We bought a house! If you’ve been following along my blog and Instagram, you know that Michael and I have spent the last three months renovating our VERY OWN HOUSE! We had been on the housing marketing for almost two whole years (crazy, right?!) before we were able to finally get our very own #happyhousedreams.

Because the housing market is so crazy, we decided to favor location over home design. The place we picked is in one of our favorite neighborhoods, but needed some heavy cosmetics updates to fit our liking. After closing, we focused on updating all of our light fixtures with my favorite lighting company, Hudson Valley Lighting Group. I have a few Mitzi by Hudson Valley Lighting pieces in my AirBNB and knew that I wanted the same for our personal home. Hudson Valley Lighting Group has four industry-recognized brands: Mitzi, Corbett Lighting, Troy Lighting, and Hudson Valley Lighting. ALL of them are worth checking out.

I worked room-by-room on our light fixtures and wanted to utilize gold accents to tie our light fixtures together throughout the house. If you know me, you know that I love mid-century-modern aesthetics and brass detailing. So for our living room, I looked for something mid-century, a touch of vintage style with some modern updates, and brass finishes. Then came across the MOST AMAZING fixture: the Astoria Chandelier from Hudson Valley Lighting. The light bubbles are my favorite piece of the chandelier – they are totally swoon-worthy!

The Astoria Chandelier comes in two different sizes and I picked the 36” inch one because I really wanted it to be the focal part of the living room.

The next room to tackle was my dining room. It connects to the living room, so I wanted to find a fixture that had brass accents to match the Astoria fixture in the next room. Then came the Charisma chandelier! It is PURE MAGIC! The gold leaf accents are fabulous - and add a touch of elegance to the room. My jaw drops every time I walk by it because it’s just so fancy!

Needless to say, this fixture adds the dose of charm that anyone needs to complete a living space. Tiers of tri-sided crystal rods make quite a statement, each topped with a glimmering finish. The illumination reflects and refracts through the myriad of crystal rods, creating a dramatic play of light while illuminating the space.

The dining room is one of my favorite spaces in the house, as I hope you can see why! To go off the clear crystals on the light fixture, I scored awesome vintage Lucite dining room chairs from a local Atlanta retailer. I can’t believe I get to eat dinner here every single night!

The next room for me to tackle was the guest bedroom. There was an ugly ceiling fan when we bought the house, which I knew had to go. I went for Mitzi’s two tier chandelier in aged brass, which I actually have at my AirBNB.

I’ve loved this fixture since I got it for my rental property and it’s the perfect centerpiece for the guest room. The sconces give it a modern feel, while the brass detail around the bulbs give it an almost too-good-to-be true antique touch. We even added a fun ceiling medallion to it to give it more off a vintage feel. And you know it goes SO great with my lemon wallpaper. Sometimes I take naps in this room because I just love it so much!

My favorite part is the brass accents that feed through the whole house, thanks to all of these fixtures. I even brought some brass accents into our bathroom with Mitzi’s Paige fixture to tie everything together.

We used a mix of mixed metals for the bathroom - a gold faucet, silver handles, a brass mirror, and then the brass Mitzi Paige fixture. I love how it all came together!!

Sooooo, I must know - what do you think of my house?! I know picking out lighting fixtures for a house is hard, especially when you buy online. Thankfully, Hudson Valley Lighting has different looks with its brand, Mitzi fixtures, and Corbett Lighting. Everything is so.dang.good!

I hope you love it just as much as Michael and I do. And a HUGE thanks to Hudson Valley Lighting for making all my lighting dreams come true!

I am so freaking excited to show you all my furniture for #myhappyhousedreams!!!!! I’ve just really been enjoying taking my time on each room in my new house and really waiting for every *perfect* piece to make its way into our lives. So finally, I’m ready to reveal our living room reveal with the one and only Joybird! If you haven’t heard of Joybird, it’s an AMAZING furniture line - filled with tons of mid century modern furniture made of great quality and even more fun, COLORS!

As soon as I got the house, I got SUPER busy pinning away all of my inspiration for this room. I knew I wanted the room to be light, bright and relaxing so I focused on lots of neutrals with a few “pops” of color - with some pink accents, duh. When I started furniture shopping, I was skewing towards mid-century mod style pieces and am SO THRILLED with how everything turned out.

The Briar leather sofa is the perfect size for the space and more importantly, so comfortable. I can’t wait to sit back, relax, and watch some tv on this sofa. I got the Santiago Camel and Mocha color - and it’s the perfect hue because has some vintage-like accents and fun tapered legs. It looks perfect with my colorful Moroccan Azilal rug I scored on Etsy.

After I had my sofa picked out, I had to think about chairs. I contemplated on what color to get because my rug had so many bright accents. Thankfully, you can get color swatches from Joybird so I got to visually see what colors went best in the space. And HELLLLOOOO! No living room of mine is complete without a pink chair! I picked out the Soto chair and got it in not one, but TWO colors: Key Largo Bubblegum and Oatmeal. They make me SO happy every time I have friends over and are truly talking pieces for all my guests.

What do you all think about the color chairs I selected? My thoughts are that I didn’t want a room that was TOO girly - so I went with one neutral and one girly. I think that the sofa, plus the two Soto chairs truly transform the space!

For my TV, I was pretty limited on where to put it because my living room is fairly small. I didn’t want to mount it against the brick fireplace, so I opted for a more unique method: an easel! It’s functional, unique AND the wood bounces off my Soto chairs. SCORE!!

I also wanted to get a big mirror for the space and when I say Joybird’s Liberty mirror, I was SWOONING. The gold perfectly fits with my lighting brass accents and the size is perfect because it makes my place feel bigger than it actually is. I have it placed on the wall between the livng room and my dining room.

So there it is!! What do you think of my living room reveal? I’ve always had a love of entertaining and now I have the most perfect room to have my best friends and family over for future celebrations and more importantly, memories! Thank you so much to Joybird for making my living room dreams into a reality!

We bought a house: Lighting Reveal!

Living Room Reveal with Joybird!