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Spring One Room Challenge Week Three: Trim Finishes and COLOR

Three weeks in and I’m starting to feel like I can *see* this room. (If you haven’t caught up on weeks one and two, you may want to do that first.) You know when you still have so much left to do, but all of a sudden there’s a point in a project where you can start to see your vision come to life? That’s where I am this week.

We finished last week with beadboard up on the wall and that was it. I had to do a lot of work to actually finish out the beadboard so it looked good, and even more to do before I could start getting paint on the wall, but I was determined to start getting color on this week. Thankfully Ethan was home this week and able to help me. I wouldn’t have gotten as much done as I did without him, but we made it with not a moment to spare!

Let’s walk through what we did this week.

First thing we did was add the chair rail to sit along the top of the beadboard. It immediately looks so much more professional with just that simple addition. It’s easy to gloss over all of the finish work, but it takes hours to fill nail holes, sand, caulk seams, and clean up in between each of those steps, so I don’t want to negate that work.

Once we completely finished the beadboard, we were ready to install picture rail. A lot of people don’t know what picture rail is, and if you had asked me a few years ago, I wouldn’t have known either. Picture rail is a type of decorative molding somewhere near the ceiling. Sometimes it’s installed right up close to the ceiling, mimicking the look of crown molding, and other times it’s installed 10-12 inches down on the wall. It’s most common in historic homes and in art museums. The profile of the rail or molding is round, and the purpose is to hang a round hook from the top to be able to hang and display art. In older homes it was common to have plaster walls, which are notoriously difficult to hang things from. Enter the solution. You can easily hang things without any nails, screws, etc. It’s super practical!

Since our second floor has nine foot ceilings, we decided to install it a little bit down on the wall, and our laser level came in handy…for demonstrating once again how nothing in this house is actually straight. If you look closely above the window you can see how the top of the window does not line up with the laser. Thankfully once I hang curtains you won’t be able to tell. Remember that because this room is totally crooked, I’m trying to give the illusion of straight visual lines.

So picture rail was hung (that was 100% Ethan, all I did was stand back and make sure it was lined up and pass the nail gun), caulked, wood filled, and sanded. I am so glad we added this, it is definitely in keeping with the historic feel of our home, and definitely helps with the traditional style I’m going for in this room. I also primed all the walls that had been floated last week.

Then, my dear friends, it was time to start painting. I don’t usually do this, and certainly can’t recommend this, but I did not want to waste time with painting different samples on the walls, so I picked straight from the chip and oh.my.gosh. I am in love.

This is after just one coat of Behr Equestrian Green (we love to see a paint color name on theme!). I did paint a second coat since this photo was taken. It’s my first time painting a colored ceiling and I’m wishing I had done it sooner! I also decided to extend the color on the wall above the picture rail as well, which I’m really pleased with.

So, that’s the update. The next weeks will be painting myself into oblivion, as there is so much painting yet to do, but I’m really excited to keep you posted. Make sure you check out the other bloggers who are doing the One Room Challenge, things are starting to get really good! That’s it for today, have a fabulous day!

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Spring One Room Challenge Week Two: Old House Challenges

I can’t believe we are already onto the second week of the One Room Challenge! If you missed last week’s post with the design plan for the space, be sure to check it out here. I have been hard at work this week, feeling both frustrated and excited.

My first task was to float the walls along the upper section of the room with joint compound. This room has an “orange peel” texture that’s pretty common in homes here in the south, as well as in new construction. It’s not appropriate in a historic home, and I personally just don’t like the look of it, so I decided to smooth it out. It requires a large putty knife and lightweight joint compound, and it’s akin to frosting a large cake.

Once it’s applied I had to sand, which was a serious arm workout. It’s an underestimated task to be sure, but it’s not technically difficult.

Then came the head scratchingly difficult part. In typical old house style, the room is completely unlevel. The floor on one side of the room is two inches higher than the other side, making the entire wall slanted. I wanted to add beadboard to the lower portion of my wall, but it wasn’t as simple as measuring the height from the floor up and making straight cut across. I wanted to give the illusion of a straight line, so that meant each piece had to be cut at a slight angle. I don’t know if this is even making sense. It barely made sense to me. I purchased a laser level, and it was my saving grace for installing these beadboard panels at a straight-looking-but-not-actually-straight height.

For the first portion of the week, Ethan was out of town working, so I was attempting to figure out how to get everything installed correctly by myself. Needless to say, once he returned from his trip and was able to help me, things went a lot more smoothly.

We finished up the beadboard late last night, and although it’s not pretty progress, I do think it will be the most laborious and difficult part of the process, so I’m glad to have it checked off the list during the first week.

Next, I will need to fill nail holes and sand the beadboard to prep it for paint, then install the chair rail that will sit on top of the beadboard, and the picture rail that will sit higher up on the wall. Those will hopefully go much quicker than my beadboard install (and I really hope I don’t come back next week completely regretting these words)!

Now, I have to get back to work, but be sure to check out some other projects being completed this season over on the One Room Challenge Blog. There are some projects that I really can’t wait to see come to life! That’s it for today, friends. Have a fabulous day!

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Spring One Room Challenge Week One: The Plan

They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? So here I am once again, changing a kid’s space to make room for another baby. My youngest is getting booted out of the nursery, so we will be having our two children share a room for the first time. To get them excited about the transition, I knew I wanted to do something special in the room. The trick here is that our almost four year old boy and our almost two year old girl will be sharing, so I didn’t want it to be too boyish or too girlish. I also wanted to take into account my kids’ likes and interests while blending them with each other and still fitting in to the rest of the house.

I’m excited to share the design board for the space, which will be along the lines of a “traditional-English Country-but-still-sophisticated-for-a-toddler” space. Our home was built in 1895, so you know I just can’t bring myself to anything too trendy.

This room is actually my son’s current room. It was his nursery which we hastily threw together in the few weeks between the time we moved into the home and the time he was born. As he got older and transitioned out of a crib, we brought in a bed, and took out the rocker, but that was about it. We never did much to make a “big boy room.” The light fixture is still a broken ceiling fan that was there when we moved in and never replaced. It’s long overdue for a makeover, and since it’ll soon be housing both my son and my daughter, I figured this was the perfect time. I’m super excited to be working on this space over the next several weeks and finally bring this room to a fully finished space.

As you can see, it just kind of looks like a collection of things that got added slowly over time, and not in a good way. It’s haphazard instead of intentional. I do plan to reuse some of the things in the room, but a lot more is coming.

Be sure to follow along as I make this room into a room I hope both my toddlers will be excited about. I also can’t wait to see what other DIYers are doing in their spaces, and plan to follow along with them too! I’ll be sharing lots of real time updates on Instagram, and weekly progress reports here too. That’s all for today, have a fabulous day!

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Vintage Style Planters for Spring

Spring is definitely in the air lately, and it seems gardening is the only thing on my mind. I have started my herb seedlings indoors, and I’m anxiously awaiting temperatures warm enough to get them in the ground. I also have been gifted some lovely flowers lately, which I’ve repotted into some of my vintage planters that I’ve gathered at estate sales over the years. They’ve got me absolutely itching for warmer weather!

I usually do several planters, two of which I flank on either side of my front porch steps with a simple fern. Is there anything more classic? While my fern pots sit empty waiting for warmer weather, I’m also thinking about how I can improve my garden beds this spring. It’s a goal of mine to grow in gardening expertise.

I’m always looking out for planters when I’m at estate sales and thrift stores, and I have found all of mine this way, but the thing about thrifting is that is takes time and patience. If you’re looking to spruce up your porch or patio for spring, I found several classic and traditional style planters that would totally mix in with vintage pieces. These are a range of price points and materials, but there are a few I have my eye on as I’m planning my garden for the year.

  1. Black Square Urn
  2. Round White Planter
  3. White Plastic Pots (Set of 2)
  4. Whitewash Urn
  5. Black Cast Stone Urn
  6. White Moss Stone Urn
  7. Square Planter Box
  8. Gray Resin Planter
  9. Gray Concrete Urn

Happy almost spring, and happy gardening! That’s all for today friends, have a fabulous day!

House Progress

Our Black House REVEAL!

After almost four years of living in this house, it finally has a fresh coat of paint! It’s been a long time coming, and we are so excited to finally have it done! I talked about different ideas we had here, and shared what we decided on here.

I wish we were further into the spring season, because these photos will really pop against lots of fresh greenery. We are in the drab brown of winter still, but I just couldn’t wait to show you guys the new look!

We used Sherwin Williams Black Magic for all of the siding, Tricorn Black for the trim, and Aleutian for the porch floors and ceilings. Everything was done in a satin finish, as was recommended by multiple painters for a couple of reasons. One, it will hopefully collect less dirt and dust than a flat finish, and two, it will give some reflection against the hot Texas sun come summer time. We are anticipating some warmer temperatures from the dark color come summer, but it was a risk we were willing to take to get the look we were going for. Now, let’s get to those before and after photos, shall we?

From my best estimates, the yellow was done in the early 90’s, and routinely touched up until about fifteen years ago. The lifespan of exterior paint in this climate is about 10 years, so it was definitely past its prime.

To have this side porch finally look like a connected and finished piece of the house is so meaningful to us. In the oldest photo we have of our house (1983), the porch was boarded up with plywood. When we purchased the house, it was covered with a thick smoke colored plexiglass as a sort of sun porch. It’s barely visible in this photo below, from the weekend we closed on the house. We tore down the plexiglass and the drywall that covered exterior siding right away, but were waiting to fully restore the porch until we painted the house. It’s been an eyesore as long as we’ve lived here and it feels so good to have it back as it was intended!

There is still a bit of work to do. I need to do some work to repair the front door and give it a fresh coat of shellac (it is dryyyyyyy as a bone but I wouldn’t let the painters touch it). Come spring, I need to get some plants in the ground to freshen up the porch and bring it to life.

Overall, I could not be more pleased with how it turned out. It was certainly a bold choice, but we absolutely love it. It’s a fresh take on an old house that leaves all the historic elements intact, and that’s all I could ever hope to accomplish. Thanks for cheering me on and sharing your thoughts during the process, it’s certainly been a long road to get here. That’s all for today friends, have a fabulous day!

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Our Exterior Design Plans

If you’ve been following along with our house progress, we’ve talked on and off about painting the exterior of our home for quite a while. It was second on a list of larger projects, and so after some foundation work that we had done last fall, we were ready to turn our attention to the exterior. We’ve known since we first bought the house that it would need some fresh paint. The yellow is not my favorite, but more importantly than that, it hasn’t been even touched in over fifteen years, and I’m not sure when this coat was put on to begin with.

A year ago, I was thinking and dreaming up ideas for the colors, and wrote about it here. Now that we’ve had some time to think it through (I’d say a year to mull it over is a good amount of time!), we’ve decided to go with….. black on black monochrome!

The work is scheduled to begin in just a few weeks! I’ll share the exact colors we’ve landed on when it’s finished, which I’m hoping will be early spring when everything is turning green. It’s all dependent on weather though, so fingers crossed everything works out.

I know it’s a very bold color choice and certainly very trendy at the moment. This is the type of project that I think it’s okay to be trendy with. Hear me out. The act of painting a wood siding house in itself is not contentious, like painting antique brick or painting quality hardwood floors. Exterior siding needs to be painted, and it has a pretty short shelf life because of its exposure to the elements. It’s not something that you can do once and leave for fifty years. During the course of this project we will be repairing a lot of rotted trim, replacing decorative trim pieces that have been removed, and tidying up some remnants of old renovations that don’t quite make sense (For example: why is there drywall on the ceiling of a porch? Drywall doesn’t belong outside!). So while the color itself is trendy now, the work and care that are going to go into the outside of the house will leave it in better condition than it is currently in. And, in ten to fifteen years if we decide we don’t like it anymore, that’s okay, because it’ll be time for fresh paint anyway.

Over the course of the last couple of years, I have had people ask if we’re planning on doing the work ourselves. While that’s maybe a compliment to our abilities, we’re hiring this out completely. We technically could do the work ourselves, but we aren’t really interested. Ethan has a full time job, plus a job at the church, so he works six days a week. I am home with little snippets of free time during naps and after bedtime, so while it might technically be possible for us to do it, it honestly would take the better part of a year to complete it (not to mention constantly renting a lift…our house is very tall!), and I just am not interested in doing it.

I hope to share more about it soon once things are rolling. I can’t wait to show you all the end result! That’s all for today, Have a fabulous day!

Thrifting

The Case for Secondhand Holiday Shopping: Ideas for everyone on your list!

The holiday season is nearly upon us, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, this year retailers and news outlets are urging us to shop early because of supply chain issues. This should absolutely be a factor when considering your shopping, but what if there was another way we could shop without having to worry about the supply chain issue at all?

Thrifting has been a big part of my life since high school, and of course there are lots of benefits including budget and the opportunity to find rare or one of kind items. It hasn’t been until recently that I’ve realized the environmental impact of shopping secondhand. When we buy something secondhand, not only are you saving something from a landfill, you’re also not contributing to the carbon emissions that are created by the manufacturing and shipping of items that can be bought in big box stores.

I know it might feel weird or cheap to purchase something secondhand as a gift, but I think it’s actually a very environmentally conscious thing to do. As we are all focusing our efforts more and more onto the effects of climate change, I think we will see this as an option that grows more and more popular in the years to come. And when done thoughtfully, no one will even question it!

So, without further ado, here are some ideas of things to keep an eye out for when you’re thrifting for everyone on your list!

For The Kids:

  • Books, books, books.
  • Classic Toys (think wooden blocks, Lincoln Logs, anything that can be/is clean and in good condition. Look past the packaging, you can always give it in a fresh basket or box)
  • Halloween costumes or character specific clothing for dress up play
  • Puzzles (this is easier with younger age puzzles that are easy to tell if the pieces are all present, otherwise I would only buy unopened boxes)
  • Trinket boxes (I don’t know about you, but my kid is thrilled with the idea of a special place to store his “treasures” of rocks and shells)
  • Play Tea Sets

For a Female Friend/Sister/Spouse:

  • Also books! Hardcover coffee table books are easy to find in many varieties of interests.
  • Jewelry: This may not be for everyone, but vintage costume jewelry can be fun, affordable, and super stylish for the right person
  • Home Decor items: baskets, unused candles and candlesticks, clocks, vases, pretty serveware, etc. This may require you to know the taste of the recipient pretty well, but can be an incredibly thoughtful gift.
  • Purses + Bags: vintage bags are usually much more well made, and remain in style much longer. You can get something like this professionally dry cleaned, and it’s as good as new!
  • Clothing: again, this might not be for everyone, but for the right person can be a real winner. A good place to start is with sweaters.
  • Anything specific to that person’s interests (for example, if someone gifted me a blue and white vase, I’d be over the moon!)

For a Male Friend/Brother/Spouse:

  • Also books! Noticing a trend here?
  • Wallets
  • Records: this doesn’t apply just to men, but could be for any music lover, really!
  • Vintage flasks/Thermoses
  • Knives: this applies to a very specific recipient, and might have different laws surrounding the purchase of in different states, but some vintage pocket knives are very cool
  • Watches: you can always have them cleaned and/or repaired at a local jeweler
  • Golfing equipment: this would require some knowledge (that I do not posess), but I have never seen a thrift store without golf clubs. If you’re looking for something specific, you could always try eBay.

Inlaws/Parents/Grandparents:

  • Books. You know I had to.
  • Picture frames: if you have kids, framed family photos of the grandkids are always sweet.
  • Tea set or decorative dishes
  • Ties
  • Belts
  • Sweaters
  • Scarves

Neighbors/Teachers/Service People:

  • Coffee Mugs: add a Starbucks gift card and you’re golden
  • Vintage Cookie Cutters: gift with a dry mix for cookies
  • Unique Plates and Platters: gift these with cookies or other baked goods, and you won’t have to purchase a cheap throwaway container
  • Pots: gift with tulip bulbs or herb seeds for someone to grow on their own

I hope that gave you lots of ideas for things you can be looking for! If you don’t have time to hunt in person, there are always sites like Thrift Books, Chairish, Etsy, eBay, even Goodwill sells online! Don’t forget to look for cute giftwrap, giftbags, ribbon, and baskets to gift your items in while you’re shopping. Let’s reduce our carbon footprint a little bit together this holiday season, and give something more meaningful. That’s all for today, have a fabulous day!

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Free Downloadable Art Prints for Fall

Hi! Glad you’re here! It’s September first, which naturally means it’s unofficially fall. Pumpkin spice, hats, scarves, boots, baking, hay rides, bring it on! Just kidding. It is still in the upper nineties where we live in Texas, so none of those things are in our immediate future, but we can still pretend, right?

I don’t really decorate much any more for fall (I save my energy for Christmas), but I did get curious today about looking through some free public domain art to download. It’s easy to print for at home use, stick it in a frame, and call it fall decor. It’s fall decorating for the non decorators.

I found six prints that I would put in my home, and figured I’d share them with you guys. God bless museums that offer free public domain art online, amirite? It takes some digging to find good ones, so I did that work for ya. Click through some of the following links to download your own art for free. You’re welcome.

Autumn, Bruce Crane

Autumn Landscape, Du Bois Fenelon Hasbrouk

Autumn at Arkville, Alexander H. Wyant

Candlestick Representing Autumn, Giuseppe Barberi

Woods in Autumn, Frederic Edwin Church

A Maple Tree, Autumn, Frederic Edwin Church

These are a few of my favorites I found while browsing. You can easily print them at home, or send them in to your local drugstore that does photo printing. Easiest decor ever! That’s all for today, have a fabulous day!

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Secondhand Shopping: Estate Sale Tips

You all know my love of a good thrift store. I’ve talked about thrifting for years, along with flea markets. I love a good deal, the thrill of the hunt, yada yada yada. But within the last year or two, I really have come to love estate sales as my secondhand shopping method of choice.

Estate sales are their own beast, and I have learned a few things while shopping that I wanted to share with you! An estate sale is typically done when an individual passes away and the family members hire a company to sell the items directly from the person’s home. This can sometimes happen if a family is moving and taking very little with them, they may choose to sell many of their belongings, but the passing of an elderly person seems to be most common. This means that a company has come in and gone through the items in the home (after family members have removed sentimental items) and organized them for a sale. What makes this better (in my opinion) than a garage sale is that everything was used by the individual in the home. It’s not just the junk they didn’t want anymore and decided to toss out. And as is the case with many elderly people, there may be items present that were in the home for 50+ years, so they are a great place to find vintage!

I love to go to walk through the house. You get a sense of how the home was decorated (though things will be moved around and set for the convenience of the sale), what types of things the inhabitants of the homes collected, they overall style. At a thrift store you don’t get to see how the drapes worked with the paint color, or what rug was paired with a certain piece of furniture, you only see items in isolation. Plus it’s fun just to walk through a house to admire its architectural details (surely I’m not the only one!).

So, now that I’ve convinced you to go to an estate sale, here’s the things I’ve actually learned.

First, browse online beforehand. This doesn’t always work, because not all companies list their sales, but I use estatesales.net as a search engine. You can sort by zipcode, and you’ll be able to see what company is putting on a sale near you, the dates, times, usually lots of photos, and any pertinent details about the sale.

Plan to go multiple times. This actually depends on your strategy and your pain price point, but there are advantages and disadvantages to going at the beginning of the sale as well as the end of the sale. If you go right when the sale opens, you have a better chance of scooping up a particular item you came for (if you saw something in the listing you liked). On the flip side, if you go later in the sale, you’re more likely to get a deal. I like to go early in the sale, and I may grab something if it’s something I truly wanted/needed/came specifically for it. Then I’ll go again if it’s nearby toward the end of the sale. Estate sales are generally several days long. While every company has their own policy, most will lower prices on most items incrementally down to 25, 50, even 75% off as the end of the sale gets closer to close. I like to find out when they’ll be lowering their prices, and then come again to see what’s left. You are of course risking losing out on something here, but it depends on what your price pain tolerance is.

Make a bid on something! This only works for higher price point items, and every company does it differently, but you can leave a bid on an item for below asking price, and if it’s still available at the end of the sale, you might be the lucky bidder! My strategy here is always to bid just under the lowest percentage off I know the sale will go to. For example, if an item is $100, and I know they will be going down to 75% off in the final hours, I may leave a bid for $20. If it’s still available at the end of the sale and didn’t sell for $25, they’re going to be a lot more likely to take my offer. It seems laughably low, but you never know! Some places will have a bid box where you can drop you information, others you will have to give your information and bid to someone directly.

Get friendly. If you start frequenting sales in the same area, chances are you’re going to come into contact with the same estate sale company time and time again. Be chatty, friendly, like them on Facebook, etc. Ask about upcoming sales in the area. You never know what inside scoop you might get with a little kindness!

Cash, cash, cash. Most people take car now, but either way, it’s always good to have some cash on hand if the wifi is down/card reader isn’t working, etc.

Are you an estate sale shopper? What tips do you have that I missed? I’d love to hear! That’s all for today, friends. Have a fabulous day!

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We Paid off All Our Debt! How living on a budget helped define my design style

If you follow me on Instagram, you saw that as of this week, we officially paid off all of my student loans and other consumer debt. It was a big deal for us. I went to a private christian university that was very expensive. At eighteen years old I did not have the forethought to consider how the loans would affect me entering my adult life. There are a lot of things I would have done differently given the opportunity to do it all again. Coulda shoulda woulda. I figured in case anyone was interested, I would share a bit about our story in general, how we did it, some tips/tricks, and since you all are here for house content, how living on a budget affected my design style.

For some context, I got married six months after college at age 22. So from the moment I had to start paying on my loans, I was working with a (albeit fairly small) dual income. Unfortunately, I have no experience with being a young single professional trying to pay off debt, but I think a lot of the same principles can apply. We loosely followed Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps. I say loosely because he advises not purchasing a home (if you don’t already own one) until your debt is paid off. We obviously did not do that. But we had almost 100k in a small credit card, one car loan, medical bills, and a majority student loans. It took us six years. That’s a long freaking time.

One thing we did was set a very intentional budget each month. We designated an amount for every expense we had. This form is a really helpful starting point. (By the way, none of this is sponsored, this is just what helped us!) The most important thing was deciding what was important and spending our dollars there. That might be different for everyone. If spending quality time out with friends is important to you, set aside an amount you’re willing to spend on that, and write it in the budget! Then, boom. You get to spend guilt-free money going out! Just don’t overspend in that category, and you have nothing to worry about.

One thing that helped us make sure we didn’t overspend in different categories was using a cash envelope system. In my wallet I have an envelope with cash for groceries, household items, entertainment, and personal spending money. This helped me make sure I wasn’t blowing my budget because I could clearly see how much money was left for the month. Personal spending money was vitally important because I never felt guilty about roaming Target as long as I had cash in my envelope. And you can bet your bottom dollar that if I had extra grocery money on my last grocery shopping trip for the month, I was going to spend $20 on a cookie cake. It’s not about depriving yourself, it’s about having a plan.

When we were writing our budget, everything extra on top of all of our normal expenditures went toward debt. There were months (before kids lol) that we would make an $2,000 payment toward our debt. Now, that’s not to say every month was perfect. There were long periods of time when things were really hard or we had to put a pause on things. We needed a new truck, so we saved up cash for a few months and didn’t pay anything extra on loans. We needed medical intervention to start a family. That cost us a lot of money. When we actually had our first child, those medical expenses were high (don’t get me started on the the high cost of healthcare in this country). We experienced a job loss and lived on one income for about a year and were just barely making it. There were normal highs and lows, but that’s part of the reason it took so long. We had to stay motivated through long periods of lows, and it was really freaking hard. I stay at home now, but for the first 18 months of my son’s life I was teaching full time and had a pretty high daycare bill. It ate quite a bit into our budget to be honest. But it all came down to the budget. We wrote in line items for formula, diapers, baby clothes, all of it. Kids are expensive, no way around it.

It was hard to stay motivated at times, I’ll be honest. Six years is such a long time. But we constantly reminded ourselves of how much easier life would be without these extra payments lying around. Once our kids were born, we knew it would be so much better for them growing up to grow up in a household where money isn’t a stressful topic. That’s what kept us going.

At the risk of making this the longest post I’ve ever written, I did promise to discuss how living this way has affected my design style, so I wanted to touch on that. Every month I would spend my “spending cash” on house stuff. But I wanted to stretch my spending money as far as it would go, hence the love of thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Why would I pay $200 for a dining chair at Target when I could buy a whole set of higher quality dining chairs at a thrift store with a little patience and persistence for $40? (That is a real example, by the way.) And shopping secondhand made me appreciate classic, traditional pieces that were different from what was trending at the big box store. I had to practice a lot of patience and be content with what I had in the interim, but I’m grateful for the forced exercise in self control.

Does any of that make sense? I feel like I both rambled on and on and also barely scratched the surface. If you have questions, let me know. That’s all for today, friends! Have a fabulous day!