Bedroom - New Comforter & Floating Shelves

We finally got a new comforter (comfy cozy) and D installed floating shelves on the other side of the wall - across from the frame collage. Everything goes together perfectly and it's great to have more shelves to keep all our travel knick knacks on!

Forgot to get action shots - but here they are!

Final shot - with the grey comforter

Woo NEW COMFORTER!!

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Bali Honeymoon Gods Takeover the Bedroom

One of our biggest purchases on the honeymoon was a large, beautiful batik we purchased in Bali. It is bright and beautiful - and depicts the Balinese honeymoon god and goddess. It was our biggest art investment so far, but so worth it! It's going to be expensive to get it framed (we've gotten several quotes), so for right now we have it just hanging by 2 teeny tiny safety pins that won't leave a mark. It's nice to finally have it hanging up after having it boxed up for 6 months post honeymoon.

Love that you can see it in every mirror reflection!

The vacuum just hanging out while we create a mess

Looks amazeballs with the finished room!

D admiring his hard work :)

Creating a Bedroom Frame Collage

8 months in... we are finally hanging frames in the bedroom!! I was so excited, and it was one of the finishing touches in the bedroom that really made it feel like home. We have mainly all black and white frames, so we just hung up the black and white ones on the wall. We wanted it to be a more scattered look, so we just hung one - and then the rest how we wanted them. No measuring = awesome.

Hanging frames in an organized, random matter :)

Random Love

Oh yeah we hung up candle holder things on either side too!

Random perfection, with room to add on :)

Updating the Bedroom Mirror

We purchased this long, standing mirror on Amazon as an alternative to a dorm like wall hanging mirror. It was light wood, but D painted it white and it looks much nicer, and fits in with the newly paint white dresser too!

Starting out

Looking good D!

Finished product in its home :)

Living Room: 7 Month Before & After

We have a few final finishing touches to truly finish the living room. But as of this past weekend all of the piles are gone and (expect for the 6 canvas prints) all of the decorating is done (until our next trip...)
It feels so good to have this all together. It's exactly how we wanted it to be :) See pictures below for the living room progress March - October!

First look at the apartment

Moving hell

Got our first couch

BEFORE - March 2012

AFTER - October 2012

D Makes a Bookshelf

We have a decent amount of books (lots of travel books!) and really wanted to make a bookshelf. D made a shelf in our studio and it added just the right amount of cozy (if that makes any sense)

So we made a trip back to our old neighborhood in Chelsea and grabbed a bunch of supplies that we needed to continue to finish up the apartment. We also shop at our local hardware stores but unfortunately they don't have a huge selection.
The bookshelf looks great and it's nice to have a place to keep books so we can not clutter other areas :)

The beginning

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