Tag: family room

  • Family Room Makeover with Bassett Furniture

    Family Room Makeover with Bassett Furniture

    *This is a sponsored post

    Have you ever looked at your house and wondered, where do I start? How do I make this reflect my family, without just becoming a cluttered mess?  I’ve been feeling that way a lot over the past year. Especially after we moved back into an apartment, where adding your own style can be harder than when you own a home. The lack of space has also been difficult to manage.

    What am I supposed to do with this room, where we do EVERYTHING! One side is for visitors, family time, television, homework, computer, work, and well…you get the idea. We literally do everything in this one room. On the other side is our kitchen/dining area. Most days it feels like it’s all combined and there is no good distinction between the two. .
    So what do you do? You call Bassett Furniture of course.  Did you know that Bassett has design specialists that will come to your home and help you design and decorate to fit your needs and style? It’s so much fun – and a great way to take a break from life. 
    So how does it work?  I’ll walk you through my experience with the lovely Katie.  
    1st – Contact your local Bassett Design Consultant. Schedule your in-home consultation. 

    2nd – Pick up a catalog, or browse the online collection.

    Bassett Catalogue
    As you go through the catalog, mark it up. Circle what you like, make notes, bend the pages. This gives your consultant a good idea of everything you like. 

    3rd – Meet with your consultant and enjoy a nice chat while measuring your room.

    Seriously couldn’t have asked for a better consultant than Katie. She came into my home, and I felt like we were best friends who just hadn’t seen each other forever. We talked design, family, dreams, etc. I may hop over to Bassett more frequently just to chat with her. 

    4th – Head into Bassett and see what awesome design your consultant has come up with just for you!

    Katie was great! She took the “Coastal” theme and colors I want to incorporate into this room and showed me some great fabrics that would work. Since we are on a limited budget, she also showed how I can incorporate a lot of these on my own by painting furniture I have, recovering the couch versus buying a brand new one, and changing up the curtains to lighten things up.

    Don’t live near a Bassett? Check them out online and play around with the design tools available on there. If possible though, I do suggest visiting the store – unlike online they often have special sales going on all the time! I don’t think I’ve ever not seen a sale sign outside their doors (and since they’re next to Hobby Lobby, I kind of drive past them a lot!).

    Have any suggestions for my room?
  • Pillow Love

    Pillow Love

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    I love pillows! I dream of my bed being loaded with pillows, but most of them just for decoration.

    scrabble pillows - use the word "love" or "Us"
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    I ooo and ahh over instagram photos of pillows.

    Bella Throw Pillow

    So I was really excited when Hannah Jane put their Chevron and Chain Link Pillow Covers on sale!  How cute are these?

    The colors will bring spring into your home, and give you something to smile about every time you sit down. In fact how can you not see these and want to snuggle up with them and a good book?

    Use code PILLOW12 at checkout to bring the price down to $9.99/cover.  
    This deal ends Monday February 24th.

    Oh yeah, and Hannah Jane loves you so much, that when you use that code (PILLOW12) everything in your cart will SHIP FOR FREE!  I love free shipping..and pillows..and free shipping.

  • Rearranging Furniture

    Rearranging Furniture

    If you came around facebook yesterday, you may have seen that I decided to rearrange our furniture. See we….Mark…decided to buy a massively huge desk from some friends. I mean this thing is big! We brought it home, and just tossed it in the family room while we decided where to put it.

    After spending the weekend ignoring it, and using it to pile random bits of stuff on, I knew we needed to make a decision. Mark told me to go ahead and rearrange and he’d be surprised when he came home from work. Surprise surprise! He normally likes a bigger part in these decisions. I was excited to get started, but also knew it was going to take the whole day.

    I thought about taking this picture after I did a general clean up but decided I would feel better seeing exactly how much cleaning and rearranging I did from start to finish. So, here was my challenge – pick up toys, and rearrange literally every piece of furniture in our family room.

    FYI – that’s 17 boxes full of books behind the chair in the corner. Boosh! Moved them all downstairs to the storage room. One of these days we’ll get some bookshelves again.
    Oh, and the desk holding the computer here, yeah it went to the basement as well. I did it, me, by my lonesome. Talk about some muscle building! And score one for me – no holes in the walls, and no broken bones!

    Is the suspense killing you yet? Did you spot the new desk? Up there on the left – that thing weighs a ton, but not nearly as much as the piano hiding behind the chalkboard….

    Alright alright, check it out!

    So what do you think? I personally am loving it! The immense space I have at the desk is just divine. I feel like I can actually work here now.

    Don’t you all worry now, I did wait for Mark to help move the piano. Well, alright I tried to move it on my own, but I couldn’t budge it. So much heavier than the desk.