The Nesting Continues…

The room has gone through a few different phases over the 3 years we’ve lived here…

{I had an old ship painting from my son’s nursery when we first moved in so hanging it made the place feel sort of coastal – which it isn’t.}

At first I went with blues & orangey-golds & beiges, using the things from our old house.

Later I added in some more little coastal paintings I already owned and a crazy faux bois lamp.  ( I love this lamp & realize it’s one of those pieces that doesn’t appeal to most people but that I just have this strange kitcshy love for.)  ….

The room never really sat right with me, mostly because the fact that the coastal things in it didn’t fit the house.  One day about a year ago, craving a change, I brought in one of my favorite rugs & tried out some teal curtains & it was just very wrong.  Totally not the fun happy space I wanted.  I think it only stayed like this for a few hours before I changed it…

…To this:

{I was getting there with the green addittion.  Green’s my favorite color & more than that, to me it fits my house because we’re surrounded by trees and have lots of windows in our house.  The outside is the backdrop for the interiors.}

In this pic below, you can see a couple of the windows in the family room’s workspace during the Winter:

For a while now, I’ve been ready to say goodbye to the blue & bring in more white & green.  We just haven’t had the get-up-and-go to actually do it… Until I neared 9 months of pregnancy.  OF COURSE that’s the perfect time to attack the basement!  (I really love my husband for humoring me.)  We finished adding shelves to a little built-in book area…

{While we have lots of vintage educational charts around the house, these two are actually reproductions from The Evolution Store.  I went with cowslip & anemone.  I’d gotten it narrowed down to five options and let my 4-year old pick.  (What 4 year old can resist the name “cowslip?” …And we have peonies (from the anemone family) in the backyard.)

And for the rest of the space…
I want to add some BRNO chairs around the table & I’m looking for the perfect ones with old-looking brown leather… Similar to this but not quite: (This pic looks like suede to me.)

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