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Calming Master Bedroom Update with Planked Ceiling

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  • Two sets of tonsils lighter than we were yesterday. 👍🏼 This morning my 8 year old and I had our tonsils taken out after a year (and lifetime for me, really) of recurring strep. It was causing autoimmune issues like full-body psoriasis, getting everyone else here sick, and I had enough. I was sick and tired of us being sick and tired. 😄 Thank you for the prayers and messages re: my story yesterday. Everything went really well, and we are both resting in my room, sipping cold bone broth, and catching up on LEGO ninjago. I don’t know if I’ll take a break #instagramiloveyou, but I turned off my notifications and oh boy, it feels good. Offering this pain up for you and your sweet children from the last post, or if you have any intentions I can pray for leave em here. 💛 thank you friends! We have the *best* community, my #whbscrew. #whbs1910house #tonsillectomy
  • If I’m gonna have a hot pink chair, I’m gonna WORK that pink chair. Especially if it matches Nora. 😄💕 Last night I brought this down from the girls’ room and into our family room. Truth be told, I’ve been feeling over it, craving a more muted, calm palette. So might as well give this lady one last hurrah, right where eeeeveryone who comes to our door can see it. 😂😂 Give me your honest opinions on my flamboyant chair! Love it or too bright for your tastes? Should she stay or should she go? Or are you also too distracted by the cute baby to care about a hot pink chair? Lol #whbs1910house #rideordie
  • 🎶🎤 all the leaves are brown (all. the. leaves are browwwwwn) and the sky is gray (AND THE SKY IS GRAY!!) 🎶 not actually California Dreamin, but come back to me in a few months and my answer may have changed.😄 It’s fall, it’s Friday, I started a new book, and we have an empty calendar this weekend. Can’t get any better than that. #homeisthebestplace #whbs1910house #fallinchicago
  • After cleaning our boys’ room last Thursday, I showed a little bit of the resulting hallway mess. Then panicked, “oh, I have to share a clean shot soon, or they’re going to think I’m a slob!!!” Then a moment of “ugh our walls are STILL purple, I should have painted them by now.” Creating a home takes time. We may have purple walls, yet look at that progress! (swipe) Similarly, cleaning, decluttering, and keeping your home/room/life simple is a constant process. Be easy on yourself, we’re all going through it. 🙌🏼🌟 Also, here’s that clean shot in case you DO think I’m a slob. 😂😘 #whbs1910house #40bagsin40days #decluttering #1910house
  • The clean version is great, yet this is how I want to remember our home. A baby who fell asleep mid-play, a cozy kid nest on the couch, the sun streaming in, a happy mess of toys. 💕 there’s also one heck of a before and after if you swipe 😱 #whbs1910house
  • The leaves are green outside, but it’s fall inside! 🍂🎃 Yesterday in my stories I asked for after school routine tips (and lamented our lack of routine), and got SO many good ideas!! So many tips that I need to archive them into a blog post. If you missed my story, leave your tips here. What works for your family? . . Lately I’ve been letting everyone do whatever for an hour after we get home. While it’s not totally structured (and sometimes involves @pbskids 🤷🏽‍♀️), I think they need that time to unwind and hang out with their siblings. After that hour, they sit down with homework while I make dinner. This week I added in tealights on the table and calm music (@lauren_daigle, Americana, coffee shop type music) and it’s made a a big difference in our moods. They focus, the younger kids calm down, and it’s a lot harder to lose my temper during that crazy hour if there’s a cozy mood set. Would you like to see a post on this topic? Share your tips and let me know if you’d like to read it! #whbs1910house #fabuLESSfall #whbssailing
  • It’s a lazy, relaxing Sunday after go-go-going all week. 😌this console had become a drop zone. It took 10 minutes of cleaning/shopping the house and now I’m enjoying a much better view. 🙌🏼 Do you do little cleaning bursts like this, or prefer to get it all done at once? #swipecleaningwhbs #whbs1910house

Comments

  1. Great job Ann Marie! Love the color. I am SO tired of neutral rooms. It’s like a plague. Congratulations on your beautiful home. I bet it has a lot of history. You should look into that. My little house was built in 1941 but definitely has some history. 1910 is a very interesting point in time.

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  2. What a beautiful transformation. We are looking at homes for our move next summer and everything where we are headed seems so outdated. This gives me so much hope for what can be!

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  4. I love the color! I tend to be a more white/cream/gray girl, but we finally bought our own home, which is definitely a fixer upper. So far one bedroom is purple…rock star girl (cream trim, cream tiles, crystal light), another aqua (cream trim and gold cove molding, cement floor for now…archaeology girl room, with accumulated worn antique furniture, including a ww2 field desk), and the third (and my fave so far), is a color called sweetpea. A deep green, custom dark stained trim, and dark floor with white rug, a waterfall furniture set from the 1940s, black and white pen and inks…it’s beautiful. For my college daughter who lives with us. Next is my room…it will be Silvermist with dark trim, lots of windows, dark floor, no overhead lighting (unless hubs wins that argument…none there, yet). We started with the bedrooms and pantry, I’m anxious to see how it will turn out in the end 🙂 It goes slow, because I do all of it alone, unless the hubs happens,to be in town…once a month or so.

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  5. Your bedroom is beautiful! I love the walls and in my mind I can see a quilt with little pieces of that color throughout the pattern. Sorry I sleep under quilts…you are inspiring me to think about my bedroom walls.

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  • Two sets of tonsils lighter than we were yesterday. 👍🏼 This morning my 8 year old and I had our tonsils taken out after a year (and lifetime for me, really) of recurring strep. It was causing autoimmune issues like full-body psoriasis, getting everyone else here sick, and I had enough. I was sick and tired of us being sick and tired. 😄 Thank you for the prayers and messages re: my story yesterday. Everything went really well, and we are both resting in my room, sipping cold bone broth, and catching up on LEGO ninjago. I don’t know if I’ll take a break #instagramiloveyou, but I turned off my notifications and oh boy, it feels good. Offering this pain up for you and your sweet children from the last post, or if you have any intentions I can pray for leave em here. 💛 thank you friends! We have the *best* community, my #whbscrew. #whbs1910house #tonsillectomy

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