seaside living inspiration

My dad and stepmother are planning to spiffy up their entry and living room, so I made a couple of inspiration boards for them. They want it to have a seaside feel, and don't want to spend a ton of money. Here are some ideas I found:

Total: $351
Total: $1957.93

Ignoring my obvious lack of Photoshop skillz, what do you think?

weekend of celebrations

We celebrated the baptism of this sweet little guy.
Celebrated day 1 of Charlie's birthday week! Yes, we celebrate birthdays for a whole week around here.
Celebrated cooler weather by finally being able to sit out and enjoy our patio
Celebrated finishing a weekend-long project of sanding and repainting
I've ordered these brass handles and knobs,
Finally, we celebrated officially buying a sofa. It was our very last piece of furniture needed to complete our apartment!



living room sofa, maybe?

If you've been reading my blog for awhile then I'm sure you know that we've been trying to decide on a sofa for our living room over the past two years, and still haven't been able to take the plunge. It's getting to the point that even Charlie is ready to see our sofas go, so he decided to take off of work yesterday and we set off on a mission to find a new sofa. We've had our eye on this one from Crate & Barrel and this sectional from West Elm, and I think we were able to make the decision yesterday. This weekend we'll hopefully be purchasing....
the Jackson Sectional from West Elm. It's not as comfortable as the Crate & Barrel choice, but the ability to switch the sectional from left and right and it's smaller size is what has us sold. Hopefully I won't be reporting on Monday that we've backed out on our decision ;)

I'll also be spending my entire weekend sanding down and repainting the desk for our guest bedroom that I mentioned in this post. I can't wait to see how it turns out!