i know that expending hours and hours and dollars and dollars trying with your might to make your apartment look like a pottery barn ad is fundamentally sick.
but i want it so. every day pottery barn emails me their sales and i stare lovingly at the glossy, fabulous, preppy/rustic décor and i don’t buy any of it. and then i think about how i can do it on the cheap by making things/buying stuff at target.
i would absolutely adore an old trunk to sit my living room tv on. adore. but alas, i have a $19.99 bachelor-pad-of-the-90s build-it-yourself stand that i inherited from an old roommate. hideously ugly but does the job.
if i were really skinny i would sit with my perrier on my khaki couch in front of my hurricanes and tower candles sitting on the distressed red coffee table, thinking about my monogrammed towels and antique hardware in the bathroom 20 feet away and basking in the glow of my favorite j.crew cardigan and my perfect red lipstick.
the room would probably smell like green tea or lemongrass or (who are we kidding) the fresh peonies on the side table.
doesn’t that sound nice?
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my entire living room is pottery barn / crate & barrel. smell like lemongrass and peonies?
no. more like trader joe's pizza and a hint of spring fresh from the old dryer sheets scattered about.
so don't do it hollylynn, not worth the plunge.
also...don't subscribe to west elm. won't help with your issue.
I dream the same things as you, as I'm sitting on a couch that my husband bought form a motel that was going out of business. I can't think about it too much.
craigslist!!!!
craiglist craigslist craigslist. i have furnished half of my apartment for less than 100 bucks by paying very small amounts of cash for things people are going to throw out. and it's CUTE stuff. sooo cute.
and also, I LOVE THIS POST.
I sure have been missin you lots lately!! I hope all is well. I want to see you soon. Miss ya!
before i got married i used to dream of having a pottery barn furnished house. then i got married and since 2 incomes are better than 1, i have that house. but pottery barn is an addiction. it doesn't stop. and now crate and barrel... and they just built both down the street from our house...so i no longer have to drive to spend $$$ ARGGG!
seriously though, i think some of the PB stuff is not as good as it used to be. recently got dining room furniture from C&B and we love it. they charge so much less for shipping and their stuff is a bit more affordable.
Target is awesome! recently bought us a whole new bedroom ensemble from there.
whatever you decide, make it you.
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