When wedding preparations ended I knew I would need a new creative project so I set out to design a new chic bedroom for us (more on that in another post). With the purchase of the Boothbay Harbor house I now have a huge project – decorating an entire house! Awesome (and slightly overwhelming too).
Between combining our 2 apartments, plus getting some new furniture together, plus our parents houses we actually have a surprisingly large amount of furniture already. Great for the budget, trickier for creating a coordinated home. I’ve decided the Boothbay house look will be “eclectic seaside/beach cottage”. Don’t ask me what that means, but when I think beach cottage (as opposed to a cabin or English or French cottage) I think a mixture of natural and painted wood. So anything that doesn’t fit – I’ll just paint it! Paint fixes everything.
While we have lots of furniture, we were lacking in furniture for our living room. We bought a house in Maine so we figured let’s check out L.L. Bean. We found some stuff we really liked, and remembered that our favorite credit card (Discover) offered gift cards to L.L. Bean in exchange for points. I have been saving my points for years just for a deal like this. And Arthur had gotten a deal for 10% cash back on all purchases in Brazil so he had a bunch from our trip. And they gave you an extra 25% value for converting to gift cards!
We waited for a 15% coupon and placed our order on the phone…with 18 gift cards! (3 were Christmas presents - the rest were from Discover points) The lady must have thought we were crazy. And then we asked to pick up the furniture from the store to save the almost $350 shipping charge (and we aren’t exactly at the Boothbay house all the time to receive the shipment). No problem, they can hold our stuff for 30 days, but then our coupon didn’t work :( It was only for internet/phone orders; picking up at the store was considered an in store purchase. We were sad, but happy not to pay shipping. 5 days later, what do we get…15% off in store purchases!! One quick phone call and a refund check was on its way. We are pretty excited about our new, practically free, American made living room. L.L. Bean rocks!
Here’s what we got:
1 tan sofa
2 blue & white chairs
1 white futon (probably for the Den/Office to make a 4th bedroom - I did not get the floral cover shown in the picture)
1 white TV stand
Now I just need to find a lobster trap coffee table!! And a futon cover.
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