居家美學2 北卡羅來納州的一間 DIY 荷蘭殖民地風格住宅

Hi, Homeworthy, I'm Victoria Ford and you're at our home in Cary, North Carolina. Come on in. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. To shop items inspired by this and other Homeworthy episodes, be sure to check out the product links below for amazing furniture, accessories, and more. Hi, I'm Victoria Ford. I'm a marketer by day, but I run the blog PrepFoodWife by night. We're in Cary, North Carolina, which is right outside of Raleigh, and I like to describe my home as African Americana. So my husband Marcus and I live in a 1970 Dutch colonial. So it looks old, but isn't old, but we really leaned into the style of the house. And so it feels very like warm and lived in, a little preppy, a little nautical, but all in all, it feels wholly like us. We bought our home in the pandemic. So in 2020, we saw our home for the very first time. We bought it on a whim, looking for a beach house like half the other people at that time. And we saw this home that met all of our needs for the future. And we kind of just decided to go for it. So we saw it online the next day. We put in an offer. 30 days later, we closed. So it was absolutely a whim, but one of the best whims we could have had. And we like to say that when things go quickly for us, that it's absolutely fate, it's faith. And so it was the right decision for us at that time. When we first saw our home, the thing that drew us to it was that it was just good bones. It was very clear that a family had lived in, loved this home. But for the most part, it just needed the cosmetic updates. And they'd lived in it for 30 years. So in the warmest way, it was dated. So we set out to do the entire house over from top to bottom. So lots of removal of wallpaper. We changed the kitchen. We changed all the bathrooms and really made it a home that was livable for us at this stage in our lives. Welcome to our entryway. So this is our entryway. It is a very slim space. It runs much of the house. But because it is such a slim space, we wanted it to be high impact. And it's kind of the perfect introduction into what our home style looks like. So very traditional colors. Very grounded in being a little formal, but a little whimsical. The first choice we made in this space was actually the wallpaper. The wallpaper was the one item where I was like, I know this space needs it. It'll make it feel finished and fun. So this wallpaper is by Rifle Paper Company and York Wallpaper Covering. And it is just one of my favorite prints. It feels formal, but then also feels like a little fun, a little special. And then from there, we chose this rug. It is a Facebook Marketplace purchase. That is a running theme in our home is I will thrift it. I will marketplace it. I will find it at an antique store. And so this rug was the second choice I made in this space. And I knew that it was the perfect thing to jump off the other colors from. And so that is like one of my easiest favorite tips is if you cannot figure out what you're doing in this space, pick one piece that you love and then play everything from it. So lots of blues, lots of reds, lots of greens to choose from in this area. So we kept everything very minimal in this space because it is so slim and so tight. So we went with this IKEA shoe rack. We are a shoes off in the house kind of people usually. So this is where we keep our shoes. It is 11 inches deep. And I got to say, I feel like IKEA never gets enough credit for the items that really work because this has been to maybe three or four homes with us so far. And it is still kicking. So then we accented this space with little nautical touches. So you'll see this painting that's in here that I found at an antique shop. And you'll also see this chinoiserie umbrella stand. And so pulling in that blue again into this space. And then over here, very slim stand. So we keep dog supplies and baskets. I am a sucker for a good basket. I think it's a great way to hide clutter and compartmentalize. So we've got that basket down there of dog supplies to make taking our dog serious and easy breezy sort of situation at night without needing to kind of finagle and clutter. And then this space transitions perfectly into our dining room. So we followed the same exact color palette in here. Jumping off from the reds, the blues, the greens. So you'll see that in the rug. You'll see that in the wallpaper again. Another Rifle Paper Co. company York wall covering. And then we also did the same thing in this space that we did with the rug where one piece kind of guides the rest of the colors in here. So for this space, it's the art on the wall. That art is by an artist Huey Lee Smith. And one of my favorite things for art is a lot of art can be found in the public domain. And if not in the public domain, it can be found from museums. And they'll allow a download. And then you can just print it on to really beautiful like matte museum quality paper and have art that really shows itself off in your space wonderfully. So that piece is really where all of the colors are pulling from in this room. These chairs were another Facebook marketplace find. So found them when got them 20 minutes after seeing them. For some reason, they just really remind me of my grandma. I feel like she had some of these growing up. And so for these, they were originally their traditional color. But keeping with our original color palette in here, gave them just a quick spray with some spray paint and like a high gloss finish just so they would feel like shiny and lacquered. And then just pushed them into this parson table. Again, a Facebook marketplace find. Something just really easy, simple, clean lines. And then wrapped everything together with the chandelier. The chandelier has like a leather finish on it, which I absolutely loved. In the absence of additional color, I feel like texture is a really easy way to pull things together. So you'll see leathers and you'll see brass throughout the space as well. This buffet was just a really easy piece. We tend to be informal in our home, even in our formal dining. So we don't do a ton of formal dining. The space is primarily used for uno and puzzles. It's a great table for that. And it's a great table for working from home. And so this buffet in this space is mostly used for serving. So when we have any sort of formal dining in this space, we'll lay out food here and then allow people to kind of serve themselves. And it works really nicely for days where we are like playing a game in this space. It's originally from the store NATO in Raleigh. And we paired it with these lamps. I will buy anything equestrian essentially. I've got a running joke that my husband will not let me get a horse in our yard. So when I can decorate with horse things, I do. So I got these because they sort of balance the whimsy that's happening in the living room with something a little more serious. And then just pulling in these ginger jars from Lauren Haskell Designs. I absolutely love them. I think the navy is very bright and shiny and it pairs nicely with the lacquered chairs. So this is our kitchen. It did not look like this when we moved in. This is actually a gut renovation. The kitchen before, actually very similar but very unfunctional. And so for the most part we tend to be function before form. And so while we actually kind of love the look and feel of the previous kitchen, it just made more sense for us to get the kitchen going from the ground up. So we replaced everything in here. Floors, ceilings, cabinets, appliances, the whole nine yards. And really our guiding force was around the cabinetry. We knew we wanted white cabinets. I know white kitchens are going quickly out of style but they are still classic. And in this home where we don't get a ton of light, we actually needed the white cabinets to kind of bounce that light around. We paired them with these granite countertops. They are a granite with a wider veining on them, so they feel a little bit like soapstone but still pretty easy to maintain like granite is. And then we did brass fixtures in here. For the ceiling, our home is from 1970s and so asbestos is always a concern. And so for us to eliminate the popcorn ceiling, we went with this shiplap on the ceiling here and then we painted it blue. It is very much a southern tradition and goes back to like Gullah Geechee tribe that for the most part, if you paint a ceiling, haint blue like that's the color. If you paint a ceiling, haint blue, then it'll keep away ghosts. We do not have a porch on this home, so we decided to do it for our kitchen. This is really the heart of our home like most people's home. And so it felt like a really appropriate place to do it and a great place to pull in color where there wasn't any previously. So for all of the cabinets in here, we did very simple closed cabinets. We did them on the uppers as well and then lots of drawers on the lower half of the space function first. Uppers function first. I know that there is like a open cabinetry movement going, but I am not neat enough to pull that off. And so my answer to that is this one cabinet on the end. It is a darker wood finish and it's got glass doors with this wiring on it. And it's where we keep all of our daily dishes. So it is see-through and it is the only cabinet that is 100% organized. But we don't keep it too precious, too finished. It's all of the glassware that we've collected over the years. And it's about the same color and same patterns that we've got playing in the rest of our home. Lots of polka dots, lots of stripes, lots of rattan. And then over here in this space, we did an eating nook. We're always going to do a dining nook no matter where we are. We've done it in rentals with simple construction and we did it in this home. And we've got cabinetry at the bottom. Function first. Anywhere we can introduce additional storage, absolutely going to do so. And then we just paired it with this Schumacher fabric again. Never met a stripe that I didn't like and kind of played with these patterns that are happening here in this space. This quick, easy gallery wall is one of our families. I went and pulled through photos that kind of leaned into the colors that we were playing with in this room. So that off red, that off blue. And then just framed them with all of the bottoms lining up. Any time there's a gallery wall, I'm always interested in what's a new way that you can present it. And this one is kind of my favorite lining up with the banquette. This banquette back is actually a quick like nighttime project. It is just like a spare piece of this bead board from the wall. And it is layered with some spare foam that I had around and some batting. And then my poor construction is held together by beautiful construction. A friend of ours owns a bag company, American Layers. And I don't have a need for a purse necessarily. But the construction is always beautiful. And so he made me these leather straps after I told him what I was interested in in the kitchen. And they just tie it together in a really nice way. I'm always interested in pairing like highs and lows, easy projects with more formal craftsmanship. And so I absolutely love these. And not only are they beautiful, they are actually holding this banquette up. So really grateful for him and his construction since the rest of the project was just a quick like 2 a.m. fix over here. So that's our banquette. So before we head to our living room, we're going to go into our powder room first. It's right off the space from the entryway and the kitchen. I think a powder room is the perfect opportunity to bring in color and print in a way that you wouldn't ordinarily in a larger space. So in here, we went with this wallpaper to our original point around our home feeling a little African Americana. It's always going to be kind of like Ralph Lauren American style, but through our own lens. And this wallpaper is an easy one of it. Anywhere that I can incorporate denim, I'm going to do so. And anytime I see a quilted anything, I'm going to get it. So for this one, this wallpaper is by the company Mind the Gap. And I think it's called Woodstock Burrow. And I loved it. It was love at first sight. I think I checked out for it 30 seconds after seeing it. And because it's such an organic and fun print, I paired it with this mirror. Quick fix from Amazon to pull into this space. And then these sconces, which have lived in no less than three rooms in our house at this point. And just made it really simple because it's such a small space. We went with this console sink. It's got, you know, just the traditional polished nickel legs so that it breathes underneath. So in a space that's this tight, I want to make sure that there is somewhere for your eye to visually settle. And this is a good way to do that. So we paired that with cowboy art. I'm a real sucker for any kind of black cowboy. And so when I saw this art, I knew I had to have it. So I brought it into this space because it is high impact. But in such a small space, it really lends itself to filling it up. So absolutely could not resist bringing it in. And there are photos of my husband in our bathroom. If I can include family photos, I will. But I found some photos of him when I was digging recently of him dressed as a cowboy. And so perfect for the bathroom. So pulled those into that room at this time. And then we'll transition us to our living room. Welcome to our living room. So this space is blue coated. I'm obviously a sucker for blue. This color was chosen by my husband. He has very few decor requests. But he's my favorite client. So I felt like I should meet that request. The color is Endless Sea by Vals Bar. And it's a beautiful color in every single space. It's one that's going to play well. Even if you've got like a basement, it's going to be great. And so it's a really nice way to start if you want to do color drenching. So we pulled this into this space and it was kind of our guiding light in this space. And we've been treating it the same way you would white. It is not white, obviously. But it is just like another color in the room instead of one that we are pulling into other things. So our living room is split into two spaces. The back space is a little more chill, a little more relaxed. You can kind of spread out, watch TV in this area. The first thing that we bought for it was this tufted leather couch, a Facebook marketplace find, of course. And went into it knowing that I wanted a tufted leather couch. I like that it feels a little bit like a library. But then also you can kind of throw yourself into it at the end of a long day. Paired it with these high back armchairs. And you'll see that in this room all of the primary pieces, curtains, chairs, tables, sofas, all of them are going to be standard basic colors. And really where the color is coming in in this room is through accessories. So pulling in quilted pillows, pulling in a rug that has that kind of patterned feel. And then kind of playing with additional texture and pattern throughout those pillows, the rugs. And then on the back wall in this space, the ultimate accessory. This set of built-ins was not here when we first moved here. We put them in. I saw a similar photo on Pinterest and I was like, that is it. That person is brilliant. Let's do it. So you'll see these built-ins here that have room for storage. Always looking for a way to hide clutter, keep it kind of in check. But then also areas to display. There are books in every single one of these spaces. They're spread everywhere. We are a book family, but somewhere to put books, but also display items that we love from travels. And then last but not least, space for firewood. We are in North Carolina, so not a lot of opportunity to actually have fires going. But if it drops below 55, we're on it. Fireplace is on. And so it was really important to us that we did that. And most importantly, it makes for a really beautiful feature. So it is a really nice combination of form and function. And then we're pulling in other slightly nautical pieces. There is a little guy on the mantle, a little sailor. My husband bought one of these years ago, just one. He bought it because he was black. And we were like, how cute is that? And then we just kept buying them. So every single room in our home has at least one little sailor. They are everywhere. And then every time we see one, we get it. So one on the mantle, but they're also in other little places throughout the space. Let's go to the other side of our living room. So this side of the space is slightly more formal within the same sight line. So we did need to keep the color palette pretty consistent. The people who lived here before us, very grateful for them. The one change to the structure of the house they made was to take down the wall and the center. Very grateful for them. It lets in all of this beautiful light and allows it to flow throughout the space without any stops. And so very grateful that that was a project that they tackled before we ever got here. So in this room, you'll see that what is grounding the space in all of this light is this darker sofa, just like in the backside of the room. So grateful for the light for that reason. It is a rolled arm English tufted sofa. Found it on Facebook Marketplace. Had it reupholstered in this gorgeous performance velvet from Schumacher. I am a firm believer in making sure that the pieces that are in the space are going to last, that they're going to be well made, and that they're also going to be able to withstand the test of folks. We try and make sure that everything in our house is not precious in any way. So it is a sofa that is in our more formal area, but you can throw yourself on it and be comfy. You can have a drink without worrying that something is going to happen to it God forbid. And so really wanted that to be a sofa where you could still relax, even though it's in this slightly more formal area. Adjacent to these, to the sofa, are these striped chairs. Found them for a song in an antique store and paired them with these pillows. So they're the same pillows from the other side of the room. Friends of ours own a company where they make shoes, and it's called Rayipsa, and they sell pillows as well. And I could not resist buying like a hundred of them. So they're all over our house, honestly. And they just pull in a nice layer of texture and color and pattern again. So you'll see those throughout the room. There's also this quilting fabric that we pulled in through the pillows. So even though this sofa is quite bright, it is still a very like standard, basic in this home. And then we're pulling in those colors and that texture in the accessories. That's a really great way for us to do them because we're not married to them so much. And then the biggest, boldest piece in this room is this little print. It's called Me by the artist Colin Boutman. And absolutely loved it at first sight and was thrilled to kind of realize that it went with the colors in here perfectly. So obviously I needed to buy it. And one of my favorite ways to treat art that's large but not precious, it's just a print. So it's mounted on a piece of canvas, just spray adhesive on a piece of canvas and then painted the edges in black to make it feel seamless. But if you've got a piece of art that is not going to be obliterated by the sun, you don't feel too bad doing it. It's a really easy way to make art live without needing to buy a frame that would have cost me more than the print. So decided to go with that here in this space and really loved it. And then last but not least for this room, lighting. Any time I can pull through lots of different lighting, I'm going to do so. I think one way to make a space feel full and pretty and like designed is to pull in different kinds of lighting. So an above light, which we rarely use. And then you'll have task lighting and ambient light. And so you'll see that throughout each of these spaces is lighting at different levels. And I think it's a fun way to also pull through a DIY. Lighting can be high end. It can be precious. We've got a couple of those, but could also just be fun. This light here is it's got these pleated lampshades that are the same fabric as the curtains in the living room. Just a really quick DIY where I just covered some lampshades that we previously had with the fabric. Everything does not have to be like polished and finished is what I'm telling myself. You can be a beginner. And so just a fun quick project that I did. Same for these lampshades. Had a spare piece of velvet, some spare fabric and decided to cover them and have pleated shades. And then these lamps are also a DIY. Bought some carboys. Put a lamp kit inside of it. It's honestly pretty simple. Just drilled a hole for the lamp kit and then put a shade on top of it. So really easy way to bring fun and personality into a space and also have a functional light. This lamp is sitting on this bar cart. My husband and I do not drink. However, we bought this bar cart as an accessory for our wedding. And it's just been through like several houses with us Since then it's a piece that we cherish. And every now and then we actually do need something off of it. And so it's been a really fun piece to have in our space as well. And it's nice to have that kind of memory attached to it. So very fond of this one. I think the thing that gravitates me to the pieces I choose are the right pieces for the right home. I grew up with a mother who accidentally made me believe I could do absolutely anything. And so I always grew up with like painting a wall on a Saturday and like changing out the mantle on a Friday. And so for the most part I always kind of knew that I could make a house a home. And then just leaning into the style of the house takes me there. So for this house it's a Dutch colonial. So you'll see lots of those kind of attributes here in this space. And then for my style it's those little touches that feel like me, feel like my life, feel like my home with my husband. And just pulling those through in a way that feels like appropriate for the home but also feels so much like our existence. This is our upstairs landing. We continue that wallpaper from downstairs into this space. We wanted it to feel continuous. There wasn't really a good place to break it. So we just pulled it on up. This is our primary bedroom. All of the doors in our home are labeled with a number. A little bit hotel but also a little bit makes it easier to send people upstairs and say yeah, you're in room number four versus needing to point out which room it is. So this is our primary bedroom. I am a person who insists upon having a dog even though I have allergies. So not a lot of fabric in this space We kept it very simple with bamboo shades instead of doing curtains. And so because we are missing out on that layer of texture and fabric and warmth that curtains would bring. We actually decided to do this wallpaper. So this wallpaper is another one from Rifle Paper Company. And we paired it with these high beadboard walls. So a little bit of a callback to our kitchen space. So they are the exact same beadboards. And we gave it a really nice simple ledge behind the bed. It is utilitarian and that is there for storage. But it also gives us a really great place to save art in this space. We've got, due to our home style, not even windows. So every single room in the upstairs has like one window that's on a wall that breaks it up. And then it has like another window that's squarely in the middle. So our bed in this room is placed beside that window with the ledge here. And then the bed is in the center. Because we do not have a window on the other side, we needed to make sure that design would kind of follow the space instead of the other way around. So in order to mimic this window, we did larger art on that side, just a way to play with the eye. And then decided to go with Mitch Match nightstands. There was no way we could make them match because of how little space is on the other side of the bed. So we went with something slimmer on that side and something wider with more storage on this side for me. Thank you to my husband for allowing that to happen. And then with the bed, kept that same feeling of texture and print going with this bedding by the company store. So pulled in kind of those mixed prints, a striped here, a window pane there. Love a mixed print. And then like a lot of the other spaces, we've got a jute rug in here. Something simple makes it so that it's not too much pattern you need somewhere for your eye to rest. And then our dog Sirius who is around here. Somewhere. Has a home in every single room. He insists upon it. So a space for him. And then just a way for us to introduce more storage. It's an older home. So we've got regular traditional closets that work for us well, but needed some additional storage here. So we brought in this antique dresser. And I am a sucker for mixed woods as you'll see in this space. So no wood is off limits for me. So wanted another type of wood to bring into here. And then this piece is Young Woman with Peonies. And it's a really nice way to bring in additional color. So all of the color in this space is playing off of that one piece. So you'll see hints of purple like in her cloth on her head. You'll see hints of yellow, green in this space. So like I said, a really easy way to pull through a design if you're not quite sure what you want to do is lean on one piece that you absolutely adore and everything else can kind of follow from there. So color, texture, following suit from there. And then over here on this wall leading to our primary bathroom is this wall of pegs. So we need additional storage. My husband is a hat lover and I am a sucker for an L.L. Bean tote. And so this wall is usually positively like reaming with all of them. And so we've gotten it down for you guys. But for the most part when you're in this space, this is just going to have lots of hats, lots of totes. Anything that makes a more efficient journey out the door in the morning is what we're going to do. So let's transition into our primary bath. So this is our primary bath. Because we did the bathroom first, we followed the bead board in the bedroom and made it at the same height. And so when you transition, we didn't want it to be too jarring for the eye. So in this space, it's that same bead board, a really nice way to add texture as well as color. And we wanted to give it some height as well. So it is a 60-inch bead board And then on this wall, we've got two vanities. So we did do this bathroom from the top down. It was a gut renovation. But we wanted it to still feel true to the house, true to the design. So we went with more traditional fixtures in this space. And so these vanities are one of our favorite ways to do that. I know there are people who do not believe in double vanities. But for us, they are the correct answer. It is a really nice way to make sure that, like, each person has their space. They are powder room sized. So each person has enough space that we can get ready in here in the morning without kind of bumping into each other and being in each other's way. And then we did matching vanity mirrors in here as well, just like a quick purchase from World Market. This is marble. And so we're balancing high-end with just like a quick, easy purchase as well. And I think a really great way to do that is the spaces, pieces that are less permanent. You can just go get something. It's OK. And so in this space, we've mixed metals. We've mixed hardware. So gold and brass playing nicely in here with chrome finishes on the sink. And then we've got a way to pull everything up off the countertop trying to avoid clutter. So toothbrushes and soap are going to be in this kind of trio that's coming off of the wall here. Because we loved this color so much, we chose it based off of the shower actually. Chose the tile first. Color matched as well as we could to the walls. This color is smoky azurite blue by Sherwin-Williams. And it goes with the shower tile that's in here. We chose to do shower tile that is going to wrap the entire space. And so it is this blue that goes all the way up to the ceiling and then coats across as well. So we did a slightly slope ceiling to make that happen. And then we kept the chrome hardware going in the shower. I like a rain shower. I love them. I think they're always going to be a ton of fun. But if you're going to do that, got to put a handle. People need a handle if you're going to have a rain shower. And mine is conveniently mounted at knee height. So I can take a shower from the handle sprayer if I need to. But it also makes it just so much easier to clean in that space as well. In here the floor is really the star of the show. We stuck with these hex tiles. It's a more traditional print. You've seen it time and time again. We went with it in a larger size on this flower design. And then carried it in through the shower as well. It just felt so special to kind of take it in through the shower. So everything in the space feels very similar. Just an easy rug. I love a rug. So pulled in this rug. And my thought here is if an antique rug hasn't gone from 100 years plus then nothing I'm going to do is going to hurt it. So felt it was OK to put that in the bathroom. And then last but not least for our shower the door itself was a very conscientious thought as well. Because we wrapped the tile around the entire shower it turns into a bit of a steam shower. And so we did a full length door and then put a little trap on it if you want to let out the steam. You do not have to sit in there roasting which is my husband's preference. So put that little trap on there to let out the steam. And it also allows it to dry nicely when the day is done. And you kind of just need the shower to air itself out. So that's our primary bathroom. My favorite room in our house is absolutely my office. It's a room that was never supposed to be. The office was previously a bedroom. And we split it in half by taking a closet to make a laundry room. And so it made this teeny tiny cozy little room that's all my own. It's pink. It's girly. And it's a little different from the rest of our house. But feels exactly like I hoped it would. Right off of the primary bedroom is my office. So this office is number two. And it is a very small space as you can see. This space used to be a part of a larger room. We cut a part of it and used that for a laundry room which we'll go into next. But for now we are in the office. This color is malted milk. I've used it in our previous home and absolutely loved it. And usually I try not to repeat a color repeat a project. But it's one of my favorites. And so I could not resist pulling it into this space. Everything in this room is quintessentially me. So the rest of our home leans into the home style. But for this room it is very much like all of the things that I love. And because it is so small and so warm it's a little cluttered. So grateful that it is just me in this space. During the pandemic I worked home. I worked from home quite a bit and still do work from home quite a bit. So it's nice to be in a space that feels very warm and lived in and very much like a space that feels like me. All of the furniture in here is from our previous home. This desk is a quick IKEA hack. I fell in love with a Kate's Bay desk when I was in college. There was no way I was affording that desk in college. And so this is a quick IKEA hack of just painting the legs giving it polka dots and some really nice gold hardware so that it would feel similar but a little different. And honestly it's been going with me for years and years because that's how long I've been out of college. And so it really is one of my favorite pieces. And I've centered the room around it time and time again. Also in this space are these bookshelves purely function at this point. Every single extra book lots of work is on this shelf as well. And I think it's a great way to pull in personality but then it's also a great way to just have storage. I'm not a huge purse gal but I do have purses. And so they're on the top shelf. Some additional decor items have landed on the second shelf. More purses of course because my blog is Preffered Wife. If I see a bag or anything that has wife on it I'm apt to buy it. So those are on that shelf as well. And then these storage boxes are here for any additional clutter or just things that need to be corralled. All of those are going to be in that space. This wall has all hats. If I'm seeing a hat it's going on the wall. Easy way to get storage and not lose shape. And just like a simple nail in the wall does the trick. Over here it's going to be just a quick corkboard. If you've ever sent me a letter it's more than likely landed on the wall. Just a really nice way to be sentimental without letting myself get out of control in here. So everything that's ever arrived in the mail is on that space. And I love having like reminders of the folks who are in my life. And then as with every room this art has this room has art in it that's culturally relevant to us. So any sort of piece that I've loved over the years has landed itself in here. And so just like down in the kitchen we've got a gallery wall that is hung in a fun way where all of the pieces are kind of straddling that midline. And my favorite thing about it is they're just pieces I've collected over the years. And by putting them in kind of that unified formation it gives them structure. And I just love it. And it makes for a really nice zoom background since the desk is right in front of it. So this is the office. And I'll show you the laundry room that used to be a part of the same space next. So this is our laundry room. It is a very small space. On our list of things when we bought our house on our list was everything met by this house with the exception of the laundry room. And this is not our first place that we've lived together where my husband has been like I really wanted a laundry room. So this is another thing where it's like I can make it happen for my favorite client. So our laundry used to be in our kitchen. And don't love that marathon every day to take laundry downstairs. So we found a spare corner in our home between the closet that used to be in the office and a closet that used to be in a hallway. And we scrapped them together to make this little piece. So you'll see that little bar there which is where the closet used to be off to the side. And it made for the perfect nook to put washer and dryer. So we went with this one because it was space efficient. Tiny but mighty. And then built around it. So we did this set of pantries from IKEA. IKEA coming in strong again. But it was like the perfect size to squeeze into this space. And then the real wow factor in this room is the wallpaper. A friend of ours, Sarah Fitz makes this wallpaper. And on any given day you can kind of find me in a blue and white striped tee. And it's a laundry room. So it was perfectly appropriate. I knew if we ever did have a laundry room that we would be pulling it in. And so super happy to have it in this space. And to play off of the wallpaper we did all of the trim in this room in Navy. And that applies to the pantry as well. And then just brought in a little place to sit here to spare you from our clutter inside of our pantry. We're able to hang clothes for them to dry. And then also there's a little folding board that comes out. And so the space is very small. But we're making it work and function for us in the house that we have. And then there's also a sink in this corner. It is an antique sink. It looks exactly like the one that I had in my home growing up. And it's the perfect size for this space because we have so few square feet. We wanted to make sure that we made the best of it. And you're going to need a sink in a laundry room. So it was the greatest place to put it. And then tying in with the walls and the trim is this flooring. This floor is a smaller tile turned into larger diamond prints. I could not find anyone who at the time had navy and white large form tiles. So these are from Fire Clay Tiles. And it's their navy blue color and their white set up in this diamond formation. And it is such a small space that it is very high impact when paired with the wallpapers. So I absolutely loved it from the moment I saw it. So this is our laundry room. And on the way out you can see this door. It is from an architectural salvage. Any time we are looking for a way to pull in something fun and old because I think every space needs a little bit like a wedding. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. So this is our something old in this space that is brand new right down to the walls. And so we found this at an architectural salvage. And we pulled in this frosted wall so that we would always get light or this frosted glass so that we would always get light into our hallway. And it just makes for a really nice touch to this space. Now I'll take you into our guest bedroom. So this is our guest bedroom. We kept it quite simple in this space. We went with this spindle bed. It feels antique but lots of antique beds do not come in a queen size which is painful for guests. So this one is actually from Target. Really simple. Easy buy. Lends itself nicely to our style. And it's the perfect platform to continue to style things out on it. And so you'll see these blankets that are the perfect blend of kind of that Americana style that we talked about before. And I am again a sucker for a quilt. So it was a great way to bring that in as well. We started in this room with the walls. This is the same paint as in the kitchen on the ceiling. So pulling those through lines throughout the house. I don't think every single room has to look the same. In fact, I encourage it not to. But we do like to have those nice ties that make the home feel like a continuous color palette. So pull this space in with this color. And it's just a really calming, soothing color. It's perfectly restful if you are a guest in our home. Above the bed, we've got this gallery wall. Very tiny, but they are flashcards of the ABCs. It is a series that was produced with black children in Chicago and absolutely fell in love with them as a way to teach the alphabet in a culturally appropriate way. But then also just love them because they're adorable. And they make for a fun gallery wall where all of it feels the same. And this gallery wall is from Framebridge. If you want to upload photos on their website, they will do it for you, which is my favorite thing. So could not resist that. And then over here, we've got this desk. We've got two guest rooms in this house. And for both guest rooms, the styling and the format is the same, where we've got a bed and then we've got a desk. Our siblings live very close to us in the area. And we are home-based a lot of the times because our parents are in the northern states. And so both of our guest rooms have the format of being like a work-from-home situation. So there's going to be a desk as a utilitarian nightstand. And we've had this desk for years at this point. It's just following us from space to space. And I love that it's got that campaign hardware. But it's also perfectly functional. And then in each guest room, we do a little tote of goodies if you need them as a guest. And they just kind of follow around in the room. We've got a quilt rack for spare blankets. We are a kind of folk who keep our house on ice cold. So extra blankets are always going to be necessary for the folks who are staying in our home. And then some pieces rounding out the space. We've got these tennis rackets and this State Fair sign. We are from Philadelphia and New York respectively. But anytime we can pull in a piece that's going to feel like where we are, where home is, we'll do so. So this fun little State Fair sign is for the Raleigh State Fair. And we just loved it at first sight. And then for these tennis rackets, found them at an antique store. And the draw for me was that they had a name on it. And I love that that name told a story. I quickly looked up this gal and she was like described as a woman who had a red lip while hiking. And I was like, there it is. There's a woman who I absolutely am happy to lean into. So I always love when styling pieces in a space tell a really great story. This is our guest bathroom. And it's another space that we renovated from top to bottom. But we still wanted it to feel like it had always been here. And for this space, we began with the tile floors. So we went with this one by one inch tile floor. And we loved this bathroom when we first got here. I think the thing about the folks who lived here before us is that this house felt very loved in, lived in. And this room previously had this really cool nautical border. And even though we were taking stuff away from it, we wanted it to still feel like itself. And so we went with this nautical theme in here, beginning with the floor. So we chose this one by one. And we went with these colors that we just love. They're not colors that necessarily go together, but they're colors that we love and we use frequently. So the yellows, the blues, the greens. And then tied all the space together by just pulling them through. So in here we did the walls. They are a subway tile, but a longer format. So it feels modern, but then still timeless at the same time. And we went with navy blue because we like blue, but also still really timeless. And we're going to love it for the long term. And we wrapped this same tile into the shower as well, similar to our other bathroom, taking the shower all the way to the ceiling. And then also going with that chrome hardware for the rain shower with the handle in the space. The thing that we loved the most about this room is that you already know I'm a sucker for an antique sink. So we pulled in this Kohler sink and we put it inside of this dresser. It's actually a blanket trunk. And it was way too short for the actual function that we wanted to use it for. So we were torn between do we float it? Do we put it on some sort of like casters? Like how do we make this taller? And our contractor in this space actually just like cut a little hole in it and gave us an extra piece of wood. And we left it kind of rough and rugged to the point about having like something old, something new. We did not want this to be a perfect piece. So maybe one day I'll go back and I'll sand it all and make it the same color. But for now, it's really functioning the way we designed it to while still feeling like the antique that it's always been. And so we instantly loved it. Last but not least in this space, how we tied through all of the colors. So pops of yellow. Easy ways to do that with like towels and flowers. And then pops of nautical and oud to the bathroom that it was before. So I collected these boat prints which they're in other places in our house as well. But collected these boat prints from antique stores over time. The only one that's not an antique is this one. And it's from Blakely Made on Instagram. And it was kind of the first nautical piece that we had of this bunch. And everything else is kind of working around it in this corner gallery wall. And then pulling in more mustard color through the towels as well as through this bench that's right under the window. And an easy opportunity to add texture but also somewhere to throw a towel. There's not a ton of wall in this room because we did this art. So it gives a good place for you to just kind of throw your towel. We've also got hooks in here but you know want to make sure that this house is not precious in any way. So a great way to do that. We've also got the tub area in here. It's got a niche. The niche is at the house at the height that I need it at. I feel like a lot of the times when you see design it's designed for and by men. So you're always like that. And it's just way too high for me to actually like shampoo from. So it's at the height that I'm actually using it at. And then this tub is one where when we were hunting for a tub for this space we wanted it to feel original to this space. But we also wanted it to be one where you could put your knees and your chest in at the same time. With old houses that's not always the case. So we made sure that we pulled that in in here. And it is as functional as it is beautiful for us. And so really happy with that tub. So this is our guest bathroom. Home means to me somewhere safe, somewhere warm. It's always going to be constantly changing and constantly growing as you live within your home. And so really it's the place that's going to be a soft place to land at the end of the day. Thanks for watching. Go to HomeWorthy.com for exclusive content and shopping guides.