Hello friends I hope you are well today's video is really for my fellow
home decor lovers because I have a home decor haul
for you all and i also just want to take you through
kind of how i'm planning to decorate and design
our home so a lot of it's going to be virtual because
of course we're not in our home yet our new home so
i can't really decorate for real for real but i'm just trying to
get a sense and start sourcing different products and furniture just so that i'm
not really overwhelmed once we move in
because right now we're just in a one bed
one bath apartment so the thought of furnishing
a whole house is kind of overwhelming and granted it's not a very big house
but still i'm just used to furnishing one bedroom
so i'm just trying to get organized and
start finding cute pieces so i'll show you i'm going
to start off by showing you some things that i've grabbed already
mainly i've just ordered stuff online and also world market
and home goods so i'll show you the goodies i picked up and then
after we're going to head over to my desk and i'm gonna show you my mood
boards and kind of how i'm planning out each room and
just some sneak peeks so i'm really excited for this video and without
further ado let's get right into the haul
i have my iced coffee to keep me fueled and we'll start out with
this beautiful piece i found at home goods so i actually contemplated on
returning this i think i bought it two weeks ago so last week i was like hmm do
i really love this and the only reason why i was thinking
of returning it was because i don't know where i'm going to put it
i just think it is so beautiful though i love the natural wood color and then the
design details it looks just very organic and bohemian
and it was 1999 and i feel like when i shop at home
goods i just kind of go a little more crazy and more
impulsive and just buy things that i'm not 100
sure about just because with home goods they don't always restock certain items
and you never know really what you're gonna get and you can't shop online
so i don't know it's a little trickier but i love this piece i think it'd be a
really good fruit bowl or even buy our bath with
some bath bombs or some towels like little hand towels
i'm not quite sure but i think it is kind of nice to have some decor pieces
like this that you can play around with and just kind of have on hand
once you move into a new space so i love that
and i'll try to link everything i can but of course for the home goods things
unfortunately i can't link them because they don't have online shopping so
hopefully one day they will but i know it's a little tricky with their business
model okay another thing i got at home goods
is this cutting board and it's 4.99 so i thought that that was
a fabulous price and i'm just going to keep it in the
wrapping for now because it'll just be easier for when we move
but basically i really want to do the idea of
resting the cutting boards against the backsplash in the kitchen
and i also just ordered one from terrain a couple nights ago so it didn't arrive
yet but i'll insert a picture of it right here
and i think these will look really nice together and
our kitchen is very neutral it's very just
white it's a blank canvas so i really want to add more
texture and elements we just wanted to go kind of with that more blank
canvas feel so that as our style changes or even like
as we decorate for the seasons we can really just have that blank slate to
add little pops of color and flair so that's the idea but
i think i thought this was such a good find and so affordable so
i love that and then i also bought this mirror from home goods it's actually
just nestled right here so i'll kind of do i'll insert a video of it
but it's quite large so i can't really pull it up but
i love this mirror i love the rattan and details it just looks like
sunshine and i think i will put this in my office
and my office is kind of unique because it's right when you come into our home
so it's actually called the study like on the floor plan and it
won't have any doors so i really want this place it'll kind
of be like my my office slash a little seating area
so i can have coffee there with guests or
if we host a little party people can hang out there in our living room so
that's the idea and i'm really excited to show you
my little inspo mood board for my office because it's one of the most put
together rooms i have so far so it makes me feel better and i think
this will look really nice and it'll be across from a mirror i mean a window
so i think it'll reflect the light nicely because i just love natural light
so i think that'd be the perfect place for it but who knows
once we move in i might switch it around next up i ordered some
kitchen towels i just think these are always so
nice to have on hand and i just love this color
in our kitchen i will have more bluish colors
um just for those little pops of color like i mentioned earlier
and this actually is pretty much the same color that our front door will be
which i don't think is painted yet so i cannot wait for them to paint it but
i think that'll be kind of nice just to have a little touch to tie in
the whole decor and so a little simple decor piece
and these are from very shops so i can link those which is great
and this next little decor piece is a set of three bitters bottle
bitters bottles wow that's a tongue twister
bitter okay you know what you know what i mean they're bitters bottles
i just feel so silly you guys should try to say that bitters bottles
you can't say it without laughing it's just funny but i saw another youtuber
julia havens um she shared this in her fall
decor video and i love this idea so basically bitters are
i don't even know basically when you're making drinks just different flavors
or is it the alcohol i'm not sure i am not very familiar with bartending or
anything like that but basically there's these beautiful
glass bottles and they each have a different kind of
unique design and what she did was she put different flavored coffee syrup in
each one which i think is so cute and these are
just so beautiful so it's a lot more beautiful than just the
plastic syrup cup so i think i'll use it for my coffee syrups
and then just keep i want to have like a little coffee bar station for sure
so i'll just keep them on the counter top or there's a chance i might use it
for our oils instead of the coffee syrup but
i'll just decide that later on but i just knew i wanted that to be
a part of our kitchen this set is great too because it came
with this little funnel so you can funnel the liquid
into the bottle really nicely and so it has these gold toppers as well so you
can insert these and you can just pour it super easily
but then it also comes with these kind of
crystal stoppers as well so i'll show you
which i think the gold and these are really pretty but all of our hardware is
gold too so the gold little heads will work really
nicely so super cute such a fun idea i also
ordered a set of two of these pretty glasses that are from very shop
as well i just love to have different kind of
eclectic glassware for our iced coffee time and
just when we have guests over and get them a nice drink and one of these
fun glasses so really simple but i just think little
details like that really go a long way next up we have a little organization so
our pantry it is small but the perfect quaint
little space and i just want it to be so organized just because i feel like
that's pleasing of course every time you go to grab
something out of your pantry but also it can help you make sure you don't waste
food because if it's kind of hectic and unorganized
i feel like so much food can get lost in the back of your pantry and then you
waste it so i just really want to make sure we have
an organized pantry off the bat so i ordered a couple baskets that are
actually in our current pantry so i'll show you guys
i'll insert a clip right here what they look like
they'll work a lot better in our new pantry but i just wanted to
kind of put them to use for now and then i also ordered
these baskets which are kind of stuck together because
i don't really think they're supposed to be too stackable they're the same
size okay let me
so i ordered three of these from target and
i kind of want to use these for potatoes and onions
and i mean that's pretty much it i have three of them so i'll find
other things to put in here but i think this will look really nice with some
produce because we always keep our potatoes and
onions in our pantry and we always have so many of them so
i think this is really beautiful and will be very practical
because it's really simple to see what's in there i also ordered an expandable
spice rack i love to keep my spices in the cabinet where i can just see them
so nicely and i wanted to get an expandable
expandable one because i truly have so many
so i let me show you how long this can get
i probably won't even need to use the full length but
it gets this along so it'll definitely fit all my spices and it just has this
nice little layered look and right now i kind of just have a
hodgepodge shelf i just kind of grabbed things i
already had around the house so it'll be great to have this one and all
the spices will be easily accessible i also ordered more our place dining
plates because right now we currently have four
and i just want to have a set of eight so when we have guests over we have
plenty for everyone and i just love these
plates so much i love how they look i love the design
and i love how they have a lip as well also they're really big so you can fit
a really nice big hearty meal on here i'll probably end up more ordering more
of their stocking bowls as well but i just wanted to have the plates first
because i feel like we use the plates a bit more than the bowls
i also picked up door mats for our front door and our back door
so those are actually in the trunk of my car so i'll insert a clip of them here
but i love them i love how coastal they look and
neutral so i'm really excited to put those out and i feel like that's
something i kind of want right away because
in florida our weather's crazy it rains a lot and
we have a new house i don't want to be tracking in all kinds of dirt so
it's nice to just have that immediately especially when we're moving in because
we're going to be in and out in and out in and out and we'll have movers
probably so i just wanted to get that out of the way
and then i also have this seagrass lampshade that i found at world
market when i was shopping for fall home decor
so i have this in the top of our closet right now but one day it will be in our
dining room so really happy with that find and the
last thing i have that i just ordered is bar stools for
our kitchen so i really love these i've been
eyeing them for a while and i actually have a spreadsheet which i'll show you
guys in a minute when i head over to my desk of
just brandon and i made like this whole spreadsheet with our budget for home
decor and the links to all the home decor and
where we can put the price and how many we need and blah blah blah blah just to
help us stay on budget and organized and so they have been on this
spreadsheet for a while and i've been tracking them and they were 33
off so i got a really good deal on them which is fabulous so
i don't know when they'll be arriving but they'll be coming to our apartment
so we'll just have to move them to the house but
i didn't want to miss out on that sale so really excited to get those
but that's all the things i have so far so the pile
is growing but i'm also trying to hold back
and kind of wait until we move in because we only have so much space here
but i just can't help myself i'm so excited and so thankful
and i also got us some more brooklyn and sheets for our bed because
we're we currently have a queen bed which we'll just use in our guest
bedroom but we're going to be getting a king bed
which is so crazy i have mixed feelings about it because i
like the queen bed i like the size but we just think it might be better for
when we have kids and when we have a dog so that's the plan but i hope you guys
like this little home decor haul and if you'd like to keep watching
i'm going to show you all my mood boards and inspiration for all the rooms
so to kind of make my mood boards i used canva which is a really easy design
software and basically you can just drag in all your images
and most of them i got from pinterest so i have a board for pretty much every
room now and that's where i get basically the
majority of my home inspiration but also from instagram and just
sometimes youtube so it comes from different places but
this is where all of my mood boards reside
and after i have these mood boards i also
started to create kind of additional mood boards
i know i sound so extra but just additional mood boards
of actual pieces i can order because the thing is
with my previous boards lots of it is just more for the design
elements that we picked out in the design center appointments
and not really focused on the actual decor pieces
so i just wanted to kind of see how the pieces i were
picking out would kind of mesh together so
the first one i worked on is my office one which i'm showing you now
and this blue part back here is actually a wallpaper so i'm gonna have a
wallpaper from the same company where we ordered
our marble wallpaper that's in our bedroom
and i just think this is so pretty and we'll add some nice color because all of
our walls in our home are white so i love a little pop of color but also
this adds kind of dimension and texture as well so i think that'll be beautiful
and we're also going to put our neon sign in there so
like we have in our room and my study slash office
it has lots of windows so the wall where the neon sign will be
there will be two windows on either side of it so thankfully the neon sign fits
nicely in the middle but i think that'll be a nice little
showcase piece right when you walk into our home as well because
it's the bigger staff home so i love that and then i really love this kind of
honeycomb lamp as well it is quite expensive but i
just fell in love with it so i'll probably order a smaller version of
this and we already have this rattan lamp the
floor lamp and so that's also something that's been
helpful with creating these boards is taking pieces we already have and see
how they will mesh with the newer pieces that i want to order
so that's just been really helpful to me and i need to take a picture of my
mirror that i showed you guys from homegoods because i need to see how
that'll fit in this space but that's how my office is looking and i
love this desk from world market but it's been
out of stock for so long so i put on little notifications for when it comes
back into stock and i'm just going to order it right
as soon as i get that notification because it is just a hot commodity
and then next up we have our powder bath and this is kind of a little bit more of
a modern style with the matte black but i just think it looked nice with the
tile we ended up doing in the powder bath
and i feel like powder baths are an opportunity to kind of like get creative
because your guests will use it and i just want it to be a place
that they like peeing in really so that is just
perfect and all of our hardware handles on our doors are matte black so
we will have little matte black pieces sprinkled throughout but
we definitely are mixing materials and hardware so
i think that'll look really nice and we already have this you make me a better
me print from urban outfitters and i think
i've decided to put it in our powder so there we have it
and then next up this one is still work in progress but we have our dining room
and we're going to be doing a built-in seating bench so
i already talked to the carpenter that we're going to hire
and we're going to set up a meeting with him once it gets a little closer once we
have our main our move-in date but he already sent me
quotes so i just will get him scheduled once we
have our date and he'll build that for us
and i'm still not totally sure about this dining table
i think an oval dining table will work best in our space
but it is harder to find oval diving dining tables compared to just the
rectangular ones but the thing with this one that is it's
it's kind of fancy and i don't know how it'll do just with people putting
their drinks on the table i don't know if the wood is strong enough or
if it'll get kind of rings and stains easily so i need to do
more research about the material because i don't ever have to be like worried
about that so we shall see and this is the lamp
that i got from world market so it'll be very neutral i still need to
pick out a rug for that space and again finalize the tables so gotta
work on that a bit more and then this is our kitchen so these
are the barstools i ordered and then the the wood board charcuterie board
and then we have our gold hardware accents and we actually will be
switching out our sink in our kitchen because
we just went with like the base option for that but then we're gonna upgrade it
ourselves just because it was a little more affordable to do that
and then i really like this color palette of the rug
that's not a kitchen runner but basically i want to find a rug that's
similar to that that's a kitchen runner and i think
that'll help tie in our blue toaster that we already have and just like other
elements of color so i'm still working on that one but that's kind of
the feel of it and then oh that's it so i still have a lot to do but
basically my plan is to start with the downstairs and kind of
start with each room you walk into first walk into
first so the first one is our study and then you kind of walk into the
well the powders on your left and then you have the living and dining room
and i feel like that's just where we spend the most amount of time and that's
where we'll have guests over so i really just kind of want to prioritize
those areas and then we'll move upstairs and
probably do our master first and then brandon's office and our guest room so
that's the plan and it does kind of overwhelm me still but i think just
doing one room at a time will super super help
so yeah and then here is our spreadsheet
for the upfront home goods and service our little tracker so
i have all of the links and then some things that i
already bought and this is really helpful too for our insurance purposes
too because if you keep track of everything you own
it just helps to calculate the amount of personal
property coverage you need for your insurance so that's another benefit
but it's also just helpful like i said for tracking the prices
so i just kind of click on each one every once in a while to see if it's on
sale i also have the honey extension to kind
of track sales as well but that definitely helps me and i have
another separate word doc of just different home
furnishings i like so for our dining table for instance
there's a few different ones i like so i just have them all listed there but
i'm just trying to finalize them and see which one is going to be the winner
but that's pretty much how i've been doing it so hopefully this is helpful
whether you're you know just wanting to redo your room
or you're moving into an apartment or whatever it may be i
hope this helps you and i'm definitely not an expert by any
means i also have a hard time deciding what my
design style even is because i feel like i like so many different styles so
hopefully it'll blend well i don't know but i kind of just gravitate to what i
find pleasing and cozy so that's the plan but i really
hope you guys enjoyed this video and seeing some of the sneak peeks for
our home and i'm just so thankful for you guys and i cannot wait to see you
super soon