The Tale of My Dream Bed found on Facebook Marketplace (and a new light fixture!) – The Inspired Room

I’m a believer in making room in our house for serendipitous discoveries. When you preserve your eyes and coronary heart open, you by no means know once you’ll unexpectedly discover one thing extra great than you may have deliberate.

A house ought to inform our tales. And what higher manner so as to add character to a house than to furnish it with serendipitous discoveries?

Immediately I’ll share my ideas on furnishing our house and the story of unexpectedly discovering my dream mattress on Fb market only a few days in the past!

You would possibly recall that I had just lately posted about somewhat spring refresh of our bed room. In that put up I stated I used to be nonetheless on the lookout for a brand new mild fixture however aside from that I didn’t actually have another rapid plans for updating our room.

Effectively, issues have taken an sudden however thrilling flip. Not solely did a discover a new mild fixture however because of a temper board I made and a serendipitous discovery on Fb Market, I introduced a brand new to me coastal dream mattress to our house and now I can’t wait to have it in our little bed room overlooking the Salish Sea. It was meant to be.

Our Plan for Furnishings

In my put up about our spring mantel and our thrift retailer pheasants, I discussed that I used to be now open to the opportunity of being on the hunt for “new to me” furnishings. In downsizing to maneuver right here we gave away a whole lot of furnishings! This can be a smaller house so not the whole lot we had match and I didn’t wish to really feel overwhelmed making an attempt to make choices instantly.

There is no such thing as a rush. We’re pleased with our house and I’m at all times content material to make use of what we’ve. And I’m nonetheless working via making an attempt to pare down and do away with issues we don’t want right here! It’s been a course of. We purchased a number of accent chairs right here and there to fill out areas however I made a decision that if something we actually love comes alongside (and on our price range), we’ll fortunately swap the rest out. That gradual course of will assist us proceed to get pleasure from making this house our personal with none stress or timeline.

However now that our renovation is over, I really feel somewhat extra “prepared” to start wanting round extra and even scrolling FB Market from time to time, simply in case. It really appeared like enjoyable to simply look so I started FB Market and located a brand new little console desk with a marble prime and a darling chair. These finds ignited my creativity and renewed my pleasure over the fun of the hunt! I’ll share these items in a future put up.

So I assume my plan for furnishing our front room was merely to be open to serendipitous discoveries! I’ve taught my HomeBody Gathering Place adorning neighborhood in regards to the worth in creating their sense of serendipity in addition to easy methods to carry a collected model collectively to it feels cohesive.

It truly is enjoyable to have a house that tells a narrative! The tales of how our house got here collectively is what helps create a way of sanctuary. I did initially suppose that if I purchased something it will be for the lounge! Effectively, that’s what I get for making an attempt to plan! 🙂 Being open to no matter you discover could make the tales of your house much more fascinating! You don’t know what you’ll discover or when. And once you uncover one thing you actually love, it feels prefer it was meant to be so I’ll fortunately regulate any plans.

How Creating A Temper Board Led to My Dream Mattress

In HomeBody Gathering Place final week we taught how (and why!) to make a temper board. There are SO many causes I believe a temper board will be very helpful in house adorning and renovations, however one purpose is that they will help you to higher visualize and outline your personal model. That actually is vital to creating a house you’ll love.

Over the weekend I used to be impressed to make a temper board for our bed room. Now thoughts you, I wasn’t intending to purchase furnishings for the bed room, I simply needed to visualise my model as entire. I needed to visualise the entire rooms to create our model.

A temper board doesn’t have to show right into a purchasing listing (though that’s one other helpful purpose to make one), it may be only for inspiration!

One adorning precept I train within the HGP is to start out by making a dream board first, after which a actuality board can come subsequent. I discover making a dream board to be fairly inspiring as it could actually encourage you to get out of a design rut or prevent from at all times enjoying it secure as a substitute of listening to your coronary heart is telling you.

As soon as you possibly can visualize your dream model, you possibly can nonetheless incorporate what you have already got but in addition components of your dream into your actuality.

In order that’s what I did. I let myself dream somewhat! The very first thing I placed on my board moreover a few items I had was a picture of a mattress I’ve liked for years. It’s traditional, but in addition feels so whimsical, which I believe actually is my model at coronary heart.

I checked out all the colours the mattress got here in and liked all of them, however I landed on robin’s egg blue. This mattress has at all times jogged my memory of waves at sea and what higher coloration for it than my favourite shade of blue?

The mattress was solely a dream for me, nevertheless it represented one thing vital about my model. An sudden bit of caprice is one thing I at all times crave in a house. Even when it’s simply in a single factor, the lightheartedness and unpretentiousness of a whimsical model makes it really feel like house to me.

The Serendipitous Discovery – In One other Nation!

Whereas there gave the impression to be no probability of me getting that mattress, I reminded myself that in case you are actually going to be open to serendipitous discoveries, you can not shut off the probabilities earlier than you even begin. Don’t pre-determine what you’ll discover or resolve upfront what’s or isn’t attainable. If one thing speaks to your coronary heart, hear!

So although it appeared to me to be probably the most unlikely factor to seek out on Fb Market (particularly once you don’t dwell in a giant metropolis) I assumed I would as effectively look. Why not? I wasn’t in a rush or anticipating to seek out this mattress. However even when I by no means discovered it, possibly I’d discover one thing else that may be of an analogous model or temper. There was no hurry or expectations.

That is what I like about creating a house over time. Any stress of rapid gratification is off when the fun of the hunt is ON! You by no means know when the invention shall be made.

Minutes after inserting the robin’s egg blue mattress on my dream board, I opened FMP and typed within the title of the mattress. As I stated I actually didn’t anticipate finding it. However I instantly did a double take. A lot to my shock, there it was. My dream mattress! Some individuals name {that a} “God sighting” — it actually did really feel like a present was sitting proper there ready for me.

However that’s additionally after I went into panic mode. The worth was a fraction of the price of a brand new mattress and no gross sales taxes, no transport, so it was a no brainer…however …. there have been different roadblocks. We don’t personal a truck. And likewise, this mattress was throughout the border in Canada. It was late Saturday evening. We didn’t have any Canadian money and no banks have been open. So many questions however I made a decision to a minimum of message her.

I didn’t hear again.

I couldn’t sleep a wink all evening. That’s after I knew. If this mattress made my coronary heart flutter this a lot, there was little doubt it was meant to be. I didn’t wish to by chance miss a return message so I checked my telephone actually early within the morning. At 5:30 AM, she requested after we might come get it.

By 10AM we had rented a Uhaul utility truck and have been on our strategy to the border. It became a for much longer story — involving discovering no money machines open on Sundays, not having the proper device to take the mattress aside, our telephones didn’t work whereas we have been in Canada and plenty of different challenges — however we didn’t surrender!

By 6PM Sunday evening, my dream mattress was in our house.

Dare to dream buddies! You by no means know what would possibly occur. 🙂 I had to make use of the funds I had put aside for one thing in the lounge, however I can’t think about a chunk of front room furnishings I’d love greater than my new mattress. Proper earlier than we discovered the mattress and the day after my final replace put up on the bed room, I purchased the brand new mild fixture so I assume I’ll be engaged on the bed room now :). That’s the way you create a collected house over time, it simply would possibly flip into an sudden journey!

After all, I additionally actually liked the mattress I had (this cane mattress) however GOOD NEWS throughout my daughter Courtney and her husband needed a brand new mattress, and now I simply occur to have a stunning one to cross alongside to them. Win win!