It Finally Arrived!! THE Couch!

For four long months I have awaited this very moment!  My new couch has arrived.  The color works with my headboard (I was really worried because it is so hard to match fabrics on a computer) and the size is perfect.  

It is going to take some getting used to.  Having furniture at the end of the bed is different at first glance.  I hope my husband doesn't run into it during the night. The down bench seat is my favorite part of it, and even though I was going for a totally different look with my first couch order, this one seems to fit my house.  

And my pillows are finally off of the floor and where they should be.  It's been a long four months.  I'm not sure I am made for custom ordered furniture.... :)

 

The shape is scrumptious.  It almost makes me want a tea room with fancy English parlour furniture and china.  Hmmmm....Downton Abbey season 5 seating?!

 

The wood finish has just enough antiquing and scroll work for my room.  I hope it's not too fancy for my husband.  

Take a look at what it looked like before....

And the after...

My downstairs may suffer for the next little while, and my kids may have to deal with life's crisis' in my room, I don't want to leave it.  Now....how do I convince my husband to finish the rest of the room....

Frustration!! A Rant!

Remodeling a house is stressful....been there, done that!  So when I moved to a new house, that really only needed decorating, I was beyond excited.  BUT I should have expected a sna-foo here and there.  I posted before about my master bedroom and the transformation that I hope to complete in the near future.  These pillows....

...were suppose to be sitting on a brand new gorgeous couch in my master bedroom....right now.  I ordered a new couch, for the end of my bed, in March.  I knew it would take 10 weeks for the order and I was perfectly fine with the wait.  The ten weeks were up and on June 9th I checked my order status online and it said the estimated date for delivery was August 23rd?!?!?!?!?  Say.What?!?!  I couldn't believe that!  And...I wasn't even notified of the delay, or why it was delayed!! I cancelled my order.

 I have waited several days to write this post because of how angry I was over the lack of communication.  And I wasn't even going to write it, but I am still so disappointed that I was going to have to wait so long for my couch order.  I ordered the couch from Pottery Barn and I have never had any problems before.  A few days later, as I was on Instagram, I noticed this picture.... A wall of fabric that was suppose to already be on my couch...in my bedroom!

And as I read through the comments from others, there was more than one person mentioning a cancelled order because of a fabric delay.  One commentor even said they had waited for 8 months and finally cancelled their order.  I wasn't the only victim here. When I called customer service I was told there was a fabric delay and that they were sorry.  That was it!  Pottery Barn....you messed up BIG time!!  It will be a long while before I can shop with you again!  I kind of felt like this episode of Friends!!!

I'm on the hunt now for a new couch!!!  Something local and not from a foreign company that delays their fabrics!!!

A Blank Slate

I have had a dream since I was a teenager, when the decorating bug bit, and that was to design a home from top to bottom from scratch.  With my new home I kind of get to live out a part of that dream by being able to design a few rooms from a blank slate into something I love.  In my past homes my decorating was always dictated by either the age of the house or the colors/structures that were already there.  My new home has more rooms then we have ever had before and I am so excited to make them over into rooms we love. 
 

Our blank slate of a front room. 

 I have always thought it would be easy to take a blank room and do anything to it, but I have found that when you have limitless ideas, it can be hard to narrow it down.  


My master bedroom is one area that we are decorating right now and I thought it would be so simple to put together.  I was starting with a matress and white comforter, beige walls and white trim.  How hard could this be?

Not the greatest before picture but it shows the bed with no headboard and my sad little nightstand. Don't ask why my husband is on a brand new ladder.  It was a long night listening to that darn fire alarm!!!!!!!!

 Harder then I thought!!  I poured through Pottery Barn catalogs and also pinned like a crazy person.  And I finally came up with a color scheme that is actually out of my comfort zone.  I usually stick to reds and greens, but I am going crazy with orange.  Well, maybe not crazy, but orange will be playing a feature part in my master bedroom.  My husband was not on board when I first showed him the pillows that I found.  But SLOWLY it is coming together and he is coming around. 

 

Here is a sneak peak of the orange pillows that started the whole color scheme.  

And here is a sneak peak of what is to come in my master bedroom.

 

 I've been waiting weeks to use these pillows, and it will probably be a few more until I can reveal the whole room.  It's a process and even though it was tough to start with a blank slate, I am having a fun time putting this all together.