Sunday, March 17, 2013

Front Room - Mood Board to Reality!

Since I put my Mood Board together, we have been working hard (and shopping hard) to put our front room together.  We are not 100% but it has come a long way and looks like a real room now!   : )

Check it out!
 
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We started with a couch, I had wanted a herringbone tweed couch, and I figured we had no chance of finding that at one of the more discount places.  I figured we would either need to go to a more expensive place where you pick your style and then pick a fabric...or I would just need to go figure out another couch I liked.   But around New Years Ashley's Furniture was running a commercial and the couches looked nice, so we went to check it out.  And we found it!
A herringbone tweed couch!!! Yay! 
 
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The couch hung out all by it's lonesome for a while, but then a few weeks ago, we kicked it into high gear to get the room more ready for our housewarming party.
 
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I ordered pillow and curtains off Etsy and we got a rug and a coffee table. (More on those items in another post)
 
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Then after multiple trips to multiple Home Goods, I was able to find two matching turquoise end tables.  I had not planned on getting end tables, but they were too fab to not bring home!
 
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We still need to get a new floor lamp, but we found a table lamp at Home Goods too.  I had seen glass lamp bases on Pottery Barn and Shades of Light, but I didn't want to spend that much, so I went to Home Good with my fingers crossed there would be glass lamps!  And there was! woo hoo! Seeded glass just for me! (I had originally wanted a blue/turquoise/green one, but on the painted tables, I think clear works best anyway.)  It had a wicker shade on it, which neither of us cared for, so we bought a gray one instead.  The tones in the wicker actually worked in the room, but I still wanted the sleeker gray one. 
Does anyone want the wicker shade? Let me know, it is just chilling upstairs brand new.
 
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Once the basics were covered, I focused on getting a few knick knacks.  I got this metal globe and this awesome blown gas jar/vase at local gift stores.  I got frames from Target and Home Goods, which we got pictures in a few hours before our housewarming party! haha
 
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We still need two big comfy chairs (which shopping for has been a sore spot with me, I pride myself on hunting down bargain versions of the expensive stuff I like, and I fell flat with the chairs...so Ill try again in the spring...)  We also need some artwork and I would like to paint at some point.

And we got our fireplace fixed so this is the first weekend we have had a fire going and it is so lovely! I am blogging fireside right now! : )
 
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Hope you enjoy my front room!  Does anyone want to come over for lady drinks in our formal living room?????

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