Our final look in this edition of Making it Yours (MiY) is here! MiY is all about making the pieces you love work for you and your changing life over time. We’ve seen the Sierra Chest in two versions of a bedroom for our fictional heroes, Adam and Sadie Green. We’re back again, and this time they are indeed about to have their lives changed…
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Let’s follow up with Adam and Sadie, our fictional couple and heroes of this edition of Making it Yours. We’ve already seen their bedroom from a while back, but it’s looking pretty different these days…
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Here we are: the first look in the ninth edition of Making it Yours. We’re going to follow Adam and Sadie Green (our fictional heroes), newlyweds in their late twenties, who have just moved to San Francisco!
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So, apparently I do these every six months? I always mean to do them with more frequency, but alas.
My Making it Yours (MiY) series is all about finding a piece of furniture you love, and making it work for you through changing styles and different stages of life. I like to imagine a story for each item I choose, and show how it can work for the same person in a variety of ways, or how someone else may inherit a piece and give it a new life.
A home doesn’t come together overnight. You may start out with hand-me-down furniture, and slowly incorporate pieces you love as you’re able to. Or maybe you find an amazing vintage dining set that is perfectly you, and so you incorporate it into several different looks that speak to your changing taste over time. That’s how my home has evolved, and likely yours as well.
In this, the ninth edition of MiY, I’ll be showing the Sierra Four-Drawer Chest in three different designs. It will start out in a bedroom, as you might expect. The second look will see it in the bedroom again, but years later and with a different decorating scheme. The third look will then see the chest moved into a different room entirely, and I’ll show how it can work as part of a living room.
The first look will be up later today.
I’ll be putting together the next edition of Making it Yours soon, but I want to revisit the first look in the eighth edition first. As a reminder, here was the story…
Tom is an English lit professor in his early forties who has put a lot of thought into his home. He loves his living room, but his boyfriend, a vegan, is moving in. Thus the leather has to go! (The brindle, too, but he’s moving that to his office.) Tom’s younger sister, Frances, has been making do with a sad little sofa that has seen better days, so she’s the lucky recipient of the leather chesterfield. We’ll see it in her decidedly feminine space next.
We saw the couch in his sister’s home, but many of you asked for a spinoff! What replaced it? Let’s see.
Tom loved his leather sofa and brindle chair, but he loved his boyfriend, a vegan, more. When it came time for him to move in, the animal products had to go. In their place came a fabric sofa in custom teal upholstery, and a geometric wood chair, along with a new cheeky pillow. The walls got a fresh coat of paint too. Tom’s more in love than ever now.
Sheesham Tray Stands, $99-129
Noir Pendant Lamp, $249
Sterling Paint, Serena & Lily
Graham Sofa, $2395
Relic Vases, $7.95-16.95
Ankara Chair, $699
Oushak Rug, $2695
Making it Yours follows one piece of furniture through several different looks. We’ve already seen this green leather couch in a more masculine room, and then in a younger, more feminine space. Now we have it in its final look, another feminine room, but this time a little more refined.