My Office Update for Under $200 (at decor8)
My second guest post at decor8 is up as well!
I’ve got a couple of design boards showing how I’d like to update my office for less than $200.
Style: August ‘08 (at decor8)
My August style post is over at decor8 this month. Head on over to see my take on fanciful style!
Home Magazine
Our library is the ‘Reader Before and After’ feature (pages 48-50) in the September 2008 issue of Home Magazine!
This is what June’s photo shoot was for. They photographed the studio and my office as well, but those are just on file and I don’t know if they’ll use them at any point.
The library (er, excuse me, the “book nook”) looks fantastic. Thank you, Beth Roehrig and Home Magazine!
Lovely Tree! Now What?
My Eastern Redbud was supposed to be delivered on the 29th, but it came early!
It’s much bigger than I thought, which is good! I thought it was only 6 feet tall, but it’s actually around 10 feet. It’s the first thing you see when you walk into the backyard.
Well, it may not be the first thing you see…
My eye goes straight to the neighbor’s oddly shaped trees and overgrown garden. So while I absolutely love my new tree, I don’t exactly love the view surrrounding it.
Something more like this, perhaps?
Suggestions are welcome. The only things I have now are the tree, a compact burning bush behind it (in the corner), and weeds.
Plants for the Backyard
I love planning my garden. I keep putting in flowers and plants, thinking “this is probably going to look really good in a few years”.
Here’s the plan for the left side of our yard along the fence, cutesy illustration style:
That’s the neighbor’s tree, but it’s very close to the fence and it hangs over our yard. Hydrangeas (and hostas) will do well in the shade underneath. A variegated Ivory Halo Dogwood will provide some privacy for the egg chair that I want so badly, and peonies and a lilac bush will provide some nice spring blooms.
Hey, That Looks Familiar
I just noticed that Laure from at home at home and I have the same table!
Laure’s table
Hers has a white top whereas mine is wood, but that base looks identical. It looks pretty good with shell chairs, not that I need any encouragement to buy them! I’m filing that idea away…
Brandon Was Thinking About Buying a New TV
Apparently, he has the amazing ability to think things into existence! How else can yesterday’s surprise delivery be explained?
My mom has requested that Brandon thinks about a new addition to her house. I asked Brandon what he thought about a certain egg chair showing up any day now at the house. No word yet, but we’ll probably think about ordering it soon.
The Long-Term Backyard Plan
Brandon bought an Eastern Redbud for me from our local nursery! It’s my favorite tree, and mine will be delivered on August 29.
I’d like the tree to be a part of a larger planting area. I want it to be surrounded by bushes and flowers and not just plunked in the middle of the yard, but the spot that I did want it in (near the patio) has an electrical wire running directly underneath. So I did what I often do when I need to think… I sketched.
I reworked the sketch into two cleaned up and colored versions. One shows the backyard as it is now, and the other shows the expanded garden version:
The two large purple/pink circles are Eastern Redbud trees (the neighbor has one that leans over our fence). As for the rest of the garden, I’m not entirely sure which plants I’ll be using but it feels good to have some direction.
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