I have been collecting and holding on to these home decor pieces
for months. I found some very cool home decor pieces recently from all over the internet,
so I'll show you what I got. I can go on that side and climb on the couch.
Because Stef goes along with all my design stuff, I worry that people don't see him in the house,
so I thought that this was perfect. It was a birthday present that I bought on etsy
and this photographer blew up from this shot alone. It was literally a death defying shot, and
I bought this huge photo print by him. It's six feet by two feet and it was pretty pricey, and art
is something that I think is worth the splurge. It says so much about you that it should be something
that is an investment, but it's also why it's so hard for me to commit to hanging art on the wall.
Everything about the kitchen needs changing, and I am finally understanding my interior style a bit
more. I think I'm a cross between danish pastel and japandi, and I really like experimenting with
colors, and I also want to buy some investment pieces. I first got these salt and pepper mills
from hay which is a danish design company, and Stef has been bugging me for a while now to get
proper pepper mills, and I wasn't about to let him take over that because he's gonna come home with
like the big ol wood italian restaurant style ones, and this single use salt mill from costco
was not it. These salt and pepper shakers, this was passed down to me from a dear family member
and she collected salt and pepper shakers and she also collected little spoons. The only thing
is we don't really use table salt so I think I'm going to move those over to the dining table. So I
actually swapped the caps on these mills. I think that it kind of makes it look better as a pair, it
doesn't work with the color of the kitchen right now but just picture it in a shiny new kitchen
with beautiful backsplash and beautiful new counters. I just want to like take a sledgehammer
to things. And then I found these which are also hay. Everything about the color of these
make me so happy. I very temporarily had a diy coffee can that just had to go so fast. It was no
bueno. But look how good these are together as a set. I almost shop exclusively online now, even
pre-pandemic. I haven't missed them all. That being said, I understand that shopping online
comes with risks being somebody that shops from aliexpress a lot, I know I've had a couple of
pieces recently that haven't showed up, including and this is like I was so looking forward to this.
It was it's been 90 days and it hasn't shown up, is the velvet stool that I was hyping everybody
up about. Yeah it never came, and I don't know if it will come. So I know with shopping online
returns can happen but something that we don't often think about is the impact that it takes to
ship an item but also return it. Things magically turn up at our door but it takes a lot to
have something packaged and distributed and sorted and coming from another country.
So these are the pieces that I got. The anti-fatigue mats, I see them everywhere. I have
yet to see one that is nice. The one that I have is really not nice. So I got this marimekko print
dupe and it's just thin enough that I can lay it over the anti-fatigue mat
and cover it up pretty nicely, and it can also double as an outdoor mat. I've also seen it cut up
into the shape of the flowers that I haven't committed yet, but I've been thinking about it.
This kind of goes along with the color scheme as I'm continuing to plan the kitchen. Just think of
sage cabinets. I don't care if it's overdone, I just like sage cabinets with
pops of red and orange and pink, you know it just seems really nice. I also recently upgraded my
spice setup which is a diy that I can link in the description for you to watch, but I think I
have this thing where I do really like bamboo lids. This is a baking soda jar that I keep
by the kitchen sink. Baking soda is like my go-to for everything. It cleans vegetables, clean sinks,
degreaser, great abrasive. So I have this all the time. My spice jars are also bamboo lid so
this spout jar as well as a little flip top lidded jar with a little spoon. I thought was perfect for
oil as well as kosher salt. It's a stoneware set. It wasn't the cheapest, they were about
twenty dollars each. I'm going to replace my gross sludgy plastic bottle of oil. We didn't even keep
it on the counter, so it wasn't very convenient and also a takeout container of kosher salt.
Decor wise I picked up a faux plant. I actually it's funny because I had
alocasia polly. Polly was not doing well. It had a little leaf going for a long
while and if it didn't have the tiny leaf I would have thought she was dead. After we moved, things
just started sprouting and now she's finally happy. But before she started sprouting I picked
up another alocasia, a faux alocasia from simon's and surprisingly if you check out their home decor
their home decor stuff is decent. I think it's considered like the montreal equivalent of the
bay. It came with this very cute pot. Anyways so I thought it would have been nice just to have
around the house to make it seem like I could keep a plant alive. And then this piece that I found
off facebook marketplace. I've been trying to embrace my culture a lot more. Teenage me was so
against my Chinese background and I wanted nothing to do with it. My parents have a lot of priceless
Chinese art at home. This is a stunning piece. It's made of mother of pearl
and I talked her down from 75 I think to 50. It's a bit banged up, if you see some of the
wood is chipped off and it needs refinishing, and I didn't understand it when I got it but
then when my dad came over, my dad is like history buff and right away when he saw the piece he knew
he recognized exactly what the story was and it's pretty amazing because this is a feminist piece.
And this is battle. Yeah this is armor. Oh interesting. This really felt like
it was meant to be and it really belonged in our home. The only thing is,
I don't know where to put it. I just can't commit, I don't know what to do
I just feel like this has made it to the right home. Guess what finally arrived!
My stool. This only took about four months, so I'm very excited to open this up. It's amazing
it came in a bunch of different colors and it was hard to choose a color because they
were all bright. I think it was advertised as a kid's chair. I think this blue goes well with
this beige, I mean it's sturdy, it's well made, it costed like 75 on aliexpress and then another
75 in shipping. It's also actually it's super padded but it's actually quite hard so if you're
using this as a regular stool that you'll be sitting a lot on just know that it's very hard but
as a vanity stool I think it's totally fine and it tucks under the bed very well. I have to leave
the basket there because it's reidy's bed and I'm not allowed to move it or she'll get mad at me.
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