comfy cozy

So with my summertime dwindling, I started thinking about things I want to do before all the craziness of school starts. Mostly, I want to decorate my new place :) I love a blank canvas BUT we can't paint here so I've been trying to think of different ways to bring in color with white walls and all neutral furniture. Also, we're on a tight budget so this is all going to take some creativity. So today I have set off for inspiration and here's some top picks I've found!

I saw this DIY idea for a doormat and LOVED it! I've been racking my brain trying to think of ways to spruce up our front door area but seeing this, I pictured some potted plants arranged next to it and maybe a cute wreath on the door? I then thought how this would actually make a really cool bathmat. think spa... not sure about that one though. what do you guys think??

sorry for the blur on this one but I loved this little vignette and I've pretty much decided to use this navy, coral, turquoise color scheme for our bedroom. I already have a lot of turquoise accents I can move to the bedroom and steven loves orange so I think this will be perfect to keep our bedroom fresh but not too feminine. yeah yeah??

                                                                   

Some feminine is good though. I love this bold floral headboard and am wanting to do something like this with our own head board. Looks like it's time for a trip to the fabric store!

 I really like this room as well- both the colors and the style. Our bathroom accessories are already blue and brown so this may be something we could do to spice it up a bit if we don't go with the whole "spa" thing.










Framed or not framed, I also thought this"Get Naked" idea was funny for the bathroom. At least it's something I don't think Steven would fight me on haha.

 

These were some fun ideas for curtains. The one on the left would be a great way to dress up boring closet doors. The other would be an easy DIY for sewing curtains. Seeing as a few of our windows are currently bare, I very well may be doing this soon!

I loved this idea because it solves my problem of not being able to paint my walls! This came from a pin on pinterest (addiction!) where the pinner claimed to use some corn starch concoction to adhere the fabric to the wall. I'll have to look into it more but if it's easy to undo/clean up, I will deffffffinitely be doing this all over the place :)

and I just thought this was cute. I actually have a monogrammed letter framed like this but I like the addition of the buttons to add some texture and a bit more character.

Any brilliant suggestions from you guys? My main concern right now is color. I need some ideas on how to bring color and warmth into an apartment full of white walls. dark green carpet throughout doesn't help either haha. What do you guys to do make your place feel like home?

<3 K

ideas and inspiration

guys, it's only been a week since my last post, look out! mostly I'm here because I can't stop scouring random blogs and decorating magazine sites for ideas and inspiration for the new apartment. i can't wait to cozy in with a blank canvas to work with! so i decided i needen an outlet for all this stuff i was coming upon and so here i am! here's a few glimpses of what i've found:

here's one I'm super excited for

at first i passed through this picture almost immediately but just as quickly had to go back to it. i LOVE teal and red. i can't get over it. so i tried to think of where I could incorporate this into our new place without buying a bunch of new stuff. then it came to me... bathroom! the napkins here in the picture are toile which would make a lovely shower curtain that would pop perfectly against pale, barely there aqua walls no? Then between our towels, bath rug and coutertop accessories which are all brown, we'll have enough balance in the room and the dark will really stand out richly against the other colors. YUM!

and more fun

although I'm still slightly debating this, i think we're going to go deep blue in the bedroom. love, right? riiiiiight :) mostly the debating is between the shades of blue. I found this picture and fell in love with the richness of the blue wallpaper (it's hard to see but it's also patterned- which i love but i don't think wall paper is among my options... and probably quite the hassle too!) the other thing i loved about this picture is that it mixed the blue with browns and whites which is what we have and what i wanted in the bedroom although ours will be lighter with more beige that brown brown.

here's another shade of blue i'm loving. what do you think? too bold? or just enough?

here's a spontaneous one for you

i found this one yesterday and LOVED this color combo. we've got a pretty dusty rose, with the deep brown and cream and a slight hint of lime. NEVER would have came up with this my own but then realized this would actually be perfect for our kitchen (which i couldn't figure out!) and it would flow very well with our adjacent living room. for the living room I'm going to do a dark purple, think warm eggplant or plum. I'm not going to do this on all of the walls though. i can't remember for sure how our particular apartment was. i know we have crown molding at least around the ceiling. however if we have it halfway down the walls too, I'll do the purple on the bottom. If we don't have it on the walls, I'll paint the focal wall the dark purple and the rest a sandy beige or something to go with our furniture. I haven't found a great picture that has inspired me for that one so i guess you'll just have to wait for the after pictures that will come somewhere down the road.

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does anyone else get this excited and crazy when the option of paint is presented to them?? I think i've lived with cinder block walls and roommates for too long... while it was wonderful that time has passed and I'm SO ready for my darling big girl apartment.

ooh boy are we just getting to the good stuff <3