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I have seen this exact sofa on CL a few times in teh last year - for about half price.

Maybe just keep your eyes open.

My question is, why the hell are you moving?!

I bought mine on craigslist - so no idea! My husband insists it is called a "shaving chest" but if you google that, you get a lot of naked men pictures :) "shaving chest midcentury" got me more results that make me think he knows what he's talking about :)

There is a local store in SF called "A Happy Planet." They do sell online as well - not cheap, but we love our bed (bought a second for our toddler as well).

Thanks folks :) The color is definitely more of the dark grey and not that purple. The wall art is from thrift stores - sorry! It isn't too hard to find that style though!

@skylarkmelody, my son calls our room "The beehive" because the light shade does cast really cool shadows on the walls! Totally not intentional, but fun to have a room with a name!

@miranar, the pregnancy pillows are NOT relaxing or minimal - they live in the crib during the day so I don't have to look at them :)

We used rubber gym tiles on ours. It looked HORRIBLE, but was good for wrestling and when the water heater blew up and the basement flooded during a rain storm, they were so easy to clean up (though hard to see the floods b/c the water just ran under them.

We also had flor tiles on top of them to make the room look better but the flor tiles wouldn't stick together (you aren't supposed to install on top of rubber) and honestly, I ended up not really loving the floor tiles.

I love the look of our stained concrete (super easy and cheap) - so we might just keep that at this point.

An ikea couch that looked good and I thought we wouldn't care about comfort since it was in a basement room - UGH. NEVER AGAIN.

Also following the trend of super color in my bedroom - turquoise headboard, yellow curtains, etc - It looked cool but was so not relaxing or "me" Total waste of a year of DIY projects.

We usually only buy things we can resell, so other than the ikea couch (which we took a 300 hit on), we re-sold everything and I got to have fun re-decorating in a way I liked.

I was shopping for a desk yesterday but I am having problems finding something to hide a printer has at least one file drawer and is sleek.

Arg.

I realized yesterday that three rooms in my house are a deep dark blue with white accents. I just fricken love how clean it looks. And gorgeous with browns, blacks and golds.