~a stylist's fashionable home tour~

Meet my friend Tiffany.

She lives in West Seattle with her husband Kyle and their 8 year old twins Flynn and Lula James. 

Tiffany is a Stylist and Personal Shopper working with clients in NY, SF, LA, and Seattle. 

You can take a peek at her work right here.

All photography by Deb Achak. 

Are you ready for the fabulous tour?

Let's start with this fabulous kitchen:

The kitchen is painted C2 Shaker.

The floor is eco friendly Marmoleum. 

The refrigerator is a chalkboard that has their weekly schedule including meals {each family member gets to choose one week a meal}

Pendants are Serena and Lily.

Espresso machine is by rocket, and the sign by the refrigerator says, "stop worrying" and is torn from a photo book and placed in a vintage frame. 

The dining room:

Walls are high gloss Benjamin Moore Hale Navy.

The wave print is from Ikea.

The end chairs were purchased for $25 at Senior Center and painted a high gloss white and seats recovered in blue leopard.

The table used to be her husbands desk. She covered it in a white leather hyde and topped that with stamped glass with reverse painted gold and added gold tacks to hold it all together. 

The gold tassel bench is from a flea market.

The guest bedroom is where she takes all her blog photos.

Walls are Benjamin Moore Sky Blue.

The vanity is from a flea market and she recovered the seat with pink velvet.

The bed is a French made canopy from San Francisco with World Market drapes on all four sides. 

I love her living room.

Walls are painted Benjamin Moore Pink Bliss.

The piece above the mantle is a brass vintage light fixture sprayed white.

Flamingos are from Pacific Galleries 

{which if you live in this area, you know Pacific Galleries!}

The rolling ottoman Tiffany picked up at a garage sale and the chairs are from Ikea.

The pillows are all custom except the elephant, which is also from Pacific Galleries. 

The hide rug is from World Market. 

The blanket is vintage from Sand Point Idaho, and the gold table is from Target. 
{similar}

Green lamp was $25 at a flea market.

The large mirror is antique and the painting is done by her talented twin sister.

Her website is here. 

The vintage tribal breast plate from the 60's is from a garage sale in West Seattle and was only $25.00.
The silver pouf is from Target, similar here.

This stair runner is actually 3 Dash and Albert woven area rugs repurposed to make a runner.

The office was originally a mud room. The walls are raspberry {by Authentic Home} and inside of cabinets is painted matte grey.

{Dove Gray, Authentic Home}

The rug is from Pacific Galleries, as well as the chair.

The wooden elephant is from a flea market.

The twins room:

Beds from Craigslist, painted white.

Bedding from Target with assorted pillows.

Light is from Crate and Barrel, 
{similar here}
and the bedside table from a garage sale.

The master bedroom is my favorite!

Rugs are from Santa Fe. The dresser used to be painted metal and she stripped it. The antique end tables have their polished slate tops turned upside down to be chalkboards.

The purple lamps are from Pottery Barn and the walls are matte black, Benjamin Moore Baby Seal Black.

The hallway is painted Dove Gray with Ikea frames holding assorted photos and kids artwork.

And just for fun.....

Love, love, love this home.

In fact, I am totally obsessed. 

Thank you Tiffany for letting us all in!

xoxo

~how to have a successful garage sale~

It is one of my favorite times of the year.

People are hauling out their "junk" putting it in their yards, 

and selling things at unbelievably cheap prices!

I love garage sales.

I love the thrill of the hunt and I love coming home with new treasures.

If you are planning on having a garage sale, here are my top 10 tips I have found to be helpful, from a shoppers perspective and from someone who has had sales herself.

1~Look at the forecast and plan the sale to be on a sunny day. You might also want to search for big neighborhood or community sales that may be close by you, to take advantage of the traffic they are bringing in. 

2~Signage is key. If there does happen to be other sales around you, direct traffic from their sales to yours with signs. Make your signs big and easy to read from a distance.

Put the date on the signs. This might sound obvious, but if the dates are not on there, for example if they just say Friday and Saturday, people might think they are old signs and not risk chancing a long drive to find nothing.

3~Advertise like crazy. Put ads on craigslist and add photos! Give a long list of items being sold. If you only are selling baby items, mention that. If you have everything under the sun for sale, mention that. Spell it out for people. You don't need to get nitty gritty, but be specific. Use your Facebook page as a place to announce it. If you don't feel comfortable leaving your address open to the public, as people to private message you. Word of mouth is great too!

4~Have a lot of things for sale. 

Have you ever driven by a garage sale that had maybe 10 things out on the curb? 

And you did just that right? Drive by?

No one wants to stop unless it looks promising, so make your displays look good and have enough items to make people interested when they are driving by.

Collect things all year if you have too. Keep them in a attic or storage space and when it comes time to have a sale you will be good to go!

5~Display your items in a pleasing manner. Prepare yourself so that you have enough tables to put things on, even if you have to borrow them. It just is so much more attractive and easier for the shoppers to shop if things are elevated and displayed nicely. You can group things by color, season, kitchen, bedroom, etc.

6~Make sure everything is priced. One of my pet peeves is to go to a sale where nothing is marked. Usually people out shopping don't want to have to wait in a line to ask a price on something, so they put it back. Don't mark your prices too high, it is a garage sale not a department store. People will haggle you down in price anyway.

7~Have a clearly marked checkout area and plenty of change. You will also want to have a lot of bags and boxes. Start stashing all your grocery store bags and store them in the attic with your garage sale pieces.

8~Team up with friends for a multiple family sale. This is especially helpful if you don't think you will have enough merchandise. I can't think of a better way to spend the weekend than with girlfriends making money and getting rid of our junk!

{I mean treasures}

9~If you have young kids, let them be a part of the experience by setting up a lemonade and cookie stand. They will love feeling like they are a part of it, and they always love making money. 

If it's a really really hot day and you don't feel like cooking, you can always sell bottled water and pop and donuts or something of the sort.

10~Mark items down on the last day of the sale. Remember, this is stuff you want to get rid of, so unless it has a huge value, don't bring it back in your house! I even like to make everything FREE right when the sale ends. You'd be surprised how many people will show up, and it saves you a trip to the Goodwill. 

I hope these tips help!

Have a great weekend.

xoxo