Oh, Jubilee Furniture. Our hearts skipped a beat the first time we read up on this charitable organization, and we can now say that it’s well worth the forty-five minute drive out of the city. Located right off the main drag in the guts of Carol Stream, IL, Jubilee is sure to make a furniture […]
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Media Makeover with Amy Howard + a Giveaway!
With the kitchen and nook checked off our list, we were asked earlier this week if that completes our first floor, and if so, what’s next? Well, we’re thisclose, with the exception being a teeny bathroom that’ll have to wait. In the meantime, we’ve been kicking out a handful of things that we’ve been meaning to do for a while – pruning our […]
Couch!
Moving from a barely 700 sq foot condo to an over 2,000 sq foot house, we knew we’d have some space to fill. Like, a lot of space (a guest room! A larger studio! A laundry room!). For the longest time, the most common question we received from friends after move in was, dude, where’s […]
Peacock Jackpot
After declaring our living room done! – even without the end tables that we just couldn’t seem to track down – we received an email from Susan of Jubilee Furniture (our favorite second-hand furniture heaven; if you’re in the Chicagoland area, go!). After scouring her store’s inventory, she lured us in with promises of the […]
The Painted Camera Conclusion
It’s been well over a year since I first mentioned that I wanted to paint my mom’s camera. (Back story: it had been ruined in our basement flood, and out of everything we lost, the now non-functioning camera brought me close to tears.) That post brought up a resounding no!, and admittedly, I was on […]
Office, Reinvented
Perhaps to make sense of why the hubs and I are so darn happy with our office in it’s current state, it might make sense to look back. Like, way back. Originally housing a fold out futon, it was meant simply as a guest room and nothing else. The honey wood (and matching pillows, really?) […]
We Got a Dresser for the Kitchen!
As the kitchen evolves and choices have become more definitive, it because very clear that the majority of our budget was going to 3 main places: ONE) the back door wall (of windows!), TWO) cabinets and THREE) the countertops. In a nutshell, our money is going to the areas that are more permanent, and we’ve […]
Velvet! Couch!
It’s here! The couch! The blue velvet couch! While dropping it off a handful of weeks ago at the upholsterer, I told Kevin (my contact at Covers Unlimited and – bonus! – a Pittie rescuer!) about our concerns with some of the structural issues. It feels… rickety? Sometimes that leg will pop up if I sit […]
The Media Center Right Now
A long, long time ago (let’s call it August), Scott and I took a field trip to one of our favorite second-hand stores, Jubilee. While we weren’t planning on bringing home anything for our media wall that day, well, we did! Remember?: During a burst of motivation and productivity, we finally incorporated it into our […]
This, That and All the Things
If yesterday’s post title wasn’t any indication that, lately, we’ve had an affinity for the word things, well, then this random round-up should. It seems – no, wait, definitely – that we’ve been so wrapped up in this house that we can’t form proper sentences. We’ll fully admit: this crazy ride has been up (really up!) […]