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June 20, 2017 · in Home decor and remodeling

Redecorating: Home Decor from Rod Works & our Rugs USA Living Room Rug

Last summer we did a MAJOR remodel in our great room. See all the before and after pics HERE. Since then I’ve been on the look out for new decor to go with our freshly painted walls new carpet, and new couch. The other day I got to have a MOM DAY! I got a babysitter and set out to do a little shopping and a little pampering. I went to Rod Works and found the CUTEST decor, then to Form Spa for a really awesome facial treatment. Find out why they drew my blood and put it on my face in my recent YouTube video.

Don’t you love the new clock and latter? It’s just perfect for this space. One of the only parts of the house that we didn’t change. Our house was built in 84 and I really love this old brick wall and wood burning stove.

I also got a couple a new living room rug from RugsUSA.com. A new Downy Faux Sheep Skin accent for the green chair. And another rug for the great room. See more details in the video tour I just uploaded to YouTube.

The rug below is called Mist Shades Granite from Rugs USA.

October 10, 2016 · in Home decor and remodeling· Life of a Wannabe

Our Living Room Remodel: A Great Room Transformation

This room ended up being a much bigger project than anticipated and caused a lot of stress, but of course now that it’s all said and done, I couldn’t be happier with the way our living room remodel turned out. So first of all I HAVE to share all the before pics, then I will show the big reveal and details of where I got everything as well as who I worked with to make this all possible.

Before we moved into this house this room was an indoor pool. So there is an empty pool right below this floor, kinda creepy if you ask me. We have a little opening in the floor where we can get down under there and have actually made good use of the space by putting our food storage down there. Who knows, maybe we’ll need it as a bomb shelter one day. Let’s hope not.

I will tell you about each space and provide links through out this post and will also add a list of all the links at the end of the post for your convenience.

So NOW, here are the AFTER pics of our fantastic living room remodel! What do you think?

This bar has been so fun to have even though we don’t actually drink alcohol. We’ve used it for a lot of other things though. Like for example it’s been a great place to store my kombucha drinks in the mini fridge. I store toys and board games in the cabinets and even created a little tea station on the countertop, love me some tea! Peggy and Ali were the ones who helped me choose paint colors, carpet and tile. It was so nice having the help of professional designers because all these decisions were so overwhelming to me. There are like 50 shades of gray, how do you like my humor? I actually haven’t read the book or seen the movie. Anyway, Peggy and Ali were so helpful when making these decisions, took a lot of stress of my shoulders. I love the paint colors and I LOVE the tile floor and the subway tiles for the backsplash. We used Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray for the cabinets and Simple White for the walls.

And this RUG! I just LOVE this rug from www.RugsUSA.com . I actually own like 7 other rugs from RugsUSA. They have the best selection and the BEST prices. I have a bunch at my house in St. George and a few in this house as well.

Now for the countertop. We weren’t actually planning on getting a new countertop at first, but you know how it goes. Once you start a project it’s hard not to go all out and do it right. So we decided to get new Quartz countertops from BedrockQuartz.com. Heather is the one in the striped shirt in this picture. She helped me pick the right color and find us the best price. So be sure to ask for her when you call Bedrock.

I was so excited with the way the countertop turned out. Beautiful white marble look without the heavy price tag. Plus Quartz is actually way less maintenance than marble.

Now can we talk about this floor? I’m in looooove!!!! So cool that they make tile that looks like wood, even has wood like texture. Choosing the color of this tile was quite the process. I bought and returned the tile like 3 different times. I couldn’t make up my mind. Then I finally found the perfect color and sizes. You can get the tile through our carpet guy Tony Workman WorkmanFlooring.com

And the person we had lay the tile and do the molding and other odds and end jobs is Rigo (385)249-7600. He was so great! Such a hard worker and did a fantastic job.

Now for the lighting. Oh how I love these wall sconces I got from Lighting Design. Lighting Design is my favorite place to go because of their huge selection. I looked at Home Depot and Lowes but nothing compares to the options at Lighting Design.

The question we get asked all the time is, did Sean kill that Texas long horn? The answer is no. He likes to hunt deer and elk, and he appreciates the art of good taxidermy. So he bought this steer and I actually love how it looks with the new paint color and our wood slat ceiling.

I found this painting at World Market and I was really excited about it because it fits perfect with the rest of my decor.

And the couch. Oh the couch. Kind of a sore subject if you ask Sean. We’ve never spent more than a couple thousand on a couch before and when I went shopping for couches I found this one that I just fell in love with. So I brought Sean to see it at Ashley Furniture and when he saw the price tag he was NOT happy about it. Eventually he gave in because he realized how awesome it was, or because he’s all too familiar with the term, “Happy wife happy life”. So even though it was WAY more than we planned on spending, it is seriously the BEST! So comfortable, great size and I loooooove the color.

And you know how it goes, once you start in one room it’s hard not to just say to yourself, well, we might as well paint the rest of the house, and we might as well change out the lighting and paint the cabinets in the kitchen while we’re at it. Soooooo we did…

Here is the BEFORE PIC

Painted all the walls the Simple White color, as well as the oven hood and island.

Then of course we had to paint the dining table and chairs too. Got new pendant lights and a orb chandelier from Lighting Design.

I love my new pendant lights from Lighting Design.

Interior Design: Peggy and Ali (801)556-4788 or (801)864-4010 for help in choosing paint color, tile, carpet, and decor.

Carpet and Tile: Tony Workman WorkmanFlooring.com located in Murray, Utah (801)755-5931

Couch from Ashley Furniture: If in Southern Utah ask for Phil Kiser (435)619-3769 and if you’re in Salt Lake you should call my uncle Peter Escobar at the Salt Lake location (801)443-4663 these guys will hook you up if you tell them I sent you.

Rug: RugsUSA.com

Countertop: Heather at Bedrock Quartz (801)380-8716

Framer/Handy Man/Tile guy: Rigo (385)249-7600

Lighting: Lighting Design

August 31, 2016 · in back to school· Home decor and remodeling· homeschooling· Uncategorized

Homeschool Room Ideas: Our Unbelievable Homework Station Remodel

I’m so excited to share these before and after pictures of our homeschool room. I’ve been working with my amazing friend Amy Anderson. She’s a professional organizer and interior designer. Not only does she have many talents but she’s also the sweetest most loving person. You should definitely go follow her on Instagram @lovethelifeilivemom and check out all her creative pics and organizing tips.

Most of you know that I homeschooled my kids for a few years. I LOVED it, but as my family grew, it became a little too much for me to handle. So now I have my two older kids in public school and doing some fun preschool homeschool with Brooklyn and Owen. I can handle two kids at a time and that’s pretty much my max.

This room started out as Sean’s office, then became our homeschool room. Now it’s a more ORGANIZED school room (thanks to Amy) that the kids love. They spend a lot of time in there, creating art, PLAYING school, doing homework, practicing guitar and doing computer work. It’s been a great space to have. So without further adieu .

Here are the BEFORE pics.

And now for the after!!!

Amy was so sweet and helped me figure out the best way to place the furniture and organizing totes.

I’m more than happy with the way it all turned out. The kids absolutely love to play and create in this room, and I love it because it’s so clean and organized. Most everything in this room is from IKEA. The black desk is from Pottery Barn, the kids round desk is from Lakeshore Learning (I painted it), and the calendar magnet board is from CalendarsandChores.com. Don’t you just love this magnet board? It’s super cute and functional. It comes with magnetic strips to create a calendar and dinner menu.

This was also Amy’s doing. She loves to organize by color and now so do I. Makes everything look so neat and pretty.

Kallie Cooper helped me capture these great shots by the way. If you need a photographer or videographer you should definitely contact her. She’s the best!

Owen’s literally picking his nose in this picture, haha. I love it! And isn’t the clock perfect? I got it from IKEA, and the wood arrow I got from Target in the craft section (I spray painted it).

This couch is also from IKEA.

August 7, 2016 · in Home decor and remodeling

Our Fantastic Bathroom Remodel

fantastic bathroom remodel

We’ve lived in our Salt Lake home for about 10 years now. When we first moved in it seemed to be the perfect home for us. It’s an older home so of course we had a few ideas as far as updating goes, but the location, layout, size, was all just perfect. Over the years we’ve been remodeling like crazy. Right now we are in the process of remodeling our great room, lots of pics on that project coming soon. But today I wanted to show you how we turned out tiny little masterbath into an extreme make over and got the perfect bathroom remodel. We basically opened the space above the garage and were able to create a massive walk in closet with space for a washer and dryer, sauna, steam room, and workout station. Who knew we had so much dead space available to expand this much.

So you see those white doors in the bathroom? That was our closet. It’s like The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, behind those doors reveals a magical world we never knew existed.

So basically we just opened up the space above the garage and carried it over all the way into the great room and created a balcony for our bathroom remodel.

NOW LOOK AT IT!

FUN FACT: I gave birth to my 4th child (Owen) in this bath tub.

Here’s a little bonus room we added. A place for a sauna and a little study desk. This area has turned into my little scripture study and blogging space. It’s perfect.

Be sure to check out my living room remodel HERE!

July 20, 2015 · in Home decor and remodeling

Redecorating Again

I was looking through some old blog posts and found some pictures of our loft. I thought it would be fun to share some before and afters again because I recently changed up the decor.

This is what it looked like when we moved in almost 10 years ago.

And this is how I decorated it soon after we moved in.

And now this is what it looks like…

This loft is doubling as a bedroom at the moment. Brooklyn likes to sleep close to us. So the pullout couch just pretty much stays pulled out as a bed all the time.

Here are a few more pics.

Here’s the old…

And now the new…

May 2, 2011 · in Home decor and remodeling

New Home!

A couple weeks ago we spent some time in St. George looking for a place to buy. No we are not moving, just need a place to stay to escape these extremely LONG winters in Salt Lake City.

I mean seriously, snow in MAY? That’s ridiculous!

So the only solution was to get one of these in the WARM and sunny St. George.

I’m SO excited about this place! All I’ve been doing for the past week is shopping furniture and home decor. Can’t wait to show you pictures of what it’s going to look like after I’m finished with it. Here’s what it looks like now, but stay tuned for all the after pics. Decorating this place is going to be SO much fun for me!!!