Category: Before & After

  • how you living?

    how you living?

    The last time you saw our living room it was freshly painted and holding on to a lot of our old shit. I still had dreams of reupholstering those old grandma chairs we got for $15 on Craigslist (spoiler: never happened and we let them go). That low West Elm coffee table also found a…

  • a room of doors.

    a room of doors.

    I remember seeing Sarah’s color-blocked hallway for the first time and gasping. She inspired our master bedroom paint job (which sadly is no more, more on that later). She has a great eye and hand for finishing details. I’d only come across after pictures of the hallway on Pinterest and figured she started off with…

  • light ’em up: part two.

    light ’em up: part two.

    You’d think I’d be more motivated to pick up around here before I take pictures but you’d be wrong. In this episode, we attack not one, but two boobs. They went down without a fight. You’ll notice a trend happening here with the globes taking their place. I’m going to be completely honest and admit…

  • light ’em up: part one.

    light ’em up: part one.

    I have this tendency to get overly excited about the next thing. Usually forgetting to embrace the potential in the current. Maybe you can relate but I can get used to a situation or environment relatively quickly and then it becomes old hat. I start to imagine what could be if I had the next…

  • Weekend Warriors

    Weekend Warriors

    So that happened over the weekend. It wasn’t without lots of swearing, splinters and a lot of “wow, they don’t fit. unscrew it!” — but we got ‘er done. I’ll be back with a bigger update (including those two sexy chairs in the back) once she’s sanded, stained and pillowed up.

  • failure.

    failure.

    Guys, I couldn’t do it. Scratch that, I didn’t do it. I didn’t make my own deadline. As I walked in the door last night after a day of Christmas overload (we decorated Yong’s mom’s house), the disappointment fully set in as I realized what day it was. My plans had included using this weekend…

  • back to work.

    back to work.

    Below is the current state of events when it comes to my workspace. Sad, I know. I don’t think I’ve ever shared this space because I never really knew where I was going with it. I kept waiting to have some epiphany about how to finish it.  I have a thing for black walls and…

  • pots o’ racking no more.

    So this happened some time in March and I guess I completely forgot to mention it? The middle shelf is longer than the bottom or top shelves so I made the braces sit wider. All that to say, they’re aren’t crooked! They also aren’t permanent, so for now they’re a major improvement.

  • peace.

    peace.

    Thought I’d share some things currently happening at Casa de Yu. Giant ceramic peace signs (thrifted), strange half gold, half gray ceramic orbs, DIY caged pendants I made recently, squirrel cages. You know, good stuff.

  • Moments.

    Moments.

    My house… having a moment.