The Miscellaneous Lifestyle: IKEA lusting

I've never been in love with bedspread before. Sure, I see some I like well enough. I have a general idea of what I want color/feel wise.

In the last three years, I've really become obsessed with grays and blues. I love them with whites and blacks and silvers. I just want everything in it. It's a little bit of a problem.

Today I went to IKEA on a mission to get a new bed for my oldest son. I had the opportunity to really search the store for the first time too. I'm lusting after a lot now. Most of which I'm having trouble finding online which begs the question: what are at other IKEA's that I want and don't know about?

I fully intend to post photos of the IKEA decor I've picked up that I can't find online and I fully intend to post photos of the things I can show off when we get settled into the new house.

But for now, my IKEA lusting. I desperately want a sheet set and bedspread for my bedroom.

Brandon isn't much for love on the pattern but he doesn't care enough about the decor to forbid I buy the set. Now if a few loved ones got the hint about IKEA in lieu of Michael's gift cards in the future. Cough, cough.

The bedspread. I must have this before it goes out of style! It is the ALVINE KVIST duvet cover and pillowcase set. At $29.99 I've seen a lot more expensive sets. I want this so bad!

DVALA sheet set in dark blue. $24.99. This underneath white and gray. Yum!

And two comforters for different seasons.

Warmth 1 at $19.99 of the MYSA STRA collection.

Warmth 3 at $29.99 of the MYSA STRA collection.

As an aside, I'm planning to get these cheap placemats to place into my new fridge for easy cleanup. They're KLISTRIG placemats at IKEA. A set of 4 for $2.99.

And did you catch that? New fridge. We're really excited to be making such a big purchase. In all places past, we've had fridges come with the unit. This is our first time having to supply our own fridge.

We were going to go through Costco to save $50 off the MSRP on the model we picked, but then I saw that Home Depot is offering a 10% off appliance sale through March 6th which would in turn save me $50 on top of the Costco savings for a total of $100 off. Not the best deal but on short notice and in immediate demand -- we'll take it.

Here's the fridge we're purchasing.

It's a Maytag refrigerator in stainless steel. Model #: M1TXEGMYS.

We're also planning to pick up a chest freezer for extra frozen storage. We selected this GE freezer (also on sale for 10% off). Model #: FCM15PUWW.

So looking forward to having a new space to decorate and this is one I can do the outside of too. And some sneak peeks of things you'll be seeing around our new house.