Flowers on Friday: Oldie but a Goodie

Since we are moving we have temporarily postponed Flowers on Friday. There's really not much of a point of bringing flowers into the house. It's half filled with boxes and frankly there is stuff everywhere. Truth be told, I always thought that we were living very minimally, I guess you don't really know what you have until you take it all off shelves and scatter it around your living room. Geez . . . . . haha
So here's an oldie but a goodie. This is a bouquet of orchids Lee bought me a couple of years ago, I took a photo of it because I'd never seen orchids in a bouquet (in hindsight I could have left out the baby's breath).
I can't remember what these flowers were for, but judging by the size and estimated cost, I would guess it was either an anniversary or Lee was in trouble and they are apology flowers. For the life of me I can't remember which.

Hope you have a great weekend and we'll be back on Monday with Library Inspiration!

Dining Room Inspiration!

So I'm all tapped out of living room inspiration, a special thank you to everyone who commented and shared their ideas, and opinions. One of my favorite parts about blogging is all of the second and third opinions. I am a researcher at heart and love gathering all my information and opinions, Lees not so into "the process" he prefers I narrow it way down (2 choices or less haha) so all the comments are very much appreciated.
Here's what we've got going for the dining room. Now I'm not sure if you remember our post about our new dining table you know the one where we got a smok'in deal on a harvest table. The one where we bought a new dining table even though we knew we were moving, and I declared that I didn't want to live in any house that my new harvest table wouldn't fit in.
I guess you know where this is going.
Our lovely harvest table does not fit into our new dining room :( Somehow even as I was typing that I knew I was going to jinx myself).
So as you can see from my terrible picture, it's a small space for a dining room. At the end of the photo you can see an opened door, that's the door to the mudroom/laundry room and it has to clear the table.

So the plan is to go in a completely different direction. Our new house is a little more formal then our current house so we are hoping to reflect that in our decor.
Our dining room is beside the kitchen and mudroom/laundry room and in order for the mudroom/laundry room door to clear the table we need to have a round or square table. We chose round! Something like this one from pottery barn although not exactly like this one as we don't have that kind on money to spend on a dining table :)

Photo via Pottery Barn
We haven't made a decision about chairs yet but I'm thinking something in fabric, but I'm not ruling out wood chairs just yet :)
Maybe a chair like this although I don't like the skirt all the way to the ground

Photo via Ikea
We'll also need bar stools: Maybe something like this:

or this:

both photos via Ikea

Here's the current chandelier: kinda ick!

A couple of chandelier options, I'm loving the coach style one, but we are also strongly considering a simple shade on a rod (not that the second picture is simple, but that's the general idea but with a simple shade on the end :)

So there's a couple of dining room choices, Please let me know what you're thinking, I have been loving the feedback!!
Be back tomorrow with some more options, and if anyone in the greater Vancouver area needs a harvest table and three chairs we know where you can get one for a good deal :) hehe

Living Room Products

Wow all of this sourcing has been a lot more work then I thought it would be, phew . . . .
I'm very excited to share today's post with you today, I've spent many hours behind the computer picking out details of our living room, right now it might look a little devoid of color, but I have plans of adding some.
My color plans will include color that can easily be taken away and switched out seasonally on the cheap!
So here are some of our plans, again nothing is set in stone, just some ideas.

Here are some carpet options, right now we are loving  carpet tiles. I love the options they have and the price is not to bad either, depending on your choice of tile it could run from $7 a tile to $20+ a tile. With a little Max dog who, if he really loves a toy, has been known to pee on it just in case anyone didn't know it was his. And with a Lee who is just plain kinda messy sometimes (love you hunny in case you are reading this :) it makes sense in case a tile gets little doggy pee pee or a splash of spaghetti sauce we can just replace the tile instead of the whole carpet, saving money and the environment.

This last rug is from Pier 1

Here's a sconce option that's a bit cheaper then the pottery barn option I pictured above in my mood board.

Here are a couple of chair options we've been looking at:

Photo via Ikea We would stain the legs a different color :)
A couple of these would be great I love the little wing detail on the back

Photo via Pier 1

Photo via Home Depot, but I also think these chairs are sold at Target

Photo via Pier 1 I don't know where I would put this chair but I kinda love it, might be too much color for me but we'll see :)

We are hoping to keep our existing sofa, although a big huge one with a chaise wouldn't be too shabby. We will however need a new coffee table for sure, so I'll be back tomorrow with some coffee table options and maybe a little sneek of the dining room :)

Let us know what you think!