home spurts

I've decided I go through home spurts. It feels somewhat like a growth spurt that comes on about every 6 months when I feel an itch to change my surroundings. It's a weird thing that happens. I start to obsess over design blogs and magazines and mood boards and thrift stores and craigslist…you see where I'm going here. Then I start to dream big things. And oh, the things I dream.

But after a few weeks, I usually come back to reality and realize that I really don't have the time or the means to do any of that at all. And the dream comes to a lonely end. But it's okay, because dreaming was half the fun anyhow.

So maybe about a year ago, I came across a space that brought on a serious home spurt. It was this one below found at Good Bones, Great Pieces. It became the big dream. I wanted it. All of it. White walls, that settee, the lamp (oh yellow splash that I love), and that chair? Sweet producer of HGTV, I wanted that chair.

And so it went, I started building this grand idea to bring all of this to my house. I poured over internet sites and scoured thrift stores and dreamed of that lovely yellow lamp in the sky. But as all good home spurts go, I knew that unless someone left a bucket of diamond rings on my doorstep, this baby wasn't going to happen. Unfortunately after the dream ended, that chair wouldn't leave me alone. So off to craigslist again I went. In search of it.

It didn't take too long before I saw it. It was brown and ugly, but the potential was there. It only took me a mere 8 months to actually finish it, but hallelujah, the chair is mine! I'm livin' the dream. sort of. 🙂