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ONE ROOM CHALLENGE WEEK SIX | THE REVEAL

SPRING 2017 REVEAL

ENTRY WAY AND LIVING ROOM

A charming 1942 Connecticut colonial starts to become a home for my family.

Welcome! It’s WEEK SIX of the Spring 2017 One Room Challenge ™ and we made it!

Today, I am sharing the results of my design for our living room and entry way.  I even spruced up the breakfast nookthat is open to the living room and kitchen so we can have a celebratory meal…

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK FIVE

Welcome to Week Five of our One Room Challenge ™ makeover of our entry way and living room. The ORC is hosted by Linda of Calling it Home and media partner House Beautiful and we are nearing the finish line! Can you believe next week will be the big reveal week??!!!

You can see the beginning and weekly progress of our ORC makeover here: 

WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK THREE WEEK FOUR

Week Fivehas been a…

Five Favorite Paint Projects You Can Do This Weekend

Today, I am guest-hosting a fun series called Five Favorites hosted by a fantastic group of home bloggers:  Lisa of Shine Your Light, Pam of Simple Details, Kris of Driven by Decor, and Jennifer of Dimples and Tangles. This week, we are all sharing our five favorite paint projects from our homes. It was a fun trip down memory lane for me!

5 PAINT PROJECTS YOU CAN DO THIS WEEKEND

We all know the…

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK FOUR

OH, HI THERE… YOU BEAUTIFUL NEW STAIR RUNNER YOU!

Welcome to week four of our One Room Challenge ™ makeover hosted by Linda of Calling it Home and media partner House Beautiful.

Today, I wanted to take a moment to share our furniture and flooring choices with you for our living room and entry way. Also, I have some BIG progress on our staircase.

YOU CAN CATCH UP HERE: WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK THREE

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK THREE

Welcome to week three! It’s the halfway point of the One Room Challenge ™ hosted by Calling It Home and media partner House Beautiful.

Lots of progress this week! This is my official sneak-peek…The entry way is looking GOOD!

As you know, we’ve been busy making over our living room and entry way for this challenge and we are making some great progress! This is the first area that we are putting…

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK TWO

It’s week two of the One Room Challenge ™ hosted by Calling it Home and media partner House Beautiful and I am excited to share the progress we made on our space today!

If you are just checking in, you can see our week one plans and befores here:

WEEK ONE

Our week two was quite a productive one! We were able to get all the walls painted, all the grasscloth and mouldings installed, and I evenstart…

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | WEEK ONE

Well…I decided to do it. I’m joining in on this round of the One Room Challenge™ hosted by Linda Weinstein of Calling it Home and media partner House Beautiful. I’m sharing as a guest participant. In the almost five years I’ve been blogging, I have never participated. I’ve been completely content being a spectator and watching from the sidelines as over 200 rooms get renovated and decorated…

AROUND THE HOUSE | THREE

THE PROJECTS & THINGS HAPPENING AT THE #BHVINTAGECOLONIAL

It’s time for another “Around the House” post! This week my kids are on Spring Break from school so we’ve been enjoying the freedom that comes with not having an early AM rise time! Now, we are just waiting on the weather to cooperate so we can go out and have some fun. Looks like today might be the day. Fingers-crossed!

Here’s what’s…

WELCOME!

Welcome to our first Spring Home Tour from our colonial in Connecticut! We just moved into this house a couple of months ago, so you will be seeing it before we begin making it over room by room. A big thank you to Marty of A Stroll Thru Life for organizing another great round of tours. If you are stopping by from Life on Virginia Street, welcome! Doesn’t Sarah have a lovely home?

Are…

The Living Room Design Plan

Hi, Lovelies! Today, I am sharing the living room design plan for our first joint makeover here at our vintage colonial. To catch you up to speed, we are making over our entry way and living room in the weeks ahead.

How’s your week been? This morning, I have been running errands and preparing to hunker down for the next couple of days. I have firewood, I have cocoa for the kiddos, and movie…

AROUND THE HOUSE | TWO

THE PROJECTS & THINGS HAPPENING AT THE #BHVINTAGECOLONIAL

It’s time for another Around the House update here from Connecticut. It’s been a productive week on our new projects.

As for today…not so productive, ha! I’m enjoying another snow day at home with the kids. I’m simmering some chili on the stove and I decided to put off the paint pick-up until the weekend.

Spring keeps teasing us with warm…

Entry Way Makeover Plans

Howdy! I’ve been a busy little bee getting things designed and decided on for our entry way and living room makeover. This week, I made a lot of progress and I’ll share that with you soon. Today, I wanted to share the moodboard for my entry way plans.

BEFORES

Here’s what we are starting with:

Since our first floor has some shared spaces, I need this to be a cohesive design with the living room.…

Around the House | ONE

THE PROJECTS & THINGS HAPPENING AT THE #BHVINTAGECOLONIAL

It’s almost the weekend! Today, I wanted to start a new post series about what’s happening Around the House. I thought it’d be an easy way to keep you guys up on our new projects and happenings with Bliss at Home.

FIRST

I’ve been busy coming up with the game plan for our first room we are making over– our living room and entry way. You…

“There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.” -Thomas Hardy

Hi Everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your Valentine’s Day. Today, I’m sharing the Glam Dinner Table I set up for our Valentine’s night at home.

When the kids were young, we started the tradition that we stay in on Valentine’s Day. Basically, we use this holiday as an excuse to make a really indulgent pasta dish and pull…

Creating the Color Story of Your Home

Hi All! I trust you had a good weekend! We got hit with our first big Nor’Easter since we moved here. For a girl who loves being out in the snow it was magical. Today, I wanted to break from the before tours (you can see them HERE and HERE) and share a bit about what I worked on this weekend. I’m talking about how I came up with the color story for our entire home makeover. It may help you in cre…

Home Sweet Connecticut | The Befores: Living Room and Open Concept

Hello! It’s fun sharing the befores of our home here in Connecticut. Our vintage colonial makeover is going to begin soon! YAY! Today, I’m showing you the befores of our formal living room that is open to the breakfast area and kitchen. You can catch the befores of the entry way and staircase HERE if you missed it.

I’ve been doing some scheming this week and nailing down exactly what I want to do…

Home Sweet Connecticut | The Befores: Entry Way and Staircase

Hi All! Let the sharing begin! As you saw last week, I am settled in enough here to start sharing and working on some projects. Today, I thought I’d show you our entry way and staircase and walk you through what I’d like to accomplish in this area of our home.

The staircaseis the first thing you see when you open our front door. I’m not going to lie, I totally love that. As a kid, I always…