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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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Hey y’all 👋🏻 I’m Eileen and I thought I would jump in for #fridayintroductions and share about the fact that I wear a uniform and it’s changed my life for the better! ✨ The quick run down- I’m married and mothering three girls (4 year old twins and an 18 month old). I live in #yeahthatgreenville and love this city. I am an architecture grad from Clemson and worked in interior design before the twins were born. Now we build bedswings, I sell vintage at @cottagegrovevintage and my passion project is @gvlcreativeconnections, which I got to start with one of my best friends and exists to bring together creatives in our city. ✨ Ok so something you may not know. I wear a uniform. Almost every day I’m in some form of a striped tee and jeans. I wear hats like it’s my job and mix in jackets in winter and cutoffs in summer. It’s taken the stress out of my wardrobe and I’m always comfortable in what I’m wearing! I have different variations of tees but if I like a certain one I will buy multiple of it. It’s LIFE CHANGING y’all! It’s so easy to make an outfit feel different with the same base. One day I’ll wear the tee above with my dark jeans, green leather jacket and booties and the next day I’ll wear a jean jacket, a navy striped tee and black jeans. Then I’ll wear distressed jeans with a black and white tee and sneakers. I also mix in solid tees in black mostly but also navy. I’ve been doing it consistency for a year and a half and love it. @thefauxmartha wears a uniform of chambray and jeans and she talks about how it’s changed her life so much as well! ✨ I’m so interested- do you wear a uniform or would you consider it? It is one less decision I have to make every day and I’M HERE FOR IT. 📷 @_emilybolt
Redoing our master bedroom has been more than a room makeover for me. I struggled with anxiety and PTSD from the twins traumatic birth and spent a lot of time in bed for months. I also spent a lot of time in bed severely sick through all of my pregnancy with Wren. Because of that I had negative associations with the old navy walls and bedding - so taking the time to change up our room has been so healing for me! ✨ Our surroundings have such an effect on us mentally. God designed us to pursue and build beauty- He surrounded us with beauty in the world and a desire to create it. Working with Him to create beauty and peace in our homes (in whatever way beauty speaks to us! Baking, gardening, interior design, organization...) can be a way to connect with Him more. I know it has been for me- and this space feels like such a gift. A gift of redemption after healing from PTSD and anxiety from the twins birth and NICU story. ✨ It was so fun to work with what we had in this room and make it new. We did some easy projects, like recovering our headboard headboard with $20 of fabric, creating a waterfall edge to make our old nightstands turned dresser feel new and stealing a rug and sconces from another room. We’ve been working on it over the past few months and it’s finally feeling finished. Life paced design people! And shop your home first for what brings you joy. If you know me you know how much I love to wear hats to hanging my hats over the bed feels like the final icing on the cake and brings me so much joy. ✨ I’ll show you how I fluffed the room on my stories later today if you are interested!
Anyone else love anything vintage and wooden for kids? This vintage alphabet block set is so fun- I just couldn’t resist grabbing it for the shop! Your weekly tour around @sydlougreenville and I’s space at @cottagegrovevintage is up on my stories! Lots of fun new goodness in this week 🖤
We are finishing up some projects in our master this weekend- so glad to be getting the final projects done! We recovered the headboard (only took 30 minutes!) and are working on a fun waterfall edge top for the dresser. I’ve been sharing on stories as we go if you are interested ✨
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