The World Wide Webbs: Design on a Dime

Friday, August 8, 2008

Design on a Dime

This week I finished (mostly) our living room! I got tired of the maroon, so I did a complete overhaul and changed everything to brown and blue. I know it's not all that impressive (especially for an interior design grad.) but I had so much fun doing it! If you're not impressed at all, just keep in mind that EVERYTHING in it is from either Wal-Mart, Target, or TJ Max. Sorry the pictures aren't that great - it looks much better in person.

7 comments:

Krista & Tyler said...: Ash!! It looks amazing! You're going to have to teach me how to do things like that with my little apt! I just moved in tonight and let me tell ya, its going to need just a touch of TLC :) Yours looks wonderful! Congrats on all of your wonderful accomplishments! You truly deserve them!; August 9, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Rick and Jenny Runyan said...: I'm so jealous-come back here now and redo my house too! First of all, what a difference painted walls make! It looks great Ash, and you can't even tell the stuff is from regular stores, you have an eye for this for sure! And you can't veen tell kids live in that house-where are the toys stashed in the entertainment center? jk.; August 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM
brittany said...: Looks pretty good to me.; August 9, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Ashley-I just have to say you are an inspiration to me, two tiny girls and helping Luke through school and you always seem so upbeat about it! I need to know how you do it all! Your house looks darling, I love the colors! Good luck with school, Nate starts in a few weeks and is pretty nervous. Keep in touch, I am so happy for you guys. Love, Jenna; August 10, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Harris Family said...: WOW!!! This looks so great I want you to come help me out. I have no eye for interior decorating and need some serious help. You did an awesome job it looks all new!; August 13, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Kellie and Brad Campbell said...: hey!!! your apartment looks great!!!! I wish you were here to spice my apartment up a bit hahaha, it's kind of boring right now. Hope all is well in Iowa :); August 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Dustin and Shelli Chambers said...: Hey guys, I am happy you made it there safe and sound...looks like you are settled! We have been loving the gymnastics on TV, and here's a warning, next time you come home, Luke, you are probably going to have to perform for Kennedy...I've been talking you up!; August 15, 2008 at 12:11 PM

From the mouths of babes...

8/24/16: Cameron to Ashley: "Your lover is home." "Are you going to the temple with your lover?" "Where did your lover go?" (He calls Luke my lover and it kills me every time.)
8/8/16: While saying the prayer the night before school started... Brooklyn: "...And please bless mom while she's home alone... all by herself... without anyone... while all of us are gone... that she won't cry. (Oh, I think I'll be JUST FINE, thankyouverymuch.)
3/7/16: Cameron: "Mom, does Heavenly Father like us?" Ashley: "Of course! He loves us." Cameron: "THEN WHY DID HE MAKE SPIDERS!?!"
12/4: At Walmart with Bailey and Cameron, Bailey started to get a little fussy and I said, "We'd better go. She's starting to have a melt-down." Cameron asked what that meant and I said it meant she was getting fussy and wanted to leave. Then... our checkout took FOREVER, and Cameron started to get very impatient. In the middle of his mini-tantrum he wined really loudly, "Moooooom. Can we just go?!? I'm melting - I'm MELTING!!!!"
12/2: Brooklyn to Cameron: "Do the kids at school ever call you names?" Cameron: "Yea, all the time." Brooklyn: "What do they call you?" Cameron: "Cameron."
12/1: I read Cameron a bedtime story about Christmas that ended with a line that said, "And that is why the greatest gift of Christmas is the gift of love." Cameron looked at me confused and said: "What? That's not the greatest gift of Christmas. Ashley: "It's not? What's the greatest gift of Christmas?" Cameron paused for a second and thought deeply and then answered, "Guns."
9/21/2015: Brooklyn: "I don't know if I want to be a mom. It seems sooooo hard. The only good part is that you get to stay up all night."
6/5/15: After buying the kids a treat at the store for being good and not hearing a "thank you" from them, I said to them all, "I think I need to hear a magic word right now....." Cameron thought for a minute and then excitedly exclaimed, "Oh! BAZINGA!!!!"
5/15/15: Cameron to the tattooed worker installing our countertop: "Hey. All those stamps on your arms make you look like you'll go to jail."
4/7/2015: Ashley: "Cameron, come here - I want to squeeze you to pieces and eat you right up!" Cameron (sincerely alarmed): "No!!!!! You can't! - JESUS MADE ME!!!!!!"
3/24/2015: Cameron was falling asleep in the car at about 5:00. Luke said to him, " Cameron, don't fall asleep." Cameron replied, " I'm not falling asleep. I'm just taking a little break from being awake."
3/18/2015: This morning when I woke up, Cameron was standing right by my bed and he looked like he had done something very wrong. (You know - the guilt face.) I asked what happend and he said very regretfully, "Mom........ Olivia married me." And I wasn't invited!?!??!
3/11/2015: While flying in an airplane, we hit some turbulance and Cameron announced loudly and extremely calmly: "Mom. We're not going to make it. We are all just going to die."
2/1/2015: Cameron was being more grumpy than usual one morning and kind of pouting in his room. I asked him what was wrong and he said, "I just HATE being so handsome!"