Imperfect Wood

Just an FYI I've learned since owning an old home that I thought I would share.  Old houses don't have the most seamless finishes when it comes to the woodwork.  Example, this window in the master bath is old.

Just look at how the molding under the bottom ledge of the window is starting to separate.

I'm not a woodworker nor am I particularly good with anything more sophisticated than an allen wrench so this would not be a job I would tackle and it's not important enough to me to hire someone to do it.  So, just a little white wood filler (which is also great for filling in nail holes or other wood imperfections) and it's pretty close to being as good as new!

Boring I know, but I've done several boring things since getting an older home that I never really pictured myself doing, like caulking a bathtub

or spackling (is that even a word?) over a hole in a wall (no pic for that one).  Boring stuff is also part of the reason why there is such a long time between my interesting posts, at least that's what I'm telling myself. :)

We finally have bedroom furniture!

First of all, I am a terrible blogger.  I apologize for not posting anything for weeks and then bombing the site with 5 new blogs.  It seems as if I'm a little manic when it comes to this thing!  Nonetheless, here's the post everyone has been asking about....we finally got master bedroom furniture!

When we moved into this house we had two beds - one that I've had since I was about 18...

and one that I got on Craig's List just before we moved in.

Both beds were nice, but neither one was what we wanted for our master bedroom.  We figured we could just live in one of the guest bedrooms until we found some furniture and our master could just be another storage room.  Six long months later, we got this king sleigh bed suit from a very gracious family friend!  It consists of a king sleigh bed complete with tempurpedic-like mattress (shown here with some assembly shots) and two night stands (which happen to sit perfectly below each window on that wall),

armoire,

dresser with octagonal mirror,

and a captain's chest that was too large to fit in our room so we put it in one of the guest rooms (ignore the still un-finished remnants of the mirror collage on the bed)!

Trey and TJ moved it all from Nashville down to Montgomery in one day in TJ's sweet drag car trailer. 

We can't thank him enough for helping us out because man, was that furniture heavy!

My plan was to get really nice bedding for this bed since it was "ours" but I haven't really had the time to follow through yet.  I'd love to get something in all white like this from Pottery Barn,

and paint the walls charcoal and use a dramatic color for window treatments and accent pillows but we'll see how that all works out.  I'm afraid Cooper will make it hard for us to keep white bedding white!

Yippee for yard sales!

I love a good find.  Love.  It.  I tend to get lots of them at the flea market, but just recently I found some at a yard sale in my neighborhood.  The lovely family used to have an antiques booth at a different flea market than the one I usually go to, but had taken their stuff out of the booth and were just having a plain old fashioned yard sale.  I had not yet met these particular neighbors of mine so when I saw they were having a yard sale I figured what better time to stop by and say hello!  I sure am glad I did!!

There is a small triangluar void between Trey's leather chair and the loveseat which is almost impossible to find an end table for.  This means there isn't really anywhere for Trey to put a beverage in between sips since our coffee table is centered on the sofa.  Bummer.  Enter a $25 marble-topped plant stand which could also conveniently double as an end table of sorts and voila,

problem solved!

The other three items I picked up were less for function and more for aesthetics.  I found out from Ms. Rosalin that the small dresser I got from my dad was actually used as a wash basin when it was originally built.  She had a similar wash basin at her yard sale with this pitcher and bowl on top and I thought it made the perfect accessory for the dresser that will now hold towels and toiletries in one of our guest bedrooms since there are clothes in what could be used as a linen closet.

I also picked up two chairs for $25 each.  I'm not crazy about the fabric, but the lines of the frame and the porcelain rollers had me at hello so I grabbed them with the intention of having them reupholstered in something charcoal for the sunroom.

Ms. Rosalin also referred me to a guy that has reupholstered similar chairs like these for her before. 

Great neighbors, great finds!