This may seem like a crazy and spontaneous purchase, but the truth is that Husband and I decided on two pieces of interest that we'd like to have in the house:
one, stained-glass or otherwise antique church window,
two, antique cast iron spiral staircase.
These were supposed to add interest and be our only splurges.
We came up with the window idea after visiting friends of ours in Australia. They have a beautiful home in Melbourne and their open living/dining area features very tall and very colorful church windows, which as I understand were also salvaged for the house build. They also had smaller church windows in another part of the house.
Can't remember where the idea for stairs came from, though.
Well, the first purchase, a window, has been done. A little different to what our friends have, it's etched, rather than stained, and considerably smaller. Both are attributes, our copy is original :P That is to say that we copied the concept but the final outcome won't be similar at all. Plus our house probably won't be large enough to accommodate multiple church windows, and we'll probably be limited to placing them in an interior dividing wall, as it probably doesn't have good thermal properties.
The best thing is that the purchase wasn't really a splurge, as we'd prepared for. There wasn't much interest in the eBay piece, we got it for only AU$182.62. It'll probably cost us that again to ship it to Poland, if not more, and there is the stress of getting it here in one piece, but fingers are crossed.
Now I'm looking at a spiral staircase and perhaps by the week's end I'll have the other purchase done, too. Then we get the land and build the house to put them in! Certainly all other purchases will be purely practical, as these are the only predicted unnecessary purchases.
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