Me & My House
There’s a super hip, funky, interesting furniture store that I love to go visit called Me & My House. I go there for inspiration. They have their finger on the pulse of the shabby chic…uh….heart? What would have a pulse? Is that right? It doesn’t seem right.
Anyway, they are groovy. We’ll just stick with groovy.
So every few months I go in there to get inspired. I always see something new and exciting and out of my price range. They also sell fabric. OK, now you’re talking my budget. I can buy the fabric and do the sewing myself. I’m a clever girl. Sometimes. OK, twice.
So I go in there expecting to come away with a spark of vision and I leave with the knowledge, deep in my soul, that I have no ability to be cool, hip, funky or even groovy. It just isn’t in me. They are dressed all Anthropologie and I am dressed all Macy’s clearance.
I wish I could pull it off. The whole, messy but cool at the same time. But when I do it I just get messy….sans cool. Shabby with no chic.
The sales ladies are so nice and despite my unhipness they treat me like I’m someone interesting.
Remember the too-cute-for-my-taste wicker chairs in the living room? Well I’ve finally had it. So I marched into Me & My House and asked the adorable, so-happy-and-creative salesgirl to look at the pictures on my blog and help me figure out what to do with these chairs. This is the first time blogging has actually come in handy.
She was sweet and tolerant of my weirdness and she was a great help. I love getting someone else’s perspective on my problems. Especially when that someone has their finger on pulses and other important bodily actions.
She suggested that I go with black. Recover the cushions and redo the skirts in a more masculine fabric. She even dared to say that I should use just one fabric and keep it simple. I began to wonder what she thought of the blog picture of my living room. Was it too girly? Have I added too many fabrics? Did it cause her to question how I even managed to wander into their fabulous store in the first place?
But I trust her pulse-o-meter so I bought a few yards of fabric that was just a teensy bit more expensive than I would normally spend. Considering I usually get my fabric at Walmart, that’s not really a good way to measure. Plus I do believe that a good fabric makes all the difference. If you have a piece of junk from the flea market and you put a good fabric on it that you bought at a funky, groovy, furniture store….you have a winner.
James is going to help my dad for a few days, so I think I’ll take that time to sew the cushions. I can crank them out. At least I have that going for me. If I can’t be cool at least I can be fast. Wait, that doesn’t sound right.
Oh well, I’m glad for what I do have….three yards of fabulous fabric, a quiet night to sew and my self esteem still pretty much intact.
I look forward to the pics. Are you sure you want to go dark, though? (Is it too late to ask that?) I notice that the chairs used to be dark brown, and when you did the redo you painted them white. Ditto with the lockers, you decided on white rather than black. Do you want the chairs to pop?
Sorry if I’m asking questions that it’s too late to change your mind on. Will the fabric work with black or white wicker? I hope?
Then again, I am so not shabby chic, so maybe it’s better you take the advice of the girl at the store. I’m sure she knows what she’s talking about….
Gulp! Reader….I KNOW! I was thinking the same thing. Believe me, I’m shaking in my boots and hoping I like it. I figure if I don’t like it I will change it again after the winter. I didn’t spend so much that I couldn’t change it in the spring. Well see I guess. LOL! Lisa~
Can’t wait to see the finished project pictures. I just love your style. I think you are groovy and definitely have the “chic” part going on too. 🙂 The pictures you post of your house are so peaceful. Not sure how you get that to happen with so many kids…..
oh, glad to hear it can be a temporary change if you decide you don’t like it! Whew!
But, I’m hoping you’ll love it!
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I think I agree with going black…it will look great.
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Hi Lisa, I just received my beautiful pillow, it is so lovely!!! Thank you so very much! I still do not have a blog!!! This has been a very long and difficult week and my husband is away delivering food to those going through hard times in Arkansas. THEN— your pillow arrived and HAPPINESS filled the room… I cannot wait to finish painting and working on my family room where it will take center stage. Blessings to you and I cannot wait to see how your wicker chairs turn out!! A grateful heart, Dru
I have been wandering around your blog all day (off and on, of course!) since you commented on my laundry post. I am just loving peeking into your life! Your family is sweet and your house is just right. Beautiful but homey, not too fancy to live in, but pretty enough to take photos of it. Just right. I am terribly enamored of your embroidered chair covers for you and your husband. We’re planning an addition/remodel in the next year or two and we’ll finally have enough room to have chairs at the head and foot of our table. I just might have to borrow your idea then 🙂 I haven’t used my embroidery machine NEARLY enough.
I had to show my boys your boy’s bedroom with the chalkboard “morning chores.” They think I am the only mother in the world unreasonable enough to make her children brush their teeth AND make their beds EVERY DAY before they start their lessons. Good to know I’m not the only slave driver in blogland.
Blessings!