THE MAKING OF THE TANGLEWOOD GREAT ROOM

fall in the great room and the decor

It will be one year in about 3 weeks that we have come to live at the Tanglewood house. So I thought I’d show you the evolution of our great room over the year and through the different seasons. A lot has changed!

Today is our SEPTEMBER PINTEREST CHALLENGE hosted by Cindy at Country Road 407. Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of this fun monthly challenge and for putting this all together!

This month’s challenge is from Proverb31 Girl. Isn’t this such a pretty room?

We were to show our sitting rooms! Since I don’t have a sitting room I’m sharing my great room. But like Allie, our room started out as a blank slate too!

So, I thought it would be fun to see how I took an empty space and created “StoneGable” in our new home.

I get so many emails and comment about how our new home still looks like StoneGable and that thrills me! Of course it does because I’ve taken my style with me.

We will always miss StoneGable but we really love our Tanglewood house! And are so happy to make this our “second forever home”!

THE DAY WE MOVED INTO TANGLEWOOD

Here is the great room looked the first day we moved in. When the moving company was moving the furniture into this room I was a bit overwhelmed!

And I said to Bobby in a shocked voice, “Honey, we’ve moved into a tiny home”! LOL!!!

Well, not at all! Our home does not have 4,000 square feet anymore but it is 2,700 square feet and that is perfect for us!

NEW HOME

I had already mapped out where I basically wanted the furniture to go! It’s good to have a plan but just remember plans do change!

It’s so important to live in a home for awhile before buying new things or thinking you know exactly where they should go!

Before we even moved into our home the entire house was painted Simply White by Benjamin Moore. Originally, the whole house was the color of the fireplace above.

THANKSGIVING IN THE GREAT ROOM

At Thanksgiving you can see things were still pretty much the same! Just decorated for late fall!

GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR FALL

Go to THANKSGIVING DECORATING IDEAS for more tips and ideas to decorate your home for late fall.

THE NEW FIREPLACE

One of the house projects I was most excited to do was to replace the fireplace and make it more like the one we had at StoneGable.

Here’s how the original fireplace looked at Thanksgiving…

FIREPLACE IN A GREAT ROOM

I wanted a brick fireplace with a long mantel. Here it is being built! (You can get a good look at the old wall color here next to Simply White.)

BUILDING A NEW FIRE PLACE

And here it is done.

A NEWLY BUILT FIRE PLACE

What a difference! You can see how we REBUILT THE FIREPLACE HERE.

CHRISTMAS AT TANGLEWOOD

Then it was time to decorate the great room for Christmas!

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS

Not too much changed but the decorations. What fun it was to decorate the great room!

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS

SPRINGTIME IN THE GREAT ROOM

Winter came and went and in the early spring we replace the mirror over the mantel with giant fern prints.

They were so dramatic and worked wonderfully with our home’s color palette.

SPRING MANTEL IN A GREAT ROOM

I also replace the pole lamp on the side of the sofa with a round table. This table was originally in the living room at our StoneGable home.

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR SPRING

You can see more of the great room in the SPRING TOUR HERE.

SUNKISSED SUMMER

Summer brought a new “gather” sign above the mantel and a few more baskets into the great room.

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR SUMMER

This room is light and bright and filled with sunshine!

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR SUMMER

You can see the SUN-KISSED SUMMER HOME TOUR HERE.

ONE YEAR IN THE GREAT ROOM

And here we are, almost a year is gone and the great room is decorated for fall!

A GREAT ROOM DECORATED FOR FALL

Since the summer white linen curtains on long rods were added! And a petite linen slipcovered chair now stands beside the round table.

FALL DECOR IN THE GREAT ROOM

You can see my FALL HOME TOUR HERE.

FALL DECOR IN THE GREAT ROOM

How time flies! We have done so much work on the Tanglewood house to make it our own! As I am writing this our landscapers are replanting the beds in the front of our home and along our driveway!

LOOKING FORWARD

And I am planning Christmas decorating for this year!

Our great room is the hub of our home! And a gathering place for all who come to visit.

Tell us about one positive change you have made in your home this year!

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33 Comments

  1. Looks gorgeous in every season ❤️

  2. I can’t believe it’s been a year since your move Yvonne. So fun to see all the pretty seasonal changes for the great room. I’m just soaking them all in and pinning!

  3. Your house is gorgeous in all seasons! So fun to see the changes! The new fireplace is amazing! SO fun to tour with you!

  4. Your house is beautiful! I hope you will show us your landscaping changes too.

  5. Great rooms. Can you tell me the name of the rug in the dining room and where you bought it from? Many thanks.

  6. Cecilia from Georgia says:

    I can’t believe it’s been about a year since you announced that you were moving from Stone Gable! You have done a wonderful job making Tanglewood just as lovely…and in just a year!! Love it!

  7. Beautiful job as always, Yvonne! Just wondering a few things, though. How do you plug in a lamp that sits in the center of a room? How are you able to rotate out different artwork above the fireplace mantel without leaving behind holes or marks? And lastly, can you share where you got those gorgeous linen draperies? Thanks so much!

    1. Hi Marie, for how to move pictures etc. see my answer to Anna. There is an outlet in the floor under the sofa. So I plug my lamp in there.

  8. I can hardly believe that it has been a years since you moved into Tanglewood. It was so much fun to see how you’ve made this space your own and how you decorated it for each season.

  9. I loved seeing Tanglewood through several seasons, always so well decorated and inviting. Your style is so welcoming. You have such a way with accessorizing so that each season looks different without changing furniture. A beautiful home.

  10. Yvonne, I love your blog and your home. I have the same questions as Maria on how do you swap out your items above your fireplace? Command hooks? I remember you use plate discs to secure your lids and put them on the wall. I’ve used those on several items and I love them.

    Also, I have one cord in my living room that I’d like to find a way to disguise. Any info on those two questions would be great.

    Your home is loved and it shows!

    1. Hi Anna, I don’t mind putting holes in my walls at all. To fix them when I move something it only takes a little spackle, a little sanding and a little flat paint!

  11. Beautiful room with so much light.I always love neutrals.Hard to believe you’ve been living there a year already, time sure does fly.

  12. Yvonne, I enjoyed the journey through time in your decorating process! It was interesting to see your space take on your personality! I was an advocate of drapes for your windows, when you took the well responded survey, on this subject!!! Do you have a source for your drapes, since I am looking for linen drapes to replace some outdated custom window treatments in our den???

    Cannot wait to see what your Christmas color palette will be for this year!!! Thanks for the lovely tour! Bunny

    1. Hi Bunny, I made the curtains out of lengths of linen. They hung in the StoneGable family room. I love half-price drapes online.

  13. Can’t believe it’s been a year already! Loved seeing this room through the last year; it’s definitely becoming more “you”! Fun to see all the variety of cozy sitting rooms today:)

  14. Elaine Wesselman says:

    Love the new curtain rods. They look great! AND so does your beautiful great room in all of its seasonal glory!

  15. Lynne Parish says:

    Yes, your beautiful home looks a lot like Stone Gable, and when you bring your style with you, that’s what happens. You’ve made some wonderful changes to an already wonderful house. Can’t wait to see your kitchen! Our biggest change this year is building on 1550 square feet to an existing old country ranch house. A little over 900 square feet is a new master bed & bath, closets, laundry room. The rest is a large garage that isn’t counted as living space. We’ve been at this over a year. Surgery for my husband delayed us, and our contractor is a master carpenter and likes to work alone. Hence, things are taking awhile. But!!! His work is amazing! I’m anxious to get moved into it, but I also know God’s timing is best (ask me how I know this!) and we will wait…sigh…

  16. I would have been overwhelmed as well but you’d never know it by how everything has come together beautifully. Thanks for joining us this month! Love it Yvonne

  17. Yvonne, for some reason I guess I didn’t realize you had moved! I love your new home’s airiness and the BM white is so pretty!!! Our tan walls have been encroaching again… Time to paint. 😉 Love how your great room has evolved but how your style has remained the same.

    Enjoy decorating! Love the new mantel,
    Hugs,
    Barb 🙂

  18. Well Yvonne, you’ve certainly done a lot in one year! We hit the four year mark in July and we are still trying to make this house feel like home. With such a different type house, bringing my style here didn’t seem like an option. But today we finished the new marble backsplash in the kitchen. Because our cabinets are in excellent condition we plan to replace cabinet doors and paint the shells as well; our painter and new countertop is due in November and flooring is backordered until December.
    Currently we are having a hard time choosing paint color. We’ve narrowed it down to two samples and BM’s Simply White is one of them. My concern is that it is a bit of a yellow undertone which I’m afraid will fight with the white of the marble. How do you think it looks with marble. We also have the calacatta gold but there is also a great deal of gray in the stone. You seem to be able to decide so quickly.

    1. My kitchen cabinets are Simply White. I did the opposite Margo. I picked my paint and then picked the marble. I don’t see a yellow undertone. Simply White is a tiny tiny tiny bit warm but it looks like a true white. Hope this helps. I’d paint several paint swatches on my cabinets to decide if I were you.

  19. Please tell me about your family room rug. Is it something I could still find out there to purchase?
    I like that it’s a natural look (like a sisal?) but looks soft. Is it?

  20. Debbie Robinson says:

    Hello Yvonne! I love your style and what you’ve done to your great room. However, I had to laugh when you said how small Tanglewood is. We have lived in a 1200 square foot home for our entire married life, 43 years! We would have LOVED to make do with a “small” 2000+ square foot home! 😉

    1. I guess small is relative. Our home seems so spacious and perfect now, but coming from a large farmhouse was a shock for just about 2 minutes!

  21. Yvonne, I have followed you since StoneGable; your decorating is so inspiring and creative.
    I am wondering if you could share where you buy your baskets and pillow covers. I also love the sectioned mirror you display above your fireplace. Could you share that site too.
    It is the highlight of my day to go on your webpage.

    Thank you so much.

    Jennifer

    1. Hi Jennifer, how sweet! Thank you! It’s the highlight of my day to work on my blog with you in mind! The mirror came from HomeGoods years ago. I get many of my baskets from Pottery Barn or Wayfair and I get my pillows from there too. Also HomeGoods, Amazon, Anthropologie and anywhere I can find pillows that will work with my style and colors. Hope this helps.