ch ch ch changes

Once again- I've got a few more changes in the living room area. Well living room and dining room! We have finally decided to recover our dining room chairs which I'm so excited about. I knew when I got the table that I wanted to recover the chairs so we've been saving up for this change as well! We were in saving mode all last fall which is why I wasn't really doing much to the house! Now its CHANGING mode :) My favorite!!

So I've picked out this great Robert Allen print for the chairs. Well I should say these great prints. We have 8 dining room chairs and only 6 spots at the table right now since we don't have one of the leaves in the table. So the extra two chairs are flanking the TV right now in the living room and i think I'm going to recover those in a different fabric. They are both end chairs and I think it will be kind of fun to have them mixed!

For the main dining room chairs:

And for the two in the living room:

So it would look something like this:

We may or may not be painting the chair frames a creamy off-white color to match the legs of the table. .  . up for debate at this time

Then to help bring the living room and dining room a little coordination we'd do some living room pillows in these fabrics too

coordinating with the navy and light blue pillows we already have!



Living room updates

Remember that silly little design board I did for my living room the other week? Well after picking out the items on the internet I started doing a little more research and looking at the dimensions and the products in the store. .  .womp womp

Pretty much everything I picked out wasn't really the right size for the spaces they were going in. The mirror top tables were way too small for the large area between the two couches, the rattan ottoman thing was way too short for the space and the coffee table, well it was okay actually. Maybe a little shorter than I wanted but okay. BUT when I started changing up my side tables I needed a different style coffee table!

So here's what I've ended up with:

I love that look and that there is a second shelf down below for more storage

Ballard Designs

One of the mirror topped table for where I had the wicker ottoman- going between the leather chair and the couch (from Crate and Barrel)

And this large tufted ottoman in this pretty indoor/outdoor (for wear) blue trellis pattern. It even lifts up and has storage inside!! From Ballard Designs

I really think the room is going to come together nicely! Now I just need to save up to get rid of our very worn denim couch!

Paint colors

You may have noticed in my little design board for the living room some colors around the edges- these are options of paint colors I'm thinking about. I went and got some samples and much to P's dismay we have samples of paint up all over our house again! Hopefully this time it will inspire us to get to work sooner. . . unlike our bedroom that had paint samples up for months! These are more visible so HINT HINT- time to start painting P!

Here's our options for the living room/ dining room:

Top Left is Benjamin Moore's Pearl River, Top right is Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage at 50% (we had already painted a small swatch of full force Silver Sage and it was too dark/ green but we liked the idea so I started mixing) which is why the bottom choice is RH Silver Sage at an unknown % somewhere around 75% I'm guessing- if that's what we pick I'll have it color matched at BM.

Here's a shot from further away. I promise you that the top two colors are not practically white- just how it's showing up in the pics!

I'm also going to go ahead and paint the hall and probably our master bath (again!)

In the hall I'm down between BM Edgecomb Gray on the left and BM Baby Fawn on the right

And possibly painting our very small master bathroom a dark grey/blue. I would love to do this but was always worried it would look dark/ smaller. But I think the window and all the beadboard will keep it light. . .

BM Smokestack Gray

I think we have a front runner but I'm not positive yet. What are your thoughts?

Living Room design board

Like I said before, we are simultaneously working on a few projects at a time! Sounds time consuming and it is, but it's always fun to be busy with projects that you enjoy! I've been looking for a while to replace our couches in the living room. They are both kind of comfortable but neither are really what we are looking for. They don't match and mainly they always look undone. The minute you sit down on it they are messed up and you have to re-fluff all pillows to look decent again. It's kind of like having an unmade bed, in the living room, all the time! They just look messy and ick. And they are both old couches that we acquired through the years from family so I feel like it's time we get a "grown up" couch that we pick and pay for! YIKES I know- I'm growing up right here in front of you!

Except not really because after looking for weeks on end with no success, it seems the only couches I like are a bit more than I was hoping/ planning/ can spend. So, we will wait a little longer and continue to add to our "couch fund" and in the meantime I am adding smaller pieces to the living room so that when we do finally get the couches the room will be complete! At least for a little while!

Here is my poor attempt at a design board for myself (and P) so we can see how everything really looks together. This is why I need a new computer and Photoshop (this was made in Word, forgive me)!

We'll see how it changes over time as I add the different pieces. Thoughts?