOOR MAT

I've been needing to replace some door mats around our exterior doors and thought a quick monogrammed door mat would be a perfect DIY project to add some personality to our front door. Royal Design Studio Stencils sent me their Cheetah Spots stencil to use in my powder bath makeover earlier this year,  but when I shifted gears from my original plan to a new design, I knew that I still had to use my cute stencil some other way! I only needed a few supplies... a plain door mat (this one is 2x3', sturdy and nice quality, and was $10 from Ikea), the Cheetah Spots stencil , a piece of poster board, a letter for the monograms, tape, and spray paint. I needed a template for my monogram letter larger than any stencils I already had, so I enlarged it on the copier and used the good ole "hang it on a window" trick to trace it on the center of the poster board. Then I cut out the letter leaving an open "G" in the middle of the poster board.  I jus...

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