Hi friends! I had another post scheduled for today, (a fabulous Reader Design for our Spaces section which I'll share tomorrow), but thought I'd interrupt our regularly scheduled program just to say THANK YOU! Yesterday was a gift for Cate and me. Within the same hour, Apartment Therapy shared a fabulous makeover by Cate, and Design Sponge, (Grace Bonney has been my design hero for years), shared my stenciled bedroom wall on her Instagram.

Here are the two StyleMutt projects as they were featured, (click on the photos to go right to the source)

These back-to-back features have just overwhelmed us with encouragement. The countless comments, emails, and new friends here to StyleMutt mean so much to us. Just last fall Cate and I invited our old Chelsea's Garage buddies, (the blog we previously posted under), to join us on a new adventure called StyleMutt. Now, 5 months later we feel confident that the Lord is driving this ride that we're on and we are absolutely having a ball. No matter how long you've been with us, we are so grateful for you. Your support means so much.

Whether you're a new friend or an old pal, we invite you to check out our new About page. It explains who we are, what we do and why we do. And when we're not doin', we're usually sipping wine and cracking each other up! We hope you'll continue to join us here at StyleMutt; we sure love your company and this inspiring community! You guys knock our socks off!

Thank you all so much for stopping by! Be sure to check back tomorrow for a Reader Design you won't want to miss!

Hi guys! Weekend is so close, can't you taste it?! We're celebrating a bit early with the news that one of our own rooms has been chosen for Apartment Therapy's Room for Color contest! It's such a pleasure to be considered among so many beautiful spaces and we are thrilled to even be one in the crowd of entries. There are some seriously lovely rooms, but we're a little bias to "Chelsea's Crisp White Canvas", (my living room)!

This contest has been going on for a couple months but our entry was just featured yesterday and voting ends tomorrow! SO, even though our relationship is very young and you're probably still testing the waters a bit we have a huge favor to ask of you. Would you vote for us?! I realize that's like us being the first to say "I love you" and you may need some time to think it over. Completely understand. Just follow your heart and if you feel so inclined, click on the picture ABOVE, scroll down to the red box, and click 'favorite'. We're quite late in the game at this point and it would be a tiny miracle if we made it to the final four of our category, (Light rooms), but if that happens we'll get a gift card to Sherwin Williams, which means more supplies to fuel our work!

If you don't vote and/or we don't make it to the final four, we'll still be here rockin' and rollin' for you. In fact, check back tomorrow for our first reader-shared post when Nicole shares her completely creative and energetic playroom! (Spoiler alert - She uses a shoe rack to hold her son's books. You're not going to want to miss this room chalk full of ideas!!)

Thank you so much for stopping by! (And thank you for voting!)