CG's New Apartment: The Bedroom

 Well now....where did I leave off ?

We last left our College Grad  "CG"

with her living room and dining area completed

We have spent $3,580 dollars of our furniture allowance and have about $3000 dollars left to finish the new apartment

On our next shopping day we hit

West Elm

CG had seen this bed before and really thought it was cute...

 the price was definitely great at $359 dollars. 

 We purchased a new mattress at Sears with a pillow top for $300 dollars  

and didn't have to buy a box spring!

Since the bed doesn't have a head board but we found this really fun vintage "crazy quilt"

and will use it at the top of the bed frame draped over a basic wood curtain rod.

It cost us $79 dollars for the quilt and $20 dollars for the rod and hooks

CG wants to buy Matteo linens for her bed

 but we need to see how much money 

we have left at the end, before we spring for expensive linen sheets

We only have room in the bedroom for one side table and need some storage for books, magazines and little odds and ends.  

We hit Urban Outfitters and bought this great Market Basket table 

 for $179 dollars.  

The lid flips open and you can stash things in the basket!

Back to West Elm....we both fell in love with this owl lamp. 

 It is really whimsical and different....$99 dollars

I suggested we put a rug in the bedroom over the carpet to give it a little more warmth.  I ordered this ticking striped cutie from Dash and Albert...$208 for a 6x9

 Also from West Elm we purchased this raffia/sea grass wrapped mirror 

for over the dresser...it was a bit pricey at $249 dollars.....

but we can use it down the road in a lot of other areas

 if we want to

Our next two items 

were the big ticket items

I really wanted CG to have an 

antique "something"  

A piece that she can say down the road...

"that was my first antique and I still love it today"

The dresser above totally fit the bill

 and we negotiated a great price at a consignment store of $500 dollars

The room needs a nice place to sit or to toss her purse, coat and scarf...

CG loves to shop on Overstock and she found this great club chair in a neutral linen 

for $420 dollars

We can use this chair in the living room if we want 

because the fabric is really similar to the sofa we purchased 

at World Market

And finally just to add a nice pop of color

 a lamp for the dresser area 

from West Elm called the Mia table lamp 

it sells for $129 dollars

We can swap out the lamps from the living room and the bed room 

if CG gets bored 

and wants to move things around.

read about the living room here

and the dining area here

And here is how CG's bedroom turned out

below

Now lets see how we did with our money

Living room $1975 dollars

Dining area $1625 dollars 

and our Bedroom came in at $2533 dollars

So our total furniture bill was $6133...and we really got a lot of great things! 

but don't forget we need $3000 for rent and 

$500 dollars for move in miscellaneous expenses 

which puts our grand total at:

$9633 dollars

 but here is the good news....we came in under our budget by $367 dollars

CG will put the extra in the bank and start saving 

for some beautiful new linens for the bed

E-Design is such a great tool and can really help to visualize the end result of your project

If you would like more info just drop me an email 

and I will send you out a packet of information with all of things you will need to know

Hope you are looking forward to a wonderful relaxing weekend....

cheers, Kelley

Kitchen Design Details

Sometimes it is hard to visualize all of the components 

of a project and how they will work together

Which is why

 I always do numerous project boards

  

When I put an item on the board I immediately know whether

 it is going to work or not

& and if not....delete!

I chose the Thermadore Dual Fuel

6 burner 

I know...it was a safe choice 

but this is a gorgeous stove

 I ended up purchasing the vintage French granite ware pendants 

but almost bought 

the aqua safety glass beauty below

 guess what?  When I included it into the mix on the project board

it looked really odd

so...delete

We are using a mix of stone for the counters

Some will be carrera and some will be soapstone

Our floors throughout the house are 

reclaimed pine

I think it is important to inclued your floor choice

 when making big design descisions

 This kitchen is really very modern

but remember I have lots of great vintage goodies

 to toss in at the end

Here is my completed project board

for your consideration!

Holiday Table Ideas

Can you believe

it?

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away

A wonderful and generous fellow blogger Susan, asked me to share some ideas of what I might use this thanksgiving for a table center piece.

The idea was to have some sort of a "coastal" feeling..but there was not a shell or a piece of driftwood to be had that day, 

so I did my best with "coastal inspired" colors.

I had these really pretty dyed quail eggs and thought that  they might be fun to use

This is just a little wood salad bowl with some stones,  

carrot tops and some society garlic blooms from the yard

The main centerpiece is in an old French baguette basket which I filled with dried artichokes and butterfly bush blooms

The old camp blanket over the chair was going to be the table cloth but it was just too busy...but the colors are great!

The huge succulent box spends all year on this table 

so why mess with a good thing!

Plus...it's kinda heavy.

I put a few more of the blue eggs in an abandoned birds nest and just layered the rest of the  greenery along the length of the basket

The place mats and napkins are simple ticking in black and white 

and a bit of that robins egg blue color that you see in the little eggs

I stuck in a few pepper berries from a California Pepper tree in the front yard,

Very festive!!!

I really like to do tables for the holidays...which is pretty much the only time I do them.

It forces me to get creative with what I have just laying around and things that are blooming in the garden.

I always think you can't go wrong with the colors found in nature

Susan wrote an article about this which you can read here.

She included many of my favorite blogger friends too, 

and their ideas are really wonderful...it will get you inspired!

Be sure to check out Susan's blog...you won't be disappointed.

Thanks for checking in and have a great week!

kelley