Decorating for Fall

Happy October, dolls!

I don't think I'm alone in my love for the Fall season and everything that goes along with it. There's so much to love: the leaves changing colors, mums on the front porch, crisp air, the state fair, boots and scarves, Halloween and we all know my fellow millennial females love a good PSL (that's a Pumpkin Spice Latte for those who don't know).  As you're likely aware, at the BDH we take decorating for all holidays very seriously.  While I didn't end up putting up all of our Fall stuff (our surfaces were feeling a bit crowded), you can check out 80% of it in all its glittery, pumpkiny glory in the photos below.  As always, the 7 ft black Halloween tree is included!  If you're new to the blog and want to see what we've done to decorate for Fall in years past and are interested in a quick and easy DIY Fall mailbox swag tutorial, you should click here and here and here.

 

And to think, this is the big pumpkiny mess where it started:

 

Thanks for checking in and as we say in the South, happy Fall y'all!

BDH Updates: a new brown sectional sofa, furniture shuffling & more

Hello barbies! Over the past few months, we've had a handful of updates at the BDH that maybe weren't worth a full post on their own, but I thought I should share altogether.

 

The biggest of these updates would probably be that we moved our family room furniture into our sunroom and purchased a new large brown sectional for our family room in early December. We LOVE our family room furniture - its so us and our first big furniture purchase together - but we really wanted to get back to having a sectional in our family room like we did in our Texas house (that well loved, yet tired sectional is now living out its golden years in our media room, in case you were wondering).

So we sold our leather couch that we had in our sunroom on Craigslist, moved our nice family room furniture into that room, then replaced the family room furniture with a really large brown upholstered sectional... and we're so happy! Having our nice set in the sunroom has been great, because its so cold in there this time of the year (hardwoods, lots of windows) (the leather couch was just too cold for that room) and the new sectional is amazing and just the right size for two humans and 3 dogs that insist on all sitting on the same piece of furniture. My BFF Vanesa and I picked out the fur pillows together - love them. We also bought a new peace lily houseplant to keep the indoor air clean (peace lily's have indoor air filtering qualities) and to add some greenery.

The new family room:

 

The new sunroom:

A few mantle upgrades and updates:

Some changes to our downstairs hallway side table:

 I'm OBSESSED with this new iron coffee table that my mother-in-law gave us when we were visiting Texas over Christmas. In addition to our DIY patio (full post here), with DIY couch (full post here), we now have a cute little sitting area on the porch thanks to this table. I plan on doing more to this spot soon, but for now, you get the picture.

And of course, our new wine cellar, which I blogged about last week here:

Now we're working on some upgrades to our foyer (and I'm loving what we've bought so far so much I can hardly contain myself!), filling out our media room (to my surprise, hubby denied my request to hang 6 different Titanic movies posters) and beautifying our kinda bland upstairs guest room (it's going to be so light and dreamy! my mom is already sewing the curtains). Stay tuned and thanks for reading dolls!