**pic is from yvestown blog**

I love the idea of having shelving instead of upper cabinetry.  And I am in love with this pale blue and white color scheme.  So sweet.  I have been obsessing about yvestown blog all weekend (in between painting my armoire).



Here is the inspiration pic for my sewing armoire (also from yvestown blog).  I wanted a happy pink.  And after a lot of trial and error, I found my happy pink at Sherwin Williams (they are having a 25% off sale from Feb 10-20th).  It is called “desire pink” and I go it  in the flat, no voc paint.  Because the armoire is knotty pine (from Pottery Barn 14 yrs ago, not antique) I thought the flat paint would be better.  I like high gloss paint a lot, but not on a piece that has a lot of imperfections, dings, knots etc.

Here is her laundry room at her old house.  I have always wanted one of these plastic floor mats.  And I’ve also always wanted the painted Chinese lanterns.  But mostly I really like this pic because you can see how she incorporates some warm pine (I have a couple pieces of antique pine that I will not paint!) with a lot of white and some more modern pieces.  It really seems like it works even though it is a real mix of styles.  I like that.

I am not liking black at all right now.  I am thinking of painting my black pieces of furniture white.  I love how bright and cheery everything looks on the yvestown blog.

I love this window treatment too.  I have such a hard time thinking of window treatments.  I don’t know why but I always do.

She uses a lot of Cath Kidston in her home.  I love this Cath Kidston site.  I am contemplating an order to celebrate my 14th cancer free anniversary on Valentine’s Day(tomorrow!).

I can’t wait to show you how my armoire turned out!  I will wait to show you until I move it upstairs and organize my sewing things!  I am so excited.  I can’t believe I finally finished it…it took forever!