September 2009 Weddings
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Re: Home
We are getting a new TV stand since it is so not childproof. Right now, when Weston crawls around, we just push the coffee table to cover the front and put a chair on each side.
Here's our living room. The sofa and love seat were given to us by Kev's grandpa. They're red lay-z-boy reclining couches so they sort of set the tone for the whole room.
We re-tiled the fireplace last March. We added recessed lighting in January.
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our living room is in the basement, as the only living space upstairs we turned into a dining room, since the house didn't have one. And this girl NEEDS a dining room. Especially since our kitchen isn't really an eat-in kitchen.
I kinda hate the living room space downstairs though. It's really long and narrow, which makes it VERY difficult to arrange furniture in. I should really beg HGTV to come help us. But I think we made the most of what we had. Love how it's decorated and the color palate, but just hate the actual space in the room. Again, to appreciate what it looks like now, you need to see a before pic. We just redid the basement last spring. There was this awful sandpaper finish on the walls that took hours to scrape off.
Before:
After! This is looking from towards the bottom of the steps (to the right in back is the 2 spare bedrooms in the basement), pretty mucht he same shot as the before:
Close up of the fireplace/bookscases. We put that fireplace in, it's just an electric one. Our house has no real fireplace
The other side of the room - the awkward space at the bottom of the steps that we don't know what to do with. I keep telling Scott we need a fooseball table or something.
This is a good representation of the colors - we have two accent walls, the wall with the fireplace and this weird little part of the big wall that juts out a little. No idea why it juts out like that. Probably because the people who lived in this house before us were idiots and didn't know how to properly finish a basement. Anyways - it's 2 shades from the same card, one's just a darker version of the lighter slate blue. Scott was worried it would make the basement feel cold, but I think it makes it feel very cozy.
I do not have great photos of it right now, but this was taken of Easter:
I love the color green on the walls and the comfy couches. We also replaced our coffee table with the flip top ottoman. We got rid of the dingy carpet and put in dark laminate wood and a area rug.
This is kind of a blurry pic, but has the picture of my hometown which was a wedding gift.
Our living room was one of the only rooms we completely redid.
When we first moved in, it had the most hideous wallpaper, and our first task was ripping it all down. I didnt get a picture of the living room prior to this, but this is what the paper looking like:
And this is the living room once we had it all ripped down:
We now have curtains, pillows, are housing a china cabinet for my SIL, have pictures hung.... but sadly I don't have any of them on my computer right now.
updated 10.03.12
I will put up some before pics too. It looked a lot bigger without all the furniture, but it is just the right amount of space for us to have some people over.
It overlooks the kitchen and our bedroom is on the other side
Now for the finished product:
The only difference since this picture was taken is Layla is in a monster size crate now!
I think all of these were taken from our front door when we moved in. Again, please ignore the crazy mess.
This pics are kind of big. Sorry.
This is my living room inspiration that I want to switch this into.
I'm just not a huge fan of the color scheme we have now. It is decent, and it has run its course. So, I want to switch it up!
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Our living room has a lot of character. It's a great room, but it has candy apple red walls and 4 doorways so it's a bit tricky to work with. We still have no curtains (aside from the sheers that came with the house) because what color curtains do you get for bright red walls? I don't really like white/ivory, but I can't think of anything else. Also, all the furniture in this room is what I had in my condo (a new couch, rocking chair and wooden chair, but armchair and tables were hand-me-downs from my parents), plus the stupid futon I bought when I first moved up here, thinking I'd get an apartment when my furniture was still in my condo (Clint lived there until we bought our house). The rugs are a mix of recent gifts and the rugs I had in college. And not one thing is Clint's, aside from the giant stereo above the tv that we almost never use. So it's just a big hodge podge of random stuff. We seriously need tables, note the lamps just kind of shoved around the futon because there's nowhere to put them.
facing the front of the room. it's really a lovely room, it gets a lot of light both morning and night and has a nice cross breeze. There's an AC mounted in the back wall (you can kind of see it in the 2nd photo) that we want to take out and put in a little decorative window or something. Our house is so shaded that we've never needed AC down stairs, and only a couple nights a year do we need it upstairs.
facing the back, with that stupid futon we can't get rid of. I think we're just going to put it on the curb this summer and see if someone picks it up, I really want to have that space back. Grandma has a tall antique desk/bookshelf to give us that I want to put to the left of the futon, and put both bookshelves on the right wall, and I'd like to have a table in front of the window.
We have a nice fireplace, but having the two doors to the sunroom (a room for craft storage, boxes we don't feel like unpacking but hesitate to put in the basement in case it ever floods, and the elliptical, it's too narrow to actually get any furniture in there) make fitting tables in pretty awkward. I got that little round one at a tag sale for $8!
The painting above the couch is really my first attempt at decorating this room. I have a lot of artwork, but it doesn't go with the wall color at all- we don't really want to paint, because I like having an interesting color. I stole this painting from my parents, mom bought it at an auction and dad hates it, so it always hung opposite the attic door, in a corner where no one goes. The colors go pretty well in here, but it's not as big as I thought it was!
Our goal for this year is to get curtains up and buy some proper tables for this room- like it'd be nice to have 2 end tables that match, instead of just that one 1970s metal/glass one. Oh and Clint's pushing for a new tv- somehow my 27in from 2003 isn't good enough for him!
Our living room and dining room are really just one big room. Here is the view from the front door.
And the view from the dining room
Notice the kitty tail sticking out from behind the curtains
Most of the furniture we bought new when we moved into the house. We already had the tv stand, bookshelf, ottoman, and most of the decor, but the couches and chair and dining room furniture were new. My favorite features of this room are the crown molding, which is also in the kitchen and master bathroom and the long windows, which the cats love. Eventually, we'd like to lay hardwood and buy rugs, but we're tiling the bathrooms and kitchen now, so I'll keep my lips zipped about further flooring to-dos.
Okay fine, you talked me into it...these are pics from when we moved in.
Living room view from the kitchen - the door on the left leads to the backyard.
View from the living room looking at the kitchen:
We thought about doing that too, but I don't entertain enough to rationalize dedicating a whole room to a dining room table yet (thought I would love to, some day). So nope... formal living room up top, big screen tv and game room in the basement...
updated 10.03.12
LR looking into DR
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Before moving in....all the old owners stuff...
And now...but I only apparently have a few pics saved - and the house is a mess right now since starting my own business.