nest

we officially moved into our house on yorkshire seven months ago. it seems like years since we lived in snellville though. that being said, it's taken a full seven months to make our yorkie house feel like home, as convoluted as that may sound.

when we found the house we knew it had good bones. as they say. the spaces felt good. color on the walls immediately helped. but then after that it's taken a while to go from the temporary furniture we picked up to our real vision for the house.. but now it's here.

when we first saw the house, this was the living room..


when we first moved in, i bought some tide-us-over type furniture that was the right size, but not the right anything else. it was used and inexpensive. and it did the trick. except it didn't. it was leather. and it was white. and it was cold. in every way. we endured it when we had to, but we didn't hang out in there on it.

just so you can have the proper comparison, here's a snapshot of it that i used when i sold it. it doesn't show the full room, but you can imagine. (ignore the mess, please.)


and so i sold it. (incidentally, for only $50 less than i paid for it. pretty damn good for six months of use, i'd say.)

and now.. this is the living room..

or maybe this is a better angle?


sigh.. these pictures really don't do it justice. just trust me, for the first time since we moved in, both haley and i are content to be here. we have a perch. we have a nest.

we have a home.

d: the spare box springs in our library to have a new home
b: our nest is beautifully feathered
g: house turned home.. at last