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Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour

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Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour 2015Welcome to Dagmar’s Home and the Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour!

After writing blog posts about decorating our kitchen and how I made our Christmas tree taller, plus  how I repurposed a vintage pie tin to make this centerpiece, here is the decorated living room of our Blue Cottage!

I’m so excited to show you because a lot of work went into it, and I really like how it turned out.

Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour

Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour 2015, DagmarBleasdale.comMy Christmas theme for this year: simple, rustic, and a lot of plaid.

And bottle brush trees. [Read more…]

DIY Paper Bag Pumpkins & Blue Cottage Fall Home Tour

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Blue Cottage Fall Home Tour

Welcome to the Blue Cottage Fall Home Tour!

I took the porch pictures a few days ago — while we had the first snow flurries here in Westchester, NY. I created a few easy fabric and paper bag pumpkins that I decorated with this year.

I wanted to post my fall home tour much earlier, but I needed to finish a certain project first: can you tell what I’ve done?

I finally painted our porch railing white!

It took me about four hours so far, and I still have another hour or so to go, but I’m so thrilled with the change. I never liked the look of that weathered pressure-treated wood.

Also new to you: meet our finished driveway. We had Belgian blocks added to the edge of it, and the walkway, and around the flower beds. [Read more…]

Restyling Our Blue Cottage Living Room With Sauder

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cottage living room with Sauder desk and chair, DagmarBleasdale.com

How do you restyle a room: do you start from scratch or work with your existing furniture pieces and then add new ones?

Today, I finally get to reveal our living room makeover! And I’ll tell you about my design process.

I’ve worked with Sauder Woodworking Co. twice before, and this time they challenged me to pick one Sauder piece, to showcase its versatility and functionality, and to pair it with a complimentary piece.

We have a long and narrow living room, with a fireplace on one end of the room and the TV on the other side. I decided to focus the makeover on the TV side.

Our living room was nice, but now looking back, it needed some love. [Read more…]

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