Otherwise known as my living room. In a mad dash this weekend, we cleaned out the living room, painted more of the trim, put up new curtains, hung shelves, put down rugs and made it the one room in the house were we could bring guests. It’s great to have a nearly completed room in the house. Decor touches like pictures on the walls need to be added to the room, but probably will work itself out when the house gets closer to being complete.
We worked on the one room because we had friends coming over and it worked out really well. There’s no way to hide the rest of your house but having one oasis of clean in the house really makes a big difference.
In cleaning out the living room we managed to get some smaller projects done and actually used our basement! We are now storing things in the basement, and it’s nice that we are finally using the space. Oh man, it rained like crazy here this weekend. Yesterday night we went out to dinner and there were downed tree limbs. If it hadn’t rained so much, I am sure that we would have used the basement more. We have to go outside to access our basement effectively, and the off and on rain made that a hard job.
As for the rest of the house, the first floor is really coming along, especially the bathroom and kitchen. This week more painting, unpacking, hanging shelves and all of that and hopefully another completed room soon. This picture is from Elle Decor and I love the casual way the art in the room is sitting on the shelves instead of hanging. I could see that happening in one of my rooms!
