Suburban bliss and musings of a military housewife.: Spring living room and bedroom make-over

I know winter isn't completely over yet but I had to re-decorate my living room and bedroom. It needed to be un-winterized. I started with removing the basket of pine cones I had on top of the coffee table and placed my almost taken care of succulents and a candle. Other than that, everything is pretty much the same and I'm still completely in love with big blue couch. I am however unsatisfied with the fact that my son keeps destroying his part of the bookshelf and I didn't notice until I saw this picture.

I also removed the book wreath. As much as I love it, it's not exactly screaming SPRING so it has now been kicked-out. Really, it is kicked out. It's on the front door. Its future is still being debated. Instead I was reading the lettered cottage blog yesterday and saw a super adorable spring wreath, so I just had to make the same one today. I had almost all the yarn and buttons and just had to get a new wreath.

Since I redid the wreath, I had to redo the whole mantle. I'm still not completely happy with this whole living room fireplace. I feel like the wall is too long, but not high enough, or maybe the other way around. This was the biggest wreath I can find at Jo-an's but I'm super happy how it turned out even though wrapping yarn around a wreath drove me completely insane! I added a few spring additions like these robin and quail eggs (which are fake). I got them at Target for $3.99 and they even came with nests. I've placed them accordingly around the house and my husband has also braved me and gotten me an orchid plant. It's survived three good weeks--- so far. I hope they live for a long time. I really like having a plant to take care of.

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In addition to my living room re-do, I also did our bedroom. I wanted to do something fresh and braved for white linens. I went to marshall's two weeks ago to look for white linens. I got lucky with a Cynthia Rowley set ON SALE! It used to be $80 and I got it for $50 and probably a lot more expensive if I got it at the mall. I've also been scouring all over the internet land on how to make burlap pillows. Recent antique store trips have shown me that one pillow will blow a $20 hole in my pocket. $2.99 a yard was all it cost me, I got a couple, and I was able to give new life to two pillows I've been sick of. I'll also confess that I just glue gunned it shut. For 2 reasons; I'm lazy and my sewing skills are not exactly one to be proud of. They seem pretty sturdy, we'll see how things go in a few weeks.

Here's a close-up of one of the pillows. I just think it's so stinkin' cute!! I wouldn't hug it though, it's so aesthetically pleasing to me and I adore the contrast it gives our room specially since it feels so empty.

I've also been dying to get a rug into our master since there's this gaping space on the floor. This 4.5x6.4 ft rug from Ikea was $20!! I was so excited when we saw it. I didn't even think twice and I jumped for joy to have it. My darling husband totted it around with us the whole time since the cart we had was only able to hold our re-usable bag containing the wine glasses we originally came there for. Oh Ikea, you got us again.

We had to get rid of the love seat in our room to move the tv to the other side of the wall. I like where it is now since I don't have to bend my neck to the right to watch tv.