Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Union Jack bandwagon

Yep, both feet firmly on it.  Look, it just seemed like the best way to solve my lack-of-storage problem, and use something I already had.  Besides, look at these super cute ones!





Not exactly a dresser, but so stinkin cute!

Mine started out as an AutoCAD sketch (to figure out line placement):


Then involved a lot of sanding, taping, and careful painting to get to this:





Cool eh?  Not my absolute favorite thing in the world, but for a completely F-R-E-E solution, not too shabby.  AND it will look killer with the chair skirts (coming soon)...

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I'm here, I'm here!

Sorry for the radio silence!  I have been working on stuff, just lots of things in various stages of incompleteness (is that a word?) right now.  So annoying.

Anyways, here's a tiny little something.  So I have discovered that "styling" is so much harder than it looks!  But finally, I am fairly happy (for now) with this little corner of the living room:

Sorry for the nighttime photo!
I'm mainly trying to camouflage the heinous cable box - did it work?  I still want to swap out the green pillow for something more neutral - maybe something like this?


But other than that, I think I'm satisfied.

We (ok fine, I) have big plans for the living room in general.  Roman shades, new couch, new rug, and some other odds and ends.

Here are the couches I'm pondering (all from Room and Board), probably in a mushroom brown or deep navy:





Yeah, I think we're going to do the chaise route.  It feels kinda cheesy, but the reality is, it will probably work much better for us.  AND Niko will finally stop complaining about how uncomfortable the glass coffee table is on his poor tootsies!

One of these days we'll head up to the Room and Board store in DC to actually try these out - no way I will order a couch without sitting on it first.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Chair skirts!

Well that was the fastest fabric hunt I have ever undertaken.  After searching for the perfect living room curtain fabric for almost 2 years (only to find it in my basement, aargh), I thought I was in for it.  BUT I found this gem on the first stop:


And here's the "inspiration photo" - courtesy of Ramona :)


Oh they're gonna be so great!  Here's what my chairs look like now:


Sorry for the blurriness!
Will keep you posted, of course...