September 5, 2014
Welcome to those of you who may have clicked over from our Southern Weddings, Southern Newlywed feature this morning! We hope you were inspired to save and work hard to have a little slice of heaven of your own 🙂 If you’re interested in seeing more of our house that wasn’t shown… click the links below! Summer #2: You’ll see our master bedroom here. Finishes: You’ll see the custom, navy sectional we ordered here for the loft The to-do list (some of which is done now!) A progress shot from last September If you’re curious, I’ll be posting a full run-down next week of how we saved to build this hose and exactly how much it costs us… so stay tuned! Happy Friday, the weekend’s so close, I can smell it!
August 20, 2014
We’ve officially been in the house over a year! It seems like yesterday we were near death moving the fridge up the stairs…. There’s been lots of updates since then, but I thought I’d catch them all up here…. *Yes, we are still renting the house* PS: Ignore the foul stitching of these images, some of them are a little wonky after stitching multiple images together! We’ve been holding out on purchasing a sofa for the loft since its not a space we use a lot. We found one we liked in April and ordered it, it was delivered in May and we still love it! Another item we held out purchasing were barstools. We kept thinking we would purchase something directors-chair-esque, but when these stumbled across my computer, I was sold! I’m part of a Facebook group called Re-Lilly, where you can buy & sell new or used Lilly Pulitzer items. The page administrator got wind that the Lilly Pulitzer Home line manufacturer was going under, and all the remaining inventory was being sent to the Charlotte Re-Store! This included their bar-stools! I snatched them up at about a 75% discount. They also came in white, and while that would normally be my go-to, I decided to add a little sunshine to the kitchen instead. After a year of waiting, Jeremy finally got my tv hung over the tub in the master bath. There’s been lots of bubbly soaking-wine drinking-HGTV-watching going on since! (note the wall still needs patching… grr!) A chandelier debocle landed us with this one from World Market (no longer online). The wiring is a little funky, so we need to fix it and shorten the chain (you can’t see in the photo here, but we have it hooked up) – but it’s a vast improvement over the light-bulb hanging out of the ceiling (which we still have in the guest room….) I finally finished the “curtains” for the loft beds (they’re actually thin blankets from Ikea…. same as the ones on the bed) and got them up (although Jeremy didn’t secure the rods to the brackets and they came crashing down this past weekend…. add that to the to-do list!) We also still need to add the handles to the bed drawers. A few more… I want to find prints to hang above the bed, and I have these sconces picked out to hang above the nightstands. The mirror needs to be hung in the guest bath… but that involves moving the light higher….
June 3, 2014
One of big ticket items we held out to purchase was furniture for the loft. Since it’s the least used space we figured we could wait a little longer (and save up) to furnish it. About 2 months ago I stopped in Furnitureland South to see the Klaussner sofas that I was told they carried. It’s a huge place, so I asked where to find them so I didn’t waste any time. I spotted the Fuller sofa, and knew it was pretty perfect. I took Jeremy back the next weekend and he agreed. We went up to the ordering floor and picked out the fabric and made our order! Then we waited…. about 6 long weeks before hearing it was done and ready for delivery. I didn’t particularly love their delivery scheduling, they initially call and give you a certain one week window and you let them know what days would work within that window. Then they call back with the exact date and time…. if it doesn’t work, you have to wait until their next round. (this may be different for local deliveries, but not for the coast). I don’t know how to improve this process though. After attempting to reschedule and it not working out, I raced to the beach on Friday afternoon to meet the truck by 6. The delivery guys were awesome and were in and out in less than 30 minutes! It’s super cozy and lounge-y… I love it!! I’m now on the hunt for a sofa table, since there’s not really room for a coffee table. I’ve seen one I like at Homegoods, now to track one down! We also need some kind of tv stand or something. ……Ignore the stack of outdoor cushions behind the sofa A few other updates: After a chandelier debacle, we ended up with this awesome World Market one (don’t worry, we’ll tend to that extra wire eventually), I finally got the 2nd chair’s slipcover made (and it looks way better than the first one, eh) and my Kate Spade lucite tray found a home on our media console! Over the late winter/early spring I made a pair of pinch pleat drapes for the living room. I’m pretty proud of them! I had planned to do 2 panels on each window, but then realized that might look a little heavy right next to the tv (and the in-wall speakers are there too) so we opted to just do single panels and I really like them. I want bamboo blinds for these windows, but they are an odd size, so we need to have some specially made…. read $$$! They look a little gray here, but have a blue undertone and a blue stripe in them.And finally, these little guys are back for the summer! They camp out in the guest room and kennel shutters!
