I have loved showing several areas of our new home to all of you. I recently realized that I had overlooked one area that I have received many questions about…the bathrooms! It was important to me to create beautiful, peaceful, and comfortable spaces for all of us. I had a few different spaces to work with – a master bathroom for Matt and me, a bath for Brody, the girls’ Jack-and-Jill bathroom, and the guest bath. I knew that I wanted each of these to have a different, personal style. As I was narrowing my search for linens and accessories, it was an easy decision to use Weezie Towels. I had purchased products from them before and had been very happy with the quality. Weezie was kind enough to send me the bath mats I have featured below, and I love how each set and monogramming choice gave each room the distinct personality that I wanted.

Our Bathroom

These photos give a great look at the company’s newest product, the Weezie bath mat. It looks just gorgeous and elegant, but I really love the way it feels. It is just so plush – absorbent and quick drying – and so comfortable to step on after a bath or shower. It is such an everyday treat to have these new mats, along with matching towels, in our bathroom. Both Matt and I love the feel of the thick terry material.

Weezie has thought of everything – there are even subtle, non-slip textured dots hidden on the back of each mat, so that it will stay in place on the floor. Genius. There is also a standard hook attached to each, for easy air drying (my personal favorite feature on both the mats and the towels).

I love the variety of colors and fonts offered for monogramming – there are many options to get creative and make each space unique. I thought that this blue was such a calming color, and it’s perfect for a couple’s shared space.

Below, you can see the selection of hand and bath towels, all embroidered to match the bath mat.

The Guest Bathroom

I wanted this space to suit both feminine and masculine tastes, and to be very neutral, yet striking. I think we succeeded! The linens in this room, also from Weezie, are simply embossed in matching white, with the word “Guest.”

The Girls’ Jack-and-Jill Room

I absolutely love the way that the girls’ shared bathroom turned out. The pink “M” is perfect for Madelyn and Molly, and the font that we chose is both girly and age appropriate. The girls love to snuggle up in their towels after bath time! We went with smaller sizes for these bath mats, since they are sharing a double sink area. You can also see this size of mat next to the guest shower, above. There are so many options to suit every space.

Brody’s Bathroom

I was also thrilled with the selections for Brody’s bathroom. (I think you can tell by now…I love these products!) The navy trim and more masculine font of the monogrammed towels and bath mat pair well with the blue and gray tile, paint and accessories that we chose in this room. I think that this room will be perfect for him for many years to come…he won’t grow out of this style!

I love this company and was thrilled to partner with them as they launch their new bath mats and bath rugs. On their site, you will find so many more options to browse, just as I have! Their collection includes kids’ cover ups and hooded towels, several sizes of bath towels (sold individually and in sets), beach towels, robes, and more. We spend a lot of time in the water…I have a feeling that I’ll be a frequent Weezie shopper for a long time!

Thank you, Weezie Towels, for partnering with me on this post!

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  Summer is quickly approaching and I know lots of you are looking for a good outdoor makeover or refresh! I have found that a lot of things are back ordered these days, so if you are hoping to have things by Summertime, I would say you definitely need to start now.

And today starts the Frontgate Outdoor Furniture Sale! Up to 20% off outdoor furniture with no code necessary!

I have been dreaming about our outdoor space in this house for two years now and am so happy to see it all come together these last few months.  There are certainly still things we are missing and I am sure it will constantly evolve, but that is the fun in it.  Let me preface this by saying, outdoor furniture is sooo  expensive!!  I am going to share the items we have used so far, but please know, there are other great places to find outdoor furniture.  Target has been killing it lately, same with Walmart and places like Wayfair are also great!!  We live by the salt water, so I went with good quality products that I hope will last us a long time.  The salt air/water can just eat up outdoor stuff so badly.  So we have only been in our house since November, so I can only speak for our furniture for the last 6 months or so in this house.

We built this home with our outdoor space being a huge priority.  We always pictured wrap around porches all along the back and a nice covered porch in the front.  We have lived in our outdoor space and try to eat the majority of our dinners somewhere outside if at all possible!!

So here is a look at our spaces so far! I hope this is helpful!

As I have shared with you guys before, during our building process, I would make these design vision boards using Canva, to get a look at my ideas all in one place. I find this so helpful if you are looking to design certain areas of  your house!

Sofa and Chairs are by Kingsley Bate. It is the Sag Harbor Collection and our color is Oyster. 

This table was one of the the very first pieces of furniture that I knew I had to have for our outdoor space. I have just always loved it! It is extremely heavy which is very important for our outdoor space as we get high winds sometimes.  As much as I had fallen in love with some chairs from Serena & Lily to go with the table, I knew I needed chairs that were sturdy, easy to wipe down and heavy.  So we found these and have been extremely happy!!  I have linked our swivel chairs and sofa above.  I found these at a local furniture store and knew I wanted them.  The chairs are extremely comfortable and I love that they swivel and rock.  The sofa is great too, a little more stiff and not quite as comfy; but I’m still glad we purchased it.  This coffee table is great because again, it is very heavy!  Then our newest purchase is this little round table to go in the middle of the 4 swivel chairs and I am pretty obsessed.  It’s the perfect size and the top pops up and it is an ice cooler underneath!! Is that cool or what???

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So for our poolside space, I used the same line for our lounge chairs that I did for our outdoor dining room chairs.  I love them and am honestly happier than I even thought I would be with the comfort of them. I worried they didn’t look too comfortable, but they really are cozy.  I didn’t want to have to mess with cushions that I had to bring inside all the time and I needed something heavy still!  So these have been great.  I love these umbrellas so much with the pretty fringe and the shade of blue is just my favorite! The umbrella tables are so nice and heavy duty too!  These white chairs and loungers are sleek looking and awesome because they can be moved onto the sun shelf of our pool!! They were great in the pool and out of it!  We can even move one of the umbrellas onto the sun shelf in the pool with us too!  This big daybed lounger is currently still on my wish list.  My husband isn’t having it but I want it soo bad! The kids table and chairs are awesome and I love putting them out here for arts and crafts and outdoor dining! The chairs have held up so well and the table looks great; but since the top is teak, I will need to refinish it pretty often probably to keep it looking good since it stays in the outdoor elements 100% of the time.  I ordered a set of the monogram Weezie towels that I absolutely love and the colors matched perfect too!

Photo by Condon Optics

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Our side porch is definitely one of my favorite spots in the entire house.  I wanted this area to be an extension of our living area.  It is a small area with a fire place and a tv that we can sit and relax and serve as an extra family room when needed.   The grill is also in this space, so when Matt is grilling, the family or company can sit out here and keep him company.

Again, this sofa and chair set is something I had picked out from the get-go and knew I wanted to use for this space.  I loved the colors in the outdoor rug and let that set the tone for the living space.  We grabbed a few pillows and the space with basically complete.  I loved these side tables and this coffee table because of their looks and weight and I loved that our chairs swivel around to visit with people or to turn and watch TV.  This little kids table and chair set gets moved around from this little area and also to our playroom but I have loved it as well! My husband thinks my little wine bar console table is completely useless, but I love the looks of it and for parties, I like to utilize it for the outdoor space   We were originally going to hang this swing on the porch here but we ended up hanging it from a tree in our back yard.  It is so beautiful and whimsical.  So far it is holding up okay in the elements, but I am worried it will need some touch-ups along the way.

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Paint colors can be such a tricky process, but with the exception of one little problem we had with a color (I’ll explain that more in a moment), we really had an easy time with this.  My decorator, Lacy Phillips,  presented me with some great colors and we were able to make the decisions pretty quickly.   You guys have asked several times on social media about paint colors, so I thought I would share it all here for you in one spot!

Here’s a look at all of our colors and the rooms or cabinets that we used them in.  Our Simply White is the main color throughout our entire house.  When they put the first coat of our paint on the walls, I basically walked in and cried.  It was terrible.  It had a strong tint of green to it.  I lived with this through the building process for a long time knowing it was not right, but then also really worried about what it was going to look like when it was right.  The short story is that it is a Benjamin Moore paint that our painters had Sherwin Williams match and it was incorrect.  I don’t know how often that happens, but they did go back and get the paint from BM and it all turned out SO.MUCH.BETTER!!  So, I just wanted to share that experience in case you have something similar happen.

Let’s talk about Simply White for a bit… it is a beautiful color.  I have been SO happy with the end result.  I will say that simply white is a warmer white.  I think there was a good bit of time at the beginning of our project that I was very worried if it was “white enough” for me.  I didn’t want a creamy white, I wanted a bright white.  Our trim is painted simply white and so is our cabinets.  It is important to keep in mind that those whites can look a little different too because it is a different type of material that it is painted on, so I found that it could look slightly different.  All in all, everything came together BEAUTIFULLY, but I won’t say that I didn’t sweat this part quite a bit.  So, do you best to do your homework.  I often times have a filter or have edited some of the photos on instagram, so the white may look brighter there. Look at the photos below and I will mention if I have edited any of the photos below.

Simply White

• All walls in our house with the exception of the ones listed below – Painted in Flat sheen
• All Trim in the house – Painted in Satin Sheen
• Our entire exterior of house
• Kitchen cabinets
• Family Room built-in shelves

Mellow Pink

• Molly’s Bedroom
• Girls Jack and Jill Bathroom
• Girls Bathroom Cabinets

Yarmouth Blue

• Laundry Room Cabinets
• Pantry Cabinets
• Office Cabinets

Van Courtland Blue

• Mud Room Cabinets
• Brodys Bathroom Cabinets
• Bar Cabinets

Wickham Gray

• Master Bathroom Walls
• Master Bathroom Cabinets

Soft Chamois

• Brody’s Bedroom
• Brody’s Bathroom

Blue Porcelain

• Outdoor Shutters

Woodlawn Blue

• Guest Bathroom Walls
• Guest Bathroom Cabinets

This first photo below has been brightened and edited.  All the cabinets, walls, trim and doors are Simply White in this picture.

The rest of these photos are from the first night we slept in the new house.  They have not been edited at all and it was dark outside.

This is Brody’s Bathroom in Soft Chamois.

The girls bathroom and cabinets in Mellow Pink.

My bathroom and cabinets are Wickham Gray.

Our bedroom walls and ceiling are painted Simply White.

Cabinets in our bar are painted Van Courtland Blue.

Simply White

Van Courtland Blue on our lockrs

Guest Bathroom cabinets on the right is painted Woodlawn Blue

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I had plans to share this stuff with you guys months ago, but COVID and LIFE have definitely gotten in the way!  But if you follow me on social media, then you saw that we are currently installing the wallpaper in Madelyn’s bedroom; so I thought I would show you what her inspiration board looks like!!

I make my inspiration boards using Canva.com and use this site for most all of my blog collages and boards.   I wanted to give our interior decorator an idea of what I was thinking for each of the rooms in our house and I used these boards to show random items that I found, saved and liked.  That way I could show her what direction I was heading in each room and we could talk it out and let the rooms evolve from there.

So the first photo below is a look at Madelyn’s design board, but not necessarily all the items were using.  I don’t really have links for you on items, but just wanted to share the inspiration.

On this second photo below, I gathered the photos that I had found and loved that inspired me for the design board above.  This was by far my boldest idea of the whole house, but I just loved it.  I highly recommend using these design board ideas to really look at and plan a room.  It helps me so much to see all the items in one place and play around with different ideas and items!

All photos via Pinterest

Here is a look at her room while they are putting up the wallpaper! I can’t wait to show you guys the final product!  It looks better than I could even imagine!

I can’t wait to show you guys the final product once were moved in!!

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 Lighting has been one of the most fun things to shop for in the new house!  There are so many great lighting options and it can really make a big impact.  There was definitely a few fixtures that I have seen over the last year or two that I knew I had to use somewhere!  I was able to find places for a lot of them but even more that we didn’t have a place for.  I will try to share some of those below too! I have done my best to source lighting for you guys but since I am using an interior designer (Lacy Phillips Designs) on this project, there are some fixtures that I do not have a source for.  I will try to link as much as I can!

Guest Bedroom | Office (similiar)| Guest Bath | Entry way | Living Room | Master Bath | Playroom | Kitchen | Pantry | Laundry | Girls Bathroom | Mollys Room | Office | Dining (also here)| Madelyns Room (also here)| Flower Reading Nook | Bow Reading Nook

Living Room Lamps | My Closet | Master Bathroom Sconce (similiar) | Madelyns Lamps | Guest Bedroom Lamps | Stairwell Sconces | Dining Room Art Light | Mollys lamps (similiar) | Brodys Lamps | Master Bedroom Lamps

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I can’t believe it has been since September since I have given you guys an update on the house here.  This is pretty much a big photo dump of pictures that I will try to do some explaining.  I am hoping to be a little more organized from this point forward.   We started getting cabinets in the house last week and they are still coming in.  So I will do a more detailed post as that all comes together here in the next month.

Since my last post, we have been finishing up some of the exterior and getting the house painted.  The house is painted Simply White by Benjamin Moore.

They have been putting trim up inside, digging a pool, placing tile in the wet areas and putting the first coat of paint on the inside.  We have had an issue with our paint inside.  It is also Simply White by Benjamin Moore, but somehow we got a faulty batch.  So that will be getting fixed along the way.

Ill take you through the photos now…

Office right off the front door.

Tile from Cement Tile Shop in the Pantry and Laundry Room

Backyard and Pool

Brody’s Bathroom

Madelyn’s Room & Girls Jack and Jill Bathroom

Master Bathroom

Upstairs Laundry Room

Master Bedroom

Cabinet Sample Colors

Outdoor Tiles

View of kitchen/family room

Painters tape trying to lay out family room furniture

Brody’s bedroom

That pretty much sums it up lately!! As I said, we had an exciting week getting cabinets delivered this week. So I will post more on that soon.  Next up will be countertops and then hopefully our wood flooring and lighting soon!!  You can follow along on Instagram @homeofmalones and also @malonemaison where I will exclusively give house updates there!

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It has been MONTHS since I have given you guys new house updates on the blog and I apologize for that.  You can read my first Malone Maison post here from September and I promise to take some more pictures soon of the house and do a new update.  I do update more on my Instagram stories and have them saved under highlights.  One is NEW HOME and I just started a new one called HOME DECOR that I will save more of the design elements to.

I shared on Instagram some of the toughest decisions we have had so far while building our current house.  These are some items that have to be decided on fairly early on in the building process.  One item that I did forget here is PLUMBING FIXTURES.  That is definitely are really hard one to and one that has to be decided at the VERY beginning.  It is weirdly one of the first decisions you have to make because of the valves that have to be used in the slab and framing process.  We are using a mixture of polished nickle, gold and chrome!!  eeek! The rest of these were all tough decisions for me too!! The thing is that I liked them all…so having to choose just one for my house was sometimes super hard.  But we went with our gut and some great direction from our builder and decorator and made the decisions and stuck with it!

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Shingles vs Tin Roof

We didn’t get stuck on this one for too long.  Matt felt strongly about shingles and I was totally fine with that.  I do like the looks of a tin roof and for the type of style that our house is, you see a lot of houses with tin roofs.  But they look great with shingles too and I was totally fine with that.  Matt mostly doesn’t like the noise of tin roofs and I don’t think he particularly loves the look of them.  So that is totally a personal preference!

T W O

White Windows vs Dark Windows

This is another big one that you are seeing a lot right now and especially in the style house we are building.  When I say dark windows, they don’t have to be black.  They make some really pretty dark brown windows that I love too.  This was definitely one that I went back and forth on a lot.  One big thing to look at with this is whether you plan to have shutters or not.   A lot of times you see this dark window look with no shutters.  We have shutters on our house, so I took that into consideration.  Another big thing to think about is that when you go with dark windows, it means you have dark windows on the interior of your house too!! Now this is something that I see all the time and think is soo beautiful.  But it can make a pretty big statement on the interiors, so you just have to make sure that is the aesthetic you are going for! I don’t think there is any wrong answer here, but we chose white in the end because white is never going out of style.  Its just one of those classic things and we decided to keep it safe!

T H R E E

Inset Cabinets vs Overlay

Okay, this was a BIGGIE for me.  Matt totally didn’t care either way here and didn’t have much of an opinion.  He is a penny saver, so he may lean more towards overlay if he had to pick because it is the less expensive choice.   But, my main decision came from the fact that inset cabinets take away a lot of your cabinet space!  We do not have a HUGE kitchen in this house and I felt like we were already lacking a bit in the cabinet department, so despite the fact that I love the look of inset cabinets so much, I decided to go with overlay.   If you look closely at the photos below, the inset cabinets have the space around each of the drawers.  So you are losing inches on each side of the drawer by having it this way.  Hope this makes sense, but even though it is a small amount of space, it can be the difference of plates fitting in or not! When Jillian Harris did her remodel of her house, I remember that being her biggest gripe of her kitchen.  She did inset and she wished someone had told her how much space she was missing out on.

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Marble vs Quartz

This was definitely a big decision that I had to wrap my head around.  I went to instagram and asked for everyones opinion and let it be known that there are LOTS of opinions about this topic!  My basic struggle is that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE marble and to me, nothing really replaces it, but for the sake of my marriage and my husbands sanity; I chose to go with Quartz.  It is beautiful.  It is called Farrow Quartz and its from Superior Granite in Pensacola, but it is not marble.  My husband can not handle the etching and staining of countertops and doesn’t look at them as a beautiful life being lived, but rather the imperfection!! haha. I dont know how else to describe it, but those of you that have lived with marble and know….then you know what I mean.  From what I have heard from some, Quartz is not indestructible either, so we may end up learning that along the way too.  I really don’t know what the answer is here, but I went for the safer option and I will happily come back and share my opinion once we have lived with Quartz.  We are using marble in some of our bathrooms and other areas of our new house that are a little less likely to stain, so I am happy about that.  In our current home, we have a Rhino White Quartzite which is stronger than a marble but still porous.  We have had our fair share of staining with this as well!  But it is beautiful.  Best advice is to educate yourself on the different stones the best you can and then decide what is import to you.

F I V E

Antique Brass Hardware vs Flat Black

So I chose these two options because these are the two that I really narrowed it down to, but of course you could also include chrome or polished nickel hardware in there too!!   So in the beginning, I had told myself I was NOT going to go with brass.  It was too trendy, Matt didn’t really love it, and although I really like brass, I just didn’t want it everywhere.  Well, then….I came across a house that I just fell in LOVE with it in.  Like, I just started lusting over all the antique brass hardware all over this house that I saw.  And I started second guessing my decision obviously.  My feelings on chrome and polished nickel hardware is that they typically just disappear in the house.  To me, they just tend not to get noticed which can be really nice sometimes.  The antique brass and the black are a little bolder.  And I was pretty sure I wanted bolder.  On one of our weekend trips down to Seaside, we stayed in a townhouse that I loved and they had the black hardware and I loved the way it looked.  That is pretty much what helped me make up my mind.  Its so crazy because most people would NEVER even think about hardware.  You don’t even think of it or notice it unless you are looking for it yourself during a build or remodel!!!  So don’t kill yourself over thinking it ! haha.

So I hope this helps you guys!!! And I hope the takeaway from all this is still that you can’t go wrong with any of your decisions even though it can be so tough to make them!! All these choices are beautiful and we just have to decide deep down what it is we want.  And sometimes even with that, we just have to pick one because we really like BOTH!!

Coming soon, I will share Paint Colors, Lighting Choices, Mood Boards that I made throughout the house (but then have been tweaked with my decorator), and Tile Choices.  We are currently in the trim phase of the house, a base coat of paint is up, and soon we will be putting in tile in the showers and tub surrounds.  So fun things are ahead and I will bring you along for the ride!

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Definitely the most requested post lately has been an update on our new house. I’m sorry I haven’t sat down here before now and given you guys an update. This process has seemed so lo ng (since the time we actually purchased the property) that I guess I didn’t even know where to begin! So I am just going to start from the very beginning and try to keep it as brief as possible!

So we love the house we live in now (which I also documented our build back 6 years ago here), but we always knew that we would eventually move over into a smaller town (10 minutes from where we are now) called Gulf Breeze which is where I grew up from age 4 until high school graduation. The public schools are wonderful there and we love the tight knit community. We also knew that when we got over there that we would love to be on the water if we could.

So four years ago when I was pregnant with Madelyn, we just started looking at property. We found a lot that we liked but it fell through and then we came across this house. This house came with it’s problems but we were in love with the trees, the land and the gorgeous water views. The fact that it had a house on the property ended up being a bit of a bonus because we knew we were not building immediately, so we were able to rent it out for a few years before we tore it down. We closed on this lot the day I gave birth to Madelyn ( September 2015)! I was so nervous, but so excited at the same time!

June, two years ago, we started working on house plans with our home designer. That was a 14 month process. We tore down the house last July and cleared our lot. Then we got our final house plans last August and it was time to start building. Well it was hurricane season and the construction world was busy and it was the holidays by the time we started working on bids with our builder. Needless to say, it was April 2019 before we ever broke ground. My friends, the process is long! It’s a lot of work, exhausting and stressful at times, but also really fun. I know any of you that have gone through it can relate.

So I am here today to share the process. I am flattered that so many of you are interested. I will try to do a better job giving periodic updates. Hopefully we will be getting to some of the pretty stuff soon :). And I will also try to share some inspiration posts with guys because I know that is what ya’ll love to see anyway.

The lot is cleared and it was time for us to start building! (April 2019)

Our builder, Old South Construction, does an awesome job taking these drone views when the footers are poured. I love seeing the outline of our entire house.

Here is Matt with our builders, Stephen and Klein Miller (a Father-Son team), on the day we poured the slab.

Our framers were absolutely amazing. This is the day the first wall when up. These guys framed our entire house in like less than 6 weeks. It was incredible.

The windows below that our builder is sticking his head out of will be Brody’s bedroom.

In July, we had electricians, plumbers and the AC team all coming through the house to do their work “behind the walls.” We spent three hours one day walking the house with the electrician talking about where every light fixture and can would go and every light switch! You would never guess how much thought goes into that.

This is the view when you walk in the front door

This is the view a friend sent to me from a boat ride! Pretty darn cool.

And these photos below are the most recent. They have been working on putting up the board and batten and soffits so that we can get the roof finished and dried in.

You guys are so sweet to follow along. I have been using the hashtag #malonemaison (maison is house in french for anyone that may not know), so you can follow along with that and on my Instagram. And if you didn’t know where my blog name Home of Malones came from, it is actually what I chose when we were building our current home together! You can read construction updates from our current house here. It’s funny to look back through them.

You can follow along with our builder on Instagram @OldSouthPensacola and I am also working with Lacy Phillips Designs as our Interior Decorator. So lots of fun things to come and I’m excited to share it will you guys.

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