hannah + karl play house, round 1

Although I'm still basking in the glory of all things wedding I thought I could manage to break from wedding posts and share a few pics of what Karl & I have been focusing on lately... our first house!  We have been busy here in South Carolina- finding the perfect place for all of our wedding gifts, attempting to part with some of my hard loved on college furniture, and learning to maintain and keep up with a house all by ourselves!  It's fun, definitely an adventure, and totally my thing.  We still have a lot of work to do on this place, and if I had to guess, I would say that by the time we move out of here I still won't be satisfied with the level of decor and furnishing BUT it's fun to continuously hunt for the perfect piece for a specific place in the house.  So, due to demand (believe it or not) and without further ado, I give you our first house, in all of it's incomplete, amateur, tactfully refined glory...

My decoration weak link is walls... we have bare walls EVERYWHERE!  I'm on the hunt for the perfect wall decor for several places in the house

Our coffee table is the cake table from our wedding, Karl just chopped the legs off to make it the appropriate height.  

The aspen log lamp is another Karl creation- it was a vase at our wedding and he turned it into a lamp!

Next to do, paint the table cream colored and distress it.  ANNND  Karl's begging for a big TV... oh Lord.

Obligatory kitchen picture... I'm kind of weird about a non-cluttered kitchen so it's pretty plain with the exception of my ever-loved lantern :)  Karl hates that I won't even let us keep the toaster out.  Sorry 'bout that, hubs.

I have so many decorative pretties from the wedding- an abundance of mason jars, string, raffia, spools, fun chairs (the yellow chairs are the ones that K & I sat on at our reception)... you name it.  It was so fun to decorate the dining room table!  So many gifts to fill it with!  Oh and that's our bedroom back there...

There's our little desk, still on the hunt for the perfect chair for it though.  The display that we used to show all the letters Karl & I have written back and forth to each other at our wedding is now the perfect mail catch!

Our room!  Projects still to do: find Karl the perfect old white/cream side table, NEW HEADBOARD!  Ahh, I'm dying for a new headboard.  Ask Karl, it's all I talk about.  ANNND  I'm trying to find the perfect finish to our bedding (euro pillows, quilt for the end of the bed)... see, what did I say? WORK IN PROGRESS!

This is the wall parallel to the bed.  Another reused aspen vase and the sign that was at the top of our 'Love is...' door

K & I used a chunk of our big Crate & Barrel gift card to outfit our home with lamps!  I didn't realize that we had absolutely NO lamp light until we moved in so we literally ordered like 6 lamps!  I love this one on my side of the bed that sits on my recent bedside table antique store find!

Bathroom!  We used the "Mrs" & "Mr" signs from the backs of our reception chairs above our sinks! 

I love getting to brush my teeth next to Karl every night.  Luckily, he brushes his teeth in a Cuppett-acceptable way. Ha.

So happy to reuse these buckets that our potatoes were served out of at our reception!  Also super obsessed with our ruffled and lace shower curtain... that was an Anthro splurge.

Just to give a reference point... the hallway from the living room/entry down to the guest bedrooms/bathroom/laundry room

Ah the canvas The Chapman's gave us/Amanda made for us.  I love it.  Hung so I see it everytime I come home!  This is a little cut out in the hall way where the laundry closet and craft space is.

The guest bathroom across from the laundry room... the only thing worth looking at is the shower curtain, hence the super tight shot.  Come visit us and maybe you'll have the pleasure of seeing the counter and sink too.

Guest bedroom numero uno.  Ready and waiting on two special guests!  Still needs some finishing touches- candles filling the candle holders, buds for the bud vases... 

So proud of Karl for this pallet bed!!  I told him what I wanted and it turned out better than I could've imagined!  It was super affordable- we had the door left over from the wedding, all the bedding from my dorm days, and the pallets were free (thanks to some creeping behind WalMart).  All we had to buy were the wheels!  It was a breeze job for Karl who is a genius with wood and a power drill and saw.  Come visit and maybe you'll be lucky enough to sleep on this dream.

So, the 2nd guest room isn't done yet... it's currently so messy I won't even reveal it in its entirety on my ever indiscreet blog.  Here is my inspiration for it though... it's a little more glam than the rest of my house but don't worry ( I know you were), I'll keep all the wood elements rustic and distressed, in true Burton fashion.

Because the closet currently looks like this...and that just won't do.

So, make my day and plan your next vacay out to see The Mr. & Mrs. in South Carolina.  I'll treat you like royalty and you'll never want to leave!  I'll expect an email soon with your arrival date and I'll begin to plan our itinerary immediately.

Love,

The Burtons