Hey, What's Up? Hello!

I'm so glad you've popped in today. Today and this upcoming Monday will show you all of the "finished" rooms in our house. It's summertime and my beautiful friend Jess from Domicile 37 invited a bunch of your favorite bloggers to share our homes virtual tour style! All of the blogger's who've shared their homes this week have some variation of the "eclectic" style. So basically, if you haven't checked out the tours this past week- you're missing out!

In case you don't live in the South (or the USA, because I suppose the holiday isn't relevant otherwise), Summer kicked off last weekend! I do hate a short spring but there's something magical about summertime that makes up for it. Part of that magicalness of summer is how our interiors change to reflect a different lifestyle.

If you're here from Primitive and Proper, hello! You may have visited me before since Cassie and I cohost Thrift Score Thursday along with 2 more of our friends. If you haven't, you've been missing out! Welcome to my Boho Abode. You'll get a crash course on a lot of the work I've done on my house the past few months.

For me, summer is about baking in the sun for a few hours whether it just be enjoying the sounds of the neighborhood, playing with my little, gardening or working on my latest project. Then it's time to hit the air conditioned house for the hottest point of the day for a nap. And then it's an in and out evening involving cleaning up, making dinner, enjoying the sound of crickets and watching the sunset.

On the tour today I'm going to show you a little bit of our hallway since there's already been some changes since it's reveal at the beginning of the year and then I'll show you how I've redecorated my bedroom.

I hope you have some good tea and music because I have a lot of pictures to show you!

Leaving the living room and entering the hallway, you see a giant floral piece of art. I love it because it helps to bring the outdoors to a space that has no direct connection to the outdoors. The hallway light is also set pretty far down the hallway so I have this swing arm for addition light. It's perfect for late night runs to the bathroom since it's on a dimmer.



When you first look down the hallway your eyes will likely fall on one of two cool pieces. My large blue mirror (that I picked up off the side of the road and repaired and painted myself!) or the sputnik with edison bulb light fixture.

I do eventually plan on moving this light into the kitchen since it is just one touch above what I need and want for this space. But the mirror I only just recently pulled in here. I had a different mirror here first but moved it into the dining room and pulled this one back out. The proportion of it to the drawers is a bit off but these drawers are here temporarily as I've got them.



The first door to the right is the coat closet. It in major need of a coat closet makeover since it's mostly junk storage at the moment.



Beyond that is a thrifted, handmade and creatively thrown together hallway art wall. Opposite the random baskets, custom pieces and personalized art, the door to the furnace houses all the cleaning supplies and tools and the next door is the linen closet.



Passing the artwork there's the 3 bedrooms and bathroom (I swear I'm finishing that room up shortly- expect pictures in the next month!). One of the bedrooms is my "office" and the other is Carson's old room turned hubby's temporary bedroom (while I was working and he was leaving for work at 1/2am every morning- it sounds weird but it worked for us for that time!). Those rooms are absolutely terrible and I hope to get them in some kind of respectable shape soon.



But then you turn past the mirror and chest or drawers and you see my room! I had to keep the light off and the tapestry closed to prevent blow out so the pictures are a bit dark but that also means you can see more. I'm going to keep working on a solution, no worries!



My bedroom is super tiny. It's about 10 by 12 feet. With a 4 by 4 foot closet and no master bath. A lot of people cannot even imagine what that's like! Ha. I've managed to get a bench, vanity, chair, pull 9 drawer dresser, bed and two nightstands into the space. Yes, it involved thinking out of the box a bit. But I'm really happy with the space.









































Since the first week of summer had a lot of clouds and rain for us, these aren't the brightest of photos. But I hope you enjoyed the look into my home. And pro tip: keeping your windows covered during the hottest times of the day can help keep your house cooler ;)

You now need to head over to Suburban Bitches. Tricia is awaiting your arrival to tour her home. Thanks for visiting you guys, have a great weekend!

Here are the eclectic style blogger home tours for the whole week. Catch up if you haven't seen them all. You must!

Monday

Tuesday
Ciburbanity
The Striped House
Style Mutt Home
This is Our Bliss


Wednesday
Copper Dot Interiors
{Home-ology} Modern Vintage
Up to Date Interiors
Bigger Than the Three of Us


Thursday
Rain on a Tin Roof
Pretty Practical Home
58 Water Street
Domicile 37


Friday
Primitive & Proper
A Designer at Home
Suburban Bitches
Casa Watkins Living