June 23, 2004
Okay, okay, one short entry
We're fixing the house up so we can enjoy it while we're still here (alive, that is). We heard too many stories about people fixing up their house to sell it, then wondering why they didn't do it earlier so they could have enjoyed it!
As you know, we recently got the house painted on the outside, as well as the main family and front living rooms inside.
After redecorating the family room and moving some furniture (paintings, tables, lamps, etc.) we are discovering that we don't have enough furniture for the whole house as we expand into rooms we've previously left to themselves.
The front living room, for example, was empty yesterday morning except for a makeshift book cabinet and a fresh coat of paint.
We discovered a cool little interactive tool for designing your room on the web to help you visualize things.
Now, we have a couple of new chairs to anchor the design effort and need to add tables, lighting, bookshelves, ottomans, rugs, paintings, pictures, mirrors, etc. to cozy the room up.
Big, black, leather chairs. We love them, but they are bold, and the room will have to be as well, methinks.
Here's a couple pix of the two chairs and an extra chair I couldn't say no to, but which probably won't fit in the front living room...
After shopping at 9 furniture stores over two weekends, we decided on these two chairs from SofaMart of all places... We still need to add an ottoman and, well, everything else.
Here's the Port chair that I got at the same time for $125, couldn't pass up the good deal and the credit card was already warmed up. It's a stiff, green cloth chair that's a bit funky and I, well, I just like it. It'll probably end up in the loft as it probably ain't none gonna fit in the cozy Parisian Library we're developing for the front living room.