From Trash to Treasures (and other awesome purchases)

So while we await our pre-construction meeting, we have been making some future home purchases, and by we, I mean I have been making home purchases.

Two I am most excited about are my purchases from the Habitat to Humanity Re-store. My total bill was $60 for a really big old mirror and a side table. They definitely need some work, but the table is sturdy and well made and has a good shape, and the mirror is really big and detailed!

 

Here is the mirror - It was $50 - It sounds expensive but it is really big and well made! After looking at mirrors online I know I couldn't get anything this size/quality even close to that price. I scrubbed it a ton (it looks like it accumulated dirt for about 1,000 years), but I really like the size and the detail. I'm debating if I want to paint it or not. I'd either do something antiquey with chalk paint or paint it a bold color like bright blue or black. The gold is growing on me though .. decisions ..

Here is the side table. It looks really old which I kind of love. I'm have some ideas for this baby. Definitely will be painting it. I may sand and restain the top and then paint the rest of it white or an antique gray.

 

We also bought some other stuff as well. I bought a rug for the foyer, a big clock for over the fireplace, a shower curtain for the hall bath, new dog bowls, and we bought two ceiling fans (we took a fellow blogger's idea (Marissa Gordon - Rome of our Own) of picking up ceiling fans gradually until the house is built, so thanks Marissa!!). We also got our new floors!!! Yayyyy! I mentioned earlier in this blog that we got standard vinyl flooring in our foyer, mudroom, kitchen, and morning room with Ryan Homes, but we plan on replacing this immediately with different floors. We did this because Ryan's flooring upgrades were just too overpriced for what we would want. We ended up purchasing a really pretty laminate. I know there are a lot of people with strong feelings against laminate but honestly, it is beautiful and textured and looks like wood, plus it is scratch resistant. Hardwood floors would have been much more expensive (about 3x) and would have been destroyed with two large dogs and future children, so laminate just makes sense!

 

Rug for our foyer - Love it! Simple yet unique - On sale from West Elm ($79 for 3'x5')

Clock for over the Mantel - (Fun Fact - the 4 roman numeral looks wrong but in history both IIII and IV were used interchangeably in ancient Rome, and IIII is common to use on clocks instead of IV) - Wayfair for $58 (30" clock)

 

Shower Curtain for hall bath - Got this from Anthropologie on sale - Love it! I think it will go well with our grey ceramic floors too!

 

 Fan for Great Room - It's a dark black/brown color in person. We wanted a fan with lights because otherwise the Great Room is really dark (our friend has a Ryan Home and he just has a couple table lamps and it's still so dark!). Got this guy from Home Depot.

This is our fan for our bedroom. We didn't really think we needed a light on this one. This is a bigger fan and was more expensive, but my boyfriend LOVES fans and has to have on a million while he's sleeping. We basically sleep in a wind tunnel. Also from Home Depot.

 

 We got these bowls from Etsy. They're handmade by two artists (I think they're a couple). The guy makes the bowls by hand on a pottery wheel and the woman decorates them by hand, glazes them, and fires them. We're getting one in grey and turquoise blue that says Loki and the second in grey and bright green that says Bear. They're a little pricey but they're adorable and I love supporting artists like this. Here's a link to their website if you're interested. They also make mugs and cookie jars and stuff like that too. (Just FYI - They take a while to make personalized items since they have a good amount of orders to fill and they're all handmade).

 

Here are our floors! They're darker in real life (the pictures makes them look about 2-3 shades lighter than in person). Love them! So excited we got them and have them ready to put down right away! Obsessed!



 

I also finished my painting of Loki for our Mudroom. I may work on it some more because I'm not 100% happy with it (I'm pretty new to painting - Pencil drawing is my thing and I'm used to my work looking a lot more realistic), but overall, I think it's cute.

 

 

That's pretty much it. I also got a metal trash can that I'm going to spray paint and use as a dog food container. I may tackle that this weekend. Hope everyone has a great holiday!