I Can't Believe I Live Here!

So, wow! Over the past year we have been living in a house with an essentially uninhabitable living room. It was the only room in the house we didn't paint justifying it by saying, "oh, we don't want to paint until we know what our furniture will be so it can all work together."

Then we started slowing amassing some vintage furniture pieces, but nothing you could sit on. After nearly a year we took a leap and bought an awesome mid-century couch. When we got it home it turns out it was less than awesome because it smelled and Silvio thought it was the biggest scratching post ever. While he slowly destroyed it, we took our time deciding whether we'd put it on the curb or reupholster it. Turns out upholstery fabric is super expensive and by the time we decided we'd be willing to sell it, it was not salable due to damage.

Then for a while, it was "well, we don't want to spend money on new furniture because it's soooo expensive and we are still afraid it will get damaged by the feline." Funny how we arrange our whole lives around this little being and he doesn't even speak back to us. One weekend, without much fan fare, we just drove down to Macy's in Schaumburg, IL and bought a new leather couch and two arm chairs. I will never look back!

Two lessons learned.

Lesson #1: Furniture that you can sit on is important! It doesn't matter if you have a huge beautiful living room if you never use it because you have nothing to sit on. Also, if you have nothing to sit on it's hard to invite friends and family over because sitting at the kitchen table will only do for so long.

Lesson #2: Even if furniture seems relatively expensive, and I'm at peace with what we paid, it is worth it! You can't live your whole life sitting on the floor, unless you're camping (smile)!

Before the furniture arrived we painted a color I've had on a swatch in the cabinet for five months. Purple, baby!

We still have to finish trim on the baseboards and windows and rehang most of our art, but we're almost there. Without further ado, our new and improved living room. I can't believe I live here! I just love it.