The Aftermath of Whimsy Green…

allie • May 31, 2012

Well, I must admit that I thought the store looked quite fabulous.  And as it was fun to see peoples reactions, I had a lot of friends and family come out to see our house as well.  Our house….well not so fabulous.  Most of my time and energy as of late had been going into Whimsy Green, as well as my furniture:)  I knew I wanted to sell a lot of my chairs, because they were just “working” until we could afford new ones, but I also sold my temporary mantel, our coffee table, and some more chairs.  Oh, and my colorful pillows:)  So this is how the house looks this morning…

Eek!! Ryan has been working on finishing my mantel…and it’s looking gorgeous! and I just ordered a fun little settee for the area. Now to just have it arrive and pull it all together!!

The settee will sit on the middle of this wall.

The living room went bare as well…


and I lost some of my pillows :)

Good thing I still had a few to spare:)


So, tonight I’m off to Ikea to fill in some of the space and have a fun girls night. I can’t wait:) I’ll show you what I got and how it looks next week :)

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