I Love A Good Deal...

Every now and then I come across something for the house that I feel like I just have to have, especially if it's a good buy. I've been searching for some wicker furniture for our screened in porch, hoping to find something on sale. Well, today I found the perfect little set online from Pier 1 Imports...ON CLEARANCE! YAY! :-) After calling every Pier 1 in South Carolina, literally, I found 2 chairs & a bench! Orginally, all 3 pieces were $547...I got all 3 for $157!!

The cushions, however, were not on clearance. :-( Go figure. Actually they were rather costly{between $30-$50/cushion} Looks like I'll be putting my sewing machine to good use making cushions. :-)

The Renovation Continues....

This past weekend was our first day working at the house in a while. December was a VERY busy month! Saturday me, my mom, Joseph's mom and sister spent the day pulling nails{I think for every nail we pulled, two more would appear!} Joseph and his grandfather got the other header up in the dining room. Sunday Joseph and I spent the afternoon just cleaning stuff up. I'm excited to move to the next step of our renovation...

I've been continuously gathering/organizing ideas. This is a picture of Sara & Heath McCutcheon's dining room{they just got done renovating their house} and I fell in love with it! I already knew I wanted brown but I love the wainscoting! We are definately doing something similar to this in our dining room.

The next thing on our list to do is put up the ceilings. We plan on doing coffered ceilings in the living room and dining room{depending on time and money it may have to wait till later} For those of you who don't know what coffered is, it looks like this...

The house has beadboard ceilings in it now, but we were pretty confident it would be too costly and time consuming to try to refinish them. We do want to have at least one room with beadboard though. As of now, we may do the kitchen with beadboard and wood beams like this....

Update

We haven't really been able to do much at the house lately. As many of you already know, Joseph's dad has Sclerosis and hasn't been doing well...he's hanging in there for now though. Joseph has been trying to visit his dad as much as possible since they really don't know what each day will bring.

I have been doing a lot of "research" on things for the house though. I am constantly browsing the net and reading magazines to get ideas. I love rustic furniture with character and I recently came across this sink/vanity....

I think it'd be great in our guest bathroom!

Now I'm just looking forward to the day when I can put all of our ideas into action!