Champagne taste!

Normally my passion is for all things fashion related, but lately I have been in house mode!  Brian and I are trying to decide if we want to stay in our home, or start looking for something more family friendly.  Starting a family is on our short term list, and along with baby comes more stuff!  The problem we are finding is that we have champagne taste on a beer budget!  When it comes to a home we have high expectations, and a wish list a mile long.  What we need to get past is that our next home might not be our dream home, but it will be a home that we spend a lot of years in, thus it needs to be large enough for a family!  If we decided to wait it out and stick with our charming little home that we are currently in, then we will need to do a lot of updating and organizing!  With that being said, I am in a decorating mood!  I want new furniture, new fixtures, a new kitchen, etc! It goes on and on!  I will pat myself on the back, as I have spent the past 5 years living in a home FULL of the furniture my husband bought right out of college or any hand me downs we may have collected over the years.  Needless to say, we don't have the same taste!  I am constantly looking for ways to update our living room furniture, and fun throw pillows always seem to work.  Lately I have had my eye on these cute ones from my favorite site, Etsy!

I guess being a newlywed, you'll find any excuse for something personalized with your new name :)

We have also been in the talks about getting a new bed.  Again, our mattress has some miles on it, so it doesn't produce the best nights sleep. Of course as we began to look at new mattresses, we found that we don't want the average Serta, instead my husband has his heart set on a Tempurpedic!  What else comes along with a Tempurpedic besides a good nights sleep?  A HEFTY price tag!  And after replacing not one, but TWO A/C units at our rental homes this summer, the bank of Dishman is BROKE! Not to mention, in our quest for a new mattress, we have decided that we would like to upgrade to a king size, which would cause us to buy a new bed.  We are really hoping for those tree's in our back yard to start producing some major cash! Ultimately I would prefer to be rid of our current bedroom furniture.  Since we can't afford to replace it all, I have decided that we can be "handy" and make our very own upholstered headboard!  My goal is to create one like this classy one from Pottery Barn, but on my beer budget!

We'll see how this works out!  Until we catch a major windfall, I need to remind myself to stay away from HGTV and Traditional Home, because for now, my ultimate house ideas will just need to be placed into a wish book!