bargains for bedroom

For those who aren't a fan of the furniture in most furniture galleries right now- the big bulky pieces that mix irons and fake hardwoods- you can get traditional styled furniture REALLY cheap.

Start with our king sized poster bed. We ended up getting it 50% off retail because the furniture store we normally shop at said that they were now unable to sale traditional styled pieces. I wanted something we could hang onto for sometime, and didn't want to go with anything trendy. I priced it online and couldn't get within 500 dollars of the price of my local gallery!

And this weekend I found something I have been wanting for *years*. I know that highboy dressers aren't in style right now. Nor have them been for about ten years! But, I LOVE them. I have wanted one since the first time I saw one- in my high school best friend's mother's bedroom. I fell in love with the classic styling and the broken pediment top.

So, I have been scouting craig's list trying to find one and this weekend we did. This highboy had been listed for several months- the listing being repeated every 5-6 weeks. I emailed the owner and found out it was still available. She had it listed for 200.00.

It is in good shape- its made by a reputable furniture company (but not high end), and it had been well taken care of. It does need a few touch ups, but its solid wood. She dropped the price fifty dollars before I even had a chance to think about it (In my head I heard Jennifer Lopez saying "Oh no you didn't!"), and I knew at that minute I would leave with it for 75 less. And we did.

So here is my 125.00 highboy dresser, which is storing my husbands things. We can now tell my mom to sale our maple dresser (hubbies) which didn't match a thing we own out of the WV barn. The dresser that I have my things in is in the guest room with its matching queen sized poster bed.

This is a view of our room from the doorway. That rocker is just there in that corner temporarily, it goes on my side of the room, but I keep one of the big twins travel cribs there to help transition them from one room to the other without leaving someone unattended (we have breakfast in my bed every morning).




Here is a close-up of the highboy. It looks like it was made with our bed!



I had a somewhat stressful ob appointment today. I am measuring smaller than I did two weeks ago. She managed to get me worked in to the perinatologists office tomorrow to quickly determine whats going on. I have consistently measured 4 weeks ahead the entire pregnancy (with twins its normal to measure even 8 weeks ahead), and this time I only measured one week ahead, which means a week smaller than I measured two weeks ago. The ob is hoping that one of the babies has went transverse (side lying). That would make my waist wider, but my fundal height- what they measure- smaller. I also hadn't gained weight in two weeks. I bought some protein powder on my way home to add to shakes.

I will post an update tomorrow, as well as come big twin pictures!