CLH Blog Updates

I'm in the process of updating the CLH's blog pages { About, House Tour & DIY Projects } I want to make CLH more 'user friendly' so easy its to find DIY Projects and our Home Tour is up to date. I'm really looking forward to spending some major Q.T. (quality time) with the DIY Projects page, I never really dug the layout.

I already starting updating our House Tour, with new pictures check it out here! On our home page, I've added a few new buttons: You can now Subscribe via email to CLH, You can follow me on Twitter & friend me on Facebook. Under 'Blog Archinve' I added new feature that lists the top Three Popular CLH Posts each week. I'm also adding a blog page, all about Baby Stuff. I get a ton of emails from lovely readers asking about what baby stuff I love, so I thought I would add a page!

I am also thinking about adding a Craft & Sewing Page, so these projects can easliy be found instead of looking at DIY Projects which to me is more about home projects (decor, painting, re-finishing furniture etc)

In addition we also want to update our CLH picture, with a new one. We took these pictures just the other day in front of our house, thank goodness for tripods & timers.  I'm sure our neighbors were wondering what we were up to :)  We can't decide between these three pictures, so please help us out!!

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The new picture will replace the picutre below

Mojo is also getting his picture on the blog, but his was super easy to choose!

Perfect Picture { Check }

Which picture do you like BEST for our CLH picture? A,B or C??

New Reflection in the Mirror

Thanks everyone! For giving me their opinion about moving our large mirror from our living room and into dining room. As I said before I was nervous is would look to big on our small wall & but up against our light switch. Thankfully, Kasey suggested I use painters tape to make off the measurement of the mirror and see if I like the size of it in the dining room. Here's a reminder how dining room looked. Here's a recap of our dining redo (click here)

That night I used my painters tape and marked off the area and lived with it for a few days. I liked that when we walked into our dining room we would see the reflection of the other side of the dining room and the space would seem much larger, however the mirror has thick heavy molding and I thought it might look odd next to our light switch. So instead of just doing a mirror swap, I also moved the buffet to the other side of the dining room and changed the way the chalk board was hanging.My dining room table got serioulsy messy as I cleaned out our buffet.

I got a little ahead of myself and forgot to take a picture of how the mirror would look on the wall. As you can see, the mirror would have looked to chunky next to our light switch and alarm keypad.

On the other side of the  wall, I used the blue painters tape to map out where the mirror would hang and then placed in on the wall. I love it! Here's the new refelction in our mirror.

Here's how the dining room looks now, when you enter our dining room from the living room.

And a wide shot of the dining room view from the ktichen.

With our large mirror placed in our dining room and the buffet moved, the dining room feels much more open and inviting. I love how the mirror helps bounce the light around in our dining room. I also prefer the buffet under the chalk board.

On a side note, used my two large candles holders as vases and placed yellow flowers in them. I love candle holders & vases that do doulbe duty. Two vases filled with flowers give our dark walnut dining room table a fresh look.

Again thanks for everyone sharing with me thier opinion. How do you think the large mirror looks now that its in our dining room?