New Bedding

We got new bedding ( a while ago)....and we love it.  I'm just getting around to sharing.

Euro Shams: Pottery Barn

Duvet cover and King pillow cases 100% Belgium Linen: Restoration Hardware

Standard pillow Organic Bamboo:  Pottery Barn

Monogram accent pillows:  Williams and Sonoma

If I could make one recommendation to anyone considering a monogrammed item for their home, Williams and Sonoma does not disappoint!  We have these monogrammed pillows, as well as monogrammed bath towels and they are oh so AMAZING!  They've lasted for almost 4 years and are still going strong.  Invest dollars where you see fit, ours were put toward items we are still in love with.

Coming up this week, the Style Me Pretty feature I didn't get to posting last week, and more!

Refreshing the Abode

Guess what lovelies?  We're getting a new sofa sectional..........with.........my ever-so-wanted chaise!  Yippe skippy whoop whoop!!! 

So a little background:  I'm a picky one (more so than the average person) when it comes to our own home, it must be that designer mentality.  I've been subject to some of the highest quality lines of furniture since beginning my career, mostly European, and admit that I've been spoiled with the lines I have access to.  Since we've never been ones to have thousands of dollars to invest in furniture, we settled.  When Hubby D and I moved in together, we purchased what we could at the time with what we had and I will completely go on record at admit, perhaps just this one time, that we own Ikea sofas.  We attempted to make our space as comfortable and as pleasant as we could.  As time has passed, we both sit down in the evenings on our sofa and are just plain over it!  It's not as comfortable as we'd like, not deep enough, nor does it offer that "sinking in feeling" while relaxing.  We also have a matching love seat that never gets used except for when we have company over........fast forward..............

......during the years we've been dreaming of a deep comfy sofa, natural linen type fabric cover, with a chaise lounge to put up the feeties.....................

........recently we've picked up a new line at work (which is considered to be more affordable)- but let's be realistic, for the average Joe- it's the difference between a $9,000 sofa which would with this line be maybe just under 5K.  It is quite a difference.  There's no way I'd even be considering such a sofa if it weren't for my design hook up, so.............I'm patting myself on the back for 6 years of design studies, a Bachelor's in Arts and Sciences which led to this design job in which I've busted behind for, which led to a killer deal on an amazing sofa sectional.  Sometimes, hard work pays off, would you say?

We're ordering today and hope to have our newly found love in about 3 months (darn international lead times).  Let's cross our fingers we can sell our existing sofa and love seat.  Introducing our soon to be, with such an appropriate name, the Lazy Time:

Fabric we choose, a natural linen:

And let me go on record for saying that Ikea will still be the shiznit for getting those random items that you just wouldn't ever pay full price for anywhere else.  We do have a coastal inspired coffee table from Ikea as well, which I will love to the end of my days (although it may not fit in our living space with the new sofa). 

It's Happened

It's finally happened- hubster and I found a sofa we love!  It's absolutely amazing and I'm pretty convinced that we need to start tucking away some funds to make it ours.

This sofa is an over sized, deep, cushy, down-filled monstrous beast.  I love it!  I also can't get over the gorgeous linen cover (I have a soft spot of amazing linens), and the classic, yet modern feel of it is just up my alley.  The second you sit down in it, you sink into the cushions, as it sits low to the ground.  This is what I want.  I want to be completely comfortable when sitting in a sofa and I want enough room for hubs to take his typical right side seat, and for me to sprawl out across the rest of it right next to him (who are we kidding- when have I had time to do this lately)?  In any case, I'm loving this awesome find from Restoration Hardware.

The style is called the Belgian Classic Roll Arm found here and I was able to snap a few photos during our discovery at the store.  Give me some Belgian linen please:

We were also quite taken by the amazing occasional table, it was gigantic, gorgeous, and was set on castors- which really seemed to have no purpose, but I guess I can appreciate anything that has the option of rolling. This is the amazing Dutch Industrial coffee table:  Can you scope hubs in the background admiring it?

And since I can't get enough linen, we had to put the vintage-washed Belgian linen duvet and shams on the wish list as well- the hand of these are like no other, over the top soft with such an elegant appeal.

I've been a fan of RH's paint colors for some time now, they really get it when it comes to the hues of colors!  If one really knew all the time it takes to research a color and get just the right percentages of white/black mixed in to make an amazing shade, they'd realize why there are individuals that hold the title of "color specialist".  Yes, really, I can appreciate and awesome color that has been thought through!  Although my only request to RH concerning this matter is- offer QUART sizes please, that sampler size is really a joke (hence 'sampler' I guess), and not everyone needs a gallon.  Thanks!