Home Sweet Home

So i know a few weeks back i said soon id be posting some pics of our new small but designed new place. I posted a slurry of pics on fb but i thought id give you a nice snapshot of the main area and 1 thing i did NOT do on fb was focus on the little details

so heres the living room, dinning room/office, and kitchen
we finally got some of wedding images blown up to display ;) its a tad odd having yourself staring at you in a 11X16 but not to sound biased but theyre very awesome, artistic photos..so why not show them off. Also, i finally get to put my lounge chair in the living area-- ive had this baby for 4 years and this is prob the first some even knew i had it lol, we also just got an AWESOME paiting from Italy from Jennifer that we are soo excited to have- just cool and colorful plus makes us feel more international ;) thank you jennifer!!! and of course, no full shot is complete without DOMO somewhere..our child must be included ;)... and some sort of moose :P

next well go into the bedroom to see some of the artsy stuff in there
we had been trying to do without a dresser for a long time but it was quite obvious we needed one in this new place...buuut... we had like no money at this point to buy anything wed really like (our streamline, modern tastes usu mean lots of moolah) so i was talking to my mom on the phone and lo and behold they had my sisters old dresser just sitting in the garage! we picked it up, mom and dad were WAAAY to sweet and cleaned it up, then i came home and painted everything. before it was a dingy shiny white with gold brass handles... so i used some of our grey left over from the living room, sanded it, and repainted...then i took the handles and spray painted them with shiny black paint to give a chic eclectic feel to it.... then topped it off with an awesome leaf platter we got as a wedding gift but hadnt yet got to display, some awesome puff flowers i bought (also wya back when) as a wedding idea... and then some little details... and i am so excited about my new artwork...i got it off etsy.. its a page of an antique book with an owl painted on it...then i put it on some rustic looking scrapbook paper i had and VOILA...and you know brent and i also love our OWLS! (btw we saw a HUGE one flying in big D the other day)

on to another view of the room...tv side
the hutch thing was given to us by brents parents..its one of the only things that can support that mammoth of a TV in the apt so they go as a pair for now :) above it is a new peice of art i made the other day. i bought these metal stencils a few years back in Comfort, TX while on vacation. i found them while rooting through stuff at my parents house so i was determined to use them. if you saw any of our old apt pics, we also have a TON of black frames so i figured why not work that in... i used a little paint from the grey in the living room, blue on the bed wall, and yellow as accent to splatter pain the backgrounds, then i hot glued the stencils to the paper, framed it up nice, and here it is ;) then i painted those boxes on the right side to match the decor, etc etc..so again, being thrifty, the only thing i bought was that new vase on the left side...everything else i had in tow to transform. speaking of that vase lets get a close up...
this is one of my new fav things. i was playing on etsy the other day looking for "nature-inspired art" cause i do love it so and i stumbled on this...its birch wood surrounding a glass vase and can be personalized as you wish... the vendor i believe burned in our initials in a heart :) i went to michales as they were having a fall foliage sale and got some cheap fake foliage to adorn the vase and i LOVE it!!

last view of the bedroom shows off our fav color in the apt and the other thing i got off etsy :)
this print  had " You make me happy when skies are gray" and then at the bottom "Brent [heart] Lauren" it is so clean (which brent loves), dorky (which we both are), and matched our color scheme.... it was meant to be right, i had to get it... the lamp stands i bought back when i was in BELTON on clearance and the shades we got at ikea last year.. some again the only thing we purchased was that print... saving money left and right...

now i have changed the photos out in those frames to the right and another photo display on the tv wall that wasnt in the shot cause lets face it... weve got some pretty friends and fun pics so i had to update ;) and of course my CS girls are in a few

so thats about it...we did a really good job of using what we had and not buying extra stuff we didnt need...just a little creativity and we got it done