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		<title>Thinking About : Modern Bunk Beds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been talking for awhile about the boys sharing a room once Gus grows out of his crib, (which should be coming to an end around the fall). There are lots of reasons for the boys to share a room, but the main one is because they want to. At least Finn wants to, we only suppose Gus does, because if he had it his way he would follow Finn around 24/7. I never had a sibling of the same gender, but I did have a brother, and we did share a bunk bed for a few years. I don&#8217;t know if I would say that it brought us closer, but I&#8217;d like to think that two boys sharing a room would create a bond for them as they grow up. This sharing a room thing doesn&#8217;t have to be for forever either. We&#8217;ll save Gus&#8217; old room using it as a guest room in the interim, and it will be ready for him to move back into if the kids decide to split. Finn&#8217;s room is pretty large and when it was built a hundred years it was definitely set up for kids to share. The entry door is right in the middle of the room. The windows are also smack dab in the middle. On either side of the door there are symmetrical light fixtures (to sit above twin beds) and identical closets, both housing built in toy boxes. The room was meant for kids to share! Finn has wanted a bunk bed for a long time. He sleeps on a cool old bunk bed every time we visit the cabin, and he thinks it&#8217;s the greatest thing ever, cause it is when you are 5! Even though the room is meant to have two twin beds on either side, we&#8217;re planning on having the bunk bed make its home on one side of the room, leaving the other side for toys and playing. And we have a back up plan, just in case they become teenagers and decide they don&#8217;t want to have a bunk bed anymore we&#8217;d like them to be able to separate the bunk beds and create spaces on either side of the room. I also don&#8217;t expect them to share a room forever either, unless they want to, but I think having two beds in that room would be perfect for sleepovers down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living Room Purchases!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s beautiful (and super comfy), it&#8217;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&#8217;t even get me started on fabric selecting. Another thing that I thought would be fairly easy, was pretty difficult. We went with a medium gray the sofa and a off white/light gray for the chair. I was hoping for something a bit more adventurous, but this is what worked. We still need to settle on this rug thing, and I think our decision might be being made for us. It appears that Ikea&#8217;s online site no longer is showing the Stockholm rug. Did they finally discontinue it? Wouldn&#8217;t that be perfect timing? We might just have to go with Souk in that case. Decisions will be made on that soon too, as this Sofa and Chair will be arriving in about 8 weeks. Totally can&#8217;t wait. In other news, my kids are terribly sick, like in a seriously bad way. Gus (the little guy) has Pneumonia, double ear infection, and pink eye. I&#8217;m gonna try and keep the posts coming but there is a chance that you may not see me much this week. Heads up. Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About : My Living Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey Guys, I&#8217;m still obsessing over the final plans for the living room. If you&#8217;ve been reading along you know that I&#8217;ve been compiling style boards for potential sofa, rug, and chair candidates as we&#8217;re in the market for some new living room pieces. I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t narrowed it down to &#8220;I know exactly what I want&#8221; 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&#8217;s hope). I totally love the lighter colored furniture, like LOVE-LOVE it, and I&#8217;m going to try my hardest to find a fabric that is stain resistant. Maybe we won&#8217;t be getting the white chair, but the light gray sofa would be perfect. We&#8217;ll see if there is a fabric that will fit the bill when we start testing out furniture in the coming weekend R&#38;B trips. Of course, on the bottom right of my cool gif above you can see the static fixtures to the room; the teal paint color, a plant or two, my new Martini Side Table from West Elm, the tiny but cool coral lamp I got on Etsy, and an assortment of black and white and colored pillows (these are all from the Fine Little Day Shop). I think my ultimate favorite combo from above is the gray Reese Sofa, white Andre Chair, and Souk Rug, but obviously that is impractical with the kids. Considering something like the Gray Reese Sofa, Blue Jasper Chair and Stockholm Rug would be a good alternative. I also really like that Andre Sofa with the buttons on the back. What&#8217;s your favorite combo? I&#8217;ve laid it all out below, because I am crazy and sometimes it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About : Graphic Rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been saving for a few months now and it&#8217;s getting closer and closer to shopping time for some new living room furniture!!! In case you couldn&#8217;t tell by the excessive exclamation marks, I can&#8217;t wait! If you remember from previous posts, our living room sofa and arm chair have seen better days. Now that kids are getting a little older we figure we can trust them not to puke or pee on our future new couch&#8230; we hope. I&#8217;ve posted before about dream sofas and chairs and now you get to hear about rug candidates too. Our living room has recently been painted and now has dark teal walls set against dark woodwork. I knew that getting into the dark wall game meant adding more contrast to the room. Using colors like black and white as accents throughout the space and painting picture frames white give the space the contrast it needs. All of our pillows and throws are black, white, bold and graphic. Our current rug (Jorun from Ikea) is also, black, white and graphic, although it looks awesome in photographs it hasn&#8217;t held up too well. The furniture tends to stretch the rug out and it drives me crazy when the edges don&#8217;t run parallel to the wood flooring. I am obsessed with straightening it out and I pick at it all day long. I love our graphic chevronesque black and white rug and it&#8217;s replacement needs to be just as awesome while having the ability to hold its shape for this highly used area. 1 Souk Rug from West Elm I love, love, L O V E this rug! I&#8217;ve admired it for a year now and I just can&#8217;t get over it. It&#8217;s just so pretty and perfect. This would be my living room rug in a second if it wasn&#8217;t for those kids who have a crazy ability to stain almost anything in our house. The pristine white would really lighten the space and everything would be perfect. It&#8217;s probably not meant to be, but I do love it so. 2 Shoowa Rug from Room and Board This is an expensive one, but a good one. I really like the indigo blue against the creamy white and I could see it looking fantastic in a space that had neutral walls but needed more color. I had to include it in this post because it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About : Chairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well this post is a follow up to my sofa post from last week. I&#8217;m still thinking about new furniture options for our living room. Our current arm chair is in even worse shape then the sofa. It&#8217;s saggy, stained and sorry-ass-lookin&#8217;. The chair, like our sofa, also came from Room and Board, but unlike the sofa, was purchased in the default-off-the-rack fabric and it hasn&#8217;t held up well. Not only is it a light khaki color, but it&#8217;s a fabric that just doesn&#8217;t clean up! I&#8217;ve tried fabric cleaners, steam vacuums, and magic tricks, but the stains just spread. It&#8217;s a mess, and a total embarrassment. I cover the seat with a blanket. SERIOUSLY SO GROSS. So duh, it&#8217;s been decided, we should probably get a new chair too. I would prefer to get something with low or narrow arms, or heck, just go straight-up armless. The chair will make it&#8217;s home in the corner of the living room and I want it to be the type of piece that doesn&#8217;t take up a lot of room visually but is still comfortable to lounge in and watch TV, because we LOVE TV. Here are a few of my fav options: 1 Anthropologie Rhys Chair in Caribbean Blue Leather 2 Crate and Barrel Petrie Leather Chair 3 Eames Upholstered LCM Plywood Lounge Chair from Design Within Reach 4 West Elm Everett Upholstered Chair 5 Bertoia Diamond Lounge Chair from Design Within Reach 6 Crate and Barrel Donegal Chair Some of these chairs are insanely out of our budget but I had to post them. Even though they are way expensive they are still mighty fine looking. Some of these chairs are NOT super comfy for lounging like the Eames chair, but I was thinking that it might be a good fit if we do decide to go for the chaise sectional sofa. If we choose to go sectional stylez we would need something that was smaller scale seating for the corner of the room to balance out the size of the sofa. I love the Anthropologie chair but I don&#8217;t think it would fit very well with what I&#8217;ve got going on. I think it&#8217;s totally amazing though, so I had to include it in this post. I&#8217;m all about the shape of the crate and barrel chair but wish it had more fabric options, don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m ready [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About : Sofas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had sofas on the brain for awhile now. After witnessing my almost 9 year old living room sofa be drowned in baby puke, used as a trampoline by 3 &#038; 4 year olds and partied on by grown ups (a lot), it&#8217;s showing it&#8217;s age and it&#8217;s war wounds. It&#8217;s time my good old sofa, it&#8217;s time. We purchased our sofa (Room and Board Mercer) back in 2004, it was our first big investment in furniture, and an investment I&#8217;m glad we made. We had it covered in a custom fabric that has been so forgiving and chose a sofa with simple lines that grew (up) with us as our tastes changed. Another decision I&#8217;m glad we made was to get a sofa with the least amount of loose cushions possible. It&#8217;s been great with the kids, I don&#8217;t have to worry about fluffing and repositioning cushions all the time, and would like to repeat that good decision again. I&#8217;ve doubted a lot of my interior design choices over the years, but I have never questioned this sofa, it has been the best. The time has come for this sofa to be put out to pasture. Super sad, I know, but necessary. The fabric is sagging and becoming frayed and the stains are mocking me. We won&#8217;t be purchasing until later this winter but I&#8217;ve got my eyes peeled already. I&#8217;ve compiled a list of the top contenders. I&#8217;m on the fence as to whether or not we&#8217;ll risk it and go light with a quality fabric or stay in the gray and charcoal tones. I&#8217;m looking for the same good old simple modern lines but with a new fresh look. 1 West Elm Dunham Sofa 2 Crate and Barrel Petrie Sofa 3 Room and Board Reese Sofa 4 CB2 Club Atomic Sofa My fav right now is the the Room and Board Reese sofa, and it also comes as a petite sectional with a chaise, something to consider. What do you think? Any recommendations on dark vs light, can it be done if you were to use a quality clean-up-able fabric? Share this... Facebook Pinterest Twitter]]></description>
		
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