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HEY THERE, I'M EILEEN

Eileen (me) and co (my three little daily sidekicks) exists to document my design journey. Right now that journey looks like staying at home with my three girls, design blogging, renovating our current house and designing and selling bedswings with my husband. Before kids it looked like an Architecture degree, a career working for an interior designer and flipping houses. Down the road I'll jump back into design and house flipping but right now I'm the official sandwich maker and diaper changer. I get paid less but smooshing baby cheeks makes it worth it.

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Photo by Julia Fay Photography

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Home for the weekend is the best feeling ever ❤️ Luke is almost home from a week in France and man are we so excited to see him! ✨ Have lots of furniture projects going on this weekend and lots of relaxing and enjoying daddy being home. Which basically means me saying all weekend “ask your dad” when the twins ask me anything.
If you are looking for a good 🍑 paint color this one is still my favorite! @benjaminmoore Peach Nectar cut by 50%. A lot of times pinks and peaches can look super saturated on the wall so I like to cut the formula down (so they just put in 50% off the pigment). It worked out perfectly in this case! ✨ Swipe for the before of this room and see what a difference paint and a little wallpaper (and a pop of yellow because duh it’s me) can make! ✨ Happy Valentine’s Day! Do you all celebrate? We don’t do much but I’m never going to say no to more chocolate sooooo.
I always love when people share things you may not know about them so here I go. Read on to hear how much of a 👵🏻 I am at heart and a weird thing I always remember. ✨ I was homeschooled almost all the way through school until college. This was before homeschooling was “cool”. Now I’m super hip apparently. ✨ I get super excited about the really technical aspects of construction. As in I keep driving by this gas station being built near my house and I get excited about the rebar they just installed in the concrete. #weird. ✨ I met my husband freshman year of college and we started dating around Christmas that year and have been together ever since. He’s the best support system and we make a great team. ✨ All my friends make fun of me for this but I’m proud of it 👵🏻. One of my favorite possessions is my heated mattress pad. There is nothing like a cold night and getting in a toasty warm bed. I don’t sleep with it on but those initial moments of warmth are the best thing ever. ✨ I went to Clemson and am a 4th generation Tiger. My grandfather taught at Clemson the whole time I was there and we had lunch dates every Thursday. One of the best parts of my week! ✨ I have an architecture degree and spatial design is my specialty. I’m good at making old houses super functional and I go to sleep dreaming of what the correct footprint should be in my house, houses I see on tv and random houses in our neighborhood. I remember the footprint of almost every house I’ve ever been in- even my friends in elementary school houses’! ✨ @juliafayphoto made me look much cooler than I actually am in this photo and I love her for it.
This is how our front porch looks most of the time. Pillows not fluffed, blankets thrown around from where we snuggle and wait for daddy to get home from work, baby books and a big pile of toys just out of view in front of the Adirondack chairs. Ordinary magic ✨
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