It's Coming Together!

I got this chair for my bedroom. This is really what started it. JT was in the book room watching cartoons. AJ was in the family room watching rubbish. I was talking to a friend on the phone. I was wandering around the house, finding NOWHERE to SIT. The front room was empty. I guess I could have sat at the dining room table, but I didn't think of it. I ended up laying down on my bed, which is not a bad thing, but one likes to have options. I thought, I need someplace to sit in here, and I have GOT to make that front room functional!


I moved this hutch into the dining room; it's part curio cabinet, but it also houses my grandmother's china, so it made more sense to me that it go in the dining room, and it feel right on that wall, to me. Still need to hang the kids' artwork. You can't see the other sunflower, but each of the kids, at different times, brought home a sunflower art piece, so I had them framed similarly. You know that question, "If your house was on fire, what would you grab?" I'd grab these.



This is my new sofa. I was really only looking for a loveseat for this space, but this baby was "slightly damaged", and was a steal! I asked to see the damage; the delivery guys had accidentally slashed the fabric wa-a-y back on the side of that far armrest. Their upholsterer stitched it up like magic; I'd sure never notice it! It's a darn nice sofa, and they charged me less than some of the not-as-nice loveseats! That is the window that I placed these club chairs to view. I love these chairs. These are the ones I dragged from the family room, where they didn't fit right with the sofa.





I also got this coffee table with a set of two end tables. Actually, the budget was blown on seating; the tables are flat-pack assembly-required from Fred's, and cost almost nothing. But they're might sturdy pieces! One of them is going to be pressed into service for a digital tv that I'm going to break down and buy, eventually. If the cable goes out in a catastrophe, I want to be able to get SOME reception. We already had that little ottoman, but it goes with the dark pieces.



Speaking of dark pieces, I got these barrel chairs to replace the giant club chairs that moved into the room above. With this sofa, those brown chairs JUST wouldn't fit right, no matter what I did. But having just the sofa in the family room was ridiculous; there simply wasn't enough seating. And you don't always WANT to sit on the sofa, and if someone's laying down, etc... These chairs have a much smaller profile, but with the ottoman (again, already owned), they are as comfortable as the club chairs. I know, because I tested out the one on the left tonight, watching "Raising Helen". This is a weird-shaped room, and I had trouble figuring out where stuff works. My poor kids would go get the mail, come back, and another room would be different again! But I think I've got it figured out, now!

This. This is the "book room", as JT calls it. There are bean bags. That's about it. I have some plans, if I end up buying this house, to convert it into at least an awesome guest room, but at some point, I may consider making it into a functional studio apartment, and rent it out. But for right now, it's essentially a rumpus room.

I have a table set up in here that "could" be a scrap table, but I haven't used it, yet. If I give up this room to convert it, I think I can get my scrapping stuff into the whatever-the-room-is-where-my-desk-and-breakfast-table-are. People would just have to eat their Cheerios at the dining room table. Or in front of the tv, which is more likely, if we're being honest!