FAIL = First Attempt in Learning. You demonstrate how to play with decor. I remember when you found that antique lamp and was delighted to see how you chose to use it. Of course, Cannelle is adorable as usual.
This is great! I have a problem forgiving myself for mistakes. I've made a note of this on my white board and handed this on to others with the same problem! Thank you!
@@melinda-elisatatar4253 Pail = plentiful attempts in learning Mail = many attempts in learning Rail = rollicking abandon in learning And the ever important Wail = Why are interiors lackluster!?!??! 😁😂
That book "What a woman of 45 ought to know" piqued my interest so I researched and it's actually a rare and early discussion about menopause by a suffragist and doctor, written in 1902! As someone going through perimenopause I really want to see how women from this time viewed it. The book has been digitalised by Harvard Library ;)
Love the end result - plus the “think out loud” process working through it! My dog spotted Canelle ( I would have sworn he was asleep, but he has a sixth sense for knowing when a dog or other animal appears on screen!🤣) & then kept watching until she appeared again!
I'm old and have a LOT of 'knickknacks" as we used to call them, so I change them out fairly often. It's fun to match that orange vase with the orangish candle and put it in front of the wall hanging it matches, or to make a display of the frogs my granddaughter sewed out of felt with a rock she gave us. So yeah, those things are NEVER permanent, every time I dust, something will change. Your room now looks as though it's evolved over time - not like you're trying to sell cheap furniture. What I mean is that it looks real - as though you have lived in the house that maybe was a family home and those could be Grandpa's books or his mother's vases. It's fun to mix things that weren't made in a factory in this century.
The fussing about with bits and bobs is the best bit and you can spin it out forever! Also, handily, if your chair gets uncomfortable, you can raid your 'cosy moment' to soothe your aching posterior!🤣
I could see a gorgeous winter skirt or coat with that fabric or heck, a cloak or caplet or maybe a matching caplet and skirt or pants maybe a pair of secret pants.
The plain glass is a vase for growing a hyacinth! Half fill the vase with water and place the bulb on top, ensuring water doesn't touch the bulb. Place in a dark place, maintaining water levels, until roots and and shoot appear. Take into the light - not bright sunlight - and enjoy watching the flower bloom and the scent that will fill your room!. Google for more explicit instructions,
I love that flowered cushion. It’s a lovely pop of colours. You don’t have to have things that match. Often an eclectic look adds more interest. I like the idea you have for the top. Adding that lovely pop of colour. I love your ideas. Xx
Love the room! Great job. Just wanted to tell you the ‘hat’ actually sits flat side down and holds toothpicks. Even though it’s a toothpick holder, you can use it however you want though!
Yea, that's what a few people have said... so now I wanna know: who made that rule? I'm genuinely curious how we know that. Was it sold and advertised like that? I'm just intrigued!
@@shannonmakessomethingelse Mine is by Fenton. Milk glass top fading into clear bottom. I do believe they were made for toothpicks from the start. That’s all I have ever used mine for but you have me thinking a succulent would be cute in it, even if the top hat is upside down.
Cannelle is always too cute for words. I have determined that I have absolutely no decorating acumen whatsoever. 😂 When I look at a blank shelf, the first thing that comes to mind is "if I put anything on this shelf, I'll just have to dust it."
I so agree with you about not needing any ones advice about decorating. We are all very different and have unique styles and budgets. Thanks for keeping real❤️. Love how your room turned out. I do the same as you. Try different arrangements. I redecorate the same room a lot. It is relaxing to me.
You can clean rugs at the car wash after done take a wide wood board as you roll up use it every few rolls to stand on and squish out the water…leave outside to dry for a couple days
You know, Shannon, overall I think it's really helpful to see you work through design issues and different choices. It's something we all work through in our minds, but hearing you voice this aloud was pretty cool. xo
Thanks for showing behind the scenes. It was such fun to watch you do the same thing I do while decorating and just put things together and try different combinations till you find what you prefer, in that moment... how can that be failing??? Crazy!
I certainly don't think it is, but some people will absolutely see that and think "She didn't find the perfect solution immediately. She's taking the entire video to make up her mind. She failed/She needs advice" ...they are, I suspect, people who have never created, made things with their hands, or tried similar endeavours.
A few years ago I got an antique(?) rug for my sewing room and maybe 6 months after while at the thrift store I kept coming back to a small wall cabinet with a chicken feed bag front and painted wood. I didn’t know why I kept going and looking at it but just trusted my instincts and brought it home… it’s the exact color pallet of the rug with very desaturated red/pink blue and beige. Still need to make room on the wall for it but it’s just chilling on the floor for now. Eventually going to repaint the walls to just embrace the colors of the rugs/cabinet even though I’m not a fan of pink (as I look at the antique pink couch also in that room that I got from the thrift stores dumpster for free).
Such good advice on trying things and not matching. Some design "rules" just mean you have to buy all beige decor. 😅 Edit: I recently watched Hazriel make her office VERY pink. It was definitely not what I would want but it clearly made her happy. I hope as you continue to decorate your home you lean into the aesthetic that makes you happy.
I think the plying around with different arrangements is a large part of the fun. Then changing things around every so often to keep thing from being boring.
Adorable result! I too have to decorate with old stuff I’ve inherited from relatives after they passed. I called my old living room “the room of the dead” since it was filled with furniture, photos, and dead relatives’ knick knacks. I love the old stuff that reminds me of them!
The slightly green glass you found in your attic might be uranium glass. It glows bright green under a black light. The pieces can be valuable so if you don't care for it much yourselves you could sell it to take the funds for your house.
You're so right about remembering that things can be rearranged anytime, I forget that sometimes and get hung up on getting things right first go, when really it's better if I try arrangements out and see what they are like to live and interact with. Also you've just reminded me that I have bulb vases collecting dust, I'm going to see if I can get the prepped bulbs this weekend so I can have flowers in January I think I've probably missed Christmas flowering -nevermind flowers is flowers. Thank you for showing what making decor decisions is really like, it's handy to be reminded sometimes.
It really looks good. I’m not good at any of this. I tend to just keep adding things I like until most would just call it a cluttered mess. There’s no thought of colour just things. But I do appreciate the look you have achieved
@@shannonmakessomethingelse I need to write this on my forehead! Yes I’m old and a grandma in my own right but my mother still says things that live rent free in my brain! It’s killing her that I have 3 different cutlery sets! Not too mention the colour patterns and my sometimes dead furniture that still sorta works! Oh and the collections! I should work on kicking that stuff out of my brain!
It is the same here. Most decorative pieces we have are just not being chosen because they fit, they are presents from dear friends or even long dead relatives. Or pieces from my or my husband's childhood, things we love even if they don't fit together. From time to time we try (at least my spaceships have a place together, and my skeleton works great with his grateful dead artwork) but just because we happen to have a red couch I don't want to have everything in reds. I love color schemes in other people's places but it doesn't work for me.
I understand completely everything you said about the compulsion to give advice, because I'm feeling it right now! But I won't. It's really hard though. Also I do love what you came up with. Love this kind of video, too. The process is fascinating.
I definitely appreciate it, since it'd have been a waste of both our times! Its a natural human impulse but one that is --in this case-- neither desired nor useful
Love love the Lamp !! And You did amazing job with everything !! Like you said,,, you can always add or take away pieces, which I am sure you will when you find more stuff in the attic or other rooms !! Nice room
This was great fun; coming along with you as you pondered 🙂 Yes, you are not alone on the whole fiddling with it until it feels right thing. I rearranged my living room 3 times. The cable guy was laughing but now it works.
rearranging my craft room has become my hobby more than actually crafting. This is because I cannot stop hoarding craft materials and continually need to increase my storage.
I love your home decor process. I decorate the same way. I moved around, add and take away, walk away, and take pieces from other rooms. I also love that you upcycle. I do the same. I love looking at what I decide.
Hi Shannon, I'm 85 with a broken leg. I love watching you . I'm learning to knit. I think the two pillows look great in the room. How about taking them apart and making a bed for that darling little Corgi.
Thanks for sharing your process. I figured this was how it went but it’s nice seeing both sides. I am really enjoying this new channel of yours ❤. I remember taking a rug to the tip (what we call a household recycling centre in the U.K.) and we all know the stuff the staff want is put at the end of the gangway and as soon as I pulled out the rug a helpful staff member offered to carry that in for me, which I let him so I could grab other stuff and when I seen him putting it in the gangway I informed him my cat had had horrific diarrhea all over the rug and we couldn’t get it clean. His poor face, I could tell he was sad he had offered his services for nothing but to be fair they are there to help everyone, not just the people with cool stuff they want to stash for themselves 😂
The flower pillow case and the green fabric are nice together. But also I love the combination of the pillow case with the ocre like yellow on your shirt
Hi Shannon, I' m 85 with a broken leg, I love watching you. I'm learning to knit. I think the two pillows look great in the room. How about taking them apart and making a dog bed for that darling little Corgi.
The fabric over the record cabinet looks great. Personally I loathe fixing water damage like that (more time consuming than French polishing in my experience) so covering it up is great especially with such a good colour match I love watching you arranging and rearranging the decor. My husband doesn't understand this AT ALL. The number of times he's considerately unwrapped an ornament and stowed it somewhere random! He thinks he's being helpful and efficient but it's not because I then have to FIND my treasures and contemplate them before finding the right place for at least awhile
constantly evolving spaces are life! ❤loving this seasonal decor update! I struggle with wanting to cover every square inch with artwork, decorative plates, and images… but maxamalist chaos is how I roll! and you are so right that it’s super personal the choices that we each make! I so treasure my freedom and appreciate you sharing your process. Shopping your own home is an underutilized tip that goes to the theme of using what you have, and not wasting all those free street finds, and thrift store scores!!!
Thank you for this post. When she showed that my immediate thought was “I didn’t know that was Lautrec. I thought it was by Renoir.” (There might have been some other judgy mental thoughts comparing the artists that I won’t mention. lol) Good to know my memory isn’t failing me.
What a beautiful start of a book collection! I think that you should stick some of the things that you don't care for at this time away until you know more of the backstory of your home. As you grow more in love with its history, those pieces might become more interesting to you😊!❤ Pat yourself on the back, you're doing a great job!
Hope you find a filing cabinet in the house or thrift store. There are so handy..paperwork ,of course but also craft patterns,etc. Great place to store and protect things until you can frame them.
Oh! Wax candles that are battery operated! So cool. I’ve learned over the years that candles aren’t safe in an old wooden Victorian apt. 😢 I have a huge heart shaped one I put on my toilet when I’m having a spa day bath…. So it gets lit made 2-3 times a year cause I forget….
Thank you for showing how you decide to display things. I struggle with it a lot and most people are like "Ta Da" done in 5 seconds.... I'm like "How did they decide to do that?"
Do you know what was so wonderful about this video for me? As someone who wants to create her own esthetic spaces in my 1st house, I have struggled with the feeling that "some people are just really talented decorators" and they can instantly create beautiful spaces. Seeing you do what I need to do: fuss with everything and move it all a bunch of times to find the right "feel" made me feel so relieved with what I saw as my struggles to decorate well. This was so uplifting! ❤
omg, most excellent, that was EXACTLY the phenomenon I wanted to tackle/combat/break down in this video! I have PLENTY of examples of things I've tried that I ultimately didn't love, but they were fun to try, and I learned from it - both in terms of talent/what things generally look good together, but also what I PERSONALLY tend to prefer in terms of asesthetics. It is NEVER a one-and-done thing, it's always a process, but that entire process virtually never makes it onto social media for a whole host of reasons.... SO GO FORTH AND DECORATE! Don't be afraid to make mistakes - you will learn from them, and as long as you haven't dropped a ton of money on it, you can always tweak, learn, improve, discover your own aesthetic... it's just a process, and one that should hopefully be fun and ongoing!
Took 3 attempts to watch this as dite the kitten has learned how to play with my tablet and swipes the screen the second i try to watch anything 😂. Styling is so personal and what some think are restrictions are what gives you a challenge,. Oh no she's back! Thanks for another interesting video, stay safe.❤
I am a little jealous of your ability to shop the antique store that you have in your house! Lol of course I'm not jealous of the work involved with everything you're doing but that one piece is really cool!
To hide the grommets on the curtain use a flower or greenery swag from one side to the other. You can even use a brass curtain rod end and put it on standing out from the grommet openings and then put the swag. Love that room for an office. Also love this adventure!
Absolutely agree on those fir candles! I have so many, I love them so much! (They sell candle refills for the little votives and a room oil diffuser option) 💜
Shannon! I love, love, love!!!! the finished room! Thank you so much for sharing your creative process with us. I'm sure there's someone trained in home design that could tell us WHY everything you chose works, but honestly, I don't care. Maybe I love this so much because this is the way I go about "dressing" a room as well: assembling what I already have and thrifting what I need. You could call it more of an intuitive decorating process. Using various wood tones implies a collection made over time, which is perfect for a century old home and blending old and newer pieces is emotionally grounding to me. When you laid down the carpet in that room and added the record cabinet, I actually FELT the room come into focus! Thank you for sharing your quandaries and final decisions. I know folks will be encouraged to try new things with your videos. Keep up the great work!
This was so motivating for me. I tend to think and think and think. I need to just futz and fiddle. Maybe then I’ll have a decorated house after two years.
Just remember that two years from now, you'll be two years older, and (we're going to assume) you'll still have a roof over your head and a place to call 'home' ...the question is just whether you'll have some decorating futzing experience under your belt or not. Or if that does do it for you, ask: what are the consequences of not immediately succeeding? Room decorating feels like a pretty low stakes situation (or at least you can make it low stakes by starting small and not investing tons of $$ into the furnishings), so all that happens is that you'll learn what you like and prefer, and probably also some things that you don't love. You'll have 'wasted' some time, sure, but if you enjoyed the process and learned some things along the way, was it really wasted?
Fraiser Fir by Thyme?!! Gorgeous scent. My ultimate favorite is eucalyptus by Thyme. The eucalyptus body products by Thyme,… make my soul happy. Worth every cent, so that was an awesome find. 👏
It's very interesting to follow your thought process. This is how I've decorated my home since early childhood. Trial and errors and moving around things. My esthetic is eclectic with dark academia and the secret lair of a mad scientist. My childhood fascination with old laboratory equipment is still going strong.
No advice is given here. It was very interesting to look at the suggestions you made to find the decor you wish and fell good in. I do exactly the same, a decor must be thought out, so well done ! Kisses to Cannelle !
I enjoyed to watch your process and how you went around your house to find the right thing to place there. These are not the most functional things in this room. But they amde your own. And I really, really love the colour choices you've made. I could move into that room any time. 😊
Maybe not the most functional on the record cabinet, for sure, but since I mainly need it to edit, and I have that killer desk set-up which works really well, so all-in-all, it is very functional for what I need it to do 🥰 (and for Cannelle, lol )
I really appreciate that you share all of your renovation and decorating processes. It's interesting because you keep providing opportunities for viewers to stand alongside while you are assessing, weighing alternatives, explaining the logic you use to deal with budgetary or engineering constraints. Thanks.
Looks good sweetie!! You have a good eye for design! Take care and stay warm. Hope you get your new car soon!! Love your positive outlook on things that happen!! Give the pup a pat from me!!!❤🎉😊
I think you’re absolutely right about all these color choices. And you’re right about that little piece of pillow pulling out the colors of the rug. I am certainly a fan of placing a nice piece of cloth over a piece of wood that doesn’t look very good. It’s not the perfect fix, because that would involve redoing the furniture, but until then it will work great. I was just talking to my husband yesterday about the fact that you’re doing all of these semi-temporary rooms just so you can have some more decent to live until you can actually do them. I bet I would just leave it all the way it is until I got done, but if you don’t like living in that situation, I understand.
thank you for sharing this; it was very inspiring! i’m working on my perfectionism, and my frustrating tendency to freeze up when I don’t have a fully-formed plan. seeing you play with options using your thrifted finds is freeing!
You can freeze in the search for perfection, but in the same amount of time you're frozen in contemplation, you could have tried 15 different arrangements! (not meaning to target YOU you, but the more general "you" as in, anyone struggling with perfection). YOU got this!
Love your vids, and decorating with what you find and on a budget. You could flatten the tapestry pillowcase and use it in a frame as wall art. Also maybe take some cream cleanser or a magic eraser to the paint on the door. I’m noticing some dirty areas on it & I think brightening it up real quick would make a difference. You are doing a wonderful job! And yes I also love the artsy doggy mirror shots ❤
This is such a beautiful and cozy room! I would like to sit an this desk and do my work or just staring out of these beautiful windows... 🤩 And thanks for explaining the struggles of decorating and making decisions. I have some ideas in my mind for my flat but I'm not able to start because of a lot "What if...?" And yes, a lot of "In these make over videos it always looks so easy and perfect and I have no clue. So it's better to leave this idea because I am too afraid that it will turn out ugly...". Thanks for this support! ❤
Thank you for keeping me company as I sew my Halloween costume. And while I love the final effect of an aesthetically arranged display, I am terrible about having anything on flat surfaces that isn't storage or immediate use. It's fun to watch someone else do the process instead!
Is there nice molding at the ceiling for hanging art with a bit of wire hanging down from the molding? That’s how they hung Art in really old houses. Loved watching your thought processes and your bloopers with Canelle!
I really love how your cabinet turned out, that lamp is so cool, and I really like that boot. How fun! I am always wanting to change things around in my spare bedrooms trying to make them just right but thinking I will never get there. Tend to always end up using pictures of my kids/grandkids because they make me happy. Love that bright pillow, so pretty and I like them on the floor, that was a great decorating idea along with the mirror. Love the carpet you ended up using and I do believe Channelle really likes it too. Thanks for sharing your process, always enjoy watching your videos. Have a good one!
These people that you’re talking about who don’t know how the process of decorating a room actually goes have never decorated a room. This is exactly the process I go through, and I am with you in believing that all of those ready-made rooms that we see all the time went through the same process.
Yes, I fully agree. I suspect they might not be Makers either, or have other areas of their life where trial-and-error and multiple attempts before success are considered the norm. People seem inordinately afraid of failure these days, to the point that they won't even attempt anything.
I agree that decorating is something that changes from person to person as well as time of the year. Granted I get to lazy to change my decor to fit the season myself except for Christmas but I do enjoy seeing what other people come up with. I think that you have done a good job. And I would love to find the same fabric that you found to make an 1890s day dress.
What a lovely overview of DIY decor. What a delightfully cheerful compilation to help inspire me as I power through the last tedious bits of sewing seasonal clothes. Thanks again for the second channel content🧡🎃👍🌟
When I saw the short cut glass jar, I instantly pictured it as a pincushion! With different kinds of glass head pins or hat pins. I can’t do the kind of fiddly decoration you were working on. I sure wish I could. I’m great with wall color, wallpaper, rugs, drapes and furniture. Big picture stuff. It’s the details that baffle me. I so admire people that can do it. You’re right. Decorating your home is totally personal and someone telling you it’s wrong…is way out of line! Loved the video! As Usual!
Thanks for sharing the process. Interesting to see how you came to the choices you made and the experimental ideas. FYI - LOVE the way the green material looks with the wood!
@@eonarts I think I actually spoke wrong... I think the drape would be OK, but it's a heavy fabric with some stretch, so I think that hanging it permanently on a curtain rod would just cause it to stretch out immensely and not in a good way. It gives me Queen's Gambit pinafore vibes
Lots of inspiration to take from. I too have lots of "knicknacks" inherited from family and thrift store browsing is a favorite pass time. Nothing in decor corners stay the same, so it's fun to see how someone else does it.
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FAIL = First Attempt in Learning. You demonstrate how to play with decor. I remember when you found that antique lamp and was delighted to see how you chose to use it. Of course, Cannelle is adorable as usual.
So true! 🥰🥰🥰
Sail= second attempt in learning
Tail= third attempt in learning 😂
This is great! I have a problem forgiving myself for mistakes. I've made a note of this on my white board and handed this on to others with the same problem! Thank you!
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Pail = plentiful attempts in learning
Mail = many attempts in learning
Rail = rollicking abandon in learning
And the ever important
Wail = Why are interiors lackluster!?!??! 😁😂
Oh I love that!
That book "What a woman of 45 ought to know" piqued my interest so I researched and it's actually a rare and early discussion about menopause by a suffragist and doctor, written in 1902! As someone going through perimenopause I really want to see how women from this time viewed it. The book has been digitalised by Harvard Library ;)
Oh thank you. I thought I would look it up. Thanks for doing all the work.
Cool. Im going to read that now too!
Love the end result - plus the “think out loud” process working through it! My dog spotted Canelle ( I would have sworn he was asleep, but he has a sixth sense for knowing when a dog or other animal appears on screen!🤣) & then kept watching until she appeared again!
omg, that is adorable! Give him a good pet for me!
I'm old and have a LOT of 'knickknacks" as we used to call them, so I change them out fairly often. It's fun to match that orange vase with the orangish candle and put it in front of the wall hanging it matches, or to make a display of the frogs my granddaughter sewed out of felt with a rock she gave us. So yeah, those things are NEVER permanent, every time I dust, something will change. Your room now looks as though it's evolved over time - not like you're trying to sell cheap furniture. What I mean is that it looks real - as though you have lived in the house that maybe was a family home and those could be Grandpa's books or his mother's vases. It's fun to mix things that weren't made in a factory in this century.
Totally agree that it gives it a real, lived in look, not a showroom type effect!
I couldn't agree more! I really don't like mass produced items, generally speaking. They feel cold.
The fussing about with bits and bobs is the best bit and you can spin it out forever! Also, handily, if your chair gets uncomfortable, you can raid your 'cosy moment' to soothe your aching posterior!🤣
I could see a gorgeous winter skirt or coat with that fabric or heck, a cloak or caplet or maybe a matching caplet and skirt or pants maybe a pair of secret pants.
The plain glass is a vase for growing a hyacinth! Half fill the vase with water and place the bulb on top, ensuring water doesn't touch the bulb. Place in a dark place, maintaining water levels, until roots and and shoot appear. Take into the light - not bright sunlight - and enjoy watching the flower bloom and the scent that will fill your room!. Google for more explicit instructions,
Interesting, someone else mentioned that, and now I know! Fun!
@@shannonmakessomethingelse they also work for avocado seeds; change the water every few days and keep in a sunny spot.
I love that flowered cushion. It’s a lovely pop of colours. You don’t have to have things that match. Often an eclectic look adds more interest. I like the idea you have for the top. Adding that lovely pop of colour. I love your ideas. Xx
Thank you!
Agreed.
Yes, agreed. I think it's a lovely autumnal mix.
Love the room! Great job. Just wanted to tell you the ‘hat’ actually sits flat side down and holds toothpicks. Even though it’s a toothpick holder, you can use it however you want though!
I had wondered about that
Yea, that's what a few people have said... so now I wanna know: who made that rule? I'm genuinely curious how we know that. Was it sold and advertised like that? I'm just intrigued!
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Mine is by Fenton. Milk glass top fading into clear bottom. I do believe they were made for toothpicks from the start. That’s all I have ever used mine for but you have me thinking a succulent would be cute in it, even if the top hat is upside down.
My Aunt had a red one that she sat flat holding toothpicks. Circa mid 60's. I like your originality.
That fabric was a good buy. You couldn’t get even a yard for that price. Nice!
Love the corgi content. I think Canelle might like the pillow.
Cannelle loves the pillow!!!
Cannelle is always too cute for words. I have determined that I have absolutely no decorating acumen whatsoever. 😂 When I look at a blank shelf, the first thing that comes to mind is "if I put anything on this shelf, I'll just have to dust it."
HAHAHA...yup.
My question is "how many books can I squeeze on?" Having cats, my pretties go into glass cabinets for safety and less dusting
Lol I just don’t worry about dusting 😂😂😂
Living with two large shed-tastic dogs (and no mud room) make me feel this so very hard!
I so agree with you about not needing any ones advice about decorating. We are all very different and have unique styles and budgets. Thanks for keeping real❤️. Love how your room turned out. I do the same as you. Try different arrangements. I redecorate the same room a lot. It is relaxing to me.
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You have a doggo, of course you need pillows.
So true!!
You can clean rugs at the car wash after done take a wide wood board as you roll up use it every few rolls to stand on and squish out the water…leave outside to dry for a couple days
You know, Shannon, overall I think it's really helpful to see you work through design issues and different choices. It's something we all work through in our minds, but hearing you voice this aloud was pretty cool. xo
Thanks for showing behind the scenes. It was such fun to watch you do the same thing I do while decorating and just put things together and try different combinations till you find what you prefer, in that moment... how can that be failing??? Crazy!
I certainly don't think it is, but some people will absolutely see that and think "She didn't find the perfect solution immediately. She's taking the entire video to make up her mind. She failed/She needs advice" ...they are, I suspect, people who have never created, made things with their hands, or tried similar endeavours.
A few years ago I got an antique(?) rug for my sewing room and maybe 6 months after while at the thrift store I kept coming back to a small wall cabinet with a chicken feed bag front and painted wood. I didn’t know why I kept going and looking at it but just trusted my instincts and brought it home… it’s the exact color pallet of the rug with very desaturated red/pink blue and beige. Still need to make room on the wall for it but it’s just chilling on the floor for now. Eventually going to repaint the walls to just embrace the colors of the rugs/cabinet even though I’m not a fan of pink (as I look at the antique pink couch also in that room that I got from the thrift stores dumpster for free).
That's very cool! Good eye!
Such good advice on trying things and not matching. Some design "rules" just mean you have to buy all beige decor. 😅
Edit: I recently watched Hazriel make her office VERY pink. It was definitely not what I would want but it clearly made her happy. I hope as you continue to decorate your home you lean into the aesthetic that makes you happy.
I think the plying around with different arrangements is a large part of the fun. Then changing things around every so often to keep thing from being boring.
Adorable result! I too have to decorate with old stuff I’ve inherited from relatives after they passed. I called my old living room “the room of the dead” since it was filled with furniture, photos, and dead relatives’ knick knacks. I love the old stuff that reminds me of them!
I love that title!
Shannon, I watched the main channel video first… I love both of them! I particularly liked your deliberation of where to put the finishing touches.
Yay! Thank you!
Moving stuff around is the fun of it.
I love how the setting with the antique books turned out
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I absolutely love the dark green fabric. A floodgate of ideas are flowing. My DIY folder is getting thick.
most excellent!
The slightly green glass you found in your attic might be uranium glass. It glows bright green under a black light. The pieces can be valuable so if you don't care for it much yourselves you could sell it to take the funds for your house.
The floral pillow is lovely!
Oooh! Ahhh!
Lots of hard work and brow wrinkling with lovely results, Shannon.👍🙌💪🤩
And sweet little Cannelle looks marvelous in "her" mirror!❤
Oh thank you!
I have officially had a craft room for 3 years now. I am still moving things around to find the "best" place for them. The struggle IS REAL!
hehehe yes!
You're so right about remembering that things can be rearranged anytime, I forget that sometimes and get hung up on getting things right first go, when really it's better if I try arrangements out and see what they are like to live and interact with. Also you've just reminded me that I have bulb vases collecting dust, I'm going to see if I can get the prepped bulbs this weekend so I can have flowers in January I think I've probably missed Christmas flowering -nevermind flowers is flowers. Thank you for showing what making decor decisions is really like, it's handy to be reminded sometimes.
You're very welcome 🥰🌸
My talking to myself when decorating... It's not written in stone. I really like the colors that you have used.
Thank you!
It really looks good. I’m not good at any of this. I tend to just keep adding things I like until most would just call it a cluttered mess. There’s no thought of colour just things. But I do appreciate the look you have achieved
Hey, to each their own! Just cuz this look/method works for me, doesn't mean it'll work for anyone else, right!?
@@shannonmakessomethingelse I need to write this on my forehead! Yes I’m old and a grandma in my own right but my mother still says things that live rent free in my brain! It’s killing her that I have 3 different cutlery sets! Not too mention the colour patterns and my sometimes dead furniture that still sorta works! Oh and the collections! I should work on kicking that stuff out of my brain!
It is the same here. Most decorative pieces we have are just not being chosen because they fit, they are presents from dear friends or even long dead relatives. Or pieces from my or my husband's childhood, things we love even if they don't fit together. From time to time we try (at least my spaceships have a place together, and my skeleton works great with his grateful dead artwork) but just because we happen to have a red couch I don't want to have everything in reds. I love color schemes in other people's places but it doesn't work for me.
I understand completely everything you said about the compulsion to give advice, because I'm feeling it right now! But I won't. It's really hard though. Also I do love what you came up with. Love this kind of video, too. The process is fascinating.
I definitely appreciate it, since it'd have been a waste of both our times! Its a natural human impulse but one that is --in this case-- neither desired nor useful
Love love the Lamp !! And You did amazing job with everything !! Like you said,,, you can always add or take away pieces, which I am sure you will when you find more stuff in the attic or other rooms !! Nice room
Thank you! 🤗
This was great fun; coming along with you as you pondered 🙂 Yes, you are not alone on the whole fiddling with it until it feels right thing. I rearranged my living room 3 times. The cable guy was laughing but now it works.
LOL nice! Well done!
That's why I love streaming TV so much--I can now put the TV anywhere! Ha! Even more rearranging possibilities!
I am inslined to sugesi that the small hat shoe and bowi may glow under a black light.
vaseline glass.
I feel like you were filming me when decorating. It is a matter of what feels right. The room looks so nice. Enjoy!
Yes! Thank you!
rearranging my craft room has become my hobby more than actually crafting. This is because I cannot stop hoarding craft materials and continually need to increase my storage.
We may be cousins. I have a ridiculous amount of fabric...
I love your home decor process. I decorate the same way. I moved around, add and take away, walk away, and take pieces from other rooms. I also love that you upcycle. I do the same. I love looking at what I decide.
So true! I can stare at this all day!
Hi Shannon, I'm 85 with a broken leg. I love watching you . I'm learning to knit. I think the two pillows look great in the room. How about taking them apart and making a bed for that darling little Corgi.
Thanks for sharing your process. I figured this was how it went but it’s nice seeing both sides. I am really enjoying this new channel of yours ❤.
I remember taking a rug to the tip (what we call a household recycling centre in the U.K.) and we all know the stuff the staff want is put at the end of the gangway and as soon as I pulled out the rug a helpful staff member offered to carry that in for me, which I let him so I could grab other stuff and when I seen him putting it in the gangway I informed him my cat had had horrific diarrhea all over the rug and we couldn’t get it clean. His poor face, I could tell he was sad he had offered his services for nothing but to be fair they are there to help everyone, not just the people with cool stuff they want to stash for themselves 😂
hahahah omg, that's pretty hilarious!
The flower pillow case and the green fabric are nice together. But also I love the combination of the pillow case with the ocre like yellow on your shirt
Oooh, the fabric is amazing. Id make a tunic from it. Looks like it has a nice drape.
IT does!
I recognized myself here putting a room together from random bits & pieces I've found along the way. So much fun!
We had a milk glass version of the top hat. It held matches on our fireplace mantle. Neat to see yours. 🏡✨
Ours held toothpicks, lol.
Hi Shannon, I' m 85 with a broken leg, I love watching you. I'm learning to knit. I think the two pillows look great in the room. How about taking them apart and making a dog bed for that darling little Corgi.
The fabric over the record cabinet looks great. Personally I loathe fixing water damage like that (more time consuming than French polishing in my experience) so covering it up is great especially with such a good colour match
I love watching you arranging and rearranging the decor. My husband doesn't understand this AT ALL. The number of times he's considerately unwrapped an ornament and stowed it somewhere random! He thinks he's being helpful and efficient but it's not because I then have to FIND my treasures and contemplate them before finding the right place for at least awhile
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I get that!
constantly evolving spaces are life! ❤loving this seasonal decor update! I struggle with wanting to cover every square inch with artwork, decorative plates, and images… but maxamalist chaos is how I roll! and you are so right that it’s super personal the choices that we each make! I so treasure my freedom and appreciate you sharing your process. Shopping your own home is an underutilized tip that goes to the theme of using what you have, and not wasting all those free street finds, and thrift store scores!!!
"The famous one" isn't by Lautrec, must come from another book as it's The Boating Party by Renoir. What a great find of a book.
Also love seeing the process!
Oh interesting, I wonder how it snuck in there!
Thank you for this post. When she showed that my immediate thought was “I didn’t know that was Lautrec. I thought it was by Renoir.” (There might have been some other judgy mental thoughts comparing the artists that I won’t mention. lol) Good to know my memory isn’t failing me.
I am so glad you put the mirror back in the room. Your fur baby seems so happy laying in front of it.
Yes, she loves it!
What a beautiful start of a book collection! I think that you should stick some of the things that you don't care for at this time away until you know more of the backstory of your home. As you grow more in love with its history, those pieces might become more interesting to you😊!❤ Pat yourself on the back, you're doing a great job!
Hope you find a filing cabinet in the house or thrift store. There are so handy..paperwork ,of course but also craft patterns,etc. Great place to store and protect things until you can frame them.
True!
Oh! Wax candles that are battery operated! So cool. I’ve learned over the years that candles aren’t safe in an old wooden Victorian apt. 😢 I have a huge heart shaped one I put on my toilet when I’m having a spa day bath…. So it gets lit made 2-3 times a year cause I forget….
I'll use them, but only under direct supervision!!
Great to watch and listen through your process. Thanks for including us 🥰
My pleasure 😊
Thank you for showing how you decide to display things. I struggle with it a lot and most people are like "Ta Da" done in 5 seconds.... I'm like "How did they decide to do that?"
Yes, exactly!! That's precisely why I wanted to make this video!
My mom moves things around in her house all the time all of my life and every time its interessting and lovely. Do your thing. 🎉🎉🎉
Love that!
Do you know what was so wonderful about this video for me? As someone who wants to create her own esthetic spaces in my 1st house, I have struggled with the feeling that "some people are just really talented decorators" and they can instantly create beautiful spaces. Seeing you do what I need to do: fuss with everything and move it all a bunch of times to find the right "feel" made me feel so relieved with what I saw as my struggles to decorate well. This was so uplifting! ❤
omg, most excellent, that was EXACTLY the phenomenon I wanted to tackle/combat/break down in this video! I have PLENTY of examples of things I've tried that I ultimately didn't love, but they were fun to try, and I learned from it - both in terms of talent/what things generally look good together, but also what I PERSONALLY tend to prefer in terms of asesthetics. It is NEVER a one-and-done thing, it's always a process, but that entire process virtually never makes it onto social media for a whole host of reasons.... SO GO FORTH AND DECORATE! Don't be afraid to make mistakes - you will learn from them, and as long as you haven't dropped a ton of money on it, you can always tweak, learn, improve, discover your own aesthetic... it's just a process, and one that should hopefully be fun and ongoing!
Took 3 attempts to watch this as dite the kitten has learned how to play with my tablet and swipes the screen the second i try to watch anything 😂. Styling is so personal and what some think are restrictions are what gives you a challenge,. Oh no she's back! Thanks for another interesting video, stay safe.❤
This comment genuinely made me laugh, thank you!
with the darker greens and browns it gives dirt and grass (in a good way) with the flower wall paper. garden room
The Secret Garden was one of my favourite books as a child too!
I’m in the process of painting all the rooms in my house. That teal blue is calling to me, maybe for my bedroom. Thanks for sharing your process!
You are so welcome!
I love what you did and I love what you said about "helpful" advice.
I am a little jealous of your ability to shop the antique store that you have in your house! Lol of course I'm not jealous of the work involved with everything you're doing but that one piece is really cool!
Yeah laying down next to the dog was the best idea!
Most definitely!!
Double dose Shannon today! Woot! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
To hide the grommets on the curtain use a flower or greenery swag from one side to the other. You can even use a brass curtain rod end and put it on standing out from the grommet openings and then put the swag. Love that room for an office. Also love this adventure!
I love the Fir Thymes candle too!
Love what is happening here, the glass top hat is so cool. I think we had something in our house growing up. I think it is a vase.
A surprising number of people in the comment had a similar hat growing up, often used for toothpicks or match sticks, it seems!
I’m not surprised, the 70s ya gotta love that crazy era. Mom was an artist I seem to remember seeing dried flowers in it. Now I want to find one 😁
Absolutely agree on those fir candles! I have so many, I love them so much! (They sell candle refills for the little votives and a room oil diffuser option) 💜
Ooh, the diffuser sounds lovely!
One of my fav painting on the stereo cabinet, I love the shoe vase.
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Shannon! I love, love, love!!!! the finished room! Thank you so much for sharing your creative process with us. I'm sure there's someone trained in home design that could tell us WHY everything you chose works, but honestly, I don't care. Maybe I love this so much because this is the way I go about "dressing" a room as well: assembling what I already have and thrifting what I need. You could call it more of an intuitive decorating process.
Using various wood tones implies a collection made over time, which is perfect for a century old home and blending old and newer pieces is emotionally grounding to me.
When you laid down the carpet in that room and added the record cabinet, I actually FELT the room come into focus! Thank you for sharing your quandaries and final decisions. I know folks will be encouraged to try new things with your videos.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
This was so motivating for me. I tend to think and think and think. I need to just futz and fiddle. Maybe then I’ll have a decorated house after two years.
Just remember that two years from now, you'll be two years older, and (we're going to assume) you'll still have a roof over your head and a place to call 'home' ...the question is just whether you'll have some decorating futzing experience under your belt or not.
Or if that does do it for you, ask: what are the consequences of not immediately succeeding? Room decorating feels like a pretty low stakes situation (or at least you can make it low stakes by starting small and not investing tons of $$ into the furnishings), so all that happens is that you'll learn what you like and prefer, and probably also some things that you don't love. You'll have 'wasted' some time, sure, but if you enjoyed the process and learned some things along the way, was it really wasted?
He he he 😂 I must have skipped that book & I’m 55. Woodstock summer of 69. Funny book find though Shannon.
Fraiser Fir by Thyme?!! Gorgeous scent. My ultimate favorite is eucalyptus by Thyme. The eucalyptus body products by Thyme,… make my soul happy. Worth every cent, so that was an awesome find. 👏
Oooh, that sounds intriguing!
It's very interesting to follow your thought process. This is how I've decorated my home since early childhood. Trial and errors and moving around things. My esthetic is eclectic with dark academia and the secret lair of a mad scientist. My childhood fascination with old laboratory equipment is still going strong.
Sounds like that makes for a lovely and interesting house!
No advice is given here. It was very interesting to look at the suggestions you made to find the decor you wish and fell good in. I do exactly the same, a decor must be thought out, so well done ! Kisses to Cannelle !
Oh thank you! Kisses delivered!
I like the blue curtain. 😊🎉
I enjoyed to watch your process and how you went around your house to find the right thing to place there. These are not the most functional things in this room. But they amde your own. And I really, really love the colour choices you've made. I could move into that room any time. 😊
Maybe not the most functional on the record cabinet, for sure, but since I mainly need it to edit, and I have that killer desk set-up which works really well, so all-in-all, it is very functional for what I need it to do 🥰 (and for Cannelle, lol )
You live in your house, your decor has to be about you. If someone else likes it, that's nice, but just not important. ❤
Yes, exactly!
I really appreciate that you share all of your renovation and decorating processes. It's interesting because you keep providing opportunities for viewers to stand alongside while you are assessing, weighing alternatives, explaining the logic you use to deal with budgetary or engineering constraints. Thanks.
You are so welcome!
Looks good sweetie!! You have a good eye for design! Take care and stay warm. Hope you get your new car soon!! Love your positive outlook on things that happen!! Give the pup a pat from me!!!❤🎉😊
I think you’re absolutely right about all these color choices. And you’re right about that little piece of pillow pulling out the colors of the rug. I am certainly a fan of placing a nice piece of cloth over a piece of wood that doesn’t look very good. It’s not the perfect fix, because that would involve redoing the furniture, but until then it will work great. I was just talking to my husband yesterday about the fact that you’re doing all of these semi-temporary rooms just so you can have some more decent to live until you can actually do them. I bet I would just leave it all the way it is until I got done, but if you don’t like living in that situation, I understand.
thank you for sharing this; it was very inspiring! i’m working on my perfectionism, and my frustrating tendency to freeze up when I don’t have a fully-formed plan. seeing you play with options using your thrifted finds is freeing!
You can freeze in the search for perfection, but in the same amount of time you're frozen in contemplation, you could have tried 15 different arrangements! (not meaning to target YOU you, but the more general "you" as in, anyone struggling with perfection). YOU got this!
The Frasier fir from Thyme is my mom's favorite too, I always grab them when I see them.on sale. What a great find for a steal of a price!
Nice!!!
Love your vids, and decorating with what you find and on a budget. You could flatten the tapestry pillowcase and use it in a frame as wall art.
Also maybe take some cream cleanser or a magic eraser to the paint on the door. I’m noticing some dirty areas on it & I think brightening it up real quick would make a difference.
You are doing a wonderful job!
And yes I also love the artsy doggy mirror shots ❤
the small lamp looks like the one my grandmother had for a tv light she called it i love lamps like that
Its an antique lamp came from Germany in the 30s!
This is such a beautiful and cozy room! I would like to sit an this desk and do my work or just staring out of these beautiful windows... 🤩
And thanks for explaining the struggles of decorating and making decisions. I have some ideas in my mind for my flat but I'm not able to start because of a lot "What if...?" And yes, a lot of "In these make over videos it always looks so easy and perfect and I have no clue. So it's better to leave this idea because I am too afraid that it will turn out ugly...". Thanks for this support! ❤
You're very welcome... go forth and futz!
Love the boot vase. I think your arrangements look great!
Thank you! 😊
Victorian day dress/suit with that beautiful teal fabric!
I'd never wear it, unfortunately!
@@shannonmakessomethingelse Posted that before seeing your comment about avoiding suggestions. 😄😁😄
*whistles casually and walks away
@@WaterNai LOLOL I was more referring to the room and the decor, but I enjoyed this comment 🤣🤣
@@ShannonMakes 😅 Phew!
I love seeing all of the different iterations on your record cabinet. I have a guestroom that needs desperate styling.
Go for it, you got this!
Yes, I enjoyed watching your decisions in your decoraing.....I love your ideas....
Thanks so much! 😊
I like these playing with things video. You looked like you were having fun.
Oh yea, 100%
Thank you for keeping me company as I sew my Halloween costume. And while I love the final effect of an aesthetically arranged display, I am terrible about having anything on flat surfaces that isn't storage or immediate use. It's fun to watch someone else do the process instead!
You’re most welcome!
Is there nice molding at the ceiling for hanging art with a bit of wire hanging down from the molding? That’s how they hung Art in really old houses. Loved watching your thought processes and your bloopers with Canelle!
I really love how your cabinet turned out, that lamp is so cool, and I really like that boot. How fun! I am always wanting to change things around in my spare bedrooms trying to make them just right but thinking I will never get there. Tend to always end up using pictures of my kids/grandkids because they make me happy. Love that bright pillow, so pretty and I like them on the floor, that was a great decorating idea along with the mirror. Love the carpet you ended up using and I do believe Channelle really likes it too. Thanks for sharing your process, always enjoy watching your videos. Have a good one!
If it makes you happy, then you should absolutely use it!!
These people that you’re talking about who don’t know how the process of decorating a room actually goes have never decorated a room. This is exactly the process I go through, and I am with you in believing that all of those ready-made rooms that we see all the time went through the same process.
Yes, I fully agree. I suspect they might not be Makers either, or have other areas of their life where trial-and-error and multiple attempts before success are considered the norm. People seem inordinately afraid of failure these days, to the point that they won't even attempt anything.
I appreciate the perspective on wood colors.
You're very welcome! I don't love too matchy matchy... doesn't feel lived in!
I agree that decorating is something that changes from person to person as well as time of the year. Granted I get to lazy to change my decor to fit the season myself except for Christmas but I do enjoy seeing what other people come up with. I think that you have done a good job. And I would love to find the same fabric that you found to make an 1890s day dress.
What a lovely overview of DIY decor.
What a delightfully cheerful compilation to help inspire me as I power through the last tedious bits of sewing seasonal clothes.
Thanks again for the second channel content🧡🎃👍🌟
You're so welcome! You got this!
@@shannonmakessomethingelse thank you! I lost the round of "thread chicken" yesterday. Hopefully today I will win!🤞
When I saw the short cut glass jar, I instantly pictured it as a pincushion! With different kinds of glass head pins or hat pins. I can’t do the kind of fiddly decoration you were working on. I sure wish I could. I’m great with wall color, wallpaper, rugs, drapes and furniture. Big picture stuff. It’s the details that baffle me. I so admire people that can do it. You’re right. Decorating your home is totally personal and someone telling you it’s wrong…is way out of line!
Loved the video! As Usual!
Thanks for sharing the process. Interesting to see how you came to the choices you made and the experimental ideas. FYI - LOVE the way the green material looks with the wood!
Yes, me too!
That green fabric would make lovely curtains in another room!
True!! The drape is a bit wrong perhaps
@@shannonmakessomethingelse hard to tell the drape when folded up. Too bad it’s so pretty.
@@eonarts I think I actually spoke wrong... I think the drape would be OK, but it's a heavy fabric with some stretch, so I think that hanging it permanently on a curtain rod would just cause it to stretch out immensely and not in a good way. It gives me Queen's Gambit pinafore vibes
@@ShannonMakes aaahhhh yea I didn’t think it had stretch. It would make a cute pinafore and I think that color would look fab on you!
I love your no advice please! I wanted to give you a high five when you said it! I love what your doing with your home!
Thanks! 🥰
Lots of inspiration to take from. I too have lots of "knicknacks" inherited from family and thrift store browsing is a favorite pass time. Nothing in decor corners stay the same, so it's fun to see how someone else does it.
Yup, exactly!! The knickknack shuffle.
Like seeing your thought process and trinkets hunting
Yay! 😍😍
Trying how different arrangements look is part of the fun of decorating.
totally!!