A Rearrange

One of my favorite things to do is rearrange. I am always trying to making a room, or a part of my house, flow better/work better for us. About a month or so ago, I shared our living room in our new house. I liked how it was set up. Then one morning, the wheels started turning…it started with the corner in the room. It had a coat rack in it. But I thought it would look good with a chair. A chair that could sort of operate as a place for people to put on shoes or throw their purses and coats on when they come visit. So, I rearranged. And lived with it for two days before I went at it again and this is what I ended up with.

I have yet to move the pictures over the couch because I wanted to make sure I liked this arrangement first. But, a week in, I still really like it and need to get on moving those pictures. I love how open the room feels and I love how cozy the fireplace looks with chairs on either side.

Eventually I would like to put a larger chair in the corner where the wood desk chair is. And also hang a thing or two on the wall there. Also, the bookshelf in the other corner will probably get switched out for a standing desk for Ian at some point. Oh, and I need to find a fireplace screen so we can actually have fires this winter…which I am really excited about. And if we are really talking down the road, I would eventually like to do something with the tv console area. But I have no clue what direction I want to go with that yet.

Now to keep working on organizing other things…like all upstairs. I decided to put Connor and Isla in a room together and move Callum into his own room. Now mine and Ian's room practically looks empty. And I still need to finish the swap of all the kids stuff. But, so far, this arrangement is working out quite well. So well, in fact, that I kind of wish I had done it a lot sooner.

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Our New Home {living room}

This is the living room of our new house. It is in the front of the house. You enter the front door and turn right to go into it. I am kind of in love with the curved entry way into it. It is a little larger and a completely different layout than the living room at our old house, so it took me rearranging furniture a few times before I was happy. 

When we bought the house, this room was painted a sort of olive green. Given that the ceiling was also painted due to the curves going from the wall to the ceiling (which I think are pretty cool), it was rather dungeon like in here. We decided to pick one color to paint the whole house and went with a neutral, light grey. We tried a few different samples before picking this color, which seemed the most just grey to me. 

The curtains came with the house. They are a nice neutral curtain, giving me time to decide what I want to do. I definitely want to keep curtains for the side windows, as I like opening them and letting the light pour in. I think I also want to keep curtains for the front window, as opposed to putting shutters there. But, I have yet to make a decision and yet to find any curtains calling my name. So, these will do for the time being. We also will be putting baseboards in here at some point in the (hopefully) near future. Most of the house just had quarter round, so we are working on putting baseboards throughout the house.

I feel like this room functions really well for us. There are a few toys under the big window for the kids to play with. I like that the kids now utilize all the seating in the room…they used to pretty much just use the couch at our old house. Isla, in particular, likes to go sit at the vintage desk by the fireplace and I love whenever I see her sitting in it. 

^^ You can see a sample of the old paint at the bottom of the wall…which will obviously be covered up once we get baseboards installed. 

^^ The vintage mail cart in the corner by the couch holds all our throw blankets. I love that I don't have to fold them and can just dump them in there. Even in the dead of summer, my kids still pull out all the blankets, so I love the ease of just throwing them in the cart when they are done. 

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