Fab Friday | DIY Flooring

Happy Friday, Moxies! Hope everyone is having a GREAT start to their day. When thinking about what to post about today, DIY flooring popped into my head because I love me some cool and unique flooring. Flooring can be soooo expensive, so when I see something someone has done that is super cool and a lot cheaper than the average, I am all over that. I mean SUPER COOL and CHEAPER, you can’t really go wrong, right? And even if some of the flooring options may not be as durable as tile, laminate or hardwood I am ok with that because I usually get an itch to try something different after a few years:)

So this first one I found last year and just melted, I absolutely loved it so I did something similar in our basement. I only did a section in the back where I wanted to make my own little craft room, which the floor turned out great I am just waiting on my husband to finish up the drywall so I can put shelves in and organize.

This one I just saw the other day and how cute is this? I love it! To bad my husband is not a little more adventurous when it comes to home projects.

Here are just a few more examples of flooring I love. I really really like old hardwood flooring that is painted or stencilled.

     

This one is actually just plywood cut and stained, awesome!

This one is screen printed art paper!

I don’t know about you guys but I want to rip out all my flooring and get to town on some new projects, my husband will love that:) Hopefully you are inspired to get a little adventurous and try some new and creative flooring options. Have a fabulous Friday!

Moody Monday | Chillax Living Room

Good Morning Moxies! It is time for another Moody Monday.  I have been thinking a lot about changing up my living room space and thought I would share my vision with you.

My inspiration for the space is this little vignette that I have started to put together. Yes, that clock is Threshold by Target. I just couldn’t help myself.

My vision for the space was to pair vintage decor with modern bold patterns. This blue chipper fabric has been on my radar for awhile and I was excited to find the Greek key in the same color. For the color palette, I wanted to keep the colors soft with exception of the orange. I like how a pop of color can really make a statement in a room.

When I saw this Chillax pallet sign on The Caldwell Project, I thought it would be the perfect focal point for my living room. The word “Chillax” Is exactly how I want to feel when I am watching TV winding down after the boys are in bed. I might recreate it with my own little flare, but I. LOVE. IT.

I can’t wait to get started on this space. My plan is to DIY everything but the love seat, chairs and rug. I will keep you all posted on the progress, but the first step will be convincing the hubs to get different furniture. Do you think I can do it?

Fab Friday | Celebrating Moms

This Friday, I thought I would focus on one of the most fab days of the year. A day where we celebrate all moms, Mother’s Day. Becoming a mom was not only one of the greatest moments in my life, but it was also when I looked at my own mom and realized how amazing she was. She is always there when I need her and she has always done everything in her power to help make my dreams come true. Thanks, Mom!

I think all moms deserve a big thank you, and in celebration of Mother’s Day I wanted to share some blogs, that make me laugh, inspire me and sometimes even make me cry. And if you know me at all I can cry when I laugh or when I am inspired!

Katy in a Corner is hilarious! Her You Tube video on how to be the perfect mom has been all over Facebook, but if you happened to miss it you have to watch it. It will be the perfect video to start out your Mother’s Day. You can watch it while you work out that morning, ha!

I know all of you probably have your Mother’s Day gifts bought/made and wrapped. But just in case you are a last minute person unlike me, here are some bloggers that have collected some fantastic ideas. (BTW if I were Katy in a Corner this would be the moment where the camera pans to my unfinished unwrapped DIY project for Mother’s Day)

The first blogger is Cassie from Hi Sugar Plum!. She basically has done the shopping for you and has pulled together some lovely finds. It might be a little late to order anything online for your mom, but maybe you will find something to show the hubs to buy for yourself. Or you can do what I do and just buy your own Mother’s Day gift. 

Kimberly at A Night Owl has collected some really creative DIY projects any mom would love. She also has some really creative kids crafts HERE. Letting your kids be creative is a win win for everyone.

I read The Vintage Mother for the first time this past week. This post really stuck with me. Especially this line. “If there’s anything I’ve learned, even just in recent months, it’s that I need to “let whatever I do today, be enough.”  That doesn’t mean I can’t do my best at something—or strive for perfection in some aspects of my life. But it means that I don’t have to be so hard on myself when something isn’t just right.” As mothers we can be so hard on ourselves. This post was a good reminder for me and I hope you go check their blog out.

What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day then to give a gift from Moxie Design Studio to you. We are giving away this beautiful infinity scarf pictured below. You can either nominate that special mom in your life or win it for yourself.

How to Enter to Win: Simply share this Fab Friday post from our Facebook page and mention something about why your mom is so special or maybe what being a mom means to you. Or just something about why you love Mother’s Day. Okay, basically anything mentioning the word mom will enter you to win. We will pick a winner Mother’s Day!

I have one more thing I just have to share. I love my little boys so much and this was the gift my oldest (4 years old) gave me from school that just melted my heart. Not sure what that is off to the left, but I will just say it is my strong muscular arm or maybe a heart, lol. I love being a mom! Happy Mother’s Day, Moxies!

Mood Board Link Party Week 13

Hey Moxies! We’re co-hosting the link party this week with Beth from Design Your Dwelling. We’d love to see what you have to share this week. Keep scrolling down to see our post about a two options for a nursery when you’re not finding out the gender of the baby.

Congratulations to Sarah and Sara from Design For Renters for creating the favorite mood board last week!

Time to link up your beautiful designs and vote for your favorites this week!

The four requests for participation:

 

1. Follow Your Host and Co-Host via GFC or Bloglovin’

Host: Beth – Design Your Dwelling

Co-Host: Megan – Moxie Design Studio

2. Grab A Button!

Grab a button below and include it in your blog post or where you share your link parties on your blog.

3. Share it!

Spread the word about this link party by tagging me (@beth_dydblog) in a tweet with a direct link to your mood board post and using the hashtag #moodboardlinkparty! Feel free to share it on Facebook too!

4. Like it!

Like your favorite mood boards by clicking the ‘like’ option below your favorite!  The design board with the most favorites will be featured next week on my blog!

Each week I pin all of your mood boards to my Design Boards board on Pinterest!

Most importantly, connect with, be inspired by and follow other design bloggers!

Grab a button, link up, and have fun!

 

If you are interested in co-hosting the Mood Board Link Party send me an email! designyourdwellingblog(at)gmail.com

** Make sure to ‘like’ your favorite design board – they will be featured next week!

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Moody Monday-Jaymi’s Baby Boy or Girl Nursery

Well, here is our Moody Monday post, it’s 9 p.m., not too late right? To make up for being late, I suppose I’ll treat you two two mood boards. I got my inspiration from a co-worker who is due with her second child in September and we began discussing her future nursery. Her oldest is a boy and they didn’t find out what they were having when pregnant with him. They’re still not finding out for this baby, so her plan is to stick with the nursery in it’s current state, which is a gender neutral green with turtles and frogs. I’m not trying to influence her to change it because I’m sure her current nursery is  adorable and don’t blame her one bit for not wanting to change it.

It did, however, give me a challenge. How can you take an existing nursery, with the same furniture, and change it once you bring the baby home? Well, first you kind of have to hire someone to do the larger pieces for you (definitely not advocating a new mom getting out in the garage to paint a dresser!), but most can be done with accessorizing and if you’ve got the plans ahead of time, you designate a special friend or designer to do the shopping and styling for you and you’re done. So check these two options out. I planned to use her existing crib but paint it a shiny navy blue. Partnered with a neutral strip rug, a classic rocking chair and fun yellow paper lanterns, you’ve set the base for the room. The circles on the top of each mood board represent textiles for the room; you can easily bring all these patterns into the room with custom crib skirts, sheets and changing pad covers. I hope you enjoy and be sure to vote for your favorite mood board in the Mood Board Link Party!

Fab Friday!

First, I would like to start with something not so fab today, and we’ll just get it out of the way. You see, we live in Iowa. I’m sure lots of our readers do, but if you live anywhere that doesn’t look like this….um, we hate you. Just kidding we don’t hate you, but this picture pretty much says it all.

Okay, onto the actual fabulousness. If you follow me on Instagram, you may know that this mama got an early Mother’s Day present, this beautiful mid-century china hutch. Oh, how I love thee. And, let’s all write this down on the calendar (for those of you who know me really well, you won’t believe it)….I’M NOT GOING TO PAINT IT! Yes, you heard me correctly. The finish is in pretty good shape, I really do like the natural wood color of this one.

Adding this necessitates the removal of my lime green china cabinet. It’s been with me for a few years and it’s in pretty good shape. So, I will be selling this as part of Moxie. Check her out at the Denver garage sales on May 10/11, and if it doesn’t sell then, we’ll take to Dysart to the Backroads Vintage Market on June 22. I know it’s kind of hard to tell the color, but if I remember correctly it is Tupelo Tree by Sherwin Williams.

Next up is an amazing room reveal by Mandi at Vintage Revivals. I’ve been waiting a couple weeks until it was my turn for Fab Friday’s, but I knew this was definitely one I wanted to show you guys. I’ve read Mandi’s blog for a couple of years now and if you look back at her older projects you can see how her style has really evolved, and I must say, it’s pretty freaking awesome. I love Mandi’s style because she does whatever makes her feel good, not following any type of design rule out there. This is kind of strange to admit, but when I do something that other people think I’m a little weird for…like putting a metal office credenza in my dining room…I ask myself if Mandi would think it’s weird, and usually the answer is HELL NO, THAT’S AWESOME! (Hopefully she’s agrees, ha ha!). Anyway, I love her modern/industrial/chic/wacky/colorful/awesome style and hope you guys do. Without further adieu, check out a couple pictures from Dylan’s Room Reveal.

What is your favorite part? Obviously the honeycomb wall treatment is fab, and the corkboard bulldog is pretty genius. Would you have the guts to try something like that?

Last one for this Friday…do you guys read Young House Love? A better question might be, who doesn’t read Young House Love, but oh well. Did you all see their big announcement this week? They put their house on the market and they’ve already bought a new one!

It’s so weird, because I don’t actually know John & Sherry, but I was all over the place reading that post…happy for them, excited to see all the new stuff they come up with and sad. What?? I know that’s so weird, but I kept wondering how they will be able to leave all the hard work they’ve put into their current house, especially their kitchen. It shouldn’t be such a foreign concept to me, because if I found the perfect house in the perfect location, I’d be packing my bags tomorrow. We have put a lot of aesthetic work into our home and I really love it, but I really like change and I really like tackling new challenges. So, I get it where they are coming from. You invest a lot of time and effort into your projects, but you don’t have to be married to them. Here’s a couple of pics of their new place. I can see the potential too, but man do they have their work cut out for them. CANNOT wait to see how it all turns out!

That’s all for this Friday. Thanks so much for reading, we love putting these together for you. We’ll be back next Friday with NO SNOW!

Spring Fling at Red Granite Farm

Instead of our regular Moody Monday’s post, we’ll do a quick re-cap of our very exciting weekend. On Saturday, we attended our first ever barn sale. It was hosted by Nicole at Red Granite Farm and Katie of The Home Shed. We are so thankful that they invited us to be a vendor at their sale. We all commented on how nice and welcoming everyone in the blogging/junking/crafting/DIY world is, and these ladies are no exception. They will be having another sale the last weekend in June, so please check them out and click on their links above to like them on Facebook.

We had a great turn out and got to meet a lot of nice people. We consider that a success over sales numbers any day! We didn’t get rid of everything, so if you see something in a picture, contact us for more information on sales (moxie.design.studio.ia@gmail.com). Also, if you live in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area, Denver is having their city-wide garage sales on May 10/11 and we’ll be having a mini-sale at 701 Sunrise St, in Denver. You have to see this stuff in person, it’s amazing!!  I’ll let the pictures do the talking! Happy Monday!

Our exhibit space, we had a beautiful day!

We have sooo many pillows! Hand-dyed ombre, chevron, sweater pillows, you name it! The pallet sign sold, but we can make more. The chalkboards are all gone, but we’ll make more of those too!

Modern green dresser and lots and lots of pillow covers.

Lucky for you all that might come to the Denver garage sales, this chair DID NOT sell. It is so stinking cute, the fabric is just amazing.

Love the red chevron on the light blue chairs. And, more pallet signs!!

Colorful magnet boards with custom button magnets.

Holly made some adorable scarves, hair bows and button bobby pins.

Hope to see you on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 in Denver. Following that, we’ll be at Backroads Vintage Market in Dysart on June 22.

Fab Fridays!

Happy Friday Moxies! Hope everyone is excited for the weekend, we sure are. Tomorrow we are going to be at the Spring Fling at Red Granite Farms in Boone, Iowa. Megan, Lindsay and I have all been super busy getting things ready and are really excited to see the turn out. If you are in the area or want to take a little road trip you should definitely come check us out.

Just like Lindsay, I am fairly new to the blogging world and enjoy reading about decorating tips and seeing some amazing and unique ideas. Like many, it is easy for me to get swept up in all the pictures I see on T.V., in magazines or on Pinterest of these amazing homes that are organized, spotless and probably cost a pretty penny too! But having 3 kids and being a stay at home mom means that organized, spotless and pretty penny are not words I can use very often when describing my home. Seems like their are always “things” strewn about everywhere I look. So lately the images that have been catching my eye are as I would describe as simple, cozy, lived in and something I can attempt to do myself. Which is a little more realistic for me, my home and my family.

I have been wanting to give my daughter’s room a makeover, so I have kids rooms on the brain. I love looking at pictures of kids rooms, they are just so much fun!

This one is really cute:) I just like everything about it! I found this one on Pinterest but it didn’t have a link.

This one is cute and simple from Design*Sponge

http://www.designsponge.com/2011/09/sneak-peek-cassandra-ellis-ed-prichard.html

In my opinion, simple can be so lovely! This one is from Apartment Therapy.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/brunos-room-then-and-nownurser-119165

Hopefully someday in the near future I can post about my daughter’s simple, cozy new room! Thanks for taking a look and I hope you have a Fabulous Friday!

Moody Monday – Sunny Outdoor Oasis

Someone has a case of the Mondays, and it is me. I am over all of this rain and cold that has been lingering way too long and I am ready for playing outside, barbecuing and just plain having fun in the sun.

For my mood board I decided to do an outdoor space. If I can’t get outside to enjoy the weather, I can dream of a beautiful outdoor oasis to enjoy. Before I started pulling decor together, I new I wanted to use a bright color palette. The inspiration for the space started with the citron green owl garden table at the Grandinroad. Then from there I found the chevron pillow that defined my color palette. Once I established my direction, I hunted for items with contrasting patterns and textures that fit into my color palette. I like to use texture to create a lot of visual interest and I use color to balance and create harmony within the space. My favorites items are the yellow vintage chairs or the bar cart. Can’t you just picture lounging outside in the sun, feet up and a drink in hand. My Monday is getting better already. Happy Monday, Moxies!

Grandinroad
$129.00

Grandinroad
$129.00

Wayfair.com
$58.99

Pier1 Imports
$5.60

Etsy
$34.00

Pier1 Imports
$14.40

Target.com
$119.99

Pier 1 Imports
$20.00

Crate&Barrel
$599.00

Joss&Main
$87.95

Grandinroad
$25.000

Crate&Barrel
$779.00

Joss&Main
$124.95

West Elm
$424.00 – $1,782.00

Fab Fridays

It is Friday again, Moxies! Where did the week go! If you can tell by the amount of exclamation points, I am ready for the weekend!!!!  Who is with me?

It is Lindsay here, and I started out this blog adventure with little knowledge of the blogging world. I am so happy Megan brought it to my attention and I am now an addict myself. It is quite amazing how much talent is out there. I love seeing and reading about all the different ideas people have. As a graphic designer, now stay at home mom, it has really helped me to fulfill that creative side of me that otherwise can get lost in boo boos and doo doos. Did I really just say that? Oh, I did! Check out some of the blogs and design that have been catching my eye lately.

Since spring is here, I have been getting the itch to freshen up my outdoor space.  This outdoor space by Handmade Homes is filled with some wicked ideas. Handmade wooden shutters, painted concrete, building a pergola. The list goes on and on and now so does the list I have created for my outdoor space. If you haven’t already, you should check out the rest of this couple’s blog. I love their style. They use lots of bright pops of color and bold patterns.

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Alright, who hasn’t noticed the Threshold brand at Target! When the catalog came in the mail it took everything in me not to order something. Here are a couple of bloggers I like that showed how they use and style their house using Target Threshold décor.

Love that Michael at Inspired by Charm organized the books by color on this bookcase styling. Clever and fabulous!

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I always check in with Perfectly Imperfect for inspiration. I love how she pairs vintage things with bright color and other modern decor like this ombre vase pictured. She also redesigned her daughters room using Target Threshold decor. Adorable!

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Did you know it was Sherwin Williams National Painting Week!  Sherwin Williams asked some of my favorite design bloggers to participate. They were each given a different paint color and they chose the project. They revealed a different color on each day of the week. Grab your napkin because there is plenty to drool over.

I will leave you with a fellow Iowa blogger. Beth at Design your Dwelling has been one of my favorite reads lately. We recently linked up to her mood board link party this past Monday. If you haven’t taken a peek at it, you need to. I also enjoy reading her little fashion tips. As a stay at home mama, fashion gets put on the back burner most days, but I love dreaming that I could look as cute as she does when I finally chose to leave the house. Ah…I can dream can’t I?  Have a good weekend, Moxies!