Fate!

Men pay no heed to this post. This is a love story about decorating and bargain shopping. :heart

So, we're finally out of the 2-bedroom apartment (praise the gods!) and into a 3-bedroom house ... what to do with that 3rd bedroom? Answer: It will be a guest room / craft room. Next question, how to decorate?

This is the last room in the house that has mismatched furniture. Thankfully after 9 years of adulthood I finally have matching furniture in every other room.

To remedy this last room of mismatched hand-me-downs and yard-sale finds, I decided I would paint them all black ... head board for the twin bed I inherited from Grandmother (the same one I slept on through my entire childhood *happy sigh*), chest of drawers with shelf hutch on top I got for $15 at a yard sale, dresser that was Rob's in his first bachelor pad, and a night stand that his parents donated.

8 cans of spray paint later, it's all black and looks fabulous. I bought new drawer pulls for everything in brushed nickel so the pieces really look like they match.

The walls are a medium taupe color and all I had left to choose were bed linens and accessories. I decide that with taupe and black, going with red and ivory accents would be really classy. My inspriation is a room I saw in the Pottery Barn catalog. Of course, I can't afford Pottery Barn linens, but I figured I could keep my eyes open for bargains, as red seems to be the 'in' color for linens nowadays, and ivory is a staple that wont be hard to find. I thought I could probably splurge on some red and ivory toille fabric for accent pillows after I find sheets and blankets (the easy part), and a coverlet (the hard part).

A very happy ending to the story today ... I was in Target to buy toilet paper and decided to breeze past the clearance shelves. The pickings were slim and I almost missed my treasure. A bulk 24 pack of TP under my arm, I'm about to leave the aisle when a flash of red catches my eye. I pause, back up, and reach for a shabby plastic bag that's been taped back together a few times ... OMG, it's a solid red twin-sized quilt, almost identical to the one I saw in Pottery Barn and *gasp* the happy orange sticker says IT'S ON CLEARANCE FOR $9.99!

:clap *ANGELS SING* :yay *HALLELUJAH*

Fate does exist.