My final installation of Decorate Your Space on the Road features perfect finds and another less than unanimous decision. 

I have mentioned Pottery Barn a lot in these four posts because it is the only major mid line chain in Myrtle Beach.  It stands without its usual competition in a very nice mixed-use-New Concept-Town Centre-format-outdoor Mall.  Being the only people in the store on all three occasions, we had excellent service.  But the best part about shopping here was the deals:  I selected drapery panels for all three bedrooms at 75% off!  Silk Panels for $45! And the complete hardware set  for $35!!! This is cheaper than Wal-Mart.  I was positively gleeful about this.  Like a doctor scanning MRI film showing no cancer or Senator whose pork has passed, these are the moments that make my job. 

We were not able to complete a room with the stock available, but at such crazily low prices, we decided to buy larger panels than we needed and have them altered.  Out of 8 windows, we needed to alter only one panel in length for the Master Bedroom, split two 105″ width panels into four 50″ width panels for the room with the full bed, and split one 105″ panel into two for the room with the pair of twin beds.  The alterations expense came to $180, which is less than the original price from only one panel. 

We had more perfect finds.  Two lamps, exactly right for the Master Bedroom, were just sitting on a shelf and waiting for us at HomeGoods.  A solitary picture containing all the proper colors for the Guest Room hung on a peg right under an ideal black lamp with a green leaf shade at Target.  A pair of prints framed in an exact complement to the pair of twin bed frames was found on clearance for only $30 each. We loaded the van again and again, happy with our purchases, our bellies full of fresh seafood. 

I created a plan for the half bath rather late in my trip because I just couldn’t grab a vision for this space.  Since wallpaper was off limits, I felt tapped out.  Until I saw it.  A pretty little chandelier, coral and green and white, of painted iron with tiny flowers.  This was it.  I instantly saw a more feminine space, true to the color story in the Great Room.  In the showroom, wordlessly, I pointed up.  Jim’s face lit up.  He, too, received a vision of it hanging in the half bath. 

This time Roseann was the holdout.  “No way!”  “Too grandma!”  “Not my taste at all!!” 

It was the last day.  I was flying home in a few hours.  I had to get tough.  “WRAP IT UP”, I said to the salesman (all along knowing that today the credit card was in JIM’S wallet…)