How to bring drama into your home without the DRAMA – Cozy Living

Hello lovelies, welcome back to another Cozy Living post brought to you by the month of September!!!!! Holy cow, I can’t even believe that – how can it be September already?!!! I know I say that every time… but seriously, what the heck time, chill out (not literally) and slow down a bit! 

Cozy Living

I simply adore this series and our hostess too, Jennifer from  Town & Country Living. We are a small group of Hygge loving bloggers sharing our cozy ways, we share how we add cozy to our homes all year around. 🙂 You can see more from the CL crew and how they’ve added cozy for September at the end of my post. And If you’d like to get caught up, maybe explore the whole Cozy Living Series, you can visit all of my posts in one spot, here. Or, follow this hashtag #CozyLiving on Instagram to see all of the cozy and inspiring ideas!

No No Drama

I’m a start some drama
You don’t want no drama
No no drama no no no no drama..

So, some of you are cool enough to know what song those lyrics are from and well some of you are like me… going down the rabbit hole looking for the song called, “No Drama”! Oh goodness, this is a real life snippet into how my brain works (or doesn’t) – I rename things constantly – OR I miss-name them, I prefer the creative and more positive route, rename… so many awkward stories – but we don’t have the time for ALL the stories in this little post, thankfully. For the record though (if you are like me at all), the lyrics are from “My Humps” – by The Black Eyed Peas – NOT, No Drama. Yep, I totally feel much cooler now! hahaha

Back to the “drama” I’ve added to our home! Confession… that title, ya well there isn’t actual D R A M A here, it’s just us two, puttering around our property and home making stuff – staying outta trouble – AKA boring! 😉 and we love it that way, wouldn’t change a thing, besides, life has way too much drama as is – soooo, we really work hard to hold the D word at an arm’s length… unless it’s a gorgeous rich colour that makes me extremely and dramatically happy! (See what I did there?)

The story

I’ll start at the beginning… these windows – swoon right?! I bought these leaded glass windows, oh about 2 or 3 years ago. I’ve been moving them into different places in our home ever since then… I’ve even hung them on the walls a few times. 

I mean it’s such a pretty window and frankly would look good anywhere, right?! But… my wall space is minimal in this house and the twin to this window was tucked away collecting dust and basically being ignored. That’s sad! So I built a cabinet – I used this plan as a guide, but customized it as per the size of the windows. Here she is, I just finished painting the white on the interior and trying to decide on the exterior colour! 

Before

When I first saw the windows, I knew I wanted to build a cabinet for them and paint my cabinet something like my inspiration below… 

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I also knew I wanted to work with my favourite paint *FUSION™ MINERAL PAINT for this project and they were gracious enough to send me some awesome colours to try. Once they arrived though, I couldn’t decide! YIKES! 

Enter Instagram

Enter YOU guys really! I was heavily leaning towards little lamb (beautiful, but safe). 

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Then I saw Homestead blue – OH MY GOODNESS. 

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But I’ve painted some awesome stuff with Ash too… (you can see those projects – here and here) 

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You can see my dilemma, right? And then there is my love of navy… enter midnight blue! Cue the dramatic music… 

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*If you’d like to follow along with the, Bud and Laurie “show” some behind the scenes shenanigans you can totally follow all the silly right here on Instagram. AND I’m hosting a paint give away on the GRAM with my friends at Fusion… head over to enter! 

Drama Is Cozy

I honestly thought I knew the end to this story, I was pretty confident – Little Lamb would be the winner. Or maybe Homestead Blue, but like I said above you guys voted for Midnight blue, by one vote! I seriously thought about having another vote (shame)! The cabinet is such a big piece, I just wasn’t sure… would it be too dark for our already dark living room?  The answer is a great big NO, I am so grateful that you guys kicked me out of my comfort zone and I added this gorgeous and cozy drama to our home!

She’s not perfect, but I’m pretty proud of my solo build! #perfectlyImperfect

She adds just the right amount of cozy drama to our home – it’s so funny how things work out because this navy is one of our fall colours this season, I can’t wait to go thrifting to find my other colours choices!! I can’t wait to show you our home all ready for Fall!  

I just adore these brass handles, when I laid the windows together to get my opening measurement for the cabinet I noticed that the handles were at different heights… I left them as is! Changing the height of one to match the other would have meant making another large hole behind the key turns, there is a funny little bump on the back of each one, I kind of like this uneven quirk.  

My favourite thing about this cabinet though… all the special vignettes inside, they are mostly from this summer’s memories – our trip back home to the East Coast of Canada, collecting sea glass with special little folks and treasured family photos, all visible at a glance. 

All of the warm vintage wood contrasts perfectly against this beautiful colour – I’m all heart eyes over here! It’s the perfect cozy touch as we enter into the Fall season, YAY – you guys ROCK! 

My Cozy Living Friends

Now I invite you to go visit with my lovely, Cozy Living friends you will surely be inspired, I know I always am! xo 

Town and Country Living / Sincerely Marie Designs / Vinyet Etc.

Duke Manor Farm / Finding Silver Pennies

*FUSION™ MINERAL PAINT sponsored this post, but all thoughts and words are my very own – pinky swear. Thank you for supporting the amazing brands that make us here at Vinyet Etc possible. xo