We are moving in six weeks! I can't believe it. We know the place that we are going to be renting and I was able to readjust our mood board a little. See the last version HERE. 

Since we received a beautiful white leather sectional from a friend I could easily remove the couch from the last mood board. Find the links to pillows here - FUR PILLOWS * DOT PILLOWS * LUMBAR PILLOW. 

We won't have room for bookcases in our living room but we will in our study. 

I also decided that I wasn't feeling that rug because shag, as I've learned in our current house traps all of my long hair, so we went with this lower pile one. HERE. 

I want to keep the living room looking bright as possible so I changed my mind about the black end tables and decided and these glass/acrylic/gold ones. HERE. 

I think the really cute tv stand I had picked out will be too long for the space so I decided on THIS white one. 

We are keeping our coffee table, I'm just repainting the top white and legs gold. I'd eventually like to cut the center out and put a piece of acrylic in it but that's far away. 

See what our living room looks like right now HERE. 

MOOD BOARD: OUR GLAM GOTH BATHROOM

I've never been secretive about the fact my style is 75% goth bruja. I try to for the most part keep that to only 10 - 15% of a room to keep it from being kitschy and halloween-y. The other 25% of my style is more glitzy and glam. That occupies about 30 - 40% of the rooms I design. The rest I like to divide between neutrals and maybe the occasional 5% accent color.

However, for our bathroom I threw those ratios in the trash and let myself have the most glam goth room I could want. It is such a small space, and I LOVE every piece that I've chosen for it. That is why I consider it perfect and completely done.

The only way I would consider making changes, is if in our new house our bathroom is bigger.


If the bathroom is bigger I'd be open to a little refresh so consider this less of a makeover, and more of a sprucing-up.
I love our black towels from target they are the bath sheet size and when we went to get more they had discontinued the black so we bought grey. I actually enjoy the lightness it brings to our utility cart. This might be the only time I'll go on record saying black might have been the wrong chose. THESE are the towels, so so soft and we love the bath sheet size.

I also LOVE our utility cart from IKEA, I've honestly dreamed about owning one for YEARS and was so thankful that I finally moved close enough to an IKEA to own one, but sometimes it doesn't feel like enough storage. So I like THIS over the toilet storage system.

The wall art that hangs in our bathroom and again, I love, I bought from homegoods after halloween and the canvas is actually turning yellow. I'm searching for a million ways to fix it because I honestly do love it. If it can't be salvaged I'll probably frame THIS print in THIS chunky frame.

The one thing I don't love in our bathroom is our bathmat, SO ugly, but it is memory foam, so its soft. I can't wait to upgrade to THIS one. I like the texture that it will add to the room.

So that's it, quick and easy, just a little freshening up!

*oh and here's a link to my shower curtain on amazon. There's a thousand skull curtains but I've had mine two years and I really love it!

MOOD BOARD: OUR NATURAL GLAM LIVING ROOM

Hey! So now that you've seen our living room I wanted to talk about our plans for it, in two parts. PART ONE is for the next five months of apartment living and PART TWO is for when we move into a bigger space.

Our current living room is our most used space, our apartment is open, so technically we have a dining table shoved in here too, but we don't use it as a dining table, I hope to use it in our new place though, so right now we eat at our coffee table. We also have a bar we could use, but we don't... maybe we are a little lazy :)

So mainly for PART ONE we want to redo our coffee table. I like THIS look or THIS look and I'll DIY something in between (think deep black center and gold legs). I would also like to finish our gallery wall above our couch with THIS piece, or something similar.

BORING, I know, but bare with me, it gets fun in part two.

Since we really LIVE in our living room I don't want it to be too much of my ~*goth bruja chic*~ vibes going on so I feel like it is really important to keep it light and airy, unlike in our bedroom where I'm living for all black everything.

So I want to start with a new rug, I let my husband pick the current one that we have, it was a cheap one from target. I love THIS one from RugsUSA or THIS one. Something light but with a little black in it. I love bookcases, but I also love my plantas so I have been debating on just upgrading our current cheap IKEA shelf unit (and buying a couple more) with paint and contact paper, DIY-ing coffin shelves like THESE, or buying some of THESE from target. When I see the space I'll make my final decision.

I love love love THESE end tables in either black or natural. We also want to replace our sofa I like THIS from IKEA probably with THIS and THIS accent chair. I love extra seating. Plus they are cute. I also want to upgrade our entertainment center. Our current one will go to our guestroom and I like THIS one from target.

Admittedly it does kill me a little that I'm not using a much black and gold as I would like in this room, but I'm hoping the natural wood tones, the silvers, greys, and hints of black with help transition into the rest of the house really well.

To see what our living room looks like right now - CLICK HERE - I do hope we find a place to keep our red couch, I kind of love it, it was a gift from my mother in law and when we first got married, we only owned a futon, and two TVs. I'm the sentimental type.

MOOD BOARD: BLACK & GOLD BEDROOM

So now that you've see our bedroom maybe you notice it isn't quite finished. It is the closest room to be completed in our house. I really am so excited to have it finally done! While I love it the way it is, these last few things will really close it out.

Here we go!

I'm dying to have a place to do my make up, I have a clear acrylic drawer organizer for my make up, so to tie that in with my decor I want THIS acrylic chair for my vanity. I don't want to go the traditional vanity route so I'm pairing THIS gorgeous mirror - it is from the Opalhouse collection by Target and THIS, it is a desk, but I'm going to use it as a vanity. When we move, I might want to use the desk elsewhere.

When I put the vanity in the spot that I want to use it, I'll have to move the wall art that I already have hanging, a monogram and two picture frames. I want to pair them with several of THESE brass frames and finish out the gallery wall that we have on our slanted wall across from our bed.

To the left of our gallery wall I want to put THIS bench, it will hold some extra blankets and things. When we move into our bigger place I would like to move it to the base of our bed. I want several of THESE gold baskets to go under the bench.

I recently found the most beautiful bone/wood inlay table to use as my nightstand. I bought it at homegoods and I wish that there would have been two. I have been eyeing THIS dresser x2 to use as nightstands for our bedroom. I think I still might get one for my husband's side of the bed. I'm not 100% invested. The space in our bedroom is weird, we have a really large gap between our lamps and our bed and I've been trying to find elongated nightstands, but I might just wait until we move to see how the space is laid out.


To see the some current glimpses of our bedroom - CLICK HERE - I'm in this weird place deciding between, should I keep decorating this apartment, or should I stop and wait for our new house? Thoughts? Advice? I like to love where I live, and I'm trying to make choice that can easily last us as we expand to a place that is three times the size of our apartment.