ISO: Under Bed Storage Bins

I was flipping through a copy of All You magazine's April issue, which is all about staying organized. If it's one thing I'm not, it's organized :)

I think the take away from the article is a lesson my mom has struggeled to teach me: A place for everything and everything in its place.

In one of the images, they show this adorable bedroom. I love the storage drawers and they would work PERFECTLY for Caroline's bedroom.

Where can I find them?!

They look like they'd be from Land of Nod, or Ikea.

I'm off to shop :)

Friday ISO: Writing Desk/Nightstand

Writing Desk as seen in Better Homes & Gardens

We're going to have lots of guests. At least I (part of me) hope so! I've got *lots* of ideas on how to make the guest room the most accommodating and many will be the subject of future ISO columns, I'm sure.

I'm not a matchy-matchy kinda girl. Keith is a matchy-matchy kinda guy, though, which does present its own design challenges, ha ha!

I think He is going to let me have some fun with the guest room, though.  Because I'm not matchy-matchy, I don't want matching nightstands. And, I know I want one of them to be a writing desk.

Keith's brother always has to work when he's hear (sad!) and my parents check their e-mail quite a bit on their visits. I think a writing-desk style nightstand would give people the space and the privacy needed to work. 

I came across this one in an issue of Better Homes & Gardens a few months ago and tore it out. Sadly, they didn't provide credit for it in the resources section. To me, it looks like an Ikea piece or maybe it's from the Better Homes & Gardens' collection at Wal-mart.

Regardless, I'm on the hunt for something that will work as a writing desk AND a nightstand.

Join the hunt!

Oyster Rockafeller...Er...Licursi

A while ago, Keith and I suscribed to Coastal Living to get ideas on decorating. I flipped through one issue and saw a beautiful oyster painting.

What excited me more is that Keith liked it, too! We tend to disagree when it comes to artwork. I hurried to find out who made this.  Unfortunately, Coastal Living didn't give credit to the artist. All I could make out was the signature, so I googled "Bellamy Oyster". And Found It! Bellamy's artwork lives on interior designer Jane Coslick's  web store.

The website says that Bellamy Murphy grew up on the water and spent countless hours fishing, crabbing and shrimping. It certainly still serves as inspriation. 

I'm proud to say that this painting will hang somewhere in our house. I'm trying to find the right place, but it's proving tough to "see" the final house from the blueprints. I think it might go in the entry where everyone can see it when they go in.

Where do you think it should go? (Hint, the blueprints live at the bottom of this blog!)