I wish I could say this Curtis Jeré owl is now sitting on my bookshelf at home but alas … it’s price tag kept it anchored to the shelf at Wonders on Woodland. If you have an extra $225 lying around this beautiful piece of metal sculpture could be yours or … mine if you buy it and then give it to me. That would be fine. Have I mentioned my birthday is on Saturday?
For now, I’ll just enjoy this photo taken with J’s phone.
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It’s been a while since I’ve updated about our master bathroom renovation. That’s because we stopped working on it for a while. But, I do have some good news to report – the sink and vanity are installed!
Jason and I tiled the top of the vanity and then he put in the sink and faucet and did all the plumbing.
The bathroom is almost completely done. Just a few finishing touches that we’ll get around to eventually … baseboards, a door to the laundry room, caulking around the vanity. But it’s mostly done and fully functional. Yay!
In case you’re bored:
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Tonight my mom and I went to see the movie Babies. On the way we talked about babies, getting pregnant, cooky baby names. It was a funny girls night. I wish my sister could have been with us!
The documentary was cute – lots of oohs and awes and chuckles at baby antics. If you delight in watching babies play and learn and interact, you’ll enjoy watching this. There is no plot or dialog so it’s tempting to keep whispering back and forth about this antic or that observation.
The style of documentary reminded me of March of the Penguins (I’m one of the few who enjoyed that movie and didn’t fall asleep watching it.) I’d recommend it for what it is.
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Last weekend Jason and I had a couple of opportunities to go scootin’ with our buddy Leila. It was so fun! So, yes, now we want one of our own. Again.
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I recently saw an article on Exterior colors for 1960’s Houses on Retro Renovation (the mac-daddy of mcm home blogs). Good timing because some friends/neighbors of ours have a 1960’s brick ranch that needs painted – *needs* because it’s an ugly color of carrot-orange brick! I took the initiative to mock up some color suggestions for them. The trim and gutters have recently been painted chocolate brown.
Current
Lemon Loaf Yellow
Cool Coastal Blue
Elephant At-Least-Its-Not-Beige Gray
Charcoal Taupe Gray
I’m trying to nudge them toward something besides beige/cream/vanilla/blah. Which do you like best?
(CBB)
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I don’t think I’ve ever done a tour of our modest mid-century modern ranch on this blog. Jason and I live in this 1420 sq. ft. 3 bedroom 2 bath home. We love it so much that we can never imagine moving! Come on in, I’ll show you around…
Living Room
Studio (just a peek)
Dining Room
Kitchen
Hall
Office (the only clean corner in this room, which is currently in transition)
Bathroom
Master Bedroom
Master Bathroom (still under renovation)
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Bathroom renovation has been slowly coming along the past couple of weeks. Jason hung the new mirror over the vanity.
We hung the “relax” sign made by etsy seller William Dohman. It’s hand cut recycled wood that has been dry brush painted. I custom ordered this because Jason and I both wanted a spa-like retreat and relax seems to be the perfect reminder as I step into the steamy shower and wash away all the stresses of the day.
And the bathroom floors have been tiled! We decided on gray 12″ x 24″ porcelain.
The first 11+ chapters:
Here’s our history:
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I know it’s been already talked about in the home/lifestyle/design blogsphere (that’s how I found out about it) but I wanted to share my thoughts about the new Bravo reality show 9 By Design. I really enjoyed watching the premiere last week. (If you, like me, don’t pay for cable tv you can watch it on Hulu.)
It’s a reality show about Robert and Courtney Novogratz. They’re self-taught interior designers, house builders/stagers and sort-of-flippers. The couple, whose company is called Sixx Design, renovates or builds new homes; designs them with thrifted, flea market, new, international and unique pieces; lives there until someone offers to buy or rent it; then they move and start over.
They do most of their work in NYC. What makes the show particularly interesting is that they have 7 kids. In the first episode Courtney is 8.5 months pregnant with their 7th and they’re moving into a new temporary apartment … a small (2bR for 9 people) temporary apartment.
People can say what they want about the couple’s bickering and lying to each other over the phone (I believe most of it is staged anyway) but I love the couple’s energy and creativity and passion for what they do. And I love how having a family hasn’t slowed them down one bit.
I’m inspired and entertained. A couple CAN be successful entrepreneurs and still have a fun and happy family.
Here are their kids: Wolfgang (12), twin sisters Tallulah and Bellamy (10), Breaker (8), Five and Holleder (4) and baby on the way Major. In case you can’t tell by the unusual names, they’re all boys except for the twin sisters.
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I believe I owe you a bathroom update! Sorry it’s been a while. Things have been slowly and steadily moving along in our master bathroom renovation.
Let’s see … we have walls painted and outlet and light switch covers on. (We decided on SW Contented.)
We have a light above the vanity.
We have tile backer on the floors.
We have a towel rack on the wall.
We have robes, toilet paper and art hanging on the walls.
We have a second shower head (half) installed. It’s not actually attached to the plumbing yet. But it looks pretty doesn’t it?
Here’s our history:
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There are flowering trees and bushes everywhere! I’m tempted to snap pictures the whole drive home.
Our neighbor across the street has 2 beautiful flowering trees in his front yard that we get to enjoy from our living room windows. The left is a magnolia, the right is a flowering plum.
We also have a couple of small Japanese flowering plum trees in our yard. This one is flowering more this year than it ever has before!
And some new pictures of our little mid-century modern ranch with our golden yellow forsythia beautifully accenting our front door.
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