Furniture

So I think my "nesting" phase has started early with this pregnancy. Plus Nate has been around to help me with some major organizing/cleaning/decorating projects. Today we bought 3 new peices of furniture. Very exciting!


1. Entertainment Center:


For MONTHS it's been driving us CRAZY how Cam plays with the DVD player and Nate's video game equipment. He puts movies in and takes them out about 50 times a day (literally!!), and he is starting to ruin our dvds and probably the player as well. We were putting him in Time-Out constantly for it, and it was getting old!! So we found this fabulous little corner unit on craigslist.org (my favorite site!) for only $50! Can't beat that!!

Here is what it looked like before.....nice and ghetto:And here is after! We looked for weeks to find one where we could put the DVD player above the TV. Now Cam gets to watch movies on our terms and not his!! Thank heavens!

2. Glider Rocker for the kids' room:


When we sold our house and moved here, we lost a little over half of our living space! So we sold a ton of stuff....including the glider I used with Cam. I wasn't sad to see it go though....it was a really cheap wooden one that was actually really uncomfortable! This is the best picture I could find of it (aww, I LOVED Cam's room in our old house.....sad, I miss it sometimes!) I knew we would just buy another glider when we had another baby, so I didn't want to haul this one around anyway.Today I was looking at ShopKo.com, and they had this glider that is $200 on sale for $99! Can't beat a sale like that! So I sent Nate down to go get it. Yay! I will probably mostly feed the baby during the night out in our living room on the nice recliner since Cam will be sleeping, but it will be nice to have a comfy glider to use during the day. We are also doing some major rearranging in Cam's room, but until we figure out Cam's crib/bed situation, we are holding off on buying anything bed-wise. I am going to borrow my friend's bassinet (thanks Jenn!) for the baby for now. I think Cam will be staying in his crib until next Spring.




3. Dresser:


This is the dresser we have now. It's really beautiful and matches our headboard. We got it from a relative of Nate's who had passed away. But we talked and decided we needed to free up some floor space in our room so that we can move the Hope chest that's in Cam's room into our room to make room for the baby (wow, long sentence, did you follow that?). Nate made the chest in High school, it's beautiful. So we are selling this dresser on craigslist, and we bought this taller dresser at also ShopKo that was also on a fabulous 50% off sale.....told you I am the queen of finding bargains! It's still sitting in the box until we sell this one.

So even though our headboard and this dresser and the Hope chest will now all totally clash, we are happy. We weren't out to furnish our place with fancy expensive matching furniture. We will worry about that later when we can afford it!! We can just use this dresser for one of the kids later when Nate and I finally buy ourselves some nice bedroom furniture....if that day ever comes!!So there you have it!

My next project is the kitchen. I am on the lookout for a smaller dining table and a nice rug. Our friend is selling us her cute little pantry cupboard too. Our kitchen is HIDEOUS (totally 70's), I hate it! So I want to try and atleast make it look as cute as I can, if that's possible!! It's a lower priority though, so we'll see if I ever get around to it!!!