home sweet rental, part 2: the formal living

if you saw part 1, then you know that this house had some special paint colors going on... this green was the most ridiculous shade of neon i have ever seen... thank the lord the owners were okay with painting it. we hired 2 guys and it was well worth it for the super high walls. 

goodbye baby puke green. hello behr wheat bread, best french gray ever. 

stress. stress. stress. and more stress. look at all of that stuff. so glad it's over. i really hope not to move for a good 3 years. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tada!!! and here is the finished product, it's probably my favorite room in the house so far. i kept all of the decor from the last few places, but with the ah-mazing wall color and genius black & white rug i think it really takes it to the next level. 

sofa, ballard designs; chairs, crate & barrel purchased from friends; coffee table, antique; rug, urban outfitters; pillows, fabricadabra. i feel like it really looks fancy while still looking inviting. with such tall walls, i felt like i had to do some form of collage and i'm super happy with the way it turned out... and just in case you were wondering, yes, that is the second almost naked picture of me in my house. wha!?!? i'm gonna flaunt it while i can. side note, if you are in the san diego area tatum kathleen photography takes killer boudiour photos. love her. so that's the formal living, whatcha think!? 

my temporary humble abode... pt. 2

so, at long last here is the 2nd and final part of my temporary humble abode. the rest of my house is either very messy or empty, so no more house posts until we move ;) currently, we live in a very stock neighborhood in the suburbs, so i try to make every inch of the space livable and interesting, but since we are downsizing in preparation to move to cali the spare rooms are very empty... and don't get me started on my dining room table... why do men walk in the house and immediately throw all of their shit on to the table!!! NO!!!! there is a very messy man cave/ office for all of that nonsense. lord help me if we end up in a studio loft. yikes. i'll have to blog about space saving solutions in a few months. any who.

my comfy, cozy bedroom is probably my favorite room in the house. i LOVE my bed. so comfy and so bright. the bedding is from urban outfitters and i am obsessed! and thank the lord, we finally bought a bed last fall! the double decker bed from CB2 is ah-mazing. it's low like a platform, but still sits off the ground enough for our big dog hammond to sleep underneath. both dressers are from ikea. it's almost perfect. i'm still looking for the perfect thing to hang over our bed. the picture there now is from previous bedding. any interesting ideas on what to put there would be greatly appreciated.

for funsies, i thought i'd let you into my insane closet. it's crazy packed, so i have been trying really hard to only buy things that i am IN LOVE with. quality verses quantity is my motto these days. i'm terrified of the size of my closet in california. yikes. what am i gonna do with all of these shoes!?! haha. 

so there you go, that's my bedroom and closet. do all the stacks of books and cluttered areas make you make you break out in hives!? or do you appreciate my boho-eclectic-shabby-cluttered chic? any good ideas for what to hang over my bed? what about the closet? how do you store your shoe collection? is 25 pairs of jeans too much?!

my temporary humble abode... pt. 1

so, if your new to llo then you might not know that the hubs is a marine pilot. pause for a daydream of him in his uniform.......... annnnd we're back. this is definitely not the life that i had planned for us. we started dating when we were 16 and we dated for 7 years before we were married. so last year actually marked 10 years together. whoa. well, needless to say i hoped we would move to new york city, la, or chicago... or heck, even live in a posh neighborhood in atlanta. i would be a struggling actor, he would be a successful engineer. well, that's not what happened. life happened. and he sat me down and told me his dream was to fly helicopters for the marine corps. i couldn't deny him that, no matter how terrifying the thought was, so i have now been a military wife for a little over 3 years and there have been ups and downs... lots of downs, but i think i'm finally getting the hang of it.

that brings us to the post. yes, all of my yammering had a point. in the past 4 years, i have lived in 5 apartments/houses. atlanta. virginia. pensacola, florida. milton, florida. north carolina. and to top if all off we are moving to san diego in a little less than 3 months. hooray. i've learned to really have a critical eye when designing for my home. i'm lucky that my aesthetic is very eclectic and modern, but i still try and keep color families pretty similar so that when we move no matter the home's layout i can use all of my stuff together. i also have this terrible constitution where it's literally impossible for me to not decorate a home, no matter how long or short we live there, so here, FINALLY, is my living room. ta-daaaa!

so, this is my delightful and cozy living room. whatcha think? could you live in this space? what do you think i could do to make it better? what's your favorite part!? remember, i love being praised so please, bring it!!!! and stay tuned for pt. 2.