Get ready for a novel....Part 1 of 5 or maybe 6. Vada emailed Kasey and I explaining that she had bought a house in August of 2013 and wanted our help to finish decorating.  Before we scheduled a time to meet, we asked if we could look at her Pinterest account to get a feel for her style. Pinterest is a perfect tool to use for that purpose. Our first thoughts, "we got this!"  Vada's style is "Hashtag".  Antiques used in modern designs to create a clean homey environment. The reason I titled this post "The customer who had it all" is because Vada had collected or inherited old pieces of nostalgia and antiques that Kasey & I treasure hunt for everyday.  You will see what I am talking about in the next few posts. Vada wanted a complete dining room, living room, breakfast nook, and entry way.  We decided on a blue paint for the dining room walls and a light gray paint for the rest of the house. While Vada painted the walls and I think her husband took the SOME light switches down, Kasey & I started on the space planning for each room and working on a budget.  We knew we would save alot of money by using the amazing antiques Vada already had for the small decorations and tchotchkes, so our first mission was to find the big furniture pieces. Here are the before photos: (these were taken with my oh so sad iPhone 4 so please excuse the not so great clarity)   ~Jessie

Stage two of the Craigslist Customers...sounds like a title to a horror story. Pppsssttt...ask Kasey if she was really scared when I hid in one of the empty rooms and jumped out a scared her. Oh, good times. Remember that budget, lets just say it saved us! So many times I would find a perfect piece ..refer back to budget...and then put that perfect piece into someone else's basket because it deserves a home and wasn't coming home with me. However, I do have to say the hard work of weeding through the too expensive and "yuck that's red" paid off!