Mustic?

  I hadn’t thought much about labeling my decorating style before we bought our house last year. When I was trying to categorize it, I kept coming back to modern + rustic (which Chris then labeled “mustic”). I have always loved modern, clean-lined furniture with rustic, woodsy accents. Since then, I have taken so many [...]

Brrrr!

I don’t know how cold it is where you are at, but here in the Hoosier state it is COLD! *Side note: does anyone else think it’s funny that Indiana is called the Hoosier state? And that they are proud of it?! Chris and I laughed every time we heard someone call themselves a Hoosier [...]

Let there be light (fixtures)!

  I have been wanting to replace the light fixtures in our entryway and hallway for quite some time. This last weekend we finally got around to it! I forgot to take a before picture of the entryway, but here is a photo of the entryway (and light fixture) before we moved into the house. [...]

Weekend deals

We had a busy shopping weekend last weekend. We had been planning to build an HD projector for a while to replace our ancient bubble TV in our living room, but when we saw the deals on TVs at Best Buy last week…we couldn’t pass up the deal on this tv.  So we wound up buying [...]

Christmas Tree: finished

I’m back with the post on our very first (and cheap) Christmas tree. After much debating and online inspiration searching, I decided to go with a green and white themed tree with punches of brown. Not sure why that took much debating; pretty sure that’s what most of my house is. Green and brown are [...]

O Christmas Tree…in November?

A couple weeks ago I bought our very first house-sized Christmas tree. Before that we just had the dorm room-sized one… Anyway, Chris thought it was ridiculous to buy a tree this year, since we are going to be gone for a week over Christmas, but I just couldn’t bear the thought of our first [...]