New Living Room Furniture

A few weeks or so ago I told you about the update to the fireplace surround.

Here.
I love it.
It is crisp and clean and bright and white.
It pops off the tan brick.
But...
We are still in the process of warming up and updating the space a little.  We have a bound carpet on order and I will show pics when that comes in. 
One thing we wanted for a while was more seating.

I moved the little curbside loveseat to the garden room. Look forward to that post, please.The living room was in need of another piece.
I moved the antique settee from the sunroom up to my room and moved the chaise downstairs. 

I love a chaise, but for a living area I prefer a one armed  chaise so that two people can sit on it. I enjoyed it for a few days of lounging but, I knew no one would ever sit on this but me. I haven't done much sitting on this in a while and it needs a redo. The stuffing is a little flat on the back of the seat.

 I love the white, not the scale. It was a little too dainty for the space and the settee was really too small with my 12  foot ceiling upstairs. Argh!!!

I moved this little parson chair in and created a reading nook. I will show that later also.
So I went out furniture shopping.
I went to the Rooms To Go Outlet hoping to find a leather chair to match mine. 

Unbelievably they had two recliners, but they were both in whole room packages. I convinced my salesman  to sell me just the recliner. I pulled up my blog to look at my chair and see if they were indeed a match. We both thought the chair was the same from the picture but the salesman had a check about it. He pulled up my original order from 4 years ago and sure enough it was a different manufacturer. I was so impressed that he gave up his sale to do what was right for my room.
He said, and I agreed, that the sheen of my leather was different from the new chair. 
So, I stopped in at Hemispheres and I found a couple  leather recliners that I thought would match.
 Mr. Bill and I  returned to the store with our leather chair cushion to see if there was a match.

 This one was very close, but suddenly, Bill wanted to move our Rooms To Go chair into his office and buy two new recliners for the living room. 
He wanted to check a few more places before he bit the bullet.
So we zipped across the street to Lazy Boy. Let me just say that Lazy Boy has some ugly recliners. 
You all know what I am talking about so I won't even  show you a picture. The cute ones were extremely expensive.
Finally, we went to Freed's Furniture.
I found a darling sofa and loveseat last week  when I was shopping for the our little sunroom.
Here  
I didn't get the love seat  because it was too big. 
I finally convinced Mr. Bill that getting a new sofa and loveseat was the best bet.  They were much, much cheaper than two leather recliners.  
He finally agreed and now we have these adorable Pottery Barnesque(or is it Pottery Barnish?) sofas.

I love the pillows.

I love the oatmeal color. 

The purple pops off of them. 

I am normally not a huge fan of floating furniture in this room. However,  I love the back of the loveseat.

All that to say... 
Step two of the living room project done. 
Before:

After:

 Step three is the rug.
More on that soon.
 Bill  is trying to convince me to move the TV out of the armoire during step four. He wants me to get a bigger T.V.  and a different cabinet to put it on. 
That should be a challenge. 
I think we need to use lower cabinets and build shelves above. 

Kind of like these I have pinned on my media board on Pinterest.

Here.

More to come. Rug, lamps and a T.V.? 
Stop back in to check it out.

Katie
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Living Room Tour

I haven’t showed you much of my living room.
Beware this post is heavy laden with pictures.

The light in here isn’t the best so it is very hard to photograph.
When I posted about my summer mantle I took about 50 pictures. Originally I was supposed to write about our spring mantle but I never got a single good shot of it in the spring. 

I have been trying to catch a few good mornings to take some pictures of this room. 
As you enter the front door the dining room is to the left and the stairs are directly across from the front door.

 Please excuse the dog paw. I didn't see her until I was editing. Those of you with dog, know how badly they want to help blog!

 Mr. Bill doesn't sit in his chair in this room so it gets piled with pillows.

Okay, everything is piled with pillows.

You might have been one of the three people to see a post about the love seat I pulled out of the trash one morning. I recovered it a few years ago.

 I've draped dropcloths over the brown to lighten it up. It is the first step toward a slipcover.

  I made the pillows with muslin and jute webbing.

  This table behind the loveseat is a unique, family piece. I will show more of it in another post. 

The view of the music nook from the couch. 
We had news this summer about the piano. 
The swamp cooler from the Bill's old house has ruined it. 

Which leads us to the armoire. 

We have had this piece of furniture for eons.

I spied it in a little mom and pop antique store in the town where we were living.
Money was so tight back in those days that we bought it with our tax return shortly after we were new parents.

It was a whopping $225.00. 
We bought this piece to store the T.V. I didn't want the T.V. to be the focus of our family. I wanted it hidden away.
I think it worked. 
All three of our kids say they don't watch a lot of  T.V. :) 

  As a new blogger I took this picture. 
I can't tell you how tickled I was to find a picture with the T.V. on!!! Do you see the sock or something under the bench?
The doors are open almost all the time so it has to look cute inside.

I think I only close them for parties. 
You know what? 
I am not even sure I close them then.

 Mr. Bill put shelves in it. 
I needed places for knick knacks,
 ummm... I mean stereo components ;)
I wanted a neutral backdrop so I turned all the books around.
I moved the speakers from the top to the inside.

 

 Cream and white accessories as well as my new mulberry transferware platter are at home. My sis-in-law got me the platter for my birthday.

She is my partner on many an antique jaunt. I'm sure she has seen me pick up tons of purple plates. 
I am in love with it!!

Rebekah got me this little dog ornament for Christmas, just 10 days after we lost my beloved lap dog. How she found one to look like him, I don't know.  

Another broken clock. I love clocks. 

For the top, I took this birdcage that was destined for my favorite resale shop.

Now it sits on top with a cute wire basket and a 
fleur-de-lis that got schmooked with paint.

We got the mirror from Bill's mom. No one else wanted it because they thought it was too gaudy.
I proudly stated  that it wasn't too gaudy for me!

 The paint color is Softer Tan by Sherwin Williams. 
We did the tiling ourselves after the big flood. 
A pipe burst under the powder room sink. 
An inch of water and $13,000 in damage. 
We wanted Saltillo but it looked horrible in here ,so we went with a thicker grout line to get a similar effect.

I showed you some of my summer decor items, read about them 
I have a few more cute things on the other side to of the room.

 I got this old oil painting at an antique shop in Corpus Christi. 
You would think that they would be easier to find on the coast but cute vintage ocean inspired paintings are very hard to come by.This one looks like it is dated 1874. But I think it is 1974.
I'm sure the cute stork was one a nursery planter, but I don't care.

Vintage nursery planters make good decor for seasons or to round out a collection of something.
I am captivated by this shell encrusted box.

I hope you like the room. I am sure you are wondering how a person can live with so much junk!!
I tried to lighten up and pare down when we had our flood about 7 years ago. I just managed to refill it.

 
I am loving little hints of purple with the creams and whites.
I made stuff out of anything, two years ago I couldn't find purple fabric anywhere. Now I have started seeing it more.

 Excuse me while I go pack up a few knick-knacks.
If you would like, I'll come back and talk about some of the specific items. 
But... you might be so horrified at the number things in here, you won't be back.

Sprinkled with a room to live in,
Katie
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