The Living Room

I've wanted to post this blog for a long time! We worked hard at getting our living room in good condition when we first moved in, and we finally got it to a place that we're happy with. I am so lucky to have such an artistic, creative partner. Here are the fruits of our labors:

Our living room started out with this beautiful grey-blue paint. Lindsay helped us pick it out:


We recovered our poop-brown chair with cool fabric from Urban, turned our mirror sideways and added a lamp/table.


We have to give some credit where credit is due- to Eric. He found this lamp on Craigslist and it is amazingly perfect. It matches all of our colors and lines and metals- and it's functional and stylish. Good job, honey.


We have awesome inlet shelves near the kitchen. We put some cool crap in there so people can see how neat we are.

These shelves are right above Eric's computer station (I wasn't allowed to take pictures of it for this blog since his bangs weren't did). Some cool features include the initials we painted, the candle holders and orange vase from West Elm, and the huge wooden pillar things we got mega-cheap from Pottery Barn. Gotta love those sales.


Pillows! Urban Outfitters, How I Love Thee:


We bought these circular mirrors because we had visions of being the first cool people to have a set of circular mirrors on their wall. Then we saw about 10,000 other people with them, so I used some scraps from the ottoman fabric and made this frame/art thing. The plant is from Ikea and the phone table is from Mary Roellke. Love that lady.


Accent lamps from Ikea. Oh-so-chic. Brown curtains! We were thinking of doing a pattern, but sometimes you have to know when to say when.


My favorite project. I got a template for paper flowers from a local Paper Source store, and then modified it and bought more paper to fit my needs. These flowers are so fun to make... and look freaking sweet.


Another project (remember, I was basically unemployed for two months!) was this TV stand. Eric had this old, crapper of a stand he got at a thrift store. I repainted it, added some of our wall paint to the bottom shelf for good measure, and then spray-adhesived (my most favorite thing) a decorative kitchen towel to the top. It looks so fun! The lamp is one we already had, but put that cool shade on the top. I salvaged it from a yard sale.


This coffee table was another vintage find. We stained the wood to match our end tables. The coasters are from West Elm and the organic, free form wood bowl is from Home Goods. Honeys, if you haven't hit your local Home Goods store, get off the couch and go NOW. It's like, the Ross or Marshalls of home furnishings.


Then, of course, the ottoman (with strangely expensive orange wool fabric) and the pillow we got from Urban:


So here she is, in all her HGTV-inspired glory. There's still more to be done, but we've gotten comfy with what we have. Ah, yes. Also, please excuse/note our Christmas deco! We couldn't take it down for these pictures. It's just a bit, but just enough for us. Happy Holidays, from our Living Room!