*Aja's Eye for Design*

WooHoo for self-taunt Interior Designers born with an eye for design.

I meant Aja on Flickr. She and I share a love for Interior Design & IKEA. Oh, and color! Also she has a great house that I am very jealous of! ;) lol Her rooms & designs are wonderful. The best part is its her "hobby" and shes a pure natural. I have that in common with her too. As we talked more, I found that she had studied Interior Design the same way I had, Sheffield School of Interior Design. Aja likes to change her rooms around by switching out accessories. She has a knack for great furniture layouts and placement of her accessories. Which are two of the most important things, I think, when decorating a room.


Living Room & Dining Room Fall Decor 2006


Living Room & Dining Room Spring Summer Decor 2007


I had to post a bigger picture of this for Peggy. (Try not to drool to much Peggy!!) Its so well done!


Guest Bedroom

Aja really did make this a true room to RELAX in.

Master Bedroom


Sunroom

I am so in love with the Sunroom. I want one. I could do this at my house, but we gotta stop remodeling sometime!!!!!

Kitchen

Can't get much more color then this!!! I just want to go sit in her kitchen and drink coffee all day. :) Aja just remodeled her kitchen this summer ironically the same time I was remodeling my IKEA kitchen. It was fun to watch each others progress.

Go check out Aja on Flickr and leave her some picture comments. She has photos of her complete kitchen remodel. She even took down a wall during the remodel to open the kitchen up.

Thanks Aja for inspiring me and being living proof that not all Interior Designers have to have a college degree to be wonderful at what they do. ;)

Hallway Photography & Decor

I spent some time going through my pet photos (all 100million of them) to pick some I would like to get blown up to hang in the hallway. Here are the ones I have picked of my babies. I did some photo effects to them and changed there colors a bit.



Now that I have hung my Kylie Minogue poster up in the hallway, I really want to hang everything else. The pet photos are going on one wall. The other walls I just have ideas of things I might want to hang. We have so many wedding photos that its overwhelming to pick which ones would go up on the walls!



Here is a photo of 2 pictures that I have in the hallway right now of my husband and I. I don't think I am happy with it, so I am going to move them around and see if I like something else better. The frame that the Kylie Minogue poster is in matches these frames. I really like the WHITE look in the hallway. The pet photos will add color though.


I took this picture on our honeymoon is Sonoma California. I laugh everytime I see it. They say "California cows are happy cows", but these cows were very grumpy. Of course I changed the colors and added a censored bar.


Here is my husband and I in San Francisco. I thought it would be fun to do a wall of photos from our honeymoon.





Just a few of my favorites. I have a million more.

Kylie

FINALLY, I framed my Kylie Minogue poster. I bought it months ago! Now, I don't have to worry about it getting ripped up anymore.



I love Kylie. Her music is very "poppy", but I call it my happy music. Kylie is hanging in our hallway right by the front door. We still need to hang our track lighting we bought from IKEA. Can't wait to get it looking finished with the walls covered with photographs!!!

Xmas Trees & Decor

Here is my Christmas tree! It has no topper, needs more ornaments, maybe some stuff UNDER it, and its to small for our new living room. I also have a vintage silver tree, but I don't want to take the chance of one of the cats killing themselves eating it!!!!

Here is my tree last year, at our old house.... (looks the same.)


I love the size of this tree.

I want a 7ft skinny tree, so I can push it right into the corner! Also, this tree goes to the floor. I think that looks better. Well, money is tight this year, so unless I find a really good deal no new tree. I searched Flickr for some photos of trees that I think are very pretty and well decorated.

Well, of course I love the tree in the above photo. DUH! Pink & Hello kitty. My husband would NEVER let this tree in our house. I suppose I could buy a little tree and put it in my office....hummmmmm This tree belongs to Anasui on flickr. She did a great job decorating her tree. (link)

This pretty white tree belongs to Holiday Jenny. (link)

Look at this colorful white tree that belongs too Laurenmlove. (link)

This tree is so pretty and tiny, and PINK. :) It belongs to Nerdstrom. (link)

This pretty white tree belongs to Runesrule. (link) They wrapped the lights around the middle of the tree to make it glow. Great idea!

Here is a tree made out of toothpicks! How cool! (link)

Holiday Decor from CB2! How Mod!

My husband and I aren't into the Holidays at all this year. He didn't even want to put the tree up. We are tired and stressed. Like most couples around the holidays we get stressed over making all the families happy, while we are miserable. I will say looking at trees online makes me want to get more into the spirit and decorate my tree more. See, it all goes back to DECORATING!!! :)

Media Room

My newest design is for my parents. They want a room for playing video games, watching movies, and parties. They love music, so I thought it would be fun to be inspired by some of their favorite artists.

Lucky for me, they like contemporary style.(makes it FUN for me!) I want the room to feel like a lounge. My parents do not have alot of color in their home, so this will be a very different room for them. The rug will set it off.

The rug is from Home Decorators Collection. Once I saw it, I didn't like anything else for the space. All the furniture will be black, chrome, and glass. The rug is Andy Warhol's Sunset painting. (link)


Bono Rolling Stone Poster (link)

Guitar Print (link)
This room needs ALOT of work, it might be awhile before I post about it....... New carpet, flat screen tv, furniture, lots of painting..... etc etc etc.....

BUT we have a "design plan" to guide us!!!! :)

Trim, Stress, & Being Tired!

Not to much has been happening at my atomic ranch. We are under lots of stress because of our stupid "deadline" with the bank. We are already PAST the deadline, and paying a fee for it everyday we go over. Oh well, such is life. Its a long story. All I can say it that I am tired and drained. Can't wait to be working so I can get OUT of my house and far away from it for 8 hours a day. My husband and are love working on our house. BUT being forced to hurry and spend money you don't have sucks!!!!!

The bank has decided that all our trim had to be done. Last weekend all we did was this. I painted all these trim boards before putting them up. Sadly, they still need MORE paint, and all the nail holes need filled. :( I just don't have the motivation that is needed to do all this right now. My husband and I have agreed that the month of December is our month OFF. Then we are going to work on ONE ROOM at a time.
Living Room Trim

My Office

MasterBedroom

The kitty's..... if only we all could have a cat life. lol

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