Weekend Recap

Good morning! I hope you all had a great weekend! Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to over the past week or so.

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Home Projects & Updates

Thursday we made the trek to Lynn Haven to go to the plumbing fixture showroom. When I tell you there are a lot of options and a lot of decisions, there were a lot.

In our bathroom, we’ll likely use one of these two options from Brizo. Regardless of which route we go, we would do a polished nickel finish. I like the looks of the set on the right better, but we liked the functionality of the height adjustments on the left.

We made it about two hours and finally I said to just put the faucet below in all the secondary bathrooms because we really liked it and I was having decision fatigue at that point. Ha! Now that we have the full lookbook from them with all our selections, we may make a few tweaks. But Kurtis and I really liked this Winter Park line from Pfister. Does anyone have experience with that brand? I’d love to hear as we’ve never used it before.

In addition to faucets, we also had to select our bathtubs and toilets. If I had to guess, I think my last bath was 15-18 years ago? I know it was shortly after we moved in our Virginia Street house (not long after I started this blog)! I remember I had had a long day at work, so I decided to take a hot bath. I poured a glass of red wine, we didn’t have any chocolate but surprisingly had a Little Debbie Swiss Roll, lit a candle, turned on Enya for a little relaxing music, and sat in the tub. For like 3 minutes and hated it because it was already getting cold and I was bored. I was about to give up and Kurtis walked in and was like, “what are you doing???” I’m not sure he’s ever laughed harder in his life. Needless to say, he got to climb in every tub at the showroom and test them out 😉 We really like the one below, but I’d want a gloss finish rather than the matte white they had in the show room.

Friday we had our electrical walk-through. They had actually started earlier in the week so they had outlet boxes hung in most rooms (just not wired yet). It was very helpful to visualize everything and for us to make a few changes based on how we’d use various spaces. Here you can see the view in my office facing towards the garage. You can see that the garage and carriage house almost look like separate buildings – which they essentially are, just connected with an interior staircase.

While at the meeting, they asked how high I wanted our exterior lanterns. I hadn’t even begun to look at any yet, thinking I still had plenty of time. But with the exterior lights, I forgot they need to know the location of the boxes to side the house properly. So, that evening before dinner, we popped into a local lighting store to get an idea on current lantern styles. The area I need to focus on most is flanking the garage (in the image above you can see where they’ll go).

I believe we have another meeting onsite with the project manager this week, so I’m expecting to get much more solid timelines for flooring, lighting, etc. so I can stay on top of it! I think things are going to start moving quickly now and I still have so many decisions to finalize. But it’s getting more exciting by the day!

In Case You Missed It

Following are the posts I shared over the past week, in case you missed some days!

• Weekend Recap
• Wednesday Watch List
• One of My Favorite Affordable Faux Trees

Around Town & For Fun

With us not getting back from Omaha until late Monday night (or technically early Tuesday morning), the first half of the week was spent getting caught up on work and life.

We had a Wednesday night date night at Amigos followed by dinner with friends on Friday night at Amici.

Hawkeye started crying incessantly at the back door one evening – something he never does. We opened it up, he ran to a chair, and then just crashed for an hour or so. It was pretty funny! It was like he knew exactly where he wanted to sleep.

Henley is still a fan of her usual spot. Her blankets got washed this week, so they were extra cozy.

Kurtis made me drive him with our hedge trimmers on our golf cart over to this path he walks on daily. The trees were getting really overgrown and hitting people on the path in the head. He did his civic duty and cut a few of the offenders so now there is a clear visual line and people won’t lose an eye when they walk through. Clearly he had hit his breaking point with them. Ha!

Sunday, Rachel coordinated a boat day with a bunch of our friends. We rented pontoons out of Panama City Beach and went out to Shell Island. We never actually went on the island, but one of the pontoons had double waterslides and we all just hung out, swam, and chatted.

It was a beautiful day and a lot of fun! Kurtis and I had done it twice before when our friends from Omaha were in town, but this was the first time with any of our local friends!

The cutest little ice cream “truck” came over selling all sorts of treats, so several of the kids bought some. For those wondering about the color of the water: we were on the bay side of the water. So the Gulf is actually on the opposite side of the island we were visiting. The water is much more brackish, and closer to a lake, lookwise, in my opinion. Since we only did a half day rental, we arrived later in the day and most of the sandy spots to anchor were taken, so we were over a lot of seaweed (hence the really great color)!

We celebrate our 20th anniversary tomorrow, so we are trying to plan a fun dinner for Friday night. I hope you all have a great week!

Recent Buys & Sales

Following are some sales from the weekend that have carried over and are still going strong!

• ABERCROMBIE is offering 20% off 3 items or 30% off 4+ items. You can shop their site here.
• AMAZON has a number of daily deals. Our cordless table lamp set is an item we use way more than we ever thought we would. So great for al fresco dining or ambient light in the kitchen and other spaces. You can shop their site here.
• ANN TAYLOR is offering up to 60% off sale styles. You can shop their site here.
• ANTHROPOLOGIE has added a number of new items in their sale section. You can shop their site here.
• AVARA is offering 15% off your regular-priced purchase with my code STEWART15. You can shop their site here.
• BODEN is offering 10% off new styles with code W7CX. You can shop their site here.
• CRATE & BARREL is offering up to 60% off during their summer in-stock sale. You can shop their site here.
• FRANK & EILEEN is hosting a sale with items marked up to 50% off. You can shop their site here.
• GAP is offering 50% off your purchase, including sale styles. You can shop their sale here.
• J CREW is offering up to 40% off select cashmere, an additional 40% off sale styles, and 30% off wear-now styles. You can shop their site here.
• J CREW FACTORY is offering up to 60% off everything as well as an additional 60% off clearance or an additional 70% off 3+ items with code WOWSALE. You can shop their sale here.
• LOFT is offering up to 50% off everything and free shipping. You can shop their sale here.
• LULULEMON has a number of new items in their sale section. You can shop their site here.
• MARK & GRAHAM is offering an additional 25% off select styles and free shipping on orders $150+ with code SHIPFREE. You can shop their site here.
• MARSHALLS is offering up to 70% off clearance sale and free shipping on orders of $89+ with code SHIP89. You can shop their site here.
• MCGEE & CO. has a number of new items in their sale section. You can shop their site here.
• NORDSTROM is hosting their Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. You can see all of my top picks in this post. You can shop their site here.
• OLD NAVY is offering jeans from $22 and back-to-school deals from $5. You can shop their sale here.
• POTTERY BARN is hosting an end of season sale with up to 60% off. You can shop their sale here.
• REJUVENATION is offering up to 40% off during their end of summer sale. You can shop their site here.
• SAKS FIFTH AVENUE is hosting a huge designer sale with items up to 60% off. You can shop their sale here.
• SALT & STONE is offering 15% of your purchase with my custom code SARAHS15. I have really been loving their clean deodorant! You can shop their site here.
• SERENA & LILY is hosting their Bedroom Event with savings on bedroom furniture, bedding, pillows, lighting, rugs, and more!. You can shop their sale here.
• SOMA is offering 30% off your purchase! You can shop their site here.
• TARGET is offering multiple home deals like up to 40% off storage and organization, up to 30% off bedding, up to 30% off kitchen and dining items, and more. You can shop their site here.
• TJ MAXX is offering free shipping on orders $89+ with code SHIP89! You can shop their site here.
• TORY BURCH has a number of new items in their sale section. You can shop their site here.
• TUCKERNUCK has a number of new items in their sale section. You can shop their site here.
• WAYFAIR is hosting Black Friday in July with tons of sales sitewide. You can shop their sale here.
• WEST ELM is offering up to 50% off sale and clearance finds. You can shop their site here.
• WILLIAMS SONOMA is offering up to 75% off clearance styles. You can shop their site here.

I hope you all have a great week!

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