West Elm Wednesday: Sofas!

Since I have been working at my new job doing visual merchandising for West Elm, I decided to start a new series on the blog, West Elm Wednesdays!  I will share 5 of my favorite West Elm things from one category (furniture, bedding, kitchen, really anything!) for that week that I am obsessed with.

My New Job: Visual Merchandiser for West Elm!

Well I have some exciting news, I got a new job doing visual merchandising for West Elm, Bay Street!  I feel so honored to be a part of such an amazing team of talented people.  I have always looked at West Elm as one of those creative and visually stimulating stores you go to to get inspiration for ways to decorate your own home and now that I am getting to be a part of it really is surreal.

How to Display Old Family Heirlooms in Your Home

Some of the things I love the most in our house are things that have been passed down to B and I from our families.  I love to display them and use them to decorate in our home.  I absolutely LOVE that they are not just something we bought at Homegoods (which there is nothing wrong with Homegoods, I'm a huge fan) and that they have a story behind them.

DIY Fabric Fringe Garland

So I am first to admit that I save waaaaay to many fabric scraps and tell myself I will find something to do with them, eventually!  Well, I finally figured out what to do with them!  I made this Fabric Fringe Garland to hang above our bed!  We don't have a headboard (I have these crazy dreams of designing and making our own upholstered one that have not become reality yet) and in our old place I had a giant gallery wall of pictures in the place of a headboard.  But since we moved to the Bay Area, it is not recommended to have anything that could fall on you above your bed since it is serious earthquake territory.  So here you have it, our Fabric Fringe Garland, aka our new "headboard"!

Our New Gallery Wall

Who needs a headboard when you have a pile of pillows and a large gallery wall?!  We recently redid the gallery wall above our bed, and by "redid" I mean expanded and added on to it! I have a soft spot for black and white pictures so I decided to keep it all black and white and mixed pictures with graphics.

DIY Toy Animal Key Rack

I think that a key rack is one of the most important things to put in your house.  Maybe that is just because if I didn't have one, I would never have my keys and would send half my time looking for them!  When we moved into our condo, we wanted a fun key rack instead of the traditional one we had before.  We went to the dollar store and saw this big bin of plastic toy animals and we knew exactly what we wanted to do!  And out came our toy animal key rack!

DIY Bathroom Shelving (West Elm inspired for a fraction of the price!)

I first want to start this with an apology for having not so great photos/pictures taken at weird angles.  I have a really small bathroom so it was hard to get all the shelves into a picture!  Now, with that out of the way, I give to you DIY Bathroom (or really any room for that matter) Shelving!  I really liked how these West Elm shelves looked, but they were so expensive.  There was no way I was about to pay that much for something I could totally DIY for like a fraction of the cost.  I was originally wanting to do all white floating shelves, but was on a strict budget and out came these shelves.

Halloween Decorations we think are just Darling!

Well it's that time of year to get your scare on and start decorating your house for Halloween on October 31st!  I have to admit, I haven't ever really gotten into the halloween decorations that much, I just don't think they are has fun as some other holidays (hello, christmas?!).  But this year I have been seeing so many just DARLING decorations for halloween!  I couldn't help but share a few of my favorites with you guys! I mean how could you turn down a Halloween bunting banner or some burlap pumpkins?!