Blog Love - Dreamy Whites

I want to know...How do I make my house look like Maria's? Maria of Dreamy Whites, that is. If you've never visited her beautiful blog before, now is the time to make yourself a cup of tea and settle into a cozy spot for a few hours of delightful reading and eye candy!



Sometimes my own house seems so dark and not very fresh, and I'm dying to make it look and feel radiantly bright without making it feel sterile. Maria has figured how to do that and I just love her style!



Ahhhh...there is that blue that I love so much. Lately I've been second guessing my decision to introduce this color to my own home, but when I see photos like this of Maria's blue cupboard, I fall in love with it all over again!


See her use of pink in the peonies and green in the chairs {and the green in the first bedroom photo}? Soft pops of color like this is what make her mostly white home work...


And oh my goodness! This is her daughter's bedroom! Can you believe she found those beds for just $100 for both of them together? My girls don't have headboards yet because I'm just waiting to find a pair of gorgeous beds like these!


A charming mantel vignette... I love how the flowers here look just like the flower pillows in the photo above.


And a different mantel vignette using more green. Her entire living room lives up to her blog name - DREAMY!


I've been worried about how softer colors might look with my red cabinets, but Maria successfully uses both colors in her home. Check out the red in the french linen table runner - and the red used in the toss pillows on the bed {again in the first photo}.





And another thing that I learned while reading Maria's blog? She lives in a newer triple wide modular home. That just goes to show you that you don't have to live in a hundred year old farm house to make it look like you do! So enjoy your visit with Maria at Dreamy Whites...I know I did!

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This Saturday I had the privilege of spending the afternoon with Layla of The Lettered Cottage and Rhoda of Southern Hospitality! We went junking at the the Nashville Flea Market and what fun! My camera battery died very early in the day and I didn't get tons of photos, but I'll share them with you soon. In the meantime, check out Layla's flea market post as well as and Rhoda's! {P.S. Wow, that peasant top and skirt I wore on Saturday added about 15 pounds! I hate how some outfits look better in the mirror than in reality, lol! Ah, but I think I would have worn a feedbag just to have an opportunity to hang out with those two creative gals!}