Happy 2016! Are you ready for an amazing New Year…I know I am. I have the projects lined up, the honey do list is filling up and I am ready to dive right in, but before I do that, I wanted to highlight some of my best room makeovers of 2015 at Duke Manor Farm. The one’s…
I recently made a few changes to my master bedroom that, wait for it……. didn’t involve painting the walls. Yup, they are still the same from when I painted them here, and I still love the color. Its called Rhinestone from SW. Changes were made to the bedding, artwork, lighting and rugs. Small, subtle changes that…
I believe in practical and functional living, but I also like to look for easy ways to dress up those spaces in your home that are very well used. Like the garage. Most people probably don’t care about how the garage looks, but when you have a front facing garage entrance and a husband who likes to keep…
This may sound a bit strange, but we are a house that is pumpkin divided….traditional orange and other. Me and my Kitchen Fall Mantel say other….. while the other mantel and the rest of the family says traditional orange. To see my fall mantel in the breakfast room you can go here to see how I…
Sorry to go so quiet on you last week. Didn’t want you to think for one second that I was slacking off over here. Nope. Not me. Between hubby recovering from his surgery, me getting over a nasty head cold (of all weeks to get sick) and just the norm of life, school, scouts, dance,…
I’mmmmm back! Summer as we know it at our house, officially came to an end. My kids started back to school last Friday. Typically they start the first week of August so it was a tad bit earlier then years past. This mama cried behind her shades as dad and I dropped them off…
So it occurred to me while sipping on some frozen fruity drinks at the beach with my mom last week while we were in Florida, that I better get this Coppertone bum in gear and finish the updates that I want to do before she gets here in 4 weeks. I really haven’t done enough to share up…
After a while, 365 days after you started…..to be exact, things just start to blend in. They somehow become the norm in the room…if you let them. And although you put a timeline together to get it done along with the added pressure of having parties, holidays and company……it doesn’t quite get past the finished…
For some odd reason, I seem to wait for the busiest times of the year and embark on projects like this Black and White bathroom makeover, whether it needs it or not. A month or so before Christmas, I decided I didn’t have enough to do in between wrapping presents, decorating the house, getting…
I feel like a kept woman in my kitchen these days. Spoiled….just like a queen. Especially when I am standing right in this spot, at the kitchen sink. Today, I want to share the two gadgets that are spoiling me in the kitchen….so you can feel like a queen or king too! The faucet switcheroo probably…
One of the biggest complements I can share with my children, is to display their art work. The sense of pride and accomplishment for their expression and creativity is repeated each time they look at their images hanging throughout the house. Today, I wanted to share with you how I decorated my spring kitchen mantel using kids artwork. …
Thanks for joining me for Monday Musings at Duke Manor Farm. I was so blessed to have a good friend that lives in Texas that I have not seen in 13 years, come and spend the weekend with us. We chatted and laughed just like we use to. It was like no time had gone…