Category Archives: Art

Bathroom Inspiration

Earlier today, Walker and I stopped by a really awesome soda pop shop called Rocket Fizz and they had a stack of retro cardboard concert flyers. At only $6.99 a pop (haha soda shop pun intended), we couldn’t resist picking one out!

While I wish we could have gotten like 10 of them, we don’t have much empty wall space.  But we decided this yellow Beatles poster would be the perfect inspiration for our bathroom makeover!  We are thinking perhaps a yellow and gray theme with some other fun pops of color? More bathroom ideas to come! :)

What is Black & White & Green All Over?

When I first moved into my apartment and lived alone, I decided to have a black & white bedroom with a wild accent wall.  Enter lime green paint.  It was a bit intense but I loved it… for a while.  When Walker moved in, the first room we decided to make-over was the bedroom and I was ready for a change (bye bye lime). We decided to keep the black & white idea to some extent but wanted to change the accent wall and add more colors to the room’s accessories.  So we went with “Vineyard” (how appropriate for us winos) green paint by Behr.  We liked the idea of green but wanted something darker and more cozy.  To keep the black & white theme going, we blew up a photo my cousin took of us holding hands and made it the centerpiece of a black & white photo gallery wall.
The entire wall is pictures sentimental family photos… anything from our grandparents as teenagers to us as kids.  We picked a random fun arrangement that still has plenty of room to add on.  All of the frames are from Ikea (the small ones were $2.99 a piece, the medium were $4.99, and the large one was $19.99).  We could have gone a bit cheaper but we loved the thick, substantial black frames with white mats.
We painted everything in October but finally got the last few pictures from my house over the holidays to have a “completed” phase 1 of the wall.  I say “completed” for two reasons:
  1. We intend to keep adding onto the wall with more pictures
  2. Even phase 1 isn’t complete… you will notice all the way to your right that there is a frame with the Ribba printout still inside where a picture of Walker’s grandmother should be.  Ok, so we need to go get it printed.  But I am just trying to keep it real here on the blog and that includes the good, the bad, and the incomplete.  And me photo-bombing my own photos.  Hey, Erika!
On a sweet note, we are now surrounded by the people we love.  On a creepy note, all of these people now watch us sleep.  :)

Skeleton Key Fever

Yes, I have it.

I was all excited to post this yesterday but I actually got asked to help work an important edit session at work last night (which is awesome!!  I couldn’t say no!). So though it is a bit delayed, I would like to continue the “stuff we brought from our visits home” week with a little something I got from my Nana. After bragging shamelessly at the family Christmas gathering about my new skeleton key necklace from Walker (I had been wanting one forever! This pic is from the Etsy seller gwendelicious), my Nana told me that she had a skeleton key in her jewelry box from the house where she grew up. Later that week, I went back over to her house and she brought the key out for me. It was so pretty… simple, vintage, and full of memories. She said that in those days people didn’t really lock their doors so her family only had 2 copies of the key. Since one skeleton key could open many of her neighbor’s doors, at night her father would stick his key into the lock from the inside to jam it up. Nana told me that she learned how to use her key from the outside to push the inside key back out of the lock so she could get into the house when she’d been out late!  Probably sneaking out with Papa… ;)

NanasSkeletonKey

Anyway, she gave it to me and I couldn’t think of a better place for it than next to the “Our First Place” key. I got a worn brown frame from Michael’s for $5 that had a little room between the glass and the cardboard insert. I cut small picture hanging nails with my she-hulk strength and my wire cutters so that the nails wouldn’t stick out the back. Then I placed the nails, hammered them in, and put everything back into the frame/glass. Since the cardboard insert couldn’t really fit back into the grooves in the frame, I was able to secure it with some tape (because it sat flush with the back of the frame). Now our little family heirloom is on display. The more skeleton keys, the merrier!  (Thanks Nana- I love you!)

Erika

I’m Erika, an interior designer with an aesthetic that is a mix of California Bohemian, Mid-Century, and Scandinavian influences with pops of fun color and loads of natural materials. Plus plants, plants, and more plants!

My sweet family (Walker, Juniper & Hank, as well as pups Arlo & Guillermo) just reloacted from Los Angeles, CA, to Lincoln, NE. We would love for you to follow along with us on this journey!

 
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