My Favorite Room :: Our Den

It’s about time to explore the favorite room of another one of my favorite bloggers! I absolutely love this addition to the My Favorite Room series! 🙂 Allow me to introduce you to Lauren Steele, bloggista over at Sunshades & Snowflakes!

Lauren and I were at Mississippi State at the same time, and I actually went to high school with her husband David! She’s a dog lover (Nilla is a precious lab!) and quite the talented fashionista! I absolutely love following her blog and think her style is just impeccable! Let’s take a look at her favorite room now, okay?! 🙂

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What is your favorite room in your house?
Our den!

What about this room makes you love it so much?
It’s one of the only rooms of our newlywed apartment that I consider “fully decorated” and it’s where we hang out the most. It also has it’s quirks – like the closets being in it.

Our bedroom only has one small closet, which I think means this room (my favorite room) was really supposed to be the bedroom, but it’s the biggest room in the apartment so I wanted it to be the den. I think it’s funny that we get ready in the morning in our den and I know ONE DAY it will be one of those “remember the first place we ever lived….” quirks that you look back on. Although right now I’m constantly reminded of the lack of a dresser and how if I try on multiple outfits, it’s our den that becomes messy! Haha

If you had to pick your favorite element in the room, what would it be?

Surprisingly, the couch. The couch is made of half down feathers which makes it VERY comfortable and it’s also oversized. You really sink down into it. Because David is so tall and has a hard time fitting in our “breakfast nook” we end up eating most of our meals “tv dinner tray style” in the den on the couch. It’s also where we watch movies and the first place I go to decompress with a glass of wine and some cheese after a long day. I love it.

I also love that it’s white, but it’s really a slip cover so I don’t lose sleep over Nilla hopping on every now and again.

What’s your paint color?

I have no idea – the landlord won’t let us paint. What color would y’all call it?

At what time of day do you most enjoy being in this room?
Around 10 a.m. Because if I’m there around 10 it means it Saturday… and I LOVE Saturdays.

If you had to describe this room in 3 words, what would they be?
Cozy, simplistic, enjoyable

Anything else you want us to know about your favorite room?!
I like that the chair was David’s Dad’s chair he used all during medical school to study in and it was in David’s house growing up. I have really enjoyed the oversized sheet music art piece with the notes from our first wedding dance song “stand by me.”

Although “things” don’t matter, I truly do love my Annie Glass cabinet because I used to work in a gift store that sold it. I would always admire it and wonder if I would ever own a piece – I love every single piece and remember who gave me which ones. I also installed the lighting on the cabinet which required me to learn how to use a drill.

I like that the rug is a little rough and wakes me up in the morning with my coffee and I like that even though I begged David not to bring that coffee table over because I didn’t like the way it looked, it’s been the best piece of storage furniture in our tiny newlywed apartment, reminding me to keep an open mind and go with the flow!

That about wraps it up!

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Thanks so much for the tour, Lauren! (Price and I danced to Stand By Me as our first dance too! Love that you turned it into art– brilliant!)

I hope you’ll take a moment to go explore Sunshades & Snowflakes to get to know Lauren a little better! 🙂  And if you liked this room, check out the rest of the posts in the My Favorite Room series!

Have a wonderful, wonderful day! XO!