Movie Star Furniture

Let's try this again......

A few days ago I received a message from Bianca informing me that my blog (or Photobucket I should say) was having some issues. I was out and about and only had my phone on me, so in a moment of panic I just deleted the entire last post I had done. Come to find out, it was actually my entire blog that was having issues. So, I'm now RE-writing that post. For those of you who read the post (sans pictures) hopefully it's somewhere close to the original.

Last week we had a visit at the store from two of our vintage furniture dealers. They are such fun guys with one of the most fun jobs. They, as always, pulled out all kinds of fun pieces but when they brought out one piece in particular, my heart almost fell out of my chest. It was the most perfect old pine table.

These guys have been granted special access to movie production studios, where they go in and clean out old movie props. The pieces are actual vintage pieces, they just aren't being used anymore.

The studios track the pieces with bar coded stickers. The fun part is, the guys always leave the stickers on.

My little pine table starred in some long-lost Dreamworks movie somewhere in its' lifetime. Truth be told - the first thing I checked when I got home was which production studio was behind any Nancy Meyer movie....unfortunately, not Dreamworks. The mystery continues...

This next picture is for you, Janet! Here's a wide-angle look at our entry : )

I was having a little "girl's night out" at our house and decided to spruce up our entry with some fresh flowers. It's Ranuncula season right, and with the Ranuncula fields right up the street - they're everywhere!

Also in full bloom right now - our lemon tree! It's the one thing I can actually grow. We have so many that I'm literally filling random bowls around our house.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and thank you for sticking with me through my technical difficulties!

REALLY?

Well how tacky am I? Seagrass is temporarily down due to a Photobucket glitch. For some reason my account with Photobucket is not registering and is now replacing all of my photos with a lovely warning icon. Fun. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm hoping to be back in business tomorrow. Thanks for hanging in there with me!

{UNDER CONSTRUCTION!}

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A Peek Inside II

I don't know why it has been so scary for me to post pictures of my own home. After all, that was the whole premise for starting this blog. After finishing recovering my desk chairs, I got my butt in gear and gave our desk area a little sprucing. I also thought I'd share some of the nitty gritty design details that went into building out this area.

First, let's start with the pretty pictures.....

Our desk area sits right off of our kitchen area. Our entire downstairs is pretty open and besides our bathroom, there isn't a single room that is completely sectioned off. For a reference, if you turned directly around from facing our desk area, you would see this.) Therefore, everything has to have a place and look nice. In other words - no messy desks for us. Yes, of course it happens, but the design had to be made so that it would be as easy as possible to keep it tidy.

Open shelves kept the area open and airy, which has been a theme around our house. The silver vase was a flea market find and it is patiently waiting for an orchid. The brown, craft magazine files are from Border's when they closed down there location here. They hold all of my design concept photos.

My grandmother has been doing a little bit of cleaning out, and asked me if I would ever want this little gold Tiffany's clock - of course my reaction was "YES YES YES!!"

Now on to the nitty-gritty details....

The shelf brackets are from Ikea. We painted them white and had two shelves made. It's a simple, clean, open look.

When designing this space we had to get creative with all of the small details (chords, printers, external hard drives, etc.) Because we went with a built-in top, there was no space left for chords to fish down the back of the wall. We had our installer cut a 3" hole and placed a plastic, chord fitting inside.

This keeps our chords bundled together and out of site. Moving on to the lower chords (underneath the desktop) - those are out of site as well. At first glance, you wouldn't know they're there.

From a standing position you can see one outlet with a single chord. We built a track system that sits right below the desk top. It's almost like a trough that cradles all of our chords. There is a small hole that runs between both sides our desk to run chords.

That whole mess - out of sight!

For all of the computer "extras" (remember - I'm married to computer nerd...who I love dearly!) we found a ledge that mounts on the back of the computer and offers a space for those extras to perch.

Again - out of sight!

There you have it - all of our desk area details! One of these days, I might be brave enough to share David's side. : )

Bamboo Chair Redoo

This post is LONG overdue since the first time I did a post on my bamboo chairs was way back in April! The reason they have been sitting is that I just wasn't convinced that my original fabric selection was the right choice. I've been trying to be patient and wait until the right fabric came along. About a year ago I was introduced to a fabric that was the perfect fit but at about $65 per yard, it was the not the perfect fit for my budget. While poking around the Internet a few weeks ago I came across the same fabric for $10/yard!

It's soft and subtle with the perfect punch of my favorite green. I know that the ikat print is sort of a trendy thing right now but the covers are very simple to remove and could easily be swapped out in the future. But for right now, I love them!

Here's a look at what these chairs started out looking like, along with my original fabric selections. There were 3 layers of old fabric under that light blue floral fabric. It was fun to imagine the life these little chairs have had before us. That dark blue ikat ended up going here.

I bought the chairs for $5 each, the fabric for $10, and purchased new foam for about $15 (for both.) The grand total for both of our desk chairs{$35}

The rest of our desk area has received a little update this weekend - stay tuned for pics later this week!

We've Been Featured!

Hi Everyone - I hope you're all having a great start to your week! David and I received some exciting news last week.....our wedding was featured in Ceremony magazine this quarter!

We feel so honored to be included in their magazine. It was fun to relive that day again and seemed especially fitting since Monday happened to be our sixth month anniversary (WHEW we made it!) No - we don't really celebrate our month to month anniversary. : ) I know I've already shared most of these photos but here they are they are in magazine form.

{My favorite pic is still of the bridesmaids crying : )}