House.

A lot has happened since I last wrote! The biggest thing? Aaron and I are in the process of buying a house! It was such a quick decision and sudden move, but we fell in love with the perfect house for us and we are so excited to move in on July 8th [praying that all goes as planned]. The inspection is scheduled for tomorrow, and should that go well, in a little over a month we will be homeowners! It is such an exciting feeling. Obviously, I will share a lot more about the house, but I'm going to wait just a bit to do that... and start out with just some inspiration pictures for our first floor I've found on Pinterest! 

First up: Inspiration for our kitchen / breakfast nook.

Both are found here via pinterest

I looove the spring green color against the white cabinets, stainless appliances, and wood floors. I also love how well black goes- our kitchen table and chairs are black. 

Next, color inspiration for our living room: 

Found here via pinterest

I absolutely love this color- it is Senora Gray by Benjamin Moore. This is pretty much the exact color I am looking for for our living room.

And, here is a lovely striped half bathroom. 

Found here via pinterest

Those are just a few of the inspiration photos I have pinned on my boards for this house. I can't wait to see some of my ideas come to life! 

Teal Bowl

Last Friday my friend Sarah took me to this place I had never been before, called Uncommon Objects, on South Congress. It was so crazy! Here is the description from their website:

Established in 1991 as a small antique collective, Uncommon Objects has matured over the years into the one-of-a-kind emporium of transcendent junk that you see before you.

Twenty hardworking antique sellers have been assembled under one roof to bring you this very genuine and sometimes quirky slice of American culture and history.

Uncommon Objects has been described as "your eccentric uncle's attic on steroids." And remember, this is no museum. This stuff is for sale.

As the ultimate "green" shopping experience, there is something to satisfy your nostalgic yearnings and peak your sentimental curiosities.

Needless to say we probably spent over an hour in there just inspecting every little thing they had. It was really interesting, and they had some good stuff. It definitely wasn't all thrift store prices, but most of the items weren't outrageous. They also have these bowls full of people's family photos they've collected from estate sales. Believe it or not, while we were in there an older woman supposedly looked down and saw herself in one of the pictures from when she was 6. I heard her call someone and tell them this over the phone. I have no reason to believe that she was lying. So creepy!

So here is what I bought: an old map (for a few diy projects I've wanted to do from pinterest), an old postcard that I gave to my friends, and this $6 brass bowl:

Lovely brass.

I loved the quatrefoil design in the sides, and I knew some bright paint would really bring it out. So a few coats of teal acrylic paint and one coat of sealant later, this is what I had.

It's now sitting on the little ledge when you walk in our door, as a catch all for things. It's currently holding some hardware that needs to be returned at Home Depot, and keys.

Fun and bright!

Wine cabinet from the Salvation Army

Once again, things have been really busy here in our household! I have all of my finals tomorrow, and Aaron finishes up school next Wednesday. We're both so looking forward to a few weeks of having time to spend together and with our friends. I've been studying for my finals for three days straight, and I'm about at the point where I can't do anything else, but wait and see how I do. I don't want to be overly confident, but I am sure that things will go fine tomorrow! It will definitely be a day of anxiousness and nerves, because I do have finals starting at 8 am and going until 7:30. I have 5 hours between two of them, so I am sure I will be a nervous wreck.

Anyway, I'm here to take a break and write about this wine cabinet that we got at the Salvation Army a few weekends back. We saw it the day we bought the chair, but weren't sold on it. The Salvation Army has a furniture price policy where every week it discounts by 10%, so the next week when we went back and it was still there, we got it at 20% off, for around $20.

It needed some cleaning though. It was so dirty and gross.

So I went to work cleaning it, then primed and painted it white. I distressed the edges using sandpaper, and got a pretty green knob at Hobby Lobby for about $1.50.

I love that it has a drawer we can store our wine bottle openers and such in. I lined the drawer with pretty paper.

I also used an empty frame I had lying around from Ikea and added fabric to it, and turned it over into a tray sort of thing. I put our wine glasses on the top.



And now it lives in our dining room! I think we need some more wine to fill it up :)