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design vacation :: master bedroom

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Although I didn’t accomplish quite as much as I’d hoped on my design vacation, I did spruce up my master bedroom a bit.

Inspired by a new duvet cover, I’ve started fixing my bed again.  After all, it only takes 2 minutes, even with scads of pillows…

I’m not sold on the color of the duvet cover yet, but I love all of the texture of the faux fur blanket and pillows, the brown floral quilt, leopard print, all topped off with the satin rose pillow. Kinda girly!

(And please, for the love of Pete, let’s just overlook the wrinkles on the duvet, OK?)

I tidied up my nightstand…

…and added some fabulous beaded raspberries to a formerly empty vase…

(Just for fun, let’s pronounce it VAHZ!)

The other nightstand got tidied, as well as a touch of mod…

Painted up a lamp…

And painted another lamp too that got added to this chest of drawers for a truly eclectic mix…

I even vacuumed.  And dusted.  And polished my furniture. No small feat for me!

I’m loving my newly cleaned and spruced up room.  Now I just need to add paint to this vaulted-ceilinged bad boy!

And don’t forget to enter the Spring Cleaning Giveaway for a chance to win this adorable sterling silver charm bracelet!

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design vacation & giveaway

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I’m on vacation from my job this week and decided that I’m taking a design vacation. Not a vacation from design. A vacation to design.

Seems that my house has gotten a little out of control. Same goes for my project list.

Conveniently, I found out that I was grandfathered in to an old vacation policy at work based on my start date, and was amazed to learn that I have not 2, but 3 weeks of vacation this year!  Wahoo! So I decided to take one of my weeks to work on my house.

Sometimes the best redesign begins with decluttering and cleaning. And some of my rooms have definitely fallen into messy disarray.

So my design vacation is going to be one part spring cleaning, one part design spruce up.

First I’ll go through the room and tidy it up, followed by freshening up the design. Nothing major like painting, because truthfully there just won’t be enough time.

Of course I’ll share it all right here, keeping it real with the scary before pics!

And in the spirit of spring cleaning, here’s a great giveaway…

This fabulous sterling silver charm bracelet, How Does Your Garden Grow? from Charming Darling is what’s up for grabs for readers in the US.  Here’s how to enter for your chance to win:

  1. For one entry, become of follower of this blog and comment below saying that you’re a follower.
  2. For another entry, share in the comments what your biggest design plan is for this spring.
  3. For an additional entry, like Homage Style on Facebook, and comment below saying that you did.

Be sure to leave your email address so you can be reached if you win.

Entries must be received by 11:59pm Eastern time on March 15, 2012.  The winner will be announced on March 16, 2012.