Thrifty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, Part Deux

Ok, y'all are just gonna have to humor me for a little bit today, because these pictures all look almost identical.

See, last Sunday, for the first time in, like, EVER, our bedroom was completely clean.

(I'm loving all the sunlight and shadows everywhere)

So I did what any self respecting blogger would do... I grabbed a camera.

Y'know, so I could hook up to a Spring linky party somewhere.

The deal with my style is that it leans way toward traditional, masculine, earthy and muted. And that just doesn't leave too much room for the chippy, the white, the pastel, the fouf and frills of Spring. So this is about as close as I get to go.

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The white porcelain crest over the bed was $100 from Homegoods. It looks quite Domino/Ruthie Sommers-ish to me and I love it. I bought it right after we sold our old house, so it survived three moves before it ever saw the light of day on a wall. Amazing.

The charcoal trellis euro shams were $5 a piece last summer at the Pottery Barn outlet in Gaffney.  I bought them for Big T's bed but we've already established that he's a guy and therefore could not care less about all things decorating, so I swiped them.

The huge blue toile ottoman came from the consignment store last year.  To tell the truth, I'm already a little tired of the print, but it's functional so it will probably stay.  And most of the time it's covered in laundry to be folded so I don't have to look at it anyway.  Feel free to implement my decorating solutions in your own home-I don't mind a bit!

The duvet cover was $60 from Ikea.  It looks beige in the photos but it's actually a pretty pale gray-blue.

We finally got all the Restoration Hardware Thai Silk curtains hung a couple months ago (Four trips to the store exchanging stuff and we only had one major argument to do it, too!) You may remember how I came to have those.   

So, wanna know a secret about me? 
Ahem. 
Well, I'm sort of a drapery snob. Double lined and custom made, baby!  It just about killed me to put up these expandable rods because I can't stand that little dip in the middle. 

I know.  I'm weird sometimes.

But they were covered up by the rod pocket and everything was fine.  

Then I decided to add the rings because the curtains didn't want to stay open. 

Problem is, the ceiling is ten feet high, so those puppies are way up there.
And the rings get caught on the dip thingy in the middle

and they don't want to close

and then you have to

yank on them

and jiggle them

and swear at them

and threaten them

to get the rings to cooperate,

but usually the hooks pop out of the rings anyway,

leaving the whole thing looking all saggy

and sad.

Boo.

Hiss.

Grrrr.

So the other night I'm watching The Judds (have y'all seen that show?  A bit like watching a train wreck but nevertheless fascinating!) and generally minding my own business when there comes a horrendous wall-shaking crash, which in turn sets off the glass break on the security system.  So, disoriented by the wailing alarm, I stumble-fly down the stairs, fully expecting to find B:  a) bleeding profusely from a missing limb, b) being held at gunpoint by a masked intruder, or c) sprawled out on the floor...y'know....not breathing.

B was fine.  He had climbed up on the bedside chest trying to fix the *$%#@ curtains after they came off AGAIN and he ended up tipping the whole chest over.  That marble top is not attached to the chest so it came crashing down and left a ginormous gash in the floor.

Needless to say, the floor man IS NOT HAPPY about that.

Let's see, what else...

Oh!  Almost forgot the best part.  See that black and cream needlepoint throw pillow? 

It's a Trina Turk.  I found it at the consignment store too.  It still had the tags on it from our local design/accessories mall where people with more money than sense buy their tchotchkes.

Now I ask you: 

Who in their right mind

pays TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS for one throw pillow?!!

I paid $40 for it, which is still at the high end of my throw pillow threshold, but I looked it up online when I got home and it's still selling out there for around $125.  So I'm feeling rather thrifty, yes I am.

What've you found good lately?

Linking up to:

Thanks Rhoda

Thanks Sherry!