Home Tour

Back in early December, Scott & I went to look at yet another house. I was pessimistic, knowing that it probably wasn't our next house. So I told him on the way over that if this wasn't our house, that we were going to get new living room / dining room furniture. He said he thought that was a good idea. We'd been waiting to find a new house before we bought new furniture, but who knows when that date will arrive. And our house needed some sprucing. At least according to me. 

So off we went to the furniture store the next week, with Lila in tow. It was about as much fun as you can imagine. We quickly picked out a model and then went in search of fabrics. Since our time limit on Lila not getting on every single one of the beds in the whole store was about up, we grabbed some fabric and took it home to check out. 

This is a long story, but has a point. When we got home, we decided that we liked the color but that we had forgotten to pick up the fabric choices for the pillows (there were about 456,457 of them). So, in a moment of weakness, I sent Scott back to the store and told him just to text me a few choices and I would pick it out like that. He nearly fainted. I must not have been feeling very well that day. But off he went, and within a few minutes, he texted me 3 choices, I picked one and it was done. 

The couch and pillows are custom made, so it took about 10 weeks to arrive. Thankfully we still liked our choices. I think Scott was nervous. 

It's taken me several weeks to get things the way I want them, but I think we're very close. We removed the coffee table this past weekend. I just got up one morning and decided that it was too big for the space, we didn't use it anymore, and it wasn't worth trying to paint it to see if I liked it better. So off it went to the curb, where someone promptly picked it up. And that was that.

We were able to order another insert to the couch, so when we have a bigger living room (someday:), we can make the couch bigger.

We also replaced our old entertainment center. Scott found this one at Sam's, the same day I found it online. Glad we were on the same wave length.  I do love it so. And I also love the new chair that I found at Target. My.favorite.place.

If you've been a blog reader for a while, you'll remember that we had a TV in the basement that we weren't using (our old one stopped working under warranty and they replaced it with one that was too big for our entertainment center, so we kept it for later). So we pulled it out and added it to the makeover. Scott hung the shelf behind the TV (he hates hates hates to drill into our walls, but he did it any way).

The biggest prize of this makeover is our new dining room table (if you can call it a dining room in our house:)) Scott & I went in search of a new table. And didn't find anything we liked. So I suggested that we take the table we had in the basement and re-purpose with a treatment from Pinterest.

I couldn't find a picture of the full table, but here is what it looked like before. We got this at a furniture store down the street from where we lived in Georgia.

Scott worked hard on the table and chairs and was able to achieve my EXACT VISION. I am so happy with how it turned out. Every time I look at the table, it makes me happy. It is exactly what I wanted and we had it in our basement. That doesn't happen very often!

I found the fabric at JoAnn's and he recovered the seats too. 

I matched the couch without even having a swatch. It was meant to be. 

This little corner was changed up too. This chair belonged to me beloved Aunt Mil. And I originally thought I would put it in the basement when we got the new couch. But I just couldn't. I love it. And it also makes me happy when I look at it. So it is in the corner by the table and I've actually found myself sitting in it. So it will stay. I moved Nate's picture over to this wall and added Lila's (thank you to Michael for capturing this one on a day that she didn't want to be captured!). This wall turned out exactly as I envisioned too.

I have a few loose ends - like painting the end tables. I can't believe we still have these end tables, but they've been good to us and I decided to wait and see what I wanted to do about new ones when we move. Scott is going to antique them like the big table, but in a silver. Then I think I'm going to paint the green floor vase, but can't decide what color.

Thanks for looking! Come visit!