Kids Room, Take Two

Can you tell I am ready to have a baby? Haha. Maybe it's because everyone around me has kids, or is preggo! Joey and I are pretty darn good at making a plan and sticking to it when it comes to life altering event, ie, baby. Our plan is to start trying in September, and cross fingers it happens by November. Is this too personal? I just want to justify to you, our lovely reader a.) we aren't crazy for putting together a baby room without even being pregnant b.) we are obsessive planners because we are freelancers and each month is a whirlwind. Plan early, execute early, finish early - it's kinda our thing when that thing matters. So with no further ado or explanations, a moodboard/thinkpad of our kids room in progress!

So, we nailed down the valance a few weeks back, and are so in love with the direction the windows are taking. This is where we are traveling with them next...

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Pom Pom Curtains! Yes! Pom Poms! I ordered some black pom poms and will be doing a DIY tutorial soon. These things seem to be expensive if bought pre sewn.

On the ceiling, we are seriously thinking about wallpapering this...

How sweet would that be to wake up to? It's seriously dreamy! I love Julia Rothman's designs! Furniture is going to be a long hard process of major research, so I am focusing on the fun stuff for the moment. Like these carousel/carnival letter lights.

Do you see where this is going? I am so excited about this room in particular because I have a million whimsy ideas that would not pass with Joey for the rest of our house. If it were up to me, it would look like the inside of a barn with gnomes and hearts everywhere, and I would redesign it every month. Thank God I have Joey to edit my whims. This room with be total peaceful whimsy bliss when I am through. Now off to find the perfect rug(s)!

If you have a kids room you are proud of, please share....as a matter of fact, your are offically invited to our first link party! Whoo Hoo!

Accessorizing the Master Bedroom

Good morning pretty people! We are so excited to be moving along with our bedroom lately (can you tell?!)! The decisions come easier and easier with each new piece we bring in! It's such a great feeling! We put together a moodboard of our neutral-british-moroccan-cowboy theme. Check it out.

The pillows are from zgalleries.com (don't own yet), the walls were done by Joey just a little bit ago, the striped swatch are sheets from WestElm.com, which just got in last week and the Moose Head was meant for the mud room, but didn't fit, also from Zgalleries.com. The cowhide rug, we just got from ABC Carpet and Home, and that lovely stump is from WestElm.com.

I am very excited we agreed on a duvet, from none other than Dwell Studio, and our shiny little coffee table and matching console table from Timothy Oulton should be here this week! Now we just need to agree on dressing the windows and a rug for under the bed and the rest is g-r-a-v-y. We have some old army trunks we are going to do a little DIY project on and show you how to spruce up your own very soon. We feel super lucky to be getting the master suite we have always dreamed of for much cheaper then one would normally spend. With a little DIY effort and some deal hunting, we have managed to save the following so far:

$1,800 couch we scored for $600

$600 ottoman we scored for $300

$999 cowhide rug we scored for $349

$5,000 bed we loved, we built for $500

$300 wallpaper we loved, we stenciled for $60

$1,500+ Timothy Oulton Coffee Table we scored for $510

$1,500+ Timothy Oulton Console Table we scored for $710

Trunks were hand me downs $0

We spent: $3,029

We could have spent: $11,699

We have saved: $8,670!

I wish you could see all the happy spread across our faces when we save this much money! When we bought our home we estimated $20,000 per room, and we are super excited to be coming in way under! Have you scored BIG lately? Do tell! We always shop the online sample sales, and sometimes that forces us to wait and really think about how we are going to build a room. If you have any great advice, we (and our readers!) would love to know!

I love to Shop + Winner for the Stencil Giveaway

"Thank you" to everyone who entered our awesome give away from Cutting Edge Stencils! We selected a winner, and that winner is Tashma! She selected the Dahlia Allover Stencil - be sure to send us photos of what you did what that beautiful stencil! If you didn't win this give away, don't fear dear friend, we will have plenty more to come. And if you totally fell in love with stencils like we did, keep checking back at MAHAH - we are going to have more stencil fun in our (near) future!

 This weekend was kinda weird, gloomy, gray one. Joey needed some new sneakers, so we went to the mall, something we rarely do. I hate going out in the rain. I hate the parking garage at the mall. I hate the crowds. However, I love to shop. I love it so much, I went with Joey to the mall to pick out some sneaker despite my eternal distain for all the things listed above. 

We didn't find any sneakers, but we did find this...

It's not that we "found" it this weekend, it's that it found us. You may remember us drooling over the Kensington couch over at Restoration Hardware. It's on our 2011 to-do list. Well, this here table is the table that just so happens to be a perfect match for the 118" couch. This here table is 71". This here table will inspire us to buy that couch that makes us happy. This here table was on sale for $800 reduces from $1,900. This makes us happy, very happy! I will stop saying "this here" now. Promise. 

We didn't expect to buy a coffee table this weekend. After all we just needed sneakers. And we just bought this....

It's a console table from Timothy Oulton, ya know the guy who designs a bunch of stuff for Restoration Hardware. The guy I am obsessed with. The guy who make furniture both Joey and I like. Love that guy. I found him at ABC Carpet and Home in NYC, on the second floor where he took out two spots to showcase his work. 

Yea, we thought about buying that Union Jack couch, many many times. We decided however to go with that exact couch, just in a nice cigar leather. More dog/kid/us proof. Boy, I love to shop for home decor. It really makes me happy. But now our shopping has put us in a pickle. We are having another Joey vs. Lana moment. 

Joey wants to add these chairs to the brown leather sofa + new balustrade salvage wood coffee table steal:

Right now we have these bad boys, which are just too oversized with the new couch....

So the question is this. These new chairs Joey wants - too manly? I am scared of our living room turning into a man cave. Right now I do not have a better suggestion to battle against these really cool airplane themed chairs, but I do think it's going to bring this room to the point of 100% masculine. Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Joey won the chandelier battle, help me with this one ladies!