delightfully beachy!

back in september, i came to amanda's party & showed everyone this room

it's my keeping room. just a small room off the kitchen where we watch tv & videos & it's where i keep my cookbooks. it's one of our deer watching rooms, too (we have a herd of 20 in the woods behind our house).

the paint is a milk chocolate brown color, i don't know the actual name, it was that color when we moved in. i like yellows, golds, even oranges so the brown was really getting me down.

i didn't have anything up at the windows other than the wooden blinds that are on all of the windows in the house.

so i needed help & i knew who to ask. you all!

& "you all" came to my rescue. amanda, nancy, songbirdtiff, xazmin, beth, diana, & alanna rose all gave me suggestions of what to do. somehow i read "beachy tv room" in those suggestions & went to town with it!

i kept everything in the room except for the desk & 1 chair & then i shopped the house to accessorize. i love anything having to do with the beach so i had lots of things to choose from.

let me show you around -

a bit of a contrast from this

to this

and from this

to this

i had bought these curtains on sale at target last spring & had never gotten around to doing anything with them.

the beachy frames are from goodwill (brand new from target)

the stupid curtain clips cost as much as the curtains!

this sign was one of my prizes from kimba’s diy day last summer, it’s from whiteflower farmhouse. i love it soooo much!

had a dropcloth so i made a couple of pillows. just took 8 1/2 x 11 canvas & printed this out & sewed it on {before making the pillow ; ) } then i hot glued the twine around it. we’ll see how fast my grandchildren can pull it off & which kid does the deed! hah!

this pillow i left open on the sides & tied it with brown ribbon

my daughter corrie made this little piece for me for christmas

and she did this one, too. once again, using canvas in the printer.

this photo shows the true color of the wall.

the lantern was on my front porch. (probably still has porch crap inside of it). just hung it from a strip of burlap.

this is one of the few new things in the room. just bought it yesterday at homegoods. it was too white, so i used the ralph lauren smoke glaze to “beachy” it up.

this is how it looked before

this is an old mirror of corrie’s that was in my basement, so i dry brushed a bit of ivory paint on it. it’s a dark pine underneath.

gotta go mingle awhile now. thanks, amanda, for hosting this awesome party.

next time i'll boil some shrimp for the get-together.