Solid or Pattern?

Whoa.... 2 posts in one day. Stand back.

So, I still have not heard back from the settee person. Humph.

But.... that doesn't stop me from daydreaming of how to recover it. I had originally thought of this fabric for the chairs....

 (I also love this one!)

but if I do a patterned print on the settee, then that just seems like too much.

So what do you think??

Pattern on the chairs, solid on the settee or solid on the chairs, pattern on the settee?

I think I'm leaning towards pattern on the settee.... that is, if I ever find one!

LOVELOVELOVE this Chevron pattern!!!!

Cheap Find!

Jeremy & I made a stop at Target on Sunday night to grab some new rugs for our front & back doors..... and of course I needed to browse the 75% off clothing....

found a pair of jeggings/skinny jeans for $4.98!!!

Rocking them today :-)

Possibility?

Found this on craigslist today....

I've emailed them to see if it's still available. The arms look a little high, so I'd need to measure them.

$80. Steal. :-)

Weekend Updates

I came home last week to find Jeremy had done 99% of the painting that needed to be done! He's painted the guest bath the same tan as our bedroom- it's nice & still looks good with the shower curtain & towels that are already there. He painted the lower half of our stairs & hall- ie: covering the scuff marks from the dogs. He also did some touch up painting in the kitchen & dining area. The house is looking a 100% better.... thus making us even more sad to sell.

Jeremy's parents came down yesterday to take another truck load of stuff to his brothers house for storage. This means everything that is out of the house, is staying out. We've just got a few minor things left, like a few paint spots to touch up, and putting away lots of things that are out- mainly the tools, ect. that have been being used to fix things.

We're ready to move on- bring on the offers!

Time Out

Ok....  after I had a good cry yesterday.... ok maybe several.... I need to snap out of it! After all, it is FRIDAY, the sun is shining, and well, life is peachy in general.

I decided I wasn't so sad about leaving our home, but more unsettled about the future. Jeremy doesn't have a job & what if we buy something, and he gets a job offer hours away.... then we get to sell and move all over again. So we've decided to take this step by step.... #1. sell house. That's where we are.... maybe in this process we'll figure out where we'll be next.

(not to mention everyhousewelovegoesundercontract BLAH!)

Anywho.... it's Friday & I need something cheerful to look at.... like this blouse....

Eden Blake

Too bad it's freaking $335

...... I'll need more orange in my life now that the orange bathroom in our house is no longer orange..... but tan.

Peace

Today I am sitting in the peace & quiet of my day job office. I am trying to keep myself busy... currently addressing & stuffing envelopes by hand.

Yesterday was strange. It finally started to hit us, we're going to try & sell our home. Our home that we first lived together in, our home we hunted days & nights for, our home that we opened our wedding gifts on the floor in, our home where I started my business, our home where so many memories have been made. I'm starting to cry as I write this.

We've begun moving furniture, we'll be painting walls & doing touch ups throughout the next week. Our home officially goes live on the market next weekend.

A huge part of me is not ready to leave this space behind, but a bigger part of me knows it's time to move on.... quite figuratively & literally.

We're scared. It will take selling our home to purchase a new one, too much money is tied up in this home. We don't have to sell, so if we don't get the right offer, we don't have to take it.... I guess that makes it easier in some way.

So here's the specs for anyone interested:

1281 square feet
3 bedrooms
2.5 bathrooms

In Summers Walk neighborhood- HOA of only $75 a year provides access to olympic size pool & kiddie pool, playground, dog park, & walking trails. 

Because it's in the "affordable housing" program, if it's bought within the first 60 days it must be bought by a "qualified buyer" (find out more about that here) . After that 60 days it's opened to anyone.

Price: $148,850

Hunting.

With spring arriving little by little we've made the decision to list our home for sale. Last night was a furry of shifting furniture around, getting things ready to send of to Jeremy's parents for storage, and making our home look the best it can.

Some things we need to do ASAP:

1. Paint the orange bathroom a neutral color (we're thinking the nice tan in our bedroom)
2. Paint the stairwell/hall area.... it's gotten really scuffed over the last 2.5 years
3. Finish the stairs (I think there's 4 left.... and Jeremy's working on them today)
4. Finish up the crown molding downstairs
5. Organize & put things away
6. CLEAN. Our house is fairly clean, but it needs a good scrubbing.

We hope these things will only take about a week, and we'll be up for sale!

We found this home online a few days ago, and I rode by it yesterday (before the torrential downpour started).... love it, love the neighborhood, love the lot, loveitloveitloveit. Unfortunately someone was there when I pulled up.... so I couldn't get out and peek around. Someone started a renovation on it, but left it... the kitchen is gutted, but the rest looks like it's in good shape. We hope to go see it tomorrow night!

so cross your fingers we can get our home sold quickly..... anyone interested????