Sweet September Nesting Instinct

Dear SDP Friends,

As I write this month's post on my new pink laptop from my home office in San Diego, CA, I feel the smell of sweet September in the air! Does fall bring out your nesting instinct big time like it does mine?! My hubby Steve and I have recently completed a few dollarwise decorating projects around our home so I thought I'd share them with you.



I found these wonderful "patina green" metal letters at Girard Avenue Collection in La Jolla, CA. It's one of my favorite design stores as they carry a lot of Old World style decor. Be sure to check it out if you ever get to San Diego. As for the metal letters, which are very heavy, here's how my hubby managed to hang them so they don't fall off the wall!



If your jewelry is a tangled mess, here's a dollarwise way to get it all organized so you can feel well put together when you get ready in the morning. I bought a bulletin board which my hubby hung in our walk-in bedroom closet. I give more instructions here. Of course, I could have made it even more "designer-ish" by covering the cork with a lovely fabric and painting the frame a nice color, but I elected to keep it simple.



We like our master bedroom and bathroom suite to feel like a Bed & Breakfast Inn because we stay in B&Bs when we travel. I found some lovely new white embellished pillows at Target, and a pretty new lilac-patterned quilt at Marshall's to freshen things up a bit. I also did some tweaks to our master bathroom. The "NEST" letters are in the bedroom corner.



I love nothing more than to have a romantic dinner on our terrace. We like our privacy out there, so I found these two metal folding screens which my hubby Steve painted and then he built a track for them to stand straight in and fastened them to the railing. Now we still get the sunshine, but we have privacy too.

Wishing you sweet September nesting!

Kathryn :)
http://www.kathrynbechenink.com/