Travel Photos in Decor

The mat under the table needs to go – it is filthy and is just not heavy enough to stay down as chairs move on it.  Autumn recommended an indoor/outdoor rug so that it can be easily cleaned and will hold up with traffic coming in and out off the deck.  I love the rug she recommended but we are going to see if we can find a cheaper alternative.  Although the sweet thing about this one is that you can hose it off, bleach it, etc. and it won’t fade or come apart.  I will also be doing a DIY project and changing out the trim on our two roman shades.

The next thing we changed this weekend was adding a mirror.  This was the first item on our list of recommendations we wanted to get to and we both loved this idea as soon as we heard it.  With the white board + batten we had added, it becomes difficult to add art or mirrors to our walls.  However, Autumn recommended propping a tall mirror on our credenza.  Unfortunately, most we found online we either too big or too small {or had a price tag that was WAY out of our range}.  We found this one at Garden Ridge with a super cheap price tag – and although it may not look like it in the photos due to the scale of the room and furniture, it is about four feet tall.  We wish it were about six inches taller but we are going to try it out for a bit because the price tag was so appealing.  What are your thoughts?  Does the height look okay?

Lastly, I played around with PhotoShop to put some “art” on the walls. We are going to remove the black framed mirror to somewhere else in our house so that we can have more of a balanced effect with some art. Autumn recommended four prints on one side balanced by a large print on the other. Here are some options I played with on Overstock {the four on the left aren’t ones I am in love with but the image had four together so I could test the look}.