Well, since I missed out on the first few week’s of Kelly‘s challenge, I’m going to use the weekend to catch up. I’m skipping the guest room because we don’t have one, I’ll offer up the kitchen later with a caveat, but today I’m sharing the living room.
In our house all of the rooms {with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom} are exactly the same size. Our bedrooms, play room, living room, dining room AND laundry. It is similar to a Craftsman four-square only it’s a six. When you walk in our front door you walk directly into the living room with our dining room being in the very center of the house.
Above is a picture looking from our dining room to the front door. You’ll see our “entertainment center” on the left and the majority of our seating on the right. And you’ll notice that cute new rug!
This is a photo of the main seating area. We bought our leather furniture several years ago at Dogtown, but it is practically the only “nice” furniture we’ve ever bought. Sometimes it looks red and sometimes it looks purple. Either way, I love the way it contrasts with the pumpkin colored walls. You can also see from this photo that our house has lots of built-in shelves that we love. Some are original to the house {these are} and some we’ve added along the way. The lamps are from Pier 1 and the two larger framed pieces of art are intaglio prints from fellow art students when I was in college.
Here is a sneak peak of that console table behind the couch. It’s really two filing cabinets {since we lack storage} with a long piece of glass. Ella loves to put her magnets here, too.
Above is one of my favorite pieces of furniture, our entertainment center. These are the other two cabinets from the elementary science lab. Originally, both pieces had doors. You’ll see what happened to the other two later in the week. We’ve used these to house electronics, etc. since we first got married. I’m guessing one day we’ll buy a bona fide piece of furniture, but I can’t imagine not having this piece! We use the piece on the right to display things we love and the piece on the left corrals our books, movies and toys as well as our electronic components.
This little vignette is to the left of our front door and the one below is to the right. Nobody ever sits in this chair, but Ella & I do occupy the little table a lot. We usually eat dinner here during the week when SD is travelling. The photograph above the table was taken by my uber-talented sister K {you should visit her today, she profiled her ADORABLE living room}. The photo was taken right ever we found out about Ella. I’m holding the sonogram picture and SD is in the background. This was taken as a college photography project and she gave it to us framed at my baby shower. Knowing we worked so hard to get that sweet little girl going, makes this photograph so special!
Well, I hope you enjoyed the tour. I love this room and all of the little things in it! I’ll be back later in the week with princess posts and some more house posts, too. Have a great holiday!
