Recent Thrift Store Finds

Jamie Lee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:00:40 +0000

I’ve mentioned before that Peter and I are engaged. My sweet nerd asked me to marry him about eleven months ago. All this time we’ve been tossing around grand ideas and setting a few things in stone but now its really time to actually start putting together all the pieces. Recently we’ve spent a lot of time pouring over thrift stores to find some details that will seems a little more unique to us.

Isn’t the top of this vase amazing?

The thing that I love so much about this idea is that all of these items are out on display in the house. (Well, two of the swans are. We actually bought 16.) We’re happy that we’re not just wasting money on things that we’ll have no use for after the wedding and since our friends are so used to seeing these things in our home, it’ll make the wedding feel that much more like us.

For all you married folks out there: what were some of your favorite things from your wedding decor?

The White Chair Compromise

Jamie Lee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:16:35 +0000

By now it’s no secret that we would love to own a cream colored couch but our two black Pomeranians shed too much for that to be a pretty reality. I know that owning a light colored couch is not practical. In fact, I once sublet an apartment with a white couch. It was one of those fabulous little daybed couches and it was beautiful. After only a few months of living with the couch it looked dingy and coffee stained. Why is it that in magazines people are always cuddling up on couches with coffee or red wine when it never works in real life?

Nevertheless the idea of having one in our home makes me swoon. After listing every reason why it was a bad idea, Peter and I decided to buy the next best thing–a white chair. The chair forces us to use five sheets of lint remover every time we welcome a guest into our home but it’s gorgeous. We opted a simple Tullsta from IKEA with a white chair cover. The shape of the chair makes it feel like it’s hugging you every time you sit down. It may be a pain to keep clean and a pain to keep the dogs off of but for us it was the perfect compromise.

Have you ever bought something completely impractical just because it was beautiful?

(Imagine it with a chair cover that hides its tan legs.)

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Recent Thrift Store Finds

The White Chair Compromise