spent some moolah...

I just couldnt take it anymore.  I needed to start fixing my living room!  

I went out and bought this couch set, minus the side chair.

*(that is not my living room)

It's semi modern looking, a neutral color...grey is neutral, right?

We hope it matches the green carpet and yellow walls.

The chair I have been recovering...well It better match too.  

I'm not super fond of the pillows, but I can recover those with some of the fabric from the chair.  I also had purchased 2 yellow pillows and some black and white graphic pillows to tie it all together

I'm still going to have to do something about the white curtains I bought.  I just dont like them...they need a sheer or something under them

I'll figure that out.

It was so hard to pick out a couch!   it took us about 2 .5 hours.  We looked at everything, took pictures, then went back and sat on them all.  We talked about dog hair and kids...and decided the kids need to sit on the floor and the dog needs to be locked up.

It will be delivered tomorrow.

Today I started my running again.  4 miles done

I ate a nice cup of greek yogurt with a spoon of organic peanut butter mixed in.

I'm going to head upstairs and make bread...

I wonder how that will work out.

Its the NO KNEAD CRUSTY BREAD

I'll take some photos.

have a great day

xo

m

Retro Living Room Redo....

They came and did the carpet...

here's the first part

We moved up some of the old furniture so we can start getting set up for the holidays....

You know, before the 6 year old packs her Hobo bag and leaves. 

We are required to get that Tree up this weekend, so we thought we better just make do

and save the fancy decorating for after the holidays.

 we brought the retro couch over and the retro coffee table, leaving room for the tree by the windows.  The marble table was my mom's and we will probably repaint the base to make it a bit more modern.

The walls definitely need painting and artwork, but that will have to wait

I do love the retro look, but we need to make it a bit homeyier (sp?)  It will get there.

They took the good carpet and put it in the guest room downstairs.  so that looks better and less at the landfill, right?

I have to work all this weekend so I have to leave Mr. ICU in charge.  

The 13year old helped me drag the couches up and down 3 flights of stairs, so he is retired at this point by his own request, but Bobby has plenty of energy to tinker about.

The next thing is picking out fabric for that chair I tore apart, and recovering pillows...

then...for all my super retro Rockabilly Gals, I'll be posting all my old dresses on Ebay in time for the weekender...

Gotta run

Gotta work.

Redesign the Living Room

I have shown this room multiple times but its time has come.  The carpet is coming so we are starting before and afters. This is the room as we are moving stuff out....It usually looks a bit nicer than this!  hahahaha  The room is a long L shaped room...the L part being the dining/bar area which you can see is Orange.  That part is fine.  Its the  Living room we are trying to figure out.

The couches are will be moved.  The rounded one will head to the basement until I can afford to recover it...the dog ate the corner off of it...But it is still a great couch with good composition so it is not leaving the house.  The other 60's straight couch will be come our primary couch until we can figure out what we need.  There will be a flat screen TV on the wall where the star clock is and then we have decided possibly to section the room into 2 seating areas.  Window and fireplace  I would like to paint but haven't decided on that yet.

Any links to any reasonable ideas would be great.  

thanks you guys!