Lucketts Design House

So I wanted to take you on a little virtual tour of one of my favorite places to shop, the Lucketts Design House:

It's this old house with some outbuildings full of an ever-changing array of awesome furnishings & home accents. They change it seasonally & it's only open on weekends so it's always a treat. It's run as a specialty shop of Lucketts Antiques (the salvage yard/ antiques store I always rave about) which I'll be posting about soon. Here's the bridgeway into the Design House:

They have crazy things like this bird house just set up everywhere:

And this griffin guarding the entry:

This is the back entry into the house:

The colors are always changing. I took these pics right after Chrismas so it's all holiday stuff:

I love their kitchen (below). Howmuch fun are the stools?!

Cute b&w checkerboard floor:

This back entrance porch is one of my favorite rooms. I love the floors & pale blue paneling:

Here's a huge hutch in the kitchen that stands in the exact spot where I got my hutch! (I always have to check out what's there instead! :)

Here's the front entryway (below):

View in from another room:

Here are some of the rooms on the first floor:

Fun lamp:

Check out what they've done with this salvaged mantle"

Big, fun lantern:

Ok, this table is on my dream table list. It's reclaimed elm & is so rough & natural. LOVE IT. (Actually I'm very into the drum shade too)

I always love this room & want to buy the down-filled sofas.

Loving this bench & hide rug: (should I feel guilty??)

Quirky lion print= fun

The pretty Christmas mantle & flocked tree:

Such gorgeous old doors:

A console version (below) of my dining room table ;) ;)

I guess I'm into the cow hide right now because this is great to me: (More cowbell anyone??)

And you know I love decorative balls of all shapes & sizes! (These were some type of wood composite I think? Really light & hollow)

Cute snowmen:

Woven coffee table:

Here's an upstairs room. They've got it set up as this crazy dining room right now:

There are so many rooms!!

Here's another upstairs dining room:

How fun is the armoire in the background below? (Would be a great project to try!)

Here's one of the bedrooms. This one is usually full of darker colors:

These shell pieces below are AMAZING. (They always carry a few of these) The carvings are just so beautiful. I think if you had a room with simpler lines this could be a really beautiful contrast:

This bedroom is so light & airy:

They really do a great job squeezing in a ton of merchandise without it feeling too terribly cluttered:
Some great inspiration for older pieces:

Pretty bed. I'm really into the wall colors. Just so fresh & happy:

And you know how I feel about raw wood. I need one of these mirrors:

Or this mirror (below)... & the chair is great upholstered in a rough burlap-like linen:

More mirros & that lamp is really tall! It's just a great place to find pieces with some real character for a bargain:

Haha, yes, I definitely loved the feeling in this bedroom so here's one last picture:

Here's the bathroom where they have lots of great little gifts:

Here's the upstairs hallway with the ever-changing art wall:

More fun balls:

These tables (below) are great! (Haha when I was designing a line of furniture a couple of years ago I SO thought I made up this concept until I walked into a store & saw it! :) But I really do love it when designers takes a furniture piece that is traditionally wood & switches it to metal or vice versa.

Below, a little too curvey for me peronsally, but they still do such a beautiful job of displaying & there's really something for everyone:

Such unique pieces:

Here's this really cool bar. If my basement didn't need to be my living room, I'd totally go for this baby: (One day! ;)

And now back downstairs to one last room:

There's not much more I can say, but that if you are ever in the area, you have to stop by!!!! (And they also always have treats in the kitchen!! Good stuff too- like hot spinach & artichoke dip!!)

Thank you Lindsay!!!

I just had to share this awesome package I got from Lindsay at Everything LEB last week. I won the drawing she just had & wanted to share pictures of everything. Check out these cool gift tags she MADE(!!):

I love her adorable fish cards!!! (I'm not sure if she remembers but they were one of my favorites her etsy site which you've gotta check out if you haven't already!) They're too cute- pink glitter fish on green cardstock:

Here are the comfy J. Crew gloves & pretty pearl earrings (love those buttons):

The surprise gift in the box was this awesome Cocktail Bible that we will DEFINITELY put to good use! ;) ;)

And, last but not least she gave me this HUGE roll of simple white satin ribbon that will last me a good long while (Lindsay, I'll let you know when you need to have another contest! ;) I'm so loving this because now I can just use brown paper to wrap my gifts & the ribbon & the pretty little gift tags she made (I don't need to spend a thing & can help out the environment!) and the gifts will be beautiful!!! Here's a gift I did (yeah, I'm a little late for Christmas, but unfortunately, that's how I sometimes, er often, roll)

Thank you so much Linsday!!!! You're awesome & the package was just so beautiful, thoughtful & fun to receive!!! xoxo

Our Christmas Living Room

And finally some pics of our basement living room! (I still managed to sneak in the dreaded white feather wreath! haha) I had posted this a couple of days ago & then unposted it thinking I woud tweak it a bit more & put it back on when ppl were blogging again but you caught me! :)

Here's a quick before picture so you get the idea. My parents used it for a catch-all:

The hutch (below) is from that salvage yard I always talk about, Lucketts. It is so insanely practical & the back is solid oak beadboard. It's huge & the bottom is filled with baskets of Christian's toys that we can just shove inside. It makes for such an easy clean-up!


Here's out little entry area where we layer lots of family photos & mementos:

Luckily when we moved in, I was able to use drapes & shades I already had. The first thing we did was repaint the paneling:

My mom gave us this little cubby shelf from Target which has ended up being so useful! All the magazines coming in get tossed there & we've still got room for books & toys. I also tucked in some silver accents in there for winter which hide toys & crayons. The lamp was my mom's & used to be blue but I painted it to match the puddy-colored walls.

Here's our tuckered-out pup, Ashby. The shelf behind her is from Ikea & houses my samples & catalogs.

Here's the view in from the back entry:

And, here's our tree! I've still never really figured out what to do up top so I threw up some white roses temporarily. Anyone have any ideas for next year?


Well, hope you had a very Merry Christmas!!!

xoxoxoxo!!

My Christmas Bedroom

As promised, here are some pictures of our Christmas decor!

I switched out our ever-changing pillows with some red toile pillows & a little tiny accent pillow from Target I cut in half.

We just got these teardrop glass lamps & I am having so much fun playing with my nightstands because you can see through them!

See? You can see the cute little urn of apples behind:

And here's that little wedgewood bowl I found on the flea market trip with Eddie serving as my little catch-all. (Don't worry, I totally put in cute things for this picture... it's usually chapstick & hair ties! :) ... Along with an adorable little glass botanical coaster my cousin gave me from Anthropologie.


And here's our armoire covered with evergreens & mossballs (my favorite!). I used lots of little silver accents mixed with white. (That's my little baby on the left! :)

Here's our little lion head change pot. I got it for around $2 at a thrift store a couple of years ago.

And here's my $13 thrift store chair. I repainted the wood. (Before I got it there was caning but unfortunately someone cut it out.)

And here's that fun little table I also found on the flea market with Eddie. We just keep it at the end of our bed & use it to pile books or blankets or whatever:

And one last shot of our little basement bedroom:

Merry Christmas & I'll post our living room later!!!

xoxo,

lauren

Our first Christmas Tree

Ok, I really have been planning on taking pictures of our Christmas decor for a couple of weeks. But I still haven't gotten to it, so instead, tonight I'm posting photos of my husband & my first Christmas as married folks in our new townhouse 3 years ago.


We absolutely loved our fireplace. The mantle is from our favorite salvage yard, Lucketts Antiques. We sanded it down (barely- we got impatient! :) and painted it a glossy white to match our trim. We had a real hodgepodge of decor & just sort of threw everything from our old places in at first. In the photo below, the sparkly blue stuff in the center of the table is actually our broken storm door. My husband was trying to take out the screen & put it in & it shattered everywhere!! We used it around in little dishes as sparkly accents. This was a brunch for our parents:


And here's our living room again. Hanging on the mirror is the white feather wreath everyone but me hates. I can't help loving it :) ---Everyone groans when I whip it out at Christmas time!

Ok, I promise tomorrow I'll post pictures of this year's Christmas!!! Thanks for reading!!