As I so eagerly shared with y’all, I am getting ready for a big move! After two years of splitting a one bedroom apartment with my best friend, we decided to grow up out of our twin beds and into a house. Or, a townhouse to be exact. We searched high and low for a good price and location, and y’all, it was stressful. I don’t know how many times we got our hopes up, only to have them crushed, but as my daddy put it perfectly, “These places aren’t working out because they just aren’t meant to be.” Finally, we found it. In one short week, we are moving into an adorable four bedroom, three story townhouse in a beautiful gated community. Joining us there will be another one of our best friends and one of my closest childhood friends who is moving here post-graduation!

I’ll be living in the basement, which I went back and forth about. Hello, I will be all alone! Yet, at the end of the day, the size of the room, the bathroom all to myself, the backyard right outside my room, it was all enough to seal the deal for me. Coming from such a small room, however, has really limited what I have to bring to the townhouse. At first, I was a bit overwhelmed with everything I would need to fill the room, until I came to my senses and realized how much I love this stuff! A lot of my projects have to wait until the actual big move, but I want to give y’all a big overview of what to expect!

1. Bed: I’ll be bringing this beauty from home, but it couldn’t possibly be an uglier shade of wood, so I’ll be staining it a dark cherry color. I’m also going to make a canopy to sort of help section off the bed area from the living room. In ll honesty, I’ve just always wanted a canopy, and I’m starting to get close to that age where it might be a bit unacceptable. I’m not there yet though!
2. Bedside Table: I’m really lucky that my parents are letting me steal all my furniture from home because this is another piece I’m taking from my childhood home. It’s already a good shade of wood, it just needs some serious deep cleaning.
3. Ottoman: This is a DIY project that I’m planning to tackle. Basically, I’m going to turn a coffee table into the ottoman a la Pinterest. I’m probably going to push this until most of the rest of the room is put together because I really want to make sure I pick the right color fabric for it.
4. Chair One: I found this one in my garage back home, and to say my dad isn’t thrilled about me taking it is to say the least. I originally wanted to spray paint it white, along with another chair, but he wasn’t having it, so this will be in my (long) list of “to stain.”
5. Sofa Table: Another garage find, and guess what y’all! I don’t have to do a dang thing to it!! Other than add a pretty lamp and tray, this piece is good and ready.
6. Standing Mirror: I might be jumping the shark putting this on my list because I don’t exactly own it yet. I’ve been scouring craigslist for some good deals, but I haven’t been having the best luck. I’m hoping I can find something on a trip to a flea market or maybe something will suddenly appear online. I’m desperately crossing my fingers for this one.
7. Sofa: My parents have this awful old yellow couch that was horrible when we had it in our house when I was a kid and is even more terrifying now. Did I mention it’s yellow? Yes, gross velvety yellow. Thank the Lord for slipcovers! I have a neutral one on it’s way that will hopefully do the job!
8. Bookshelf: Just your typical, run-of-the-mill white bookshelf, complete with a few baskets, and hopefully some cute milkglass/mason jar/picture frame combo. I also have this beautiful mirror that needs a nice staining job, but I’m thinking I’ll lean it on top of the shelf.
9. Desk: I love a good desk, but desks can get messy. Also, I need somewhere to put my dinky tv, so I came up with a solution that will hopefully appease my desperate need for a desk & my OCD for a clean area. I’m going to put my TV on the desk, along with a little desk decor, but instead of having an office chair, I’m just going to use Chair 2 (#10). This way, it looks like  TV stand, but can also be used as a desk. I realize this is weird of me to actually care about my desk looking like a desk, but it was something that drove me crazy until I figured this out. Real rocket science stuff, huh?
10. Chair Two: My final and favorite garage find. My daddy is very sentimental about this chair, and it was on his list of “you can’t touch.” That was until I convinced him I was going to stain it, upholster it, and make it beautiful. Currently, it’s a pretty hot mess, but he was so sure that he would one day fix it. He won’t. I will, however!