You are such a lovely person and you certainly have a wonderful flair for decorating. The one thing that puzzles me are the many, many bouquets of flowers and greenery that are not real...they may be of good quality, but they are fake. I have plenty of greenery in my home, but they are real, live, growing things. I don't see one real and authentic plant in your house. Yes, living plants are more work, but you have the great satisfaction of seeing things grow, or bloom...or not. If you aren't successful try a plant that will do better in a certain spot. A few flowers from the florist, or a supermarket are not that expensive and have the advantage of adding fragrance, as well as colour. It is all about authenticity, plus letting your boys see the miracle of plants thriving.
Your home is very welcoming, warm, and cozy! Maybe you could add a few more touches of that gorgeous purple around the room. For example, perhaps some sprigs of purple in your baskets on the wall, a fluffy throw blanket and/or some cushy throw pillows on the couch and chairs. (or in the basket on the floor by your couch) You might do another of your exquisite paintings using shades of purple, green, and lovely neutrals. Even a small one on an easel for a tabletop. Adding an eggplant or some gorgeous decorative ears of purple Indian corn to your pumpkins could be smashing! Or a purple candle. Maybe even a small area rug in your entry area. You have such a keen eye for color, Andrea! I can't wait to see what you show us next and your bathroom! Linda 💜
So many good ideas here, thank you for sharing them all! I love the idea of adding color into a painting as well, thank you so much! I promise I hope to share the bathroom soon!
I really appreciate how you take us through your thought process. I'm tired of seeing only "finished projects" because I can look all day at magazine photos and still not be able to apply it to my style and space. Thank you for being real and sharing your stuggles as well as triumphs. keep up the good work.
Omg it’s all the advice I live by! Im feeling stuck in my living room too. Argh! Love your “Brown” corner area the same. Just try adding a green wreath on the hanging window using same green tone of the greenery in the wall baskets.
@@PineandProspectHome Being real helps viewers know that everyone struggles sometimes. Our lives don't look like the pages of a magazine. You are always lovely, beautiful and inspiring.
Hey! So very honest and humbling of you to share... i think we all get a little stumped with decor at times. Your a breath of fresh air sweet girl, your home is just beautiful as it is. Xx
Great advice. I love your home. I have 3 Son's on their own now. If I had a daughter I would love her to be like you in so many ways. However God blessed me with 3 Granddaughters and one Grandson I love dearly. Your mama did a wonderful parenting and raised a fine young daughter and siblings. I love music , fresh air and walks. I agree it can clear the mind. Thank you for sharing. 🙏❣️😀
Hi Andrea. Take your inspiration from your coffee table. You like the colour combination so repeat it in other areas. That will tie everything together. Love your home. So pretty!
You are so real, kind and such a warm personality ... You don't need to apologize for being human. Life isn't perfect, quiet or safe. We learn in the biggest of messy situations and God speaks to us at our weakest moments! Thank you for the ideas and for being you! 💖
What a blessing to have sisters you can go shop with or do things with. I do not have sisters . I have brothers and we do not talk or see each other. Sometimes that is how life is.
Andrea I just love your spirit n laughter makes me laugh n smile haha the fixing of the couch that bugged you ... I think your home is always beautiful to share and your struggles are real as we go through the same Your a blessing to me Love you
I am so glad that you addressed this!!! I have this problem, all the time. It is not only you. I absolutely love your home....it is gorgeous, homey and inviting. Exactly what anyone would want. You do such a wonderful job. Have a beautiful and blessed day, sweetie!! ~Gina💜
Thank you for this post! I have an IG where I constantly face this topic. I always want the perfect home decor picture, but I always think it’s not good enough and then I feel stuck! Thank you for this!
I am watching some of your older videos here. I really like your style. Your home look adorable. I find that I do like the farmhouse style but I know not everything goes with that in my house. I sofa's are more modern. So I have to find a way to incorporate those even I changed more to farmhouse. We are planning to do our living room celing in beadboard type look. It is just I saving and purchasing it. Living in AZ and it being more southwest, our house outside will not have a farmhouse look but the inside can. We live in a townhouse and I really like our townhouse but it is stucco on the outside with some wood. So I want to get a plant basket to hangover the balcony to put plants in it. I also want my husband to build a flower shelf for under our kitchen windows. I saw the idea on pinterest. I enjoy watching your videos. I enjoy your sweet spirit about things and I can relate more with you places as some homes are to over the top and not everyone has that kind of budget. Thanks for sharing this.
Love your decorating ideas and your channel. Have you considered using some small pieces of your white dishes, a bowl, a small pitcher, a sugar bowl, filled with greenery and sprigs of your new purple plants for a little color on you side table with your lamp. That may help brighten that corner. Do you like books to decorate with? How about some of your copper pieces or one of your newest water color prints on a small easel on you table or mantle. how about some larger sprigs of wheat, pods, thistle or other dried things from your yard for your crocks near the fireplace? A small warm colored hooked rug or throw on the table or your wooden box to soften and add texture and color? Just some ideas.
We ALL get stuck at times! And isn't it great that ideas come just when we let go?! The other day I was staring at my living room/ dining rm..it's connected and off balance because of the entry and stumps me ENDLESSLY 😂 so out of the blue I told my hubby..please help me turn the dining room table and chairs and rug opposite lol He's used to me haha so we did that and I moved an endtable opposite where it was and can you believe it?! The room seems more balanced! You are SO right..just try things! The joy of a new idea!! Love you..and thanks for your tips!💕
Maybe I can galvanise you and help you while you are feeling 'not in the mood' for doing your living room. I would like to say that you have to be the RUclipsr that I most like watching. And even this last video where you couldn't quite pull together your space, was most useful and lovely and honest. Keep posting and I shall keep watching your episodes all the way from France. Talking of France, here, despite the vogue for modern candles, we still value long candles in antique candelabra. When lit, they immediately conjure up the cosiness of autumn. Thank you for giving me a lot of pleasure....
You never disappoint, I look forward each week to your videos. I agree with so many others your voice is so soothing and you bring a spirit of peace. Thanks for helping us create our homes... ❤️🙂
I think you are so cute and funny. I’m in my 60s years of age and I’ve been through a lot of feelings in my decorating. I have learn to just let the feelings of frustration. Music is my number one guide. Love all your ideas on tips to get motivated. Your space is beautiful and it shows your personality. Your home shows who you are. It tells lots of story’s. Love your ideas and all your finishing touches.
Add some of your paintings on a shelf, and lots of greenery, with your brown color would look amazing ! Your house always looks amazing ! Add a lamp on top shelf of your shelving by the fireplace it always softens and warms a place up ! I know you will figure it out, you are so resource full ! Love your videos ! TFS. Have aWonderful Day !! ❤️😀❤️🎃🎃🎃🍁🍁🍁
Sweet girl many times Iwant to change everything so I totally move or rearrange everything only to realize I like the way it was. So I put everything back. I spent my frustration by moving things. I’m then satisfied with the room. I love to listen to beautiful Christmas music any time of the year. It holds so many memories of family and friends that’s gathered in my home. I never tire of the hymns or classic songs. I love to listen to your sweet voice. Please sing for us. Hugs from Texas
Your home is always so inviting ! You always look so angelic... And your voice is soothing! You evoke peace. Always happy to see your ideas and hear your thoughts! Have a great evening.
Love your channel and living in Michigan was the happiest time in my life! If you put some of that purple floral stem along with greenery in a basket or other container set on the floor it would brighten up said corner. A pillow slipcovered in same shade of purple for the chair would even be a bigger pop of color (although I know you love neutrals and they are beautiful!). Just an idea. Love your home!
Yes! I’m having the same problem .my fall decor is sitting around because I can’t figure out what to do! This is a first time for me to deal with that on decorating for the holidays
Thank you for the advice! Today I was feeling so frustrated decorating my house for fall. I decided to sit in the yard ,relax in the sun, and thumb through home decor books. It really helped ,ready to take on the living room tomorrow!!
I enjoyed your video. I love doing fun things. Music is good. I’m always tweaking my space. Just recently I changed a color on a wall made it bold then put up picture ledges in white so I change out art. Where is your art. Love the pumpkins and the use of purple. I love your home and style. God’s blessings. Happy fall y’all.
I totally take pictures. It does help. And I love that dark purple color. I have a few flowers that color. Different for me but so pretty. Thank you so much for sharing theses tips.
Hi my first time here! I subscribed to your channel. I loooove your home it’s beautiful. The layout, colors and design are so cozy and well done. I think we all get stuck because we look at our homes everyday and get bored. I’ve been so bored with mine and you have inspired me. Your taste in decorating is so great. Thank you so much for all the great advice...I’m going over to your blog now. Stay well and happy decorating ❤️
I just added some acorns and pine cones to a wooden bowl and some in a mason jar for my shelf. Looks amazing and best part they are FREE ! Love your videos Andrea ! Have a Great Day! 😀❤️❤️😀🎃🍁
Thank you so much for the wonderful advice. I have been so stumped in my family room... I can’t seem to get it decorated like I truly want. I needed this... God is so good. 🤗😘🙏🏻
If it was my living room I would like book shelves on both sides of the fireplace. Add a tray to the coffee table and put the plant and the small pumpkin on it. The box next to the fireplace would make a nice coffee table too.
As a master home stager and am stumped by a room and every home usually has that one room that you stand in the door way scratching your head. The best way is to remove all but the main pieces, ie; sofa, chairs...everything. Then next begin by making sure the main pieces are where you want them then begin adding occasional tables, then lamps, wall pieces, and finally the surfaces. Presto✨⚡️
First of all thanks for humbling yourself and sharing so honestly. We all get stuck, so we are all in that together. Really good tips. Sometimes i just need to ponder something for a couple days. I think getting away from something really does help. Cant wait to see your bathroom reveal. If i remember correctly, you got stuck in there at a certain point. Cant wait to see that. I think you are pretty brave in the things you try. I love the things you do. In fact i went through a time, i wanted my house to look just like yours, then I thought. You are not Andrea. You are you, so embrace what you can do and be ok with that. You inspire me, give me ideas that I can work in, and your free pumpkin pic gives me a little bit of you in my home. Love that! Many thanks. A video from you is always a welcome note.
I really enjoyed this video. As an artist and floral designer, I walk away from a piece that I have overworked. I take little peaks at it as I pass. Also, I use a mirror. I hold the artwork or floral piece in front of the mirror. So often, I will spot the problem right away.
Just a few suggestions, Change the round top table with the lamp with the square table by the couch. Place the fire place grate under the double window as more texture and color. Use the large crock in front of the fire place grate with sticks from the yard and a few pumpkins. The little pumpkin is too small. The light color table with the round top would be another texture next to your couch. The basket at the end of your couch on top of the small bench next to the fireplace with pumpkins. On your shelves next to the fireplace put multiple color pumpkins and sticks from your yard and some pretty glass jars on the shelves would look great. I have really enjoyed your videos. I hope you find something out of this. Have a great day and keep posting your videos.
Sometimes I go thru each room in the house - even the bathroom! - and see what elements give me the cosy feeling I'm looking for. It might be a wall or just a few pieces. A color, an object, a piece of furniture, may be the singular inspiration. I think the upcoming fall/winter seasons are going to be so much different this year for all of us that we are all encountering a block of sorts. But I think almost a sense of simplicity and calm will be key in our home styling - not a frantic buying spree for new things or overloading every nook and shelf with objects. I think bringing that feeling of serenity will be the key to getting thru the holidays and coming months. Call it the true hygge life or slow living - our bodies and minds seek the quiet side now.
So glad to see another video. My 1'st thought was try a small purple dish, tray, glass bottle, esp in front of a window on the table with the brown lamp. The eye will travel from purple stem to purple on table. Would remove the white pumpkin on floor. looks "lonely". How about some leafy tree branches in the crocks @ fireplace, maybe 3ft high to draw the eye up. just a suggestion. I have 2 shelves in my sunroom that I have been stumped with for 7 yrs!!! I too know it sounds odd ,but, we like our home to be pleasing to the eye so we can finally rest, ha,ha. You are so dear and "real"--love that.
I think a wreath with purple, white and green flowers at that corner-window would help?! And little pumpkins in white and green beside the table lamp. And maybe a white throw-pillow with a purple ribbon, handstitched or with a loop?! Quickly changeable... Greetings from cologne
Your decorating style is beautiful with soft natural colors and lots of texture. You have a great eye for furnishings and color. I know one thing that I look for in a room when my arrangement is falling a bit flat for me is gleam - simple glass, white ironstone, glazed pottery, brass, beautiful old china, and so on. Often I will spray paint something aged brass to add gleam. I just ordered Antique Gold Rub ‘n Buff to try out on an old mirror frame in our entryway. I’m looking forward to seeing what you discover is missing for you. There’s just something about tending to our homes that feeds the soul! ♥️
You've got a lovely graceful flare and your house is spotless in comparison to loads of RUclips videos I've seen. Go and have a cuppa and get some fresh air for half hour, then when you get back it'll fall into place. Xxx
Hi,i'm romanian friend here and my english is not very good🙂but i want to tell you, you have a beautiful home and good eye in everything and you really inspired me so keep going, because you do a great job!🥰⚘
That is okay too! You do what you love and what makes you love and enjoy the space you are in. It is so important that it is your haven to escape to, you will be spending the most time there!
I always put on RUclips videos that inspire me ( you, Hilary from Old World Home, Kellie from Yard Sale Squad) y’all inspire me to embrace my own person style and not fall into the trap of following all the trends. I love all your tips! Thanks 😊 That purple color is one of my favourites for fall time. I am always moving furniture around in my home!! And as a side note, if you could see my home right now... yours is spotless in comparison 😂
Well thank you for your kind words about my house and I agree! It is so important to do what makes us happy and what we like and not just the same exact thing that every one else is or whatever the current trend is. PS. I also love moving furniture constantly haha!!
Thank you for these tips, that's so helpful. My favourite home decor book is an old 'Irish Georgian Interiors' and everytime I need some inspiration I take it out. Books are so helpful, and blogs like yours too! Definitely coinciding decorating with a deep room clean is perfect timing. I find when I'm pulling out furniture to clean behind them it's the ideal time to shake things up a bit and make some changes. I've also given myself permission not to decorate for a season if the inspiration isn't flowing. Sometimes we need to give ourselves a break 🧡
Oh yes, that is a great tip too. It is good to show mercy to ourselves and grace when it is needed. This has been a crazy year and for some, decorating will bring happiness while for others it will do something completely different. Great tips here. I will also take a look at that book! So happy you have something you can go to like me!
Andrea. Just felt i wanted to share this with you. You encourage us, I want to encourage you. Just came in from my morning walk . Got caught in a passing shower. Cant run any more so just got wet. Kind of fun. Anyway each time i walk past my house I'm critiquing my front fall porch. The welcome sign is tall the pumpkins sitting in front are short needed some tall grass infront of sign behind pumpkins. So with your words in my mind giving me tips, i "shopped my yard" cut some tall grasses. Looking at that for a couple days something still not right, in the rain this morning cut some sedum and hydrangea and put in with the grasses. BINGO. ALSO the concrete pumpkins i made, did not like in the pot. Moved them, too. BINGO. (All in the rain mind you) Creativity takes time and patience and keep at it attitude. Which i know you all have. So girlfriend go forth, hear you roar and create. Your friend. Carol
Tore into my kitchen yesterday and yes, it required shopping. 😉. Our nesting instincts are hitting with fall and we want to get it just right. I bought a bunch of antique cream-colored crocks in different shapes and sizes, cracks and chips, but they add instant softness and character and are kind of a rest for the eye. I had a lot of wood and hard surfaces and these fit the bill with some rounded shapes and a little sheen. Something about big pieces of pottery just settle me down. And editing...always editing. For me, I do better with fewer, bigger pieces and I weed out my small stuff and it helps me stay calm and satisfied with a look. The same goes with very little color...I do best with creams, straw colors and golds, with all light or white woods. It takes years as your tastes evolve, so know that you are ahead of the game and your home is stunning, and even when it’s frustrating, it’s a blast to rearrange. Oh, and find a great antique dealer who will buy or trade!! ☺️☺️
Pine and Prospect Home You have impeccable style and an aesthetic artist’s eye, Andrea! Your home always looks beautiful-but yes, sometimes we just get stuck! Sometimes I take all my accessories out and add back only my real, true favorites. Less is truly more-and groupings of similar colors seem to keep me less frantic when I’m rearranging. 😂
It does happen someone of the best designers! ❤️ I'm so thankful that you are so honest about it and share this part of blogging and vlogging and decorating!
I always look forward to your videos. I started watching the video and asked "I wonder if she ever finished the bathroom?" Glad to hear that you did and excited to see the final reveal. Yes, I get stuck too or move things around. You added in the purple flowers. What about a pretty throw or pillow to add more of that color in the room? You wanted the flowers taller in the crock. What about stuffing some paper in the bottom to elevate things? You have an eye for things and I know that it'll turn out beautifully!
I think you need to get some plaid pillows (eggplant and Forrest green) and a new throw...the sofa pillows and throw aren’t transistion ing to fall like the rest of your beautiful home...also take down some of the wire baskets and window and put up your incredible fall art! A cozy rug and some cool lamp shade too! I love your home🌻
Just spent over one hour fixing my home all around... have to relax, and look around, then it will come to you... I do this EVERY DAY... how sad is that, right? Lol... love to decorate! You have to love it when you are all done... or start over...You can not put something in a room one day then something another day... you have to do the whole room all at once... just my tip!
Love your videos and your decorating style! Could you please link the window blinds that you have in your sun room and also the rug in your living room? I would like to purchase them.. Thank you! Have a blessed day!
I don't know how you finished the living room; I do know that when I saw the empty crocks beside the fireplace, I wanted to trade one of the crocks with the spindle-legged table to create a grouping on the hearth with pumpkins, a crock holding greens/purple stems and a candle nestled in greens on the table at the fireplace. The second crock I would put beside the chair with a blanket spilling out of it. I know you know to balance your colors across the space: I hope you put a touch of the white and purples in your wall baskets. Be blessed.
Sometimes it helps me to first empty the room or a space of the decor leaving just the big furniture pieces. Then decide which items to add back that I love.
Andrea love the fire place. So next on the right hand is a box how about put the lamp in it than you can swap the little tables as you said. I will add more to this comment as I go on your video. Also please please turn up the volume on you recording. My device on full sound and hardly can hear your soft voice. I agree to take photoes I do watch the lifestyle channel and always taking pictures on the TV if I like someting even if I turf it out later because I changed my mind.
Add the color in more paintings, or pillow, or a "knick knack".....when I'm having a problem with a look or a room....I take a picture from different angles and most of the time....the "problem" sticks out. YOU'LL figure it out! Your house looks great
For height in front of the fireplace - could you forage for some pompus grass? (Hair spray it so it doesn't fall apart as it dries). Looks great. Now, I'm gonna go turn the music on... thanks
1. Listen to music. 2. Look at your home decor books. 3. Go outside, to get ideas. 4. Take the risk. Do not afraid to do big things. 5. Shop your home. Go window shopping. 🌟
Your home is lovely key word home. Very inviting. As well as you paint could you do a water color of beautiful flowers to go over chair by window. I enjoy your channel very much and you are doing great job. Marian
Love your coffee table, may I ask how to arrange those in the bucket, what I mean what is holding the stems in the bucket? You will figure this out...you are brilliant!, love your info!
Kathleen Maxcy Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here 😊 She seems to have picked up a stem or 2 while she was talking, so I think the stems are long enough & full enough that they’re just sitting in there supported by each other - but, if you need to, you can always hot glue foam inside - sometimes, too, when I have stems that aren’t long enough, I use floral tape and add a wooden skewer or part of one to make the stem longer - cheap & easy !
Would the little cabinet (I think it's green) at the end of your kitchen counter fit beside the white chair in the living room where the brown lamp is? No idea if that would work but it came to mind. Your videos are so pretty and helpful! 😊
Hi Andrea, I love your blog, youtube channel and instagram. This was a great video. Do you have advice for someone who has tried and tried and tried to blog and just can't get the knack and feels like they are falling short? I love decorating and was doing DIY before, well...lets just say a long time. But, I have tried blogging for years and I always feel silly and that my stuff is not quite right. You and your posts are always so polished, any videos and advice on this would be amazing and very much appreciated.
Oh my goodness, I think we all feel this way about our own work. We are our own worst critics! I did write a post on blogging, did you happen to see that? If not, just head. to www.pineandprospecthome.com/blogger-q-a-your-questions-my-answers/ maybe that might help? Anyways, I will be praying for you and hope you are able too try again at it!❤️
You are such a lovely person and you certainly have a wonderful flair for decorating. The one thing that puzzles me are the many, many bouquets of flowers and greenery that are not real...they may be of good quality, but they are fake. I have plenty of greenery in my home, but they are real, live, growing things. I don't see one real and authentic plant in your house. Yes, living plants are more work, but you have the great satisfaction of seeing things grow, or bloom...or not. If you aren't successful try a plant that will do better in a certain spot. A few flowers from the florist, or a supermarket are not that expensive and have the advantage of adding fragrance, as well as colour. It is all about authenticity, plus letting your boys see the miracle of plants thriving.
Your home is very welcoming, warm, and cozy! Maybe you could add a few more touches of that gorgeous purple around the room. For example, perhaps some sprigs of purple in your baskets on the wall, a fluffy throw blanket and/or some cushy throw pillows on the couch and chairs. (or in the basket on the floor by your couch)
You might do another of your exquisite paintings using shades of purple, green, and lovely neutrals. Even a small one on an easel for a tabletop. Adding an eggplant or some gorgeous decorative ears of purple Indian corn to your pumpkins could be smashing! Or a purple candle. Maybe even a small area rug in your entry area.
You have such a keen eye for color, Andrea! I can't wait to see what you show us next and your bathroom! Linda 💜
So many good ideas here, thank you for sharing them all! I love the idea of adding color into a painting as well, thank you so much! I promise I hope to share the bathroom soon!
I really appreciate how you take us through your thought process. I'm tired of seeing only "finished projects" because I can look all day at magazine photos and still not be able to apply it to my style and space. Thank you for being real and sharing your stuggles as well as triumphs. keep up the good work.
Omg it’s all the advice I live by! Im feeling stuck in my living room too. Argh!
Love your “Brown” corner area the same. Just try adding a green wreath on the hanging window using same green tone of the greenery in the wall baskets.
Thank you for sharing the fact that you occasionally struggle with decor and real life is not always Pinterest worthy.😊💖
I have many struggles, it is hard to always be vulnerable but I love being able to share with you all!
@@PineandProspectHome Being real helps viewers know that everyone struggles sometimes. Our lives don't look like the pages of a magazine. You are always lovely, beautiful and inspiring.
Hey! So very honest and humbling of you to share... i think we all get a little stumped with decor at times. Your a breath of fresh air sweet girl, your home is just beautiful as it is. Xx
Great advice. I love your home.
I have 3 Son's on their own now. If I had a daughter I would love her to be like you in so many ways.
However God blessed me with 3 Granddaughters and one Grandson I love dearly. Your mama did a wonderful parenting and raised a fine young daughter and siblings.
I love music , fresh air and walks.
I agree it can clear the mind. Thank you for sharing. 🙏❣️😀
Thank you so much, I was very blessed with my parents as well, you are right! Thank you for the sweet words. I hope you enjoy those grandchildren! 🥰
Hi Andrea. Take your inspiration from your coffee table. You like the colour combination so repeat it in other areas. That will tie everything together. Love your home. So pretty!
Ooh, great suggestion, thank you!
You are so real, kind and such a warm personality ... You don't need to apologize for being human. Life isn't perfect, quiet or safe. We learn in the biggest of messy situations and God speaks to us at our weakest moments! Thank you for the ideas and for being you! 💖
Wow, that is a lot! I hope you are able to figure it all out and it flows together perfectly for you!
What a blessing to have sisters you can go shop with or do things with. I do not have sisters . I have brothers and we do not talk or see each other. Sometimes that is how life is.
Andrea I just love your spirit n laughter makes me laugh n smile haha the fixing of the couch that bugged you ... I think your home is always beautiful to share and your struggles are real as we go through the same
Your a blessing to me
Love you
Love that you are honest. Makes us feel human too
I am so glad that you addressed this!!! I have this problem, all the time. It is not only you. I absolutely love your home....it is gorgeous, homey and inviting. Exactly what anyone would want. You do such a wonderful job. Have a beautiful and blessed day, sweetie!!
~Gina💜
Thank you so much, hearing this is so encouraging to me and I loved being able to share my methods to hopefully help others!
Thank you for this post! I have an IG where I constantly face this topic. I always want the perfect home decor picture, but I always think it’s not good enough and then I feel stuck! Thank you for this!
You are so welcome, I hope it helps you!
I am watching some of your older videos here. I really like your style. Your home look adorable. I find that I do like the farmhouse style but I know not everything goes with that in my house. I sofa's are more modern. So I have to find a way to incorporate those even I changed more to farmhouse. We are planning to do our living room celing in beadboard type look. It is just I saving and purchasing it. Living in AZ and it being more southwest, our house outside will not have a farmhouse look but the inside can. We live in a townhouse and I really like our townhouse but it is stucco on the outside with some wood. So I want to get a plant basket to hangover the balcony to put plants in it. I also want my husband to build a flower shelf for under our kitchen windows. I saw the idea on pinterest. I enjoy watching your videos. I enjoy your sweet spirit about things and I can relate more with you places as some homes are to over the top and not everyone has that kind of budget. Thanks for sharing this.
Love your decorating ideas and your channel. Have you considered using some small pieces of your white dishes, a bowl, a small pitcher, a sugar bowl, filled with greenery and sprigs of your new purple plants for a little color on you side table with your lamp. That may help brighten that corner. Do you like books to decorate with? How about some of your copper pieces or one of your newest water color prints on a small easel on you table or mantle. how about some larger sprigs of wheat, pods, thistle or other dried things from your yard for your crocks near the fireplace? A small warm colored hooked rug or throw on the table or your wooden box to soften and add texture and color? Just some ideas.
Thank you so much for all of these, all of you guys are giving me so many new options to consider!
Maybe some candles, fire for warmth. I read Feng Shui books. A seaside painting for a water element. A bunch of your favorite books.
Great ideas here! Thank you!
We ALL get stuck at times! And isn't it great that ideas come just when we let go?! The other day I was staring at my living room/ dining rm..it's connected and off balance because of the entry and stumps me ENDLESSLY 😂 so out of the blue I told my hubby..please help me turn the dining room table and chairs and rug opposite lol He's used to me haha so we did that and I moved an endtable opposite where it was and can you believe it?! The room seems more balanced! You are SO right..just try things! The joy of a new idea!! Love you..and thanks for your tips!💕
Haha I do this to Mike ALL THE TIME! Or he comes home from work and it is all different. Sometimes you just need a new perspective!
@@PineandProspectHome, EXACTLY!!!💕🌸
Thank goodness you are a cute and kind normal human . I love you're videos.🍁🍂🌻
Aw, thank you so much!
Maybe I can galvanise you and help you while you are feeling 'not in the mood' for doing your living room. I would like to say that you have to be the RUclipsr that I most like watching. And even this last video where you couldn't quite pull together your space, was most useful and lovely and honest. Keep posting and I shall keep watching your episodes all the way from France. Talking of France, here, despite the vogue for modern candles, we still value long candles in antique candelabra. When lit, they immediately conjure up the cosiness of autumn. Thank you for giving me a lot of pleasure....
Thank you so so much, this is so sweet of you! Also, I LOVE antiques. They add such a special element to a room!
You never disappoint, I look forward each week to your videos. I agree with so many others your voice is so soothing and you bring a spirit of peace. Thanks for helping us create our homes... ❤️🙂
Aw, oh my goodness thank you so so much. That is so kind!
I think you are so cute and funny. I’m in my 60s years of age and I’ve been through a lot of feelings in my decorating. I have learn to just let the feelings of frustration. Music is my number one guide. Love all your ideas on tips to get motivated. Your space is beautiful and it shows your personality. Your home shows who you are. It tells lots of story’s. Love your ideas and all your finishing touches.
Thank you so so much, I also love music!
Add some of your paintings on a shelf, and lots of greenery, with your brown color would look amazing ! Your house always looks amazing ! Add a lamp on top shelf of your shelving by the fireplace it always softens and warms a place up ! I know you will figure it out, you are so resource full ! Love your videos ! TFS. Have aWonderful Day !! ❤️😀❤️🎃🎃🎃🍁🍁🍁
Thank you for these awesome suggestions and kind words! You too!
Sweet girl many times Iwant to change everything so I totally move or rearrange everything only to realize I like the way it was. So I put everything back. I spent my frustration by moving things. I’m then satisfied with the room. I love to listen to beautiful Christmas music any time of the year. It holds so many memories of family and friends that’s gathered in my home. I never tire of the hymns or classic songs. I love to listen to your sweet voice. Please sing for us. Hugs from Texas
Oh my goodness, I have done this so many times haha and I LOVE Christmas music! Great suggestion! Thank you!
Your home is always so inviting ! You always look so angelic... And your voice is soothing! You evoke peace. Always happy to see your ideas and hear your thoughts! Have a great evening.
Thank you, that is so so sweet! ❤️
Your eyes are so blue💕 your home is so pretty and your doing a great job making it look and feel like autumn 🍂
Oh my goodness, thank you so much 🥰❤️
YOU are simply the BEST!
Thank you!!
Love your channel and living in Michigan was the happiest time in my life!
If you put some of that purple floral stem along with greenery in a basket or other container set on the floor it would brighten up said corner. A pillow slipcovered in same shade of purple for the chair would even be a bigger pop of color (although I know you love neutrals and they are beautiful!). Just an idea. Love your home!
Thank you so much! I love Michigan too, so blessed to live here. Thanks for the suggestions too!
Great reflections...I loved the idea of taking a photo ... so easy w our phone camera!!!
Yes! I’m having the same problem .my fall decor is sitting around because I can’t figure out what to do! This is a first time for me to deal with that on decorating for the holidays
Thank you for the advice! Today I was feeling so frustrated decorating my house for fall. I decided to sit in the yard ,relax in the sun, and thumb through home decor books. It really helped ,ready to take on the living room tomorrow!!
So happy to hear this! Love being able to take my mind off of it and come back to it! Fresh perspective!
I enjoyed your video. I love doing fun things. Music is good. I’m always tweaking my space. Just recently I changed a color on a wall made it bold then put up picture ledges in white so I change out art. Where is your art. Love the pumpkins and the use of purple. I love your home and style. God’s blessings. Happy fall y’all.
Yes, I really should put some of my art out! I will work on that, thank you and Happy Fall to you!
I totally take pictures. It does help. And I love that dark purple color. I have a few flowers that color. Different for me but so pretty. Thank you so much for sharing theses tips.
Thank you so much, Ruth! :)
I do the same! Then I can look at the space more objectively
Hi my first time here! I subscribed to your channel. I loooove your home it’s beautiful. The layout, colors and design are so cozy and well done. I think we all get stuck because we look at our homes everyday and get bored. I’ve been so bored with mine and you have inspired me. Your taste in decorating is so great. Thank you so much for all the great advice...I’m going over to your blog now. Stay well and happy decorating ❤️
Oh my goodness, so happy to hear that you found me! So glad that I can help you find inspiration too!
Thank you Andrea! Great advice and tips. Your home is lovely.
Thank you for this! So helpful! I cant wait to see what you end up doing in that space!
I am excited to see how it ends up coming out, so happy to hear this helps!
And so happy to be a new subscriber to your blog! I just love your sense of style, hoping some of it rubs off on me!
I just added some acorns and pine cones to a wooden bowl and some in a mason jar for my shelf. Looks amazing and best part they are FREE ! Love your videos Andrea ! Have a Great Day! 😀❤️❤️😀🎃🍁
I love these for fall! Great idea and thank you for your kind words!
Thank you so much for the wonderful advice.
I have been so stumped in my family room... I can’t seem to get it decorated like I truly want. I needed this...
God is so good. 🤗😘🙏🏻
So happy to hear this! I hope it helps!
If it was my living room I would like book shelves on both sides of the fireplace. Add a tray to the coffee table and put the plant and the small pumpkin on it. The box next to the fireplace would make a nice coffee table too.
As a master home stager and am stumped by a room and every home usually has that one room that you stand in the door way scratching your head. The best way is to remove all but the main pieces, ie; sofa, chairs...everything. Then next begin by making sure the main pieces are where you want them then begin adding occasional tables, then lamps, wall pieces, and finally the surfaces. Presto✨⚡️
First of all thanks for humbling yourself and sharing so honestly. We all get stuck, so we are all in that together. Really good tips. Sometimes i just need to ponder something for a couple days. I think getting away from something really does help. Cant wait to see your bathroom reveal. If i remember correctly, you got stuck in there at a certain point. Cant wait to see that. I think you are pretty brave in the things you try. I love the things you do. In fact i went through a time, i wanted my house to look just like yours, then I thought. You are not Andrea. You are you, so embrace what you can do and be ok with that. You inspire me, give me ideas that I can work in, and your free pumpkin pic gives me a little bit of you in my home. Love that! Many thanks.
A video from you is always a welcome note.
Oh my goodness you are right, I think I never did share it because it isn't quite there yet if that makes sense? I need to soon though! Thank you!!
I really enjoyed this video. As an artist and floral designer, I walk away from a piece that I have overworked. I take little peaks at it as I pass. Also, I use a mirror. I hold the artwork or floral piece in front of the mirror. So often, I will spot the problem right away.
This was so helpful. I am in a bit of a rut right now and this has inspired me to press forward. Thank you! 😊
So so happy to hear that!
Just a few suggestions, Change the round top table with the lamp with the square table by the couch. Place the fire place grate under the double window as more texture and color. Use the large crock in front of the fire place grate with sticks from the yard and a few pumpkins. The little pumpkin is too small. The light color table with the round top would be another texture next to your couch. The basket at the end of your couch on top of the small bench next to the fireplace with pumpkins. On your shelves next to the fireplace put multiple color pumpkins and sticks from your yard and some pretty glass jars on the shelves would look great. I have really enjoyed your videos. I hope you find something out of this. Have a great day and keep posting your videos.
These are GREAT tips, Andrea!!
Thank you! 😊❤️
Sometimes I go thru each room in the house - even the bathroom! - and see what elements give me the cosy feeling I'm looking for. It might be a wall or just a few pieces. A color, an object, a piece of furniture, may be the singular inspiration. I think the upcoming fall/winter seasons are going to be so much different this year for all of us that we are all encountering a block of sorts. But I think almost a sense of simplicity and calm will be key in our home styling - not a frantic buying spree for new things or overloading every nook and shelf with objects. I think bringing that feeling of serenity will be the key to getting thru the holidays and coming months. Call it the true hygge life or slow living - our bodies and minds seek the quiet side now.
This is so very true. This year really is different. Cozy and simple and comforting even is so important this season. ❤️
So glad to see another video. My 1'st thought was try a small purple dish, tray, glass bottle, esp in front of a window on the table with the brown lamp. The eye will travel from purple stem to purple on table. Would remove the white pumpkin on floor. looks "lonely". How about some leafy tree branches in the crocks @ fireplace, maybe 3ft high to draw the eye up. just a suggestion. I have 2 shelves in my sunroom that I have been stumped with for 7 yrs!!! I too know it sounds odd ,but, we like our home to be pleasing to the eye so we can finally rest, ha,ha. You are so dear and "real"--love that.
Yes, it needs to be just right for it to be relaxing, I completely agree. So many good suggestions here. Thank you for sharing them with me!
I think a wreath with purple, white and green flowers at that corner-window would help?! And little pumpkins in white and green beside the table lamp. And maybe a white throw-pillow with a purple ribbon, handstitched or with a loop?! Quickly changeable... Greetings from cologne
Hello! These are all great ideas, thank you so much! I love the wreath idea especially!
Your decorating style is beautiful with soft natural colors and lots of texture. You have a great eye for furnishings and color. I know one thing that I look for in a room when my arrangement is falling a bit flat for me is gleam - simple glass, white ironstone, glazed pottery, brass, beautiful old china, and so on. Often I will spray paint something aged brass to add gleam. I just ordered Antique Gold Rub ‘n Buff to try out on an old mirror frame in our entryway. I’m looking forward to seeing what you discover is missing for you. There’s just something about tending to our homes that feeds the soul! ♥️
You've got a lovely graceful flare and your house is spotless in comparison to loads of RUclips videos I've seen. Go and have a cuppa and get some fresh air for half hour, then when you get back it'll fall into place. Xxx
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! You are so sweet!
Hi,i'm romanian friend here and my english is not very good🙂but i want to tell you, you have a beautiful home and good eye in everything and you really inspired me so keep going, because you do a great job!🥰⚘
Aw, oh my goodness thank you and hello from Romania! You are so sweet!
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Great advice..have a blessed day.❤🙏
Thank you, you too!
My problem is that I put out too many decorations. I cannot decide which ones to use. Love them all.
That is okay too! You do what you love and what makes you love and enjoy the space you are in. It is so important that it is your haven to escape to, you will be spending the most time there!
I always put on RUclips videos that inspire me ( you, Hilary from Old World Home, Kellie from Yard Sale Squad) y’all inspire me to embrace my own person style and not fall into the trap of following all the trends. I love all your tips! Thanks 😊 That purple color is one of my favourites for fall time. I am always moving furniture around in my home!! And as a side note, if you could see my home right now... yours is spotless in comparison 😂
Well thank you for your kind words about my house and I agree! It is so important to do what makes us happy and what we like and not just the same exact thing that every one else is or whatever the current trend is. PS. I also love moving furniture constantly haha!!
Thank you for these tips, that's so helpful. My favourite home decor book is an old 'Irish Georgian Interiors' and everytime I need some inspiration I take it out. Books are so helpful, and blogs like yours too! Definitely coinciding decorating with a deep room clean is perfect timing. I find when I'm pulling out furniture to clean behind them it's the ideal time to shake things up a bit and make some changes. I've also given myself permission not to decorate for a season if the inspiration isn't flowing. Sometimes we need to give ourselves a break 🧡
Oh yes, that is a great tip too. It is good to show mercy to ourselves and grace when it is needed. This has been a crazy year and for some, decorating will bring happiness while for others it will do something completely different. Great tips here. I will also take a look at that book! So happy you have something you can go to like me!
Blessings to you and yours!
I love the green pumpkin
Thank you, I love them too!
Your home is so pretty I love all your decor .
Oh and you inspire me to shop my home! I try to do that first.
Yes it's so fun to do!
Andrea.
Just felt i wanted to share this with you. You encourage us, I want to encourage you.
Just came in from my morning walk . Got caught in a passing shower. Cant run any more so just got wet. Kind of fun. Anyway each time i walk past my house I'm critiquing my front fall porch. The welcome sign is tall the pumpkins sitting in front are short needed some tall grass infront of sign behind pumpkins. So with your words in my mind giving me tips, i "shopped my yard" cut some tall grasses. Looking at that for a couple days something still not right, in the rain this morning cut some sedum and hydrangea and put in with the grasses. BINGO.
ALSO the concrete pumpkins i made, did not like in the pot. Moved them, too. BINGO. (All in the rain mind you)
Creativity takes time and patience and keep at it attitude. Which i know you all have. So girlfriend go forth, hear you roar and create.
Your friend. Carol
Tore into my kitchen yesterday and yes, it required shopping. 😉. Our nesting instincts are hitting with fall and we want to get it just right. I bought a bunch of antique cream-colored crocks in different shapes and sizes, cracks and chips, but they add instant softness and character and are kind of a rest for the eye. I had a lot of wood and hard surfaces and these fit the bill with some rounded shapes and a little sheen. Something about big pieces of pottery just settle me down. And editing...always editing. For me, I do better with fewer, bigger pieces and I weed out my small stuff and it helps me stay calm and satisfied with a look. The same goes with very little color...I do best with creams, straw colors and golds, with all light or white woods. It takes years as your tastes evolve, so know that you are ahead of the game and your home is stunning, and even when it’s frustrating, it’s a blast to rearrange. Oh, and find a great antique dealer who will buy or trade!! ☺️☺️
Camilla * Sounds beautiful !
Ooh yes, that really does sounds so so beautiful!! I am so glad you found something!
Pine and Prospect Home You have impeccable style and an aesthetic artist’s eye, Andrea! Your home always looks beautiful-but yes, sometimes we just get stuck! Sometimes I take all my accessories out and add back only my real, true favorites. Less is truly more-and groupings of similar colors seem to keep me less frantic when I’m rearranging. 😂
I would love a video on how you incorporate family photo’s into your decor.
Your living room is gorgeous even when you say it's a mess.
Thank you, that is so kind to hear.
It does happen someone of the best designers! ❤️ I'm so thankful that you are so honest about it and share this part of blogging and vlogging and decorating!
Yes it does! Thank you for the encouragement! :)
The purple or burgundy color in arrangement might look good added as a throw or some throw pillows. Maybe a little to monoc hromatic
Yes, several have suggested throw pillows and blankets. That is such a good idea! Thank you!
Oh how I love watching your videos!! So inspiring! And such great tips!!
Ohhh thank you so much!! :)
I always look forward to your videos. I started watching the video and asked "I wonder if she ever finished the bathroom?" Glad to hear that you did and excited to see the final reveal. Yes, I get stuck too or move things around. You added in the purple flowers. What about a pretty throw or pillow to add more of that color in the room? You wanted the flowers taller in the crock. What about stuffing some paper in the bottom to elevate things? You have an eye for things and I know that it'll turn out beautifully!
That is a good idea on the paper, and yes someone else suggested the throw pillow and even a blanket. Thank you!
@@PineandProspectHome -great! I didn't read the other comments.
When shopping look at displays. That helps. And there is no such thing as perfect. Have fun. It will get you where you need to go.💕
Great suggestion, thank you!
I think you need to get some plaid pillows (eggplant and Forrest green) and a new throw...the sofa pillows and throw aren’t transistion ing to fall like the rest of your beautiful home...also take down some of the wire baskets and window and put up your incredible fall art! A cozy rug and some cool lamp shade too! I love your home🌻
Ooh plaid would be pretty, a lot of other great ideas too. Thank you so much for your kind words and advice!
I think your home is just beautiful! I just love it!
Oh my goodness, thank you!
Just spent over one hour fixing my home all around... have to relax, and look around, then it will come to you... I do this EVERY DAY... how sad is that, right? Lol... love to decorate! You have to love it when you are all done... or start over...You can not put something in a room one day then something another day... you have to do the whole room all at once... just my tip!
No I definitely agree with this! Thank you for sharing this with me!
One of the things you can do is just add a little more purple by a throw or a pillow.
Very true, that is a great way to add a pop of color to a room!
You are just the most adorable person!!!!!
Love your videos and your decorating style! Could you please link the window blinds that you have in your sun room and also the rug in your living room? I would like to purchase them.. Thank you! Have a blessed day!
Thank you, and yes! www.pineandprospecthome.com/woven-roller-shades-window-covering/
I don't know how you finished the living room; I do know that when I saw the empty crocks beside the fireplace, I wanted to trade one of the crocks with the spindle-legged table to create a grouping on the hearth with pumpkins, a crock holding greens/purple stems and a candle nestled in greens on the table at the fireplace. The second crock I would put beside the chair with a blanket spilling out of it.
I know you know to balance your colors across the space: I hope you put a touch of the white and purples in your wall baskets.
Be blessed.
Sometimes it helps me to first empty the room or a space of the decor leaving just the big furniture pieces. Then decide which items to add back that I love.
Your eyes are so blue☺️ your home looks so pretty!!!!
Thank you so much, you are so kind! ❤️❤️
Great ideas
Praying works
Oh yes, very true. Thank you!
Add some different throws as yours are too summery. Group your pumpkins with moss, cones and, twigs.
That is a great idea, thank you! I never thought to try moss too! I will play around with it all and it will hopefully "click" eventually.
Thanks for the video..God Bless.
Thank you!
Ordered some of your artwork and am so pleased with it. I can't wait to frame each one for the flavor of fall.
Oh my goodness, I am so encouraged by this! I hope you love it!
Maybe the coffee table is enough. Simple and elegant. It's always tempting to over decorate. Music always helps every thing. Bring in a couple plants
Andrea love the fire place. So next on the right hand is a box how about put the lamp in it than you can swap the little tables as you said. I will add more to this comment as I go on your video. Also please please turn up the volume on you recording. My device on full sound and hardly can hear your soft voice. I agree to take photoes I do watch the lifestyle channel and always taking pictures on the TV if I like someting even if I turf it out later because I changed my mind.
Thank you very much, I will try to work on the volume as well!
Add the color in more paintings, or pillow, or a "knick knack".....when I'm having a problem with a look or a room....I take a picture from different angles and most of the time....the "problem" sticks out. YOU'LL figure it out! Your house looks great
I love this idea, thank you! You are right, it will eventually "click" I just need to be patient. Thank you for your encouraging words.
Perhaps you could find tea lights and candles in that purple color.
You could also move the square table by the sofa over by the chair by the window. It looks big enough.
Yes, possibly. I am sure it will be moved several times before it feels just right. I love moving things around!
For height in front of the fireplace - could you forage for some pompus grass? (Hair spray it so it doesn't fall apart as it dries). Looks great. Now, I'm gonna go turn the music on... thanks
Thank you, I could try this yes. Enjoy the music!!
So Sweet Awesome Vlog
Thank you so so much!
Would add some pillows in purple color and a throw also. Spread the color around. You a a great home to change with those items god base
1. Listen to music.
2. Look at your home decor books.
3. Go outside, to get ideas.
4. Take the risk. Do not afraid to do big things.
5. Shop your home. Go window shopping. 🌟
Thank you for inspiration!!! And happy October 🍁
Same to you Anna! :)
I love the natural rocking horse on your shelf and the size of it. Where did you find it?
I found it at an antique store a few years ago, but I have heard they have them at Marshalls and TJ Maxx. I hope you find one!
Did you consider using doilies, especially on the table where it is too much brown? I think doilies add softness and a cottage and vintage feel!
I have not considered that, maybe I will give it a try! Thank you!
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Thank you!
Your home is lovely key word home. Very inviting. As well as you paint could you do a water color of beautiful flowers to go over chair by window. I enjoy your channel very much and you are doing great job. Marian
Oh my goodness, thank you so so much!
Such good tips thank you. Where do you get your living room rugs from?
Love your coffee table, may I ask how to arrange those in the bucket, what I mean what is holding the stems in the bucket? You will figure this out...you are brilliant!, love your info!
Kathleen Maxcy Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here 😊 She seems to have picked up a stem or 2 while she was talking, so I think the stems are long enough & full enough that they’re just sitting in there supported by each other - but, if you need to, you can always hot glue foam inside - sometimes, too, when I have stems that aren’t long enough, I use floral tape and add a wooden skewer or part of one to make the stem longer - cheap & easy !
@@Melody-285 Yes this is correct, thank you! I hope this helped you Kathleen!
Enjoyed your video. . X
Thank you!
Would the little cabinet (I think it's green) at the end of your kitchen counter fit beside the white chair in the living room where the brown lamp is? No idea if that would work but it came to mind. Your videos are so pretty and helpful! 😊
Definitely something I could try, thank you! Also thank you for your kind words!
Hi Andrea, I love your blog, youtube channel and instagram. This was a great video. Do you have advice for someone who has tried and tried and tried to blog and just can't get the knack and feels like they are falling short? I love decorating and was doing DIY before, well...lets just say a long time. But, I have tried blogging for years and I always feel silly and that my stuff is not quite right. You and your posts are always so polished, any videos and advice on this would be amazing and very much appreciated.
Oh my goodness, I think we all feel this way about our own work. We are our own worst critics! I did write a post on blogging, did you happen to see that? If not, just head. to www.pineandprospecthome.com/blogger-q-a-your-questions-my-answers/ maybe that might help? Anyways, I will be praying for you and hope you are able too try again at it!❤️
Just so reminded me of me, I also live in another world LOL.
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I'm never happy with my decor. I move things around all the time. I sell things a Lot too. It's always a work in progress.
As long as you are enjoying the process it's worth it. Sure, sometimes it's frustrating but over all I love to move things around.