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Porch Time!

May 7, 2013

Hey guys, Just wanted to let you know that awesome stuff is happening here!! The weather has finally turned and the kids and I are enjoying every minute of it. I haven’t been tied to the computer in days, and I’m loving it. We are spending every waking minute in the porch or backyard. 7 months of winter makes all very excited to be enjoying time in our shortz! I do have some cool outside projects in the works and I hope to be finishing them up in the next day or two so I can share with you. I’m working hard to get a cool post out on the internetz tomorrow! See you soon friends!! Related posts:Fall To-DoBest Bruce Weekend Recap!Polar Plunge!Winter Cabin

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Finally, a Game Table in the Porch!

April 24, 2013

Guys! I’m moving full steam ahead with the spring even if the weather isn’t. That being said, I got a new table for the porch last night, and I played cribbage on it, drank a beer, and listened to the Twins game while wearing my coat. It felt good! I am so excited about this table, let me tell you why. You know I love my porch, it is hands down our favorite place in the house. I never thought I would love 400 square feet of space only usable for part of the year so GD much, but I do. For as much as I love gushing over furniture and decor, I’ve never tried to put a look together in the porch. It’s such a hodge podge of hand me downs. The sofa is white wicker with royal blue cushions, the coffee table is from our college days and I’ve added our modern Burke (I think) tulip arm chairs for extra seating. The only thing I’ve ever really given a lot of thought to is adding a table for the corner of our porch. There are two sections of the porch separated by the front door and vestibule. We [...]

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Living Room Purchases!

March 12, 2013

Yo buddies! I ordered living room furniture, can you hardly believe it? My folks took the kids on Saturday and me and Jeff got to go out and try on all the sofas. It was pretty fun, and scary, and overwhelming, and brain scrambling. After thinking I had it narrowed down to a few sofas we had last minute self doubt and considered this Sabine sofa for a bit. Although it’s beautiful (and super comfy), it’s not really what I had in mind with all this planning and after a lunch break, we decided to go with our gut and choose the Andre! Then we had to pick the chair, it was between the Cole and the Murray chairs. Although I think I like the Murray a bit better, it was time for a change and to minimize the size of the chair in the corner. The Murray was similar in size and shape to what we have now and I think the living room would really benefit from something a bit more petite, which the Cole provides with the low profile arms, and a mid century look. Don’t even get me started on fabric selecting. Another thing that I [...]

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Our House : Year 3

March 11, 2013

The beginning of March marks our third year living in our home. We’ve continued with lots of updating on our mission to make this house our own. It barely resembles the house we moved into, everything except for the basement has been touched. The majority of the projects from the past year were spent working with a limited budget fine tuning things we had already done. We hope that in the coming years we can start to tackle some of the bigger projects. Our big dreams include making the basement into a fully functional hang out lair for kids and parents, with a full 4 piece bath and maybe even a spare bedroom. A new fence and deck in the backyard would be an amazing addition to our outdoor living space, and sometime before we hit the 10 year mark I have dreams of a new kitchen. We’ll see how that actually all pans out. For now, we just keep chipping away at the smaller more manageable updates that continue to make our home more and more ours. This past year our first priority was to make the bedroom more than just a room with a bed. We painted the [...]

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Thinking About : My Living Room

February 13, 2013

Hey Guys, I’m still obsessing over the final plans for the living room. If you’ve been reading along you know that I’ve been compiling style boards for potential sofa, rug, and chair candidates as we’re in the market for some new living room pieces. I’ve realized that there are like a million combinations of furniture pieces that could work together for our living room. This of course is driving me insane, and for my own mind-processing-powers, I decided to lay it all out there in one nice animated gif. It’s a weird way to solve a problem, I know. BUT, doing this I discovered that my favorite chair, sofa and rug combination made themselves quickly apparent. So it worked! I still haven’t narrowed it down to “I know exactly what I want” but I have a really good idea of what I am looking for. For example, I realized that I really like that Stockholm rug, and it works as an inexpensive stop-gap option from now until when the kids are older. When that day comes along we might be able to get a way with a light colored rug like the Souk (let’s hope). I totally love the lighter [...]

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