House Projects - Almost Complete!

Today is a successful day! For about a month we've been working on some house projects and today we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our house has 4 levels, the lowest being the media room, third is family room, 2nd is kitchen, and 1st is bedrooms. So I got a wild hair and decided to change things up a bit. Being home all day each day really makes you long for an organized and well put together fun house. So I was looking to do 2 things. 1. Find some office space for me and all my stuff. 2. Get new family room furniture (ours was 8 years old but still in good shape so Jason from work was glad to purchase the sofa and couch for his new pad).

The media room is the basement (no windows) and was finished by the previous owners. Not a terrible job, but not the best either. It wasn't painted though. We would have gladly painted, but in order to paint, we needed to fix dry wall, sand, mudd, tape, etc. Not our cup of tea, luckily we know a guy Tom. Tom is a painter and good friend. He got started on the media room on Tuesday. So with 2 days of mudding, sanding, priming, etc. He said tomorrow the paint goes up! I'm so excited. We're doing a dark brown and lighter brown color on the walls, our furniture down there is dark brown leather couch & loveseat. We're accenting with the big print that is the wine label cover. Chad is really excited to get his "man" lounge finished up. We had another sofa down there but I moved it up to the family room, as to make room for my office space. So I'll put my new desk and etc down in a small space in Chad's media room. Where my stuff is out of reach of little fingers. Maybe I'll get some work done, or atleast more exercise going up and down the stairs.

The family room now had a goldish color sofa in it and I wanted an oversized chair and ottomon to compliment this sofa. It's a sleeper sofa and/or the guest bed. Finally after shopping and looking we found the perfect one. Today it was delivered. It goes very well with the sofa and is big enough for us and the girls and we can stretch out and get comfy. It is a print/paisley design but not too contemporary and not too floral. It has a lot of goldish and some hints of red/blue/green in it, which goes well because our walls in the family room are red. Not fire engine red, but dark red. We also had our tv mounted on the east wall, but decided to change things up and got a new tv and had our media guys come and mount it on the west wall. It really opened up the room alot. Underneath the tv, we found a dark wood all purpose cabinet. It's tall (about 48") and holds all my photo albums/scrapbooks, wine books, audio cds, and kids movies. We also found two nesting end tables. Dark wood and triangular in shape, the medium one to go by the couch and the small one to go by the oversized chair. Those were also delivered today, along with a big square brown leather ottomon w/ four drawers in it to go down in the media room to hold all the other movies.

So now, the fun begins. A little bit more rearranging and patience as the paint drys and we'll be able to put everything together again. We are really looking forward to having the house back in order. I'll post some pictures as we get closer to completion.