Furniture!

As most of you know, we will NOT be taking any of our current furniture to the new house. For some reason, Ikea just doesn't cut it these days. :)

The furniture we picked out for the baby's room (which is a lot nicer than the current Ikea bedroom furniture we have now...go figure!) has arrived. We're waiting to get it delivered to the new house in January. Here's a link to the online brochure. We bought the crib, conversion kit, and combo dresser awhile back and went back during their Once a Trimester sale and bought the nightstand. All of the furniture is in rubbed black which I was hesistant about beforehand, but I saw a similar furniture set with baby blue, mint green and pale yellow bedding and it looked great together. Now all I have to do is pick out bedding, which sounds easier than it's become. :)

We also bought our bedroom set a couple of weekends ago at Bassett Furniture. It's the only bedroom set that we both liked, so it was a pretty obvious choice. Here's a link to the set. We went with the panel king bed, dresser, two drawer nightstands on both sides of the bed, and a bench for the foot of the bed. We got the java finish which is a warmer brown color. For the panel bed, the headboard has brown/black leather that's cushioned. We didn't go with the granite tops for the dresser or nightstands because it would have been $1K more. We figured that we already splurged on the granite countertops in the master bath, so we didn't need it our bedroom anymore. Steven was talking about getting the granite overlays for the tops of the dresser and nightstands, it could work and it'd be a lot more cost efficient. :) We'll see. I'm just glad that we've upgraded from our Ikea furniture!

We're still in the process of picking out a family room couch. I like the Simply Yours Loft collection from Bassett which is a sectional set. We were thinking about getting the right hand and left hand chaise with an armless couch in the middle. I really want a chaise in the set (two is twice the fun!). We've measured out the family room and I think it'll look good. I also really like the shape of the media loveseat, but it doesn't have a chaise. We might just use that in the media room upstairs.

We are definitely getting the Simone daybed for the bay window area of the family room. I absolutely LOVE it! It's so comfy and it'll fit in that area perfectly. Since it's a day bed, it doesn't have a back, so it won't block the view of the outside and it's super comfy. I also really like the brown that it comes standard in, so we can wait until right before we move to purchase it since it should be in stock. Since this couch will be a dark brown, we were thinking that the sectional should be a lighter brown and that we'd paint the family room in a nice mocha color. What do you think? Maybe a splash of red as an accent color? Or maybe that turqoise that's being paired with brown this season...so many choices!

For the kitchen table, we're thinking about the Aris Pedestal Dining Table from Pottery Barn, along with the matching lazy susan (so Asian of us!). Can't decide on whether we should get it in black or mahogany though...too many decisions to make! I'm not sure if we'll go with those chairs or not. I really like them, but Four Hands has quarterly sales where we can get leather chairs for $100, but they might be a bit fancy for the breakfast table.

Those are all of the pieces that we've decided on so far, I don't think that we'll need much besides those for awhile. I think it'll be fun to purchase furniture over time and really make the house what we want it to be. Decorating is going to be the hard part. We've picked up a gazillion paint samples...I don't even want to get started on the topic of paint!