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9.19.2016

Philadelphia Suburbs Modern Farmhouse Bedroom Reveal

It's reveal time, y'all!

You may remember when I shared the design plan for this modern farmhouse master bedroom in the Philadelphia suburbs a few months ago and I'm excited to show it to you today in its completion! This project was a blast to pull together, and I was thrilled that it was local so I could go snap some photos on a beautiful Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago.

My clients, Courtney and Kit, were going through some big transitions this summer including a move from a tiny one bedroom apartment in the city to a two bedroom in the suburbs and both starting new jobs, so the last thing they wanted to do was figure out how to furnish their bedroom. That's where Mix & Match stepped in to help - I created a design plan and then all they had to do was purchase the items and install them in their new home.

Here's what the final design board looked like:

And here's the finished room!

To see more photos and read more about the process, head on over to the Mix & Match blog. That's where I'll be sharing full e-design project reveals and more. You can also follow Mix & Match on Instagram in between posts for more design goodness!

If you or someone you know needs interior design help in their home - whether a big project or small - feel free to contact me. I'd love to help!

1.04.2016

Master Bedroom Update {Philly Row House Reno}

Happy New Year, y'all! I hope you've had a good start to 2016 so far. We spent the last 2.5 weeks traveling for Christmas and New Year's and I'm eager to get settled back in at home again and share some of the progress we've made on our row house in Philadelphia. So much has happened! I didn't mean for there to be such a long hiatus between progress posts (oops), but with the holidays being so busy I decided it was just fine to hold off.

How about we kick off the new year with the master bedroom progress? Since I left you with a teaser of it in my last post, that's probably a good place to start. Here's what it's looking like currently:

If you remember the before and real estate photos, you might recall that this room was, for lack of a better word, poop brown, and had the same wall-to-wall carpet as the rest of the house. We ripped that carpet out, installed beautiful new hardwood floors, painted the walls and trim, and moved on in.

This room has a lot of wall bump-outs (making it almost cross-shaped), and therefore furniture placement is a little tricky. After starting with putting the bed on the left wall, which is where the previous owners had theirs, we quickly realized that best place for the bed was actually under the windows.

Don't be scared to put the bed under the windows, friends! It's totally ok! I'll be showing you some great examples of that in my next post.

Having the bed under the windows made the room feel so much more open, and it helped with the "flow" of the room giving us easy access both sides of the bed, closet and dresser.

I absolutely love this light fixture we put up (it's from Lowe's - the full source list for this room is at the end of the post). It was the first fixture I picked out for the house and it's a great focal point for this room.

The dresser fits perfectly along the left wall (that's where we put the bed originally).

The closet is on the wall opposite the bed and - amazingly - fits all of our hanging clothes! I did a major closet clean-out before we moved and I think that helped :). I would love to put some sort of closet organization system in there at some point, but we're happy with the amount of space it gives us!

I'm thrilled with how well this room has come together so far. The only new items we purchased for this room are the long curtain rod and the light fixture. Everything else we had before. I have a running list of projects for this space in my head (and every other room in the house, ha!), but I'm trying to take things one day at a time and live in it for awhile before making any big decisions.

One project that I'll probably tackle sooner than later is a new headboard. Since the bed is in front of the windows, I want something that's a little shorter to let as much light in as possible and not block the windows as much. It'll probably be another upholstered headboard, but we'll see! The other one will likely move to the guest room.

That's about it for today! Let's take one last look at the master...

Hope you enjoyed seeing the progress on this room!

Source List:

Headboard: DIY project. Instructions are here.
Duvet and shams: TJMaxx
Gray and white striped pillows: H&M (no longer available)
Pendant light fixture: Lowe's
Blue blanket: West Elm (no longer available)
Curtains: IKEA Vilborg (these are SUCH great quality and a steal for lined curtains!)
Rug: RugsUSA Homespun Chevron
Nightstands: family pieces
Dresser: family piece

11.11.2015

New House Renovation Progress

Happy Wednesday, friends! Thanks for all your kind words about our new home last week! In case you missed it, catch up here with the empty house "before" tour and real estate photos (there are some gems in there...). We have been hard at work over the past several weeks getting the place into shape so we can move in THIS weekend. Yep, this weekend! It's crunch time. We'll see how much we can finish between now and then - I can't wait to see it all come together. SO much work has been done (I've been calling it our month-long renovation blitz), but there is still plenty to do and we've already got plans for future projects.

Let's walk through some progress photos today, shall we? Also, please forgive the crazy lighting and slight graininess of some of these photos - construction work doesn't always wait for perfect light and camera setups so I had to snap some quick shots with my iPhone along the way!

If you follow me on Instagram (@mayricherfullerbe), you already saw a sneak peek of the very first project we did when my father-in-law (FIL) arrived: rip out the two closets in the dining room (below).

Goodbye, closets! The reasons we removed them were two-fold: one, they made the dining room feel really small, and two, they had to go to make way for our plans to open up the dining room to the kitchen. We have plenty of storage elsewhere in the house, so we weren't worried about losing that space.

Soon after that we turned our attention to the second floor. Room by room, we ripped out nasty carpet, prepped the floors (oh how I dislike you, carpet tacks, staples and old flooring nails) and started laying the new, beautiful hardwood floors. The next few photos are from the installation in our master bedroom.

In case any of you are in the market for new flooring, we went with 2.25-in wide prefinished oak hardwood from Lowe's (Bruce Addison Oak Hardwood in Spice to be exact). I'll probably dedicate a separate post to our hardwood floors, but so far we are happy with them. They're perfect for the more traditional style of our home, and many of the other homes in our neighborhood have similar hardwood floors, so trading the carpet for them is one way we're bringing this house back up to snuff :). And yes, we did install them ourselves with the help of my FIL. Installing 1000 square feet of hardwood is not for the faint of heart!

In the photos above, we had also primed and painted the walls (Behr Premium Plus color matched to Benjamin Moore Winter White). Shall we compare this to the before of this bedroom for a sec?

So fresh and so clean!

One fun surprise we found when we pulled the carpet in the hallway and other bedrooms was the original hardwoods. They had the coolest band of dark wood inlay along the edges. They just don't make 'em like that anymore, do they? It would've been cool if we had been able to refinish them, but this house had a major fire 10 years ago and many of the floor were ripped up due to fire and water damage. The ones that remained were badly warped and stained.

Off we go with the installation down the hallway!

See the original hardwoods to the left of the new ones? This is the back bedroom (and also my office). Someone had a field day splattering and/or tracking paint on them at some point!

Here's my office from the other side with the floors finished.

It's amazing what a huge different new floors and fresh paint can make.

I think I'll save the first floor progress for the next reno post since this one is getting super long! The house is coming along, that's for sure, and I can't wait to get in there. We've got lots of little things left to do, but ready or not, we're moving this weekend!

More to come!