Use your imagination!

No pictures this time, you must instead be amazed and entertained by my awesome blogging skills.

Instead I want to share something with you that I love.

I love when people get creative. When they use things for something that it wasn't originally made to do.

Old doors used as a headboard.

Vintage screen used as a place to display your favorite jewelry.

One of those old school desks that opens and/or folds out as a vanity (just hang a mirror over it)

An old table as a desk.

Empty picture frames arranged as art.

Putting old crystal door knobs on the wall to hang your favorite necklaces or scarves from.

There are so many other options, but these are just a select few that I have seen and fallen for. This also lends to the look of effortless and vintage design.

Oh! I have no problem with going to a thrift store or antique store or flea market to discover some awesome finds, but if you use pieces that have been passed through the family, it is always that more personal and perfecto!

would you like pillows with that?

Hey ya'll!

SO. One of my friends also has a blog and she has been making jewelry based off an expensive original, but I can't make jewelry.

Ya well I kinda want to go out for an Anthropologie internship in the not-so-instant-future and you have to be able to sew...stuff. Well I can't do that too much, so now would be a good time to learn considering my major.

Well I like pillows. Here is the problem - I can't afford pillows.

So this is me officially telling someone other than myself that I may want to think about maybe kind of learning how to sew. hahaha...no, but really.

I am going to make pillows...some that are copied-ish, and some that are invented with my own intense sense of creativity.

Well these pillows look pretty simple, I know...but I got to start somewhere right. So at some point I will post my first real pillow!

Bye ya'll!

These are a few of my favorite things...

Alright. Well, this isn't one of the "things" that I was..am going to talk about, BUT I have this in my "favorites" binder and it is pretty much my dream living room (except with a cowhide rug and ix-nay on the coffee table, kinda weirding me out).

The sofa has the lived in and comfy look which is totally necessary if it wants to be my couch...wouldn't that be awesome if couches picked out their owners?!

To inform you lovelies who are hopefully reading my blog...otherwise it would be like I am talking to myself and have the "Gollum and Smeagol" effect...about a few of my favorite things and the impact they can have on a space, I have prepared a top 3 list (minus VINTAGE). deep breath...

1. fabric wallpaper

2. fresh flowers

3. pretty things (accessories)

these are a few examples of fabric wallpaper!

The first two were done by Sarah Richardson on her FLN show Sarah's House.

The thing I love best about this idea is, and I don't know about you, but I always feel restricted by the wallpaper selection  (that or I just don't know the right places to go). This is an option that allows you to use your favorite patterns and more fun and unique patterns at that to personalize a room. All you have to do is use fabric adhesive to make it stick. Easy peasy lemon squeasy..

check it, son!

Fresh flowers.

1. they smell pretty

2. they bring the "fresh air" inside

3. they are soft and pleasing to the eye

4. art

Must I keep going?

If you can find practically identical faux flowers that don't scream "I am made of that funky fabric" or "I am plastic and that is why the cat chews on me" then go for it. Cheaper.

Pretty things are, well, pretty!

Especially pretty VINTAGE things.

Pretty things let the oppurtunity for the naked effect to be left in the dust.

All three of these pictures are off of Sarah's House again, and may I just say...she is genius.

The last picture with the crest is my favorite. They found this buried in an antique store out in Canada. Rustic, vintage, and pure character.

The second is just a full view of the room with the crest and the majority of the pieces are vintage which makes me love it even more.

And the first is just very girly and dainty and awesome.

ANN!

do you recognize it?

This room is done by Domino, and there are loads of pretty things, fresh flowers, and guess what...it's blue.

In the beginning...

Hi.
So today I have officially become a blogger. Who would've thunk?

Well I am an Interior Design student and therefore I think about design literally (ok, not literally, but almost literally) 24/7 and I love it. So there is absolutely no question that I am in the right major. Anyway, I figure a blog is practically a living resume. It gives the personality that a resume doesn't and BONUS, it is fun! It is a place for me to post pictures and ideas and inspiration, things I see, and just random rants I have an urge to post.

Why the name The Blue Door?
So...it practically describes me and my style. Blue is my favorite color. My bedroom is decorated in blue (monochromatic scheme). There are so many ranges of blue and is very versatile. Blue makes my eyes pop, so I have been told. Oh and of course my favorite types of blue are navy and electric blue!
My style...how should I describe it? Well "casual bohemian elegance with a touch of country" will do it justice I suppose. Think Anthropologie. Think Domino magazine. Think Elle Decor. I like pretty things, and a random collection of them at that.
I have been raised out in the middle of nowhere and my grandparents live in a country style home, so my personal belief is that every southern girl should have at least one rooster/ chicken in her kitchen. I love lots of wood and apron front sinks. I like quilts and farm style florals and patterns (mismatchy-ness). That is where the country comes in.

I have always wanted to paint my door...future door blue. While I have expensive taste (why am I not a bazillionare...curses), I don't have a grandiose style so something like iron doors are not for me. That being said, I have nothing against them and enjoy the look they give off, I just wouldn't put it on my house. I figure as your mood changes and style does, you can just change the color of your door! Awesome and cheap. There is so much more personality there. Can you think of a better first impression? While you wait for someone to let you in after you have performed a not-so-secret knock and hope you didn't wake anyone when you rang the doorbell like five times in a row, you can get to know who they are by judging the color of the door. (haha, so unless you are doing it symbolically, you still should never judge a book its cover. BUT come on...we all know that if the cover is ugly, you aren't going to read it.

This door that I have been in love with ever since I saw it in Domino is a prime example.

This is an old blue door in Greece. Blue and vintage, it doesn't get much better than that.

I had never thought to put iron in my blue door, but I kinda like it!

I love everything about this one! EVERYTHING.