Category Archives: Around the House

Home Office Makeover: turning a builder-grade study into a modern, organized and colorful office and home library for the Fall 2016 One Room Challenge.

One Room Challenge {Week 1}: Home Office Makeover – The Before

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Today is an exciting day, friends!  The Fall One Room Challenge, hosted by Calling It Home, kicks off this week and I am back for another round as a Guest Participant (you can see this round’s Featured Designer’s here). This past spring, I turned a spare bedroom into a pretty and well-organized craft room. This time, I’ll be taking on my home office makeover, a.k.a “the” project, a.k.a my dream.

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Beautiful, cozy neutral and purple fall home tour is a fresh take on fall decorating. Lots of decor ideas for fall that you can re-create.

Fall Home Tour 2016

Beautiful, cozy neutral and purple fall home tour is a fresh take on fall decorating. Lots of decor ideas for fall that you can re-create.

Hello, hello friends! I hope you’re in the mood for fall because I’ve got a fall home tour to share with you today! Well, actually, there are lots of fall home tours you can check out today and every day this week!

My friend Meg from Green with Decor invited me to share my fall home tour along with 33 other bloggers this week. I’ve already visited some from earlier this week and let me tell you—they are good! So many beautiful home decorating ideas for fall, and some non-traditional uses of color, too! Which is a great segue into my fall home tour, which of course, features plenty of purple!

C’mon in!

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My favorite fall style staples for my wardrobe and my home include wood textures and a pop of purple—such a unique and trendy seasonal color!

Fall Style Staples and JORD Wood Watches

My favorite fall style staples for my wardrobe and my home include wood textures and a pop of purple—such a unique and trendy seasonal color!

Thank you to JORD Wood Watches for sponsoring this post. All content and opinions expressed here are my own. To read my full disclosure policy, please click here

I’ve been busy getting our home ready for fall with all of the staples of this time of year, like pumpkins, wood grain textures and, of course, my signature color—purple!

Purple is a color I’ve always been drawn to. I love its depth and richness, how it can be bold or subtle. I think this makes it a lovely, if not slightly unexpected, color for the fall season. You’ll see plenty of splashes of purple in my fall home tour coming later this week, but you’ll also find it in my wardrobe this season in the form of my favorite new accessory—my JORD Wood Watch!

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Get inspired with these fall decorating ideas from Home for Fall, my new e-Book filled with beautiful home decorating ideas and creative and do-able crafts.

A Look Inside Home for Fall

Get inspired with these fall decorating ideas from Home for Fall, my new e-Book filled with beautiful home decorating ideas and creative and do-able crafts.

I hate to rush the seasons, but I have to admit that I am really looking forward to fall. Our temperatures have been stifling here this summer, and I won’t mind it one bit when the humidity wanes. Fall re-invigorates me and inspires me to freshen up my home. During the summer it’s just too hot to be building things or running around redecorating the house!

If you’re looking forward to fall, or are on the hunt for a few new fall decorating ideas, you’ve come to the right place! Today I’d like to give you a peek inside my Home for Fall e-Book and share some of the projects I created especially for it.

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