West Elm Love

I've admired the decor at West Elm for many, many months. When my couch search began last year I started by looking at their website. I don't think I could buy a couch I didn't sit in first but West Elm has such sophisticated, yet casual things that I could have made an exception. If it weren't for the prices. I've never been to a West Elm store but maybe I can work it in over the holidays this year. I have several items in my wish list.

This love seat (the Everett love seat), in luscious velvet navy fabric, is one of my favorites. I hope the navy fabric I purchased last year to cover a Craigslist swivel chair will be just as cozy and fancy looking.

Look at this lovely coffee table. It's called the library coffee table. How could I not love it? Oh, except for the price.

This Emmerson bed is so cool. I love the rustic yet tailored look.

This is the reclaimed wood shelf. I don't swoon at the word "reclaimed" like some people but I do love the tone of the wood and the branch-like brackets. Now lets talk about what I did splurge on from West Elm. Our master bedroom wall color is dark and I wanted a light rug and light bedspread to brighten the space without losing the cozy vibe. I looked for weeks for a rug for the master and the living room. I needed at least a 8 x 10 for each room and rugs that size don't come cheap. I was looking at this one from West Elm.

But I decided on the eucalyptus rug.

The blue-green color of the flower matched really well with our blue-green-grey color on the walls. It wasn't cheap but I love, love, love it. I've never "loved" a rug before but I love this one.

When we finally got it rolled out I loved it immediately and it feels soooo soft.

I've since moved it a little farther out from under the bed but this is pretty much how it looks in the room. Once the rug was in place our duvet looked really out of place--and the fact that we didn't have a dust ruffle. I got a cheap, white dust ruffle from Target and ordered a new duvet from West Elm.

I think it's a fun and bright pattern and the color scheme matched with what I already had in the master. I also bought new sheets from Target that matched the wall color.

The dogs haven't really messed it up yet. We did have rain recently so the bed may look totally different soon. Next, my focus was the living room rug. I cannot believe how much Jeff and I desperately needed a rug in the master and the living room. This was my top rug choice from Crate & Barrel.

This is the masota rug. I know it looks a little strange but I'm going for a "cozy lodge" feel in the living room and the picture below really has that look.

I think it's gorgeous. It's also $1200 (for a 9 x 12) and only available in the store so I'd have to drive to Atlanta in something other than my car to pick it up. I browsed Wayfair and Joss and Main multiple times but I went back to West Elm in the end.

This is the same rug I was considering for the master but in a darker color scheme. It arrived last Wednesday and I rolled it out last Thursday after work, all by myself because I couldn't wait for Jeff to get home. This rug is also soft, not as soft as the eucalyptus rug, and both shed like you wouldn't believe. They fill up my vacuum almost instantly. And then this happened.

I tried to empty the dust bucket part, lost my grip and it all spilled onto the rug. I cleaned it up but the daily shedding still happens. I'm trying to keep the house clean and it's aggravating when little dust balls are all over the place but I have my Dyson Digital slim to save the day.

The dogs especially love both rugs and play on them for hours. The decor is slowly coming together. No idea where I want to put any of the wall art but I'm hoping inspiration will strike soon.