Homey Touches

Since my last post about the house, I've continued to add some "homey touches" to our living room. The most recent adds have all been free :). I've been digging around the house looking for lost items that I once enjoyed, or thought I didn't have the space for them and put them up today.

About a week ago, I was discussing with Joe about how I still felt like the living room needs a bit more. I had suggested we get the sister to the white bookshelf. The sister shelf is a three-shelf bookshelf. I thought the big grey blob was still lacking a bit. To me, there was no clear line of definition between the eating space and the living space. His response was OK, but let's wait till next paycheck. Well, in that waiting time I already had changed my mind. Good thing he's not as impulsive as me!

We are planning a big trip to Ikea next weekend, so I was searching chairs and such, and that's when I started getting antsy and needed to move things around. So move things I did. Recently I had moved the antique sewing machine under the stairs. I didn't like it from the moment I moved it, but I dealt with it. Having the sewing machine and the radio in the small space by the door was just too cramped for  me. It had to be moved. This morning I was even considering getting rid of it. I don't get too sentimental about objects, and I can get rid of something in a heartbeat.

After several minutes of moving furniture and me asking Joe's opinion and then changing things again, I am happy to say I am quite pleased with the results. Not only did furniture get moved, but I dug up some photographs, posters, and a great painting that my brother got me on a trip to Argentina.

 Oh, and the best add of all, which was not free- but the labor was, is a great light above the table. We got rid of that craptastic ceiling fan and now have a nice sleek light. Our eating space actually looks like a nice place to have a meal (not that we have very many at the table). 

Cheers!

What we started with.

What we started with.

A view of the "craptastic" fan.

The old set up. 

Sewing machine and radio in a tight space. 

Making progress...

Making progress...

Making progress...

Things have been moved!!

Print I picked up at the Market in Charleston, SC.

A better place for dinner.

Argentina painting. Eventually I am going to have it re-matted with a softer color.

A few things to note:

Along the wall with the door, behind the table, were three plaques. One said "live, laugh, love." One said "love is spoken here" and the last one read something super lame about happiness. They were a purchase from my youth that I thought were sooo cute. Turns out they were sooo lame. Not that they are bad mottos, but I don't need them on my wall. I can't tell you how happy Joe was when I told him they were hitting the road. In their place hangs a poster from a Ryan Adams concert we attended back in our college days. Flanking that is a signed print of the band My Morning Jacket.  

The old school desk chair used to reside where the sewing machine is now. Placing it next to the bookshelf gives that definition of space I was looking for. Adding the artwork on either sides of the shelves hanging finishes off the grey blob. 

We will be adding two new chairs and getting rid of the green chair. I do love that chair, but it is too overwhelming for the space.