the titled blog

 Lately, I can’t stop thinking about redoing our bedroom.  A few months ago I got tired of our all white bedding showing every little mark from our critters who love to hang out on it.  I bought new bedding, (simple cyan coloured, no pattern) which at the time seemed great.  Although let’s be honest…I like me a neutral light coloured bed.

I started brainstorming over what I wanted to change and finally put my pinterest account to use (although I really still can’t get the hang of it.)  This duvet cover (left) totally jumped out at me.  At first I planned on making a quilt like this, but really, this duvet cover does the same thing.  I love the idea of lots of layers and pillows, although I still want it to look clean and modern. Something like this bed - modern, but still cozy looking.  I also think accent pillows in mustard would look fab against the grey and white.

Dave and I have been planning on getting a new bed frame, owing to the fact that ours will not survive another move (it’s barely being held together now).  Plus, Bigsby seems to think it’s the greatest scratching post ever made (it’s wicker).  Ideally, we would love a lovely solid walnut mid-century styled bed to match the rest of our bedroom furniture (the original bed frame that came with it was a double).  In real life, however, spending $2000 on a bed is a little bit…out of the question.  Thanks to Ikea, though, we found two beds [one] + [two] that match reasonably well with the rest of our furniture…fake wood, but hey, I wouldn’t expect anything solid for under $200.

As for artwork, we currently have a large painting of a west coast harbour by a Vancouver artist above our bed, but I’d like to move it to the living room.  I’m thinking of getting an engineering print done of one of my photographs (below).  It’s pretty cheap (about $10 for a 4ft x 2.5ft print!), and I like how it has a rougher look.

I still really want to make a quilt for the end of the bed and hope to do something in solid mustard yellow.  Since I have never made a quilt before though…we’ll see what happens.

I think the biggest thing is convincing Dave to let me paint the bedroom.  We’ll see how that goes…hah.  Right now it is white with a pink tint (ceiling and all). Lovely, right?  Thanks land-lady for your classy colour choice.  I used to have white furniture before we got our vintage set, and it looked absolutely miserable next to the tinted pink walls (the trim is all bright white, and my white furniture was antique white.  It made for a yucky looking combination).  I’d rather the walls be stark white, or maybe a very light shade of grey.

Add to all this a new area rug (one that doesn’t have stains all over it from house training a puppy)…

…and you have an expensive dream.  Maybe I’ll just do it one small throw pillow at at time.  ;)

Let me just preface this post by thanking everyone for their kind words in the past little while. I know I haven’t been able to respond to everyone, but that doesn’t mean I’m ignoring you.  :)

And now for something completely different.

Dave and I officially feel like we have graduated into the grown-up group. Why is that, you ask? We bought a couch. A COUCH ladies and gentlemen. We have only ever had a small love-seat in our living room, and it’s always so cramped when we have guests over. So now we can seat 4 people in our living room, instead of 3. Ha. The best part of this whole couch buying extravaganza is that we went to the store to buy a saucepan…and came out with a couch**. It’s so very comfortable as well (which our last love-seat was NOT).

So now that we have enough seating for 4 people in our living room, you can bet we are going to have some wild crazy parties.

PS: I suppose I could have put on my wide angle lens and taken a picture of the whole couch…but I couldn’t be bothered to open up my camera bag.  I’m two days off of caffeine and the world looks like an ugly place.  Extra effort just seems so lame right now.

**We had been saving up to buy a new bed frame, so it wasn’t that impulsive. The bed frame will still be there in a few months, but this couch was on clearance at 80% off. It was most likely not going to be there much longer.**

Lately Dave and I have been talking more and more about home owning.  While we know that the reality is still far off for us, it’s still nice to look.  Our dream home would be very mid-century modern.  Which…let’s be honest, doesn’t really happen in Abbotsford.  But perhaps there was some rich doctor in 1959 in Abbotsford who built a gem of a house and it’s just waiting for us to be able to buy it.  Yep.

I collect vintage home magazines and these are from the August of 1956.  I want this house.  Every bit of it.

I stare at these pictures from time to time and imagine myself sitting on that amazing patio space on a summer evening.  It feels like the perfect West Coast modern home to me.  I happened to do a little bit of sleuthing on the home and discovered that this house is still alive and kicking. (I even discovered, through the architects archives what the address is.  Maybe I’ll be a creeper and sit on their patio when they are away.)

I suppose the least creepy thing to do, though, is to one day pattern the fabulous home that I will inevitably build off of this one.  I even have the floor plan! ;)

PS: Don’t worry.  I’m not as much of a creeper as it seems.  The floor plan was in the magazine, along with the names of the architect and the person who photographed the house, which is how I ended up finding out the address of the house.  Dave and I joked that we are going to contact a real estate agent in the Seattle area and pretend to be rich prospective home buyers, just so we can tour the house.  Although I have a feeling whoever owns it now probably doesn’t have the cool retro furniture.  :(