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My friend Thea sent me this link today and and I really want to go to this store, Zimmer360, now.  Check out the cool wall decor they have!  I wonder if Will is going to love it or hate it.  It's fun not to take ourselves too seriously!  Some time I'll post our tray collection which shows our silly side.

Macro

Yesterday we signed the P&S!  Of course there were some bumps along the way, which is nothing new for us in this whole process.  When you're signing your 3rd P&S in the span for 4 months, something is bound to go wrong, right?  Were the Platow's surprised that our names were no where on the entire document!?  Heck no!  So our fantastic agent simply filled them in with pen and off we went, signing away.

We drove up to Salem following the signing, to hand-deliver the documents to the seller's agent.  We couldn't help roaming around a bit.  Will focused on the big picture (neighborhood, furniture we need, proximity to the ocean and the common), and I focused on the details (faucets, fixtures, knots in the wood), some of which you'll find below!   

The Friendship of Salem.  The water is a quick walk down the street, as is this amazing boat.  THE ATLANTIC OCEAN!  I can't believe we'll be so close.

This is our  new neighborhood!  

We love the light in this bedroom in the late afternoon.

The view from the office.

Will standing in the office.  We have decided to put a small desk and a cool sleeper sofa.

The view from the bedroom: A Psychic and a statue of Nathaniel Hawthorne!

The dining room.  We're thinking of getting this table and this credenza from CB2.  This one from Ikea would probably do though.

 

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Union Street is a one-way street, lined with houses built in the 1800s.  There's also a church, whose bells toll beautifully (we heard them)!  I was happy to see many lilac bushes lining the street as well, reminding me of my childhood home in Sterling.  
Hardware is important!  
The house across the street, which we see from our dining room, was built in 1858.  I'm going to find out who William Parker was.

I'm so glad this awesome door is being kept.  

The beams are GIGANTIC in this place.  This is part of the main beam up in the loft area.  Does this concern anyone?  I want to have my friend Thea, who is an architect, do a stroll through with me.  Will keeps reassuring me that if the city gives its approve, the place has to be safe.

Light fixture joy!  This is outside our main entrance.

The boot scraper!  There's a slight crack in the back but I think it'll be around for quite some time.  I wonder about the lives of the people who used this so long ago.  Exciting!

Let's Bring

There are some things I definitely want to bring with us from our small 1-bedroom in Somerville, to our new condo in Salem.  Here are just a few of our quirky things:

This is a card I bought for Will's birthday.  We keep it up on our bookshelf and have vowed to make it into a wall decal for a children's room someday.  Isn't it so joyous!?

Who doesn't need a piggy bank!?

This photograph, brought along from Will's life pre-me, is gigantic.  It is currently above our bed.  I love how misty it is.  

I love this chair, but I'm not sure what to do with it.  My grandfather gave it to me when I was in college, and I made the mistake of spray painting it black.  Maybe we'll strip it and change the fabric.  I wish I has asked my grandfather about it origins.  He always had a fascinating story behind everything he acquired (he loved finding things at the Fitchburg dump).

This is a chair Will shipped from Germany.  It was his father's chair.   We'd like to redo it.  I like this design but I'm not sure I'll get Will's approval.

Bubble Calendar auf Deutsch

New salt & pepper shakers that I adore.  I get obsessed with shopping at Anthropologie for little treats like these.