And the home remodel slash decorating bonanza crawls on…  Our master bedroom was pretty much the last room in the house that I started on because the walls, ceiling, and floors were done last, and once I got to it, I was kind of pooped from the rest of the house.  I told Eric that I didn’t think I could pick out one more rug.  Seems dramatic, but if you start to look around at the area rugs on the interwebs, you’ll find a TON of similar duplicates.  I found myself reverting back to the old eeny, meeny, miny, moe method.  (Works every time.)  So for the master bedroom, I’m super excited that I got to team up with Havenly for the whole design.  That means someone else got to pick out the rug and pretty much everything else, but more on the design process later.  The room is still waiting on a few final touches – closet doors, a tiny wall repair, wall art, and an upholstered bench that took six weeks to be delivered only to march right back out the door with a stain on it – but the one thing that is done and happily put together is the master bedroom bedding.  And what a difference that makes.

When we moved into this house, our bed and dresser (the only bedroom furniture that could fit into the tiny bedroom of our last house) went into the guest bedroom, so we pretty much started from scratch in the master.  Our first priority was the bed, and we ordered that before we started working with Havenly.  We TOTALLY scored on a great mattress because Eric’s company builds for a well-known mattress company.  Then came the master bedroom bedding, and since we’d been purging all of our Ikea furniture from college around the house, it only seemed appropriate that it was time for some nice, grown-up bedding.  Similar to the guest bedroom, I knew I wanted all white, and I found the perfect (for us) duvet, embroidered duvet cover, and matching shams at Bed Bath & Beyond.  It’s the best blank slate for a few pillows (which were all found at Steinmart), and I love that it stays pretty wrinkle-free.  I never ever thought I’d say this, but it’s the type of master bedroom bedding that makes you actually want to make your bed in the morning.  So grown up, right?  Something like that.  Stay tuned for a full master bedroom reveal coming up…just as soon as she’s ready.

xoxo

Disclosure:  This post is in collaboration with Bed Bath & Beyond, but all opinions are my own.  Thank you for supporting the brands that make My Style Diaries possible.

Ahhh, you guys!  I’m so, so excited for today’s post because I feel like it’s been a few months coming.  If you haven’t been following along on Instagram (why, girl?), you may have missed a few sneak peeks at the whole home remodel situation that’s been going down since Eric and I got married.  That’s right, we bought a house!  (Woo-hoo!)  A realllll fixer-upper.  Like the kind of fixer-upper where you rip the whole thing down to the studs and start from scratch.  It’s been quite the process, but it’s so nice that we can make each room our own.  But, you know, these things take time.  Lots of it.  Lots and lots of it.

But finally, finally the rooms are coming together (while other parts of the house are quite another story…), and I’m loving the decorating process.  So without further babbling on, today I’m sharing our guest bedroom in collaboration with Stein Mart.  I unfortunately don’t really have any before photos of this room because, well, there was nothing really in there besides a bed and dresser.  It was a real work-in-progress, or a blank slate, I’ll say.  So armed with a gift card and the two best design assistants ever (AKA my mom and aunt – seriously, they’re the best!), I headed to my local Stein Mart without a clue really what I was looking for.

And the ball started rolling quickly.  I spotted the mirror and little square bench first and was like, yes and yes.  The bedding was next, and for some reason, I’m just hooked on white bedding only.  No prints, no patterns, no colors, no thank you.  White bedding, and it’s non-negotiable.  I grabbed this white linen set and moved onto picking a little color in the pillows.  Many of the rooms in our house for one reason or another are turning out to be a smidge on the masculine side, so I figured this guest room could be my girly room.  So the blush and grey and velvet and faux fur and flowers and such just happened.  And I LOVE it.

These days, it’s so pretty and cozy that I feel like we should be sleeping in it once a week or something.  Maybe not, but I do really love how it turned out, and I seriously can’t believe the crazy good steals that I found at Stein Mart.  Like that mirror, y’all?  Under $80.  Same goes for the little bench.  The throw, the bedding, the pillows, the flowers – have you looked at the prices of all that jazz other places?  Because it’s bananas.  So I figured why stop with the guest bedroom?  Stay tuned for Stein Mart steals in our master bedroom and a full fall tablescape, coming ‘atcha real soon.

xoxo

Disclosure:  This post is sponsored by Stein Mart, but all opinions are my own.  Thank you for supporting the brands that make My Style Diaries possible.