I remember buying my first adult mattress years ago.

Date night at home! I love creating little two-person table settings for Eddie and I.

It’s patio season! Spring always brings a sense of renewal and positive vibes for me - the weather warming up, flowers in bloom, more time spent outside.

This post was sponsored by Target, all opinions expressed are my own - as always!

Eddie recently surprised me by bringing home a piano he found sitting on the side of the road in our neighborhood (he somehow got it on his two skateboards and rolled it to our house by himself - best surprise EVER). We’ve been spending time over the past few weeks fixing it up and it’s been such a fulfilling project. Judging by the amount of dirt/dust we found inside and out (and how out of tune it was!) we think it’s been sitting in someone’s garage for decades. But we cleaned it up, disinfected it, hired movers to carry it up and down the stairs into our house, had it tuned, and have been giving it a lot of love.

Our bedroom is the room I’ve put the least amount of design effort in since we moved in 2.5 years ago. I think the reasoning behind this is a sort of subconscious knowledge I had that every other room in the house (living, dining, kitchen, guest bedroom/office, bathroom, patio) is frequented by friends and fam who are visiting (although we haven't had visitors since pre-pandemic), whereas the bedroom is a space for only Eddie and I. It may not make much sense to some, but even though the bedroom is probably one of the most important rooms in a home, it’s been mostly put on the back-burner while we focus on spaces that our guests will feel cozy and comfortable in when visiting. Other than a recent dresser restyling sesh a few months back, we haven’t done much to the space. We’ve learned to live with the aspects of the room that bring us no joy - the broken blinds that come crashing down whenever we try to open and close them, the ugly flush mount light over our bed (aka the dreaded boob light), and our two dressers with busted drawers. We’ve procrastinated hanging curtains and kept using our old TV, even though it had a big dark patch in the middle of the screen from broken pixels. Not complaining as I know how privileged we are to call this space home and to have all the things that we do - but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t very much craving a refresh, especially with so much time spent at home these past 6 months. The day finally came when I’d had enough, and decided to start working on the room for real! Wanted to share my process with you as well as my design choices and reasoning behind everything.

My dresser is broken (the drawers are busted beyond repair) and I’ve been telling myself that when I buy a new dresser, I’ll finally style this bedroom wall nicely. But here we are 2 years living in the Hobbit House and I still haven’t bought a new dresser! I have my eye on some beautiful high quality options, but they’re expensive and I simply can’t afford to invest in a big piece of furniture right now. That being said, I decided it was time to stop making excuses when it came to styling this nook. Let’s live in the present! So last week with the help of Eddie, I finally decorated this part of our bedroom.

Our lil cottage came with some really fab built in shelf sitches, and I recently devoted time to restyling one of them! More time at home means more love given to those corners of the house that could use an update. I hadn’t properly styled these shelves since we first moved in two years ago, so we were overdue for a refresh. Sharing my tips for styling the perf plant shelfie!

For the past couple years, our old record player lived on our media console underneath the TV.