Other than the nursery, this is the only room we have painted. We chose to paint it the Benjamin Moore match to Restoration Hardware’s Silver Sage.

This room used to be our second guest bedroom. It had a queen size four-poster bed in it and it was so great to have a second room where guests could sleep. Then we found out we’d be turning our former study into the nursery. We considered not having a study, but because Todd has to work so often on the weekends and because blogging has become such a big hobby of mine, we knew that we needed a space for all of these activities other than a nook in our bedroom.

So we turned the study into the nursery and the second guest bedroom into the study. Our house has four bedrooms, but we just use one as a study/home office.

The desk was mine in high school and I still love it. I bought the file cabinet to match last year. They’re both from a company called British Traditions and we found them at Market, of course. Can’t beat the wholesale prices.

On my desk, I have the computer, the baby monitor, a return address stamp, two mail sorters, a lamp, and my Junior League binder.

The cafe shelves above the desk are from Ballard Designs and allow us to get some of the junk off of the desk. Desk clutter stresses me out– like any clutter does– so I’m loving these shelves. I wish they’d had an antique white to match the desk and file cabinet, but I like having a few different finishes in the room.

When we installed the shelves, I finally had a place to display all of my wedding coffee table books that Todd loves so much!

The little round table is the Terrific Table from Ballard Designs and I recently purchased the Terrific Table Burlap Fringe table cloth. Ballard is such a great resource for these items because the table cloths fit the tables perfectly and you don’t have to have something custom made.

Because we weren’t too excited about losing our second guest bed, we decided to get a chair and a half. So we have this large, super comfy chair and ottoman. We can wheel the ottoman out of the way and the chair unfolds into a twin bed. The mattress is paper thin, but it does work for an extra place for someone to sleep when we have lots of overnight guests. (Last fall we had 11 people in our house at once — not including Todd and me– so we were so thankful to have that four-poster bed.) The mirror and lamp came from a company called Uttermost– also found at Market in Atlanta.

We picked up the sisal rug from Strobler, a local furniture store.

The two stacked baskets hold all of my wedding binders and resources, but keep them hidden nicely.

The chifferobe has been mine since I was 2 years old and moved into my first “big girl” room. It has moved approximately 9 times (between family moves and my apartment to house moves), so I had it refinished and repaired right before we got married. It is an excellent source of storage and currently holds all of my scrapbooking materials, ribbons, markers, and all of my wedding-related coffee table books. There is also a tiny TV in the small cabinet and it is so cozy to sit in that big chair to watch TV on a rainy day.

So now you’ve seen our study/home office. And now you know where I’m sitting when I write all of these posts! Where do you do your blogging?

Finally! I’ve been delaying showing you the master bedroom because it is such a large space and such a hodge podge of stuff!

It used to be the attic, but when the house was renovated and flipped, the entire attic was turned into the master bedroom and bathroom. You come up the stairs and it’s like being in a loft. You’re just already in the master bedroom.

Todd and I both came into this union with a queen size bed. My bed is being used in our guest bedroom and Todd’s was in our second guest bedroom (that I mentioned was turned into the study), but is now in storage. The space for the master bed was very large, so we decided to get a king size bed when we got married.

We ordered the bed from Calico Corners and picked up the upholstery fabric. The bedding was ordered from Eastern Accents and I love it so much! It makes the room so serene. We had the lamps before we got the bedding and I think it all goes together very nicely.

Before we got this bedding we were using my sorority t-shirt quilt on the bed because it was the only thing large enough. We couldn’t decide on bedding that we loved and I was reluctant to buy anything because, at the time, we had two dogs in our bed with us. I wasn’t about to buy some gorgeous silk bedding and then let the dogs get hair and drool all over it. Then I got pregnant and told those doggies that there just wasn’t room for me, my big fat belly, Todd, Boudreaux, and Fiona in the bed. So Boudreaux and Fiona had to go. We ordered our bedding and ordered a large dog bed from Orvis that would accommodate Boudreaux and Fiona.

I should have seen the inevitable. Before ordering the bed from Orvis, I already had a dog bed that was Boudreaux’s before he started sleeping in our bed. I ordered the large bed because everything one dog has the other one wants. So I just knew that they’d both end up in the bed at the same time. Wrong. Look who sleeps on the big ass dog bed.

And look who prefers to sleep on the floor because he wouldn’t be caught dead cuddling with Fiona.

So here’s the rest of our room. Lots of space, right? It has basically become a dog run where they play and romp every morning.

Then we have this other nook that I’d love to turn into more closet space. Right now we keep the Pack ‘n Play there in case I have to put Hudson in there while I’m doing laundry or taking a shower.

And here is our laundry area. It’s quite tiny (and full of clean sheets and towels! Yikes!)— in addition to a massive kitchen, my next house will have a massive laundry room.

This is our closet. We do a decent job of sharing. Most of Todd’s clothes are stored in the two chests of drawers in the bedroom and my sweaters are stored downstairs in the dresser in the guest bedroom. Oh yeah, my next house will have two massive his and hers closets.

And the master bathroom.

So there’s our master bedroom. Sorry I couldn’t get it cleaned up anymore for you!

Hudson is napping and I’ve got to hurry to crank out this post or it might not ever happen!

I’m back with Home Tour Tuesday to show you our kitchen and dining area. I mentioned before that our 1930s house was updated before we moved in, so we were blessed with a home that already had granite countertops and stainless steel appliances.

You can see that it’s a pretty tiny kitchen and I’ve pretty much covered every bit of counter space that we have (which completely stresses me out), but it works and it’s clean– most days.

In college I had such a weird thing about the kitchens where I lived. They grossed me out so badly. You just never know who else ate there and what they left in the refrigerator and for how long. Yuck.

I love our pendant lights. They used to run down the center of the kitchen and that was the extent of our kitchen lighting. This summer, we had recessed lighting installed and moved the pendant lights over the sink. It’s so nice to be able to see in the kitchen at night now.

My favorite thing ever. Our coffee maker. And that’s the little painting I bought in Paris. One of my two pieces of original artwork.

The view of our dining area from the formal living area. Our next furniture purchase will be new dining chairs and then window treatments for the dining room.

This little trunk has always been used as a coffee table in my family and my parents let me have it. When we moved into this house I wanted a bench under that window but didn’t want to buy one. We just bought some pillows and used the trunk under the window. We sit on that trunk all. The. Time.

So that’s our kitchen and dining area. Glad you caught it on a clean day! Between dog toys and mail it can get a little cluttered!

Welcome back to Home Tour Tuesday!

I completely neglected this idea for the past few weeks. I didn’t forget, but it just got harder and harder to find a room to photograph that hadn’t been completely overrun with baby gear or dog toys. I’m a neat person, but I could spend all day picking up dog toys and baby stuff. But if anyone is at all interested anymore, here’s another room in our home for your viewing pleasure.

So here are our two living spaces. You can see the black front door on the right in the picture below. Our home was built in the 1930s and was lived in by the same family until 2007. At that time, someone bought it and completely updated the house, but kept a lot of the original fixtures and hardware. You can see that our living space is wide, but not very deep, so we decided to split it up into two areas that basically serve as two rooms.

This space is one that we rarely use. Hudson’s swing stays in this area and this is also where we put his little activity gym. I will sit over here and read every once in a while, but this has kind of become the unused space in the house. We’re definitely in need of a pretty round, tufted ottoman in here.

The big round table has been in my family for a long time and we my breakfast table before we got married. I love it in that corner now. At Christmas time, we move the table and put the tree in that corner. It was a great spot for it last year. Does anyone notice the never-ending amount of law books on the top shelf there? Don’t you think those belong in, say, a law office?

the Christmas tree– and you can see the high back chairs before we recovered them and the old red rug that I’m so happy isn’t in that room anymore!

The most beautiful accessory in the room: Hudson’s SweetPeace swing.

These chairs (there are 2 of them) belonged to my great grandmother and then to my grandmother. I picked out fabric at Calico Corners and had a local guy recover them for $200 total a few months ago. I love the way they turned out and I love the animal print on the back.

and of course, Princess Fiona in all her glory.

This is the view from just inside the front door. And now that blank wall space on the left is really driving me crazy!

This is the area where we spend all of our time. That sofa is so comfortable and I think I spent most of my pregnancy right there. The chair rocks and that’s where I’ve spent most of my time now that Hudson has arrived.

And at the bottom of the photo you can see my beautiful first born, Boudreaux, who has been completely left out of this blog lately. He’s such a sweetie.

The poor girl in the orthodontist commercial probably didn’t want to have her face on my blog.

So thanks for coming back for another edition of Home Tour Tuesday. Not sure what we’ll be seeing next week– probably whatever is clean. It’ll either be the master bedroom or the kitchen/dining area. Happy Tuesday, y’all!