New Living Room .....

We've been working on the living room for quite a few months now

When we built our house 25 years ago, the living room just became

a playroom for the kids.

then when they started school, I started sewing full time

with a friend of mine making custom flags and curtains

after we got burnt out on sewing, we bought a desk

and a couple of wing back chairs and it became 

an office.....and also a catch all for everything.

I've always wanted it to become a pretty living room so

we decided to go ahead and do that. Even though we are 

3 or 4 years away from moving to the beach we know that

when the time comes to sell, a nice living room will help

sell our home.

A dear family friend had asked me to sew curtains for her new home.

she wanted to know what I charged for that but for her, nothing! But I

did tell her I was doing the living room and would love her help in

designing the room. I told her my likes and the vision I had and she

put together some mood boards for me to look at. From there, I picked

the things I like and what I didn't like and we ended up with a

mood board that was perfect.

of course the hardest part for me is always the paint color but Kayla

narrowed it down to 2, we got samples and put them up on

the walls so that made it easy.

We just started buying pieces of furniture one at a time

from all over

rug from World Market

sofa from Overstock

chairs from Wayfair

console table from At Home

the paintings are from my sister Kandi

they had purchased a home in the city that is on the historical

register so they wanted to decorate more in the period of the home

so they were nice enough to give me 2 of their beautiful

beach prints.....which fit perfect with my decor

We used to have solid doors here but decided to buy new

french doors to let in more light

another great find from Kayla.....I LOVE this lamp

I have finished the curtains

I'll put up pictures tomorrow of the finished room

later.....