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I am a 31 year old professional. I am a 31 year old professional. I am a 31 year old professional.  (Taken with instagram)
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Moving right along…

The hearth room/kitchen progress continues. Since I’m an avid cook and we entertain quite a bit, this room has been at the top of our list of projects for the new house. While we haven’t even moved into the house yet (June 22 cannot come soon enough), we spent yesterday afternoon there, armed with paint color wheels and tons of ideas. 

Here’s the room now:

Instead of making the hearth room a second living room, we’re going to make it our primary dining space. 

First came the table, the World Market Tradesman (a closeout special - woo hoo):

(Taken in our current dining room - excuse the second dining table/chairs in the room… they belong to our landlord)

Next came the light fixture:

And today, we added chairs (IKEA Henriksdal) to the “newly acquired” list:

The walls in the kitchen/hearth room are this heavily textured plaster and faux finish situation. I am not a fan. At all. But it turns out that sanding the walls down so they are smooth is pretty far outside our budget, so we’re crossing our fingers and planning to just have them painted. 

Say hello to Benjamin Moore Copley Gray:

Here it is in a room:

I’m in love. 

Still needed: new cabinet pulls, window treatments (curtains for the french doors and a roman shade above the sink), a wooden mantle to break up all of the brick, and lots of accessories to pull some color into the room. 

And that little detail about actually moving in… 

Previously:

The Inspiration
The Table
The Light Fixture

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    • #kitchen
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Olde tyme drinks. (Taken with Instagram at Manifesto)

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Oh hello second [major] new house purchase. 
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Oh hello second [major] new house purchase. 

(Part 1: the table)

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Beautiful flowers from my amazing boyfriend. Feeling exceptionally loved today.
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Beautiful flowers from my amazing boyfriend. Feeling exceptionally loved today.

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This weekend:
  • Drinks on the plaza with my best lady friend in which I drank a bunch of champagne and she got asked out on a date. I’m a decent wingwoman. 
  • Massive ugly cry in response to the Grey’s Anatomy season finale. I still have not recovered. 
  • Brian bought a new aquarium and it’s not hideous (hooray!). Also I think I finally convinced him that we need a seahorse. 
  • Dinner at Pot Pie, drinks at Bluestem, shenanigans at the Cigar Box, cab ride home.
  • An intense craving for peel and eat shrimp, corn on the cob and potato salad PLUS a Moscow Mule resulted in trips to three different grocery stores and the realization that ginger beer isn’t actually beer.

Weekend = success. 

(25 days until we are homeowners… )

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I had a dream last night that I got an invite to your wedding with Brian… The invite was gorgeous and butterflies flew out of it upon opening it… and then it had the Friday Night Lights ”clear eyes, full hearts” saying across the front.

An email from Mama Jess

Greatest email ever or greatest email ever?

    • #clear eyes full hearts can't lose
    • #there isn't an actual wedding so everyone just calm down
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Summer on a plate.

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I'm Shea.

I'm a former Californian currently living in Kansas City with America's Best Boyfriend and two pugs. I spend my days as an online marketing strategist and my nights attempting to be a culinary genius.

Obsessions: vegetarian cooking, wine, the Bravermans, Pinterest, solving the first world problem of fine lines and wrinkles, soy vanilla lattes, Maya Rudolph, spy thrillers, food blogs, men who wear ironic glasses, travel, cheese plates and the combination of shaved legs and clean sheets night.

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