cables and cords...

back when we dubbed the second bedroom "erica's girl cave," we also decided it would also function as an office. so that is where the wireless internet stuff is....but with the lack of furniture, there's nothing to hide it behind or under or on...and since the room has now been renamed as "ollie's room"...that's a bad thing. wires and cords everywhere! not a good thing for a dog that likes to chew things. i looked online for options on how to hide cords, and found this bad boy...

{please excuse the bad quality iphone photo as well as ollie's pee pad}

here's a link to their website so you can see nice quality photos and information.
i read mixed reviews....some love it, some think it's a waste of money for a plastic box. but i was desperate, and 30 bucks wasn't really cause to go "cray cray" about the price, so i just bought one. it's fab. i'm still hoping to hide it behind/under something...once i find furniture.

check out the site...there's tons of nifty stuff.

i can't wait to show you the hideous thing nolan wants to display in our living room.
i cringe.

let there be light: part four

wow. long time no blog!
seriously, i haven't loss momentum....just the funds. hahahaha. but don't worry, more posts will be popping up shortly. I just wanted to share our other floor lamp purchase from inspiration. This was the floor model (bleh) but i was over lamp shopping and didn't care at that point. what's so bad about floor model? well, the lamp that was working on the floor in the store, decided to burn out its bulbs the day we get it. and the funny thing is, it looked brighter in the store...i thought that the other lamps we bought wouldn't be bright enough so we bought two...one was good enough. this one i thought would be perfect....it's a bit dull. It's also not really the look i was going for....but since the room has now been deemed "ollie's room" and not my girl cave....oh well. without further adieu,

a lamp for ollie's room.
i swear that dog has too much stuff. it took over that small room, there's no room for a desk, or vanity or anything of mine.

let there be light: part three

wow. i've been really slacking with blog posts lately. i guess things have been slowing down now that we've actually moved in....and run out of money. hahaha. i really didn't want to take any pictures of the place until i could do a big "TA-DA!!!" reveal like on all those HGTV shows i obsessed over. but i've come to realize that that is not going to happen for a while. we spent so much money on the major renovations that all the aesthetic stuff like rugs, lights, decorative elements would just have to wait. but don't worry, some new things are afoot...

the first being that we FINALLY got some floor lamps for this place!

i was lusting over these lamps at inspiration for awhile, but wanted to look around for a cheaper/more practical/bigger wattage alternative. i found none. at least none that i liked. so after months of stumbling in the dark we caved and went back for them. we bought 2 thinking one would definitely not be bright enough--we were wrong, one was good. but as with everything on sale at inspiration...it was FINAL SALE. but it's ok...it's more symmetrical this way:

a house is not a home without a...

COUCH!!!!

our couch we bought months ago from inspiration was FINALLY delivered on Friday, and i've got to say that i'm in loooooove. i will never again take a couch for granted. the color is perfect, it's comfy (but then again, anything would be more comfortable than the plastic chairs we've been using) and it's super light, which makes moving it a breeze!

the couch also came with a super long ottoman, which we will be using as a makeshift couch/daybed in my "girl cave"-now turned-into-ollie's room. i'm actually sitting on it right now as i keep ollie company while he sun bathes next to the window.

anyway, back to the couch. it's smaller than we were imagining (which is good) so we can start looking for things like an area rug, table, and maybe some side tables!!!

MIA...only words

i haven't been posting lately....there's nothing to post about. STILL unpacking. i think we win the award for world's slowest unpackers/move-in-ers. a lot of it is just that we need to BUY things to put stuff in. and you know...pretty storage is not cheap. i caved and started buying sorta el cheap-o plastic bins. i really really wanted to stay away from them, but seriously...even those are tugging at my purse strings.

in other news....where oh where is our couch?!?!? seriously. nolan called today after we found out that mr. & mrs. lau's (haha!) couch is being delivered THIS SATURDAY. um, hellooo inspiration, our couch was on the same boat/ship/container. where is our couch?!?! so they tell nolan that the couch is on the island, but then proceeded to say "don't get mad now (hmmm....i guess a lot of other people are already mad?) but the next available delivery time for your area is september yadda yadda." WHAT??!?! so....we're waiting till september for our couch.

and....i have a sneaking suspicion that my "girl cave" is going to be more "ollie's room" than girlie lounge. for a little dog, he has so much stuff!

mess

slowly but surely...

things are coming together.

slowly but surely,

boxes are dissapearing and more floor is visible!

this past weekend i went on cleaning & organizing mode. the closets are done, and we purchased some nice bins and things to actually have places to put things! as boxes get broken down, the fine soot/dust that came with all that building flies everywhere!

sweep.
dry swiffer.

wet swiffer.

every.single.room.

there has to be an easier way! AND i can still feel that soot on my feet! when will it end?!?!
i curse the floors and all that dust.

so here are some of the latest updates to the abode:

media console...
waiting for the glass door to be put in, and for the mess to be cleaned up.

my girl cave closet:

i get my own closet, because nolan kicked me out of the master bedroom closet...

linen closet:

i think we need more linens!

and my few anthropologie purchases:

sad the E is crooked...