It's no secret. I've been watching a lot of HGTV lately. A lot. And I am a stay at home mother who needs a creative outlet. Put those two things together and you've got a girl who needs to redo her house!
Enter my living room.
It is HUGE and we have like 3 sticks of furniture to fill it up put in it. The last few people that have stopped by to purchase things I've listed on Craigs List have all said pretty much the same thing, 'did you just move here?'. Now, why would all these people say this? Well, because we have the cavernous living room with three sticks of furniture, that's why.
Enter cable TV.
So, we got cable tv a couple weeks ago and I love watching HGTV, namely the design shows. I love seeing the before and after shots as well as the crafty ways they make things or put things together. Now, we are renting so I can't exactly buy paint, and we are also saving for a down payment so I can't go out and buy furniture to fill the space either. Nor do I really want to, this is a rental and I'm not into investing money in something that doesn't belong to us.
Enter the need to do something!!!!
I had an idea on how to rearrange a couple of our sticks to make the living room feel less cavernous. The problem is that Ryan does not like it when I do this. Being the designer that he is, he needs to have a purpose as to why I would move something. For some odd reason I can't just move stuff around just for the sake of moving it around. This is something I don't understand. At all. But he is my husband and for the sake of keeping the peace I restrain myself. But I can't take it anymore! So, I did it. I moved the couch, coffee table and rocking chair. That's it. And really, they were in that position, for the most part, when we first moved in. We moved things around when we got the cabinet the tv is now on. My current issue with this, aside from having a cavernous feel to our living room, is that to be best comfortable watching tv, we lay on the floor in front of it. And you know what? My neck hurts. Enough I say!
Enter the before and after pics.
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view from the front door entry
view from hallway (just left, or straight ahead of the front door)
view from the 'dining room'
I'm pretty sure I'm going to get in trouble for this when Ryan comes home, but at this point it's worth the risk. I do have a smaller rug in another room that will work better in front of the couch, but I won't move it unless I get approval first. And I think the tv cabinet can be moved a little farther down the wall toward the windows, as well as move the tv itself to make watching it a little easier. I also have my moms old hope chest that I can move to the half wall once it is repaired a bit. Again, I'm not going to make anymore changes until Ryan ok's what I've done so far. But what do you think?
**if there are no more posts after this, then be aware that I will have lost all tv and computer privileges until further notice.
8 comments:
Uh- I see no pics
I love the blue couch and I love that you moved it away from the wall. It is a bit difficult to see the TV from the couch, so I'll be waiting to see what hubby says! It does look cozier (if that's a word!) in the after shots!
Well I like the "move" it looks good. I do like it when the TV is not the focal point of the room. Where will the kids sit when they watch tv? Is there still room for them to sit in front or is that too close?
I like how tidy and clean the room is. Before and after. Just before we moved Nathan brought home an Architectural? Digest and the main thing I noticed was all the lovely empty clean space. That's what your room likes like - clean, tidy, and lovely. (note to self, clear off desk, pronto)
I like the couch centered in front of the fire place. It looks nice. But we have awkward TV viewing here to get the couch in the right place, so I'm probably not one to talk.
Also, (sorry this is getting really long) but I just wanted to say - WHY! Nathan hates moving around the furniture, too. WHY? It's not that big of a deal. I always chart is all out on paper, but sometimes you just have to move stuff around, you know!
I think it looks cozy. If your a family that doesn't care for watching TV very much then I would keep the couch facing the fireplace, otherwise if TV is watched often then I would move the couch for better viewing pleasure :)
PS Let us know what Ryan thinks!!
Bwahahah! Good luck!
I can't see pictures, but bravo on taking the initiative and moving things around! Randy actually likes doing this, so he and Ryan are opposites. Our only problem is that we have so little space that we can't rearrange much - our bed can only be set up 2 different ways, and we switch it every few months....haha!
I can't see the pictures either. I'm dying to see what the fuss is all about. What it looked like before and after.
Unfortunately our dilema is similar to Mary. We just don't have the space that we need. Plus we have accumulated too much stuff in the last 10 years.
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