"adrienne matthews"

Adrienne Matthews is part of a made-up group I have dubbed “Glam Squad for the Home”. You met another member of this sassy entourage, Smarty Margaret, a couple of months ago.

Let me explain “Glam Squad for the Home”. For too many years, my home has been furnished by family hand-me-downs (just because it’s old doesn’t make it antique) and odds-and-ends simply accumulated (let’s buy a couch today) over the years. None of it goes together. None of it makes sense.

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We’ve all heard of the “man cave” right? I imagine it to be a dark room with a huge flat-screen TV, leather couches, and a fully-stocked bar, don’t you? What about a “mom cave”? Most of us have sectioned off a piece of the house for the kids’ toys but is it possible to section of a piece of your home to be ALL YOURS?

This was my mission a few months ago – I wanted one tiny space in my house to be all mine. I share a bed (with my husband and one or two kids depending on the night), a bathroom, a desk, a den -the entire house is communal territory (except my 8-year-old daughter’s room – how is she the only person in the family to have her own space?!). I wanted my little nook to reflect my style and my hobbies – not my kids’ or my husband’s.

One of my biggest creative outlets (besides writing this blog) is sewing. I am not that great at it, but I love it. I’ve had a machine for years but have always had to set up shop on the dining room table. I decided to make part of my bedroom my own little craft nook – it took a little convincing because, let’s face it, not many men want to wake up and see a sewing machine – but as long as it meant all of my creative “crap” was off the dining room table, my husband was game.

I enlisted the help of a college friend, Tessa, whose interior design blog Two Inspire Design continually inspires and amazes me. She and her blog partner, Amy, came up with some awesome ideas for my very uninspiring little nook – I was overwhelmed thinking about how to design the space myself and they were so on target with what I really wanted. I couldn’t wait to implement the ideas.