Hello and hope you had a great weekend! I feel like my blogging has been a bit sporadic, but I promise it’s with good reason: my hubby and I are remodeling our room! We aren’t doing any heavy reconstruction, but we are upgrading our room design and greatly improving the aesthetics. The idea really started with a spark of inspiration from all of the records I’ve been posting on Instagram (the “Record A Day” photo challenge). I wanted a new record player (post here), which then lead to wanting a “listening station”. While our boy was in Las Vegas all of last week, my husband and I went to work on the room. We are still working on sorting through all of our things, but two sections of the room are pretty much complete. Pictured above is our listening station (designed by my hubby), and we are still waiting for my Crosley Executive Portable USB Turntable from Wayfair to arrive (which it should as this posts). The picture below is the mural of Paris we bought from Ikea (you’ll notice a lot of our new furnishings are from Ikea, as they are practical and attractive). The little pictures at “The Chen Listening Station” and the mural are the places we went to on our honeymoon. I will be resuming my normal blogging schedule soon, but I hope you all pardon the interruption!
Photo 1: Kallax shelving system, floor lamp, letter tray and pictures from Ikea; coffee cup clock from Bed Bath & Beyond; table lamp from Walmart; all records are from our personal collection (the ones on the wall are from my husband’s collection)
Photo 2: Expedit shelving system, mural, bed and bedding from Ikea (headboard custom made by me); clock from Walmart
This is really exciting and fun! I bet you have a really nice and cosy home all over, and I love the idea of having a “listening station”! 🙂 Funny what you write about Ikea, because my hubby and I are also becoming more and more “Ikea people”. A few years ago we wouldn’t have thought of shopping at Ikea, but today we plan several Ikea shopping trips a year (it takes us about two hours to go there by car). As you said it, the furnishings are practical and attractive, and you can mix it with just about anything else!
Your music corner is looking amazing! I love all the records on the wall, it looks super cool. I can’t wait to see how your new record player looks in your music corner. 🙂
Thank you my dear! I’m going to post some pictures in the next week or so, but there are some on Instagram already. I love it, it’s so nice to be able to listen to vinyl again!
xoxo