Favorite Room Feature: My Sweet Savannah

You know that moment when you see another persons home and it literally takes your breath away? That is how I feel about Melaine from My Sweet Savannah. Her home is so open, fresh and cozy and I just want to spend the weekend there. Melaine? Am I invited? Melaine has this amazing talent to marry masculine and feminine spaces so well that you do not even realize. The girl has got it going on and is probably the sweetest girl ever. I'm a fan and you will be too! 


First of all, I am so excited to be guest posting on Sadie and Stella~I feel like such a celebrity! Thank you for having me. Our home has really evolved over the course of the 14 years we have lived here. One thing you need to know about me is that I change things around, and I do it often! My husband always jokes with me that he is going to come home from work and trip over something because I am constantly rearranging!

 Our living room started out really dark and lodgey as you can see. My husband wanted the typical dark manly leather couch and deer head along with the cedar planked walls, which were already there when we bought the house. I have to admit, in the late 90's I liked this look too. However, my taste changed and I wanted things a little lighter. I finally convinced my husband after years of begging him to paint over the walls. Our compromise was that he got to keep the ceiling the natural wood. It took lots of primer and gallons of paint, but it really lightened up the room! I used Ralph Lauren "Oatmeal" in a eggshell finish.

Eventually I'd either like to have wall to wall seagrass installed in this room, or continue the same pine wood floors that our kitchen has. The carpet is there, and is the color that it is, because it hides dirt, and all the messes that come with having kids and dogs, and living on a lake! 

 My husband got the gigantic tv mounted over the fireplace and we framed old photos of the lake we live on from the early 1900's in inexpensive Ikea frames. I really like the impact the photo wall has for such a little amount of money. Another Ikea purchase was the sectional. It's a linen blend and machine washable and I love it! I change the pillows out often, {is there such thing as pillow hoarders?} and usually always have fresh flowers in this room. The chippy coffee table trunk was a $5 garage sale purchase that houses my collection of magazines. The leather chair was a craigslist score which my husband loves, and I have to admit, I love the mix of masculine and feminine in this room.

I want our house to have the informal comfy look where there is no need to take your shoes off and neighbor dogs can wander in and out through the open doors {which they do!} I think this room best describes how we live. We love our casual lake lifestyle where the kids fish and swim all day in the summers, and where guests can drop by for homemade cookies! 

Thanks for stopping by! Come visit my on my blog Sweet Savannah to see more of our home!