Making Home – Stylish and Fun = Me

October 19, 2011 by Lynn
Filed under Decorating, Featured Content, Home and Garden

I was struggling with the big bookcase since I moved into this house 6 months ago. It is hard to make a rental house feel like YOUR home. Here is me attempting to make this space feel like it’s mine…for now.

I had a nice bookcase I displayed stuff on in my old house, now I needed to recreate something new with my stuff in a new place. My bookcase in SD had three less compartments and was a bit smaller. Also since there wasn’t much on this, it seemed to be becoming the “junk spot.” The place where all the crap got left during the day.

So…my solution! Stacking some fun books in a cool way, displaying photos I love of my children in fun colorful frames, putting out some of my favorite things -little frogs I collect, snow-globe of Seattle, photo I took from my first photography class, and a few other fun things that make me happy to look at. Cuz that is what it is about people! Things YOU like. I added the warrior man on top, because my hubs needs a few things he likes here and there too.

I also added two baskets- one for remotes and the other for library books. We needed a spot for both, since they both seem to get lost so easily.

I think the blue fabric frames pop and I like that they are different but have a common theme and size.

I love that the things on the have special memories for me. The vase in the top middle we got on our honey-moon. The picture of Christ was a wedding gift. The birds on the second self down were a wedding gift to my parents. The Joseph and Mary carving on the third self down was from my trip to Israel. The flower picture was from my first photography class. These things make me smile. And you want to smile as you walk through your house. Make the space yours.

The vases are both from my dad. The tall one he bought for me and the shorter one he made when he was in college. My mom gave me that butterfly and I collect frogs. And of course Beck.

Books I love. Basic Art History, The 20th Century, Posters in History, Audrey Hepburn biography, Strange Worlds- Fantastic Places, Eyewitness- 150 years of photojournalism. Good stuff. In a few of the other compartments we have religious books, year books (I loved looking at my parents year books, I want my kids to be able to look at mine too), books I am currently reading, a few photo albums, and Devan’s families Book of Remembrance.