My Favorite Room.....The Happy Housie

Hello readers of Savvy Southern Style!
I'm Krista from The Happy Housie and I am so excited to be here today sharing my favorite room. I was so honored when Kim asked me to share my favorite room with her readers... and then it got me to thinking about which room in our house really is my favorite? To be honest, it doesn't ever feel like any room in our house is actually "finished"... I have so many ideas, visions, and plans for them
in the future. But I think the room that I most love to spend time in with my family is our light and bright living/dining room space.

My favorite feature of the living room side is our big windows and the high ceiling. I love how much light it lets in and how open and airy it makes our room feel. That, along with the thick white trim, balances out all the colour that I love to incorporate when decorating. Because we live on a lake, I wanted to create a lake front coastal cottage feel when decorating this home.

Many of the pieces in our living room area were second hand finds that have been cleaned up a little paint... like our octagonal glass coffee table, and side tables. Even the oil painting, old window frame, oars, and spindles on the gallery wall were second hand finds given some new life with a little paint. In fact, the broken dark teal oar came in that colour and I loved it so much I used it to match the coffee table paint colour too. I would say that was my first colour choice for this house and our decorating scheme came out of that.

 

I love to change my pillow covers and colours with each season... this spring I decided to add in a little purple. I make my own pillow covers by following a really simple DIY Envelope Pillow Tutorial that I have shared over on my blog.

The little lamp in the background was a horrible mottled brown color... a little white spray paint and a new shade (found on clearance) and it is a brand new piece. The gold frame was a garage sale find, and I picked up the yellow table at a second hand store and fixed it up with some DIY chalk paint in a Benjamin Moore colour called "Mellow Yellow".

The window bench was made out of an old coffee table that I picked up at the Sally Ann. We just painted the base, added some foam and batting and upholstered it with some pretty striped fabric. I recently turned plain & basic wooden crates from Walmart into these numbered bins and we use them to keep our boys' books and puzzles out of sight when not in use.  

One of my favourite 'side tables' is this old cheese drum that I picked up at a garage sale... it even opens up and can be used to stash extra stuff if need be.

 Our TV Cabinet is an old dresser from the Salvation Army that we modified slightly to house our AV equipment... I used some DIY Chalk Paint in yellow at first but then painted in over in white a few months ago. I love choice number two much more... The Lakeshore Cottages sign was a project I shared last spring using some reclaimed boards - a cheap and easy way to create a large graphic piece for above the TV.

I also found the wooden lamp at a garage sale for only a few dollars. I just gave it a new shade and added some sisal rope around the base .

Our living room flows directly into our dining room - it is really just one big open space. I found that waterski at a garage sale soon after we moved in and knew that I wanted to hang it on a wall somewhere in our house... living on the lake we love to watch people out doing watersports.

We were graciously given the pew by a good friend (she had two of them and was moving so had left them behind). I couldn't believe my good fortune but I guess that is what happens after my repeated requests to buy one from her. I love our old pew. You'll see the walls in our dining room are decorated with lots of reclaimed and thrifted finds as well...

I made the map letters by decoupaging maps cut from a thrift store Atlas onto some wooden letters that I got at a craft store. The art prints are taken out of an old calendar...but I switch up the art in those frames fairly regularly with the seasons.

I love our silver gazelle... he was picked up on Clearance at a nearby home décor store. The gold frames were a recent garage sale find and to fill them I just printed off some watercolor pattern that I found online.

Since I love decorating for the seasons so much and we lack a mantel in this space, we created a faux mantel out of an old china cabinet hutch and it live on the wall between our living and dining room areas. Right now I have a pastel and gold springy display but it changes about every month....

 

Thanks again, Kim, for having me here today!! It is such an honor to take part in your Favorite Room Series!

Thanks for reading. And remember my housie friends, HOME isn't built in a day. Enjoy the journey.

Thanks so much, Krista for sharing your favorite space with us. It is just all so cute and I love the addition of purple you added this spring.

Okay, y'all if you don't know Krista and her blog The Happy Housie be sure to pop over and look around and say hello.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for a giveaway with five winners!

If you are away from the computer this holiday weekend I hope you have a happy and safe Memorial Day!

Miss any past favorite rooms? See them all HERE.