Heavens to Betsy : Den Progress

Hey Guys!
So things around them home have been pretty slow. We both had to put our hard hats on at work and press on through September, and that meant no energy for home improvements. But, hopefully we are back in action. I'm really really really hoping our deck gets fixed sometime soon as I'm pretty sure it is about to fall off the house. {PANIC}

In other news, I have finally found a desk chair for MLW. Remember the one I bought him last year? Well it broke. Then he was using the puff chair, but it sat a little low so ultimately he decided he need a real chair. And there came the problem of balancing his need for function and my want for it to be "pretty."

Office chairs are tough. I almost broke down and bought one from PB Teen after seeing it on Young House Love {Please come back to blogland, I miss ya'll so!}, but MLW thought it looked a little girly and it was more than I have ever spent on a chair. So back to Craigslist I went.

And then I found this guy, clean, manly, comfy and not totally terrible to look at. I bought it.

I hunted around for fabric for a few weeks, and completely lucked out when a local home furnishing store had a fabric sale. A thick navy tweed-esq fabric for $12 a yard - score! A trip to the upholster and a few weeks later we had a desk chair!

Finally having a working desk chair allowed me to move the puff chair into the corner to form a reading nook. Ad a Moroccan pouf from etsy, and a IKEA fiddle leaf and the rest of the room is starting to take shape. All this side needs is a rug and a new chair cover for the puff chair and we can cross this room off the list!

I also hung my vintage tobacco basket that had been sitting on the floor for the past few months. I tried to hang it up with command strips about a month ago, but it didn't' go well.