I enjoy putting together furniture. In fact, I’ve put together every piece of furniture that’s arrived from Amazon. It might take me a while (and I might have to unscrew, flip a piece around, and re-screw) but I stick with the task until the very end. For some reason, I enjoy the challenge of figuring out the super obtuse and poorly written instruction manual to produce a complete piece of furniture. 

Recently, I put together a console/entry table, a coffee table, and 2 side tables downstairs. I completed those four pieces in just two days. I definitely wouldn’t recommend it (unless you’re strapped for time and have plenty of patience). I enjoy looking at the transformation of my home over time since we’re literally building everything from the ground up.

I remember riding by every single day to see what progress the builders had made for the day. In my photo album, I can see the progression from when we picked the lot, to when they cleared the trees, poured the concrete, installed the roof, installed the sod, and all the way to the finish line. 

For big furniture pieces, we need to get a dining room table that seats eight hopefully in time for the holidays this year. I’m not sure where we will get it from, but my husband already said he wants a really nice one, so I’m sure that will narrow down our search significantly. I would like to get a bookshelf for the office, start hanging pictures on the walls, start decorating with little trinkets, and build out the bathroom in the upstairs hallway. We have the bare minimum for that bathroom, but we need a toilet paper roll stand, a paper towel roll holder, a shower curtain and shower rod, a trash can, decorative art (or not), and probably a fake flower or something cute to go on the counter. 

For my office, I’m thinking of getting a white bookshelf and having gold accent pieces throughout the space. Right now, our workout equipment is in that room too, and I definitely don’t mind keeping the rowing machine and the stationary bike in there if that’s the best place for them. I really like my white and gold desk so that’s definitely staying. That space will really come together once I’m able to organize my books and the paper strewn about haphazardly around the room. 

For our main bedroom, the most important thing I would like to get are some long blackout curtains so the sun (and heat) doesn’t wake us up on the weekends. Right now, we have some light filtering curtains that are better than nothing, but just aren’t as good as it could be. I would also love to start hanging pictures around the walls and we need a floor length mirror. For our main bathroom, I would like to get a different mat for when we step out of the shower. The one we have currently is made by UGG, but I’ve noticed that it really doesn’t dry during the day. By the time we take our nightly shower, the mat is still a little wet. 

For our entryway, I would like to find a nice, big mirror to hang above the console table. Either there, or a mirror on the wall closer to the dining room table. I’m not sure if I like the trend of putting a rug under the dining room table, especially since we already have carpet in that room. I’m nervous of food getting dropped on the carpet, but we have a steam cleaner so it really won’t be that big of a deal to pick up stains. For the guest bedroom, we need some lamps and I would like to get a TV stand to match the other furniture in the room. Right now, we have a cherry wood theme going, but there’s a black TV stand that’s throwing it off a littlte. 

I would say our living room is mostly finished. We need to add pictures to the wall, probably a sound bar for the TV, and more decorative trinkets for the tables and surfaces. The kitchen is also pretty much done. One of the most important additions I’d like to add there is a step stool so I can reach the higher shelves in the cabinets and some additional cabinet liners. 

We are missing a tall table for the loft and wall art, of course. Other than small trinkets here and there, that space is done and ready for football season to start again. Oh, and I would LOVE to organize the garage, but who knows how long that will take. It’ll more than likely be a whole ordeal since majority of the items are heavy and require help from Krissy to move. We would also need some of those cabinets to organize the yard stuff, tools, car stuff, and the other random items thrown in there. 

Perhaps as I continue this project of mine, I’ll get to come back to this post and be amazed at how much progress we’ve made. 

Signed,

Jessica Marie