Women Be Shopping...Oh, And Walking

Wanted to give ya'll a little tour of our living room...

Jealous?

TOTALLY kidding, Lord knows I wish I wasn't. In total excitement, I found myself snapping this pic via instagram while we shopped til we dropped today at West Elm. If you remember, I shared our updated floors with you a couple weeks ago. I LOVE them, they are dark chocolate and look amazing with our grey walls and new crispy white wall trim. But the one downfall, I am sad to say, is something I was more than once warned about, dark floors SHOW EVERYTHING. I mean you can see the Who Horton hears on our floors! Every dust particle, dog or human hair, leaf, grass blade, water spot and anything else that could possibly end up on the floor is accounted for and present. And even after facing the cold hard truth, I don't think I would go back and change my mind. They just look too good. :) So along with doing our research to find the best duster/mop/steamer on the market for laminate wood floors (your suggestions are welcomed!) we also thought adding area rugs would help collect a little bit of the debris as well, as gross as that sounds.

Before I go any further with my story let me just interject with a little background information on our home renovation spend plan. And I'm sorry if we've had this conversation before. When we purchased this home, we knew there would be renovations to be had. What we I didn't know is that since we didn't have a designated chunk of change readily available, these renovations would happen slowly over time. And just to be clear, it wasn't that I thought we had money and we didn't or that Acker hid money from me. I was well aware there was no money, I just was severely hopeful that we would just find some along the way, you know...under the mattress, in an old purse or maybe in a pair of jeans in the dryer.  So the process of falling in love with our first house has been a little slow in the making for me. In fact, only about 3 months in, I was already talking about our next house. But as we Acker painted, gave our kitchen a much needed uplift , laid down new floors and replaced doors and trim, our house has begun to win over my heart. And now we are working to my our first house, our first home. The most important part of that sentence, DECOR!!!!! Okay, now back to our regular scheduled posting...

So off to West Elm we went. We made our way with two intentions, purchase area rugs (for the living room, entry way, back door and possibly the bedroom) and order a new couch!!!!!! We I have been staking the West Elm sight for months now and even made a few dry run visits with a few on staff designers. But TODAY was the real deal. I walked in ready to  rattle off the items I needed and with every intention of being in and out of there within an hour. So clearly, two and half hours later we walked out and now, I'd like to introduce you to our newest additions to the Acker household.

 Back door jute. And if you're thinking new door? You're right!

 Front door jute, hopefully she'll be accompanied by a new door as well soon.

Living room jute, looks totally different in this shot, but same color as the other two.

And one of my two favorite purchases from today, a little ivory shag, on clearance! Ignore the curtains, was trying something different with the curtains, but not a fan.


And as for my other favorite purchase from today...feast your eyes on this bad boy.

You know the saying pain is beauty, well apparently, the saying works in the world of home decor as well. Although we did our fair share of jumping up and down in celebration of our new couch, we won't be able to actually bask in our awesome purchase for another 10-12 weeks. :( I guess that's just the price you pay. So in the mean time and to totally get back on track as to why we're here in the first place, I will have to spend the next 10-12 weeks exhausted on the old girl below after late night walks. 

Thursday and Friday we're not the most healthiest days. Between sushi, red velvet cupcakes and mac n cheese hamburgers, work had me all sorts of stress eating with no time left for walking. So this evening I dragged myself up and out the door for a super late walk. Not nearly as hot as my last walk, but just as exhausting. I think that's due to the two day break/binge fest. But if I can sneak a walk in tomorrow I will have kept on target with my 5 walks per week for this week and one week closer to starting the couch to 5K routine. :)

So, sorry this was a long one, but posts like these make me happy because, well more so than needing a place to vent and share as I trek through this little journey, this is a place where I can just write. Which is something I really love to do. So thanks for the ears eyes. And  don't be shy...leave me a note, let me know you're there!!!!