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Summer Home Tour
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ConcordCottage.com with Lisa Walsh Huff Kroll
(IC: blogger)
I had the opportunity to share our Summer Home Tour and be featured at From My Front Porch To Yours. It’s one of my favorite Blogs and Pamela has a beautiful home, blog and so many great decorating ideas. Each Sunday she features a Home Tour so you get the opportunity to see many different decorating styles. Please go on over and check it out and say hello. Here's what I shared.
We got the keys 2 1/2 years ago and it needed a lot of work, let’s just say. There wasn’t A/C and in Southern California you cannot live without it so that was the first thing we had done. We worked for 3 weeks stripping wall paper, sanding and painting before we moved in. So our home is still a continued labor of love and we continue to work on it as we go.
I’m Lisa from Concord Cottage and here to share with you “How I found my Style.” Our home is located in Monrovia, Ca, was built in 1922 and is a Cottage Style. 3 Years ago we walked through it on an open house but it was way out of our price range. Our house hunting continued for several months, and we were thrilled when the price dropped and they accepted our offer.
Here’s our Living Room. The front door is in the center of the room so there are two sides of the room which is a little challenging at times. It leads into our Dining Room that leads into our Kitchen and Tv Room aka Man Cave.
Just recently I changed our mantel after finding these old windows at a yard sale. I change it up a lot based on the holiday or season so here are few shots just to give you an idea. I love to decorate for holidays. Our furniture in our Living Room were the few pieces we bought new and went with neutrals because I love to change pillows and throws too.
Here is the before picture when we walked through it before we bought it. (Previous owners goodies) I apologize it was taken on my phone but you have to see it to appreciate. It was all dark wood paneling and lots of wall paper. There was carpeting and we pulled it up and refinished the original wood floors on the first floor.
We did so much sanding, caulking and painting that there were mornings I couldn’t hold my tooth brush because my hands were so sore and stiff. We chose a paint that was a taupe and after painting it looks a lil lavender which I now want to change and plan to do that this summer. I found these grey blue wing bag chairs on Craig’s List last year for $150 and LOVE them. I love to hunt for art work and accessories at Thrift Stores which can be a lot of fun.
This is one of our favorite rooms in our house. This is where we have fun dinners with family on Sundays and get together’s with friends. We love the French doors and the big wide moldings. The Dining Room Set is one of our most treasured finds. I found this on Craig’s List and we picked it up the night before we were moving. That’s a funny story but we were so thrilled to get this. It retailed for over $7000 and we got it for $1000. You can find some wonderful things on Craig’s List if you take time and look as so many times people are moving and just want to get rid of things. This set has the large table with leaves, covers, 8 chairs, the huge hutch and the buffet (you’ll see in the next picture). lots more pics on the blog.
It is very small and narrow and has this darling Kitchen Nook, which we love and looks out to our big Oak Tree. The Chandelier was in my brother and sister in law’s house when they bought it and they hated it. When he asked me if I wanted it I jumped up and down!! YES I DO!! I just love it. Lots more pics and our narrow galley kitchen on the blog.
Here's the before picture.
I hope you’re not in shock by the lovely bright gold color. So if you know my husband you would know that he is a DIE HARD Pittsburgh Steelers Fan. He is from there and is such a big fan. I mean he has that logo tattooed on his arm. So when we first moved we painted this room taupe and just had a lot of his accessories. He is such a trooper and helps me with my ideas and constant fixing or changing things so I thought, let’s just go for it. lots more pictures on the blog.
We painted the cabinets a chocolate brown to update them. I gave this piano bench a make over and used an animal print skirt to cover the seat.
I found the drapes for $2 and added some more of that animal print from the skirt to the border on the hemline and on the towels. My friend and I had a yard sale and we traded some items so I got these two pretty pictures and she got two of my lamps.
Off the Steelers Room is the Laundry Room. It is a very, very, very small room and I gave it a vintage theme makeover. On the left are cabinets that hang and below is an area that houses dog stuff, leashes, extra laundry soap, extra bags and various other goodies so I made this Ticking Striped Ruffled Drape to hide all that. On the cabinets I added some vintage looking keys and crystal knobs. I found the Vintage Wash Board at a Yard Sale for $1 and made the banner flags with burlap and chalkboard paper that says Wash, Fold & Repeat.
She wanted purple and we let her pick the color. We found fun black and purple bedding and pillows. Her room has loads of windows and a big bench seat too. I want to make a cushion for that too. The wall sconces were already here and I added the shades and covered them with black fabric and beads.
We found this black n white Zebra Futon at Living Spaces and it is great when she has sleep overs or we have extra company.
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Published June 3rd, 2014 1:32 PM
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