Progress on the House

We've now lived in this house for two months. With a vacation, the holidays, and Richard being busy with work, not much had been done around our poor little house to make it feel like a home. No pictures were hung and boxes were still sitting in storage rooms. I am happy to say that we have now made great progress. The basement is almost finished, Marshall's room is almost done, and the living room is starting to come together!

I will get pictures up of of the basement and Marshall's room soon, but here's the living room update.

Before

It was obviously very sparse and very blah.

When we moved into this house I told Richard that I finally wanted a living room that was cohesive. :) With a house and a paycheck I wanted to really invest some thought and money into a nice looking living room. Now, I have zero talent in this area of home design so that is why our living room sat like this for two months. But, thanks to wonderful friends, Anna and Eliza, things are really coming together!

After
This is still a work in progress, but there has definitely been great improvement!

Initially we had planned to sell this green couch. It sat in our garage for two months covered in a tarp. Every time I thought of selling it, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Richard and I don't love this couch and because we have the tan couch we opted to get rid of this one. But, Anna and Eliza suggested that we keep it and that we could tie the two different colored couches together by just using pillows. So, we took their suggestion and moved the couch back inside. It is very, very nice to have more seating in the living room.

That little chair in the corner is actually our landlord's. She let us keep whatever furniture we wanted and I liked the chair, so she left it for us. Now, I do not love the chair, and its colors don't really work for our living room, but for now we will keep it and I think I will eventually either get a slip cover for it or just cover it with a throw and a pillow.

The pictures on the wall is just the start of my photo collage. I stole this idea from my friend Jill, whose new house I am in love with.

Anna found this rug from Target and both Richard and I love it! It ties our living room together perfectly. The green is the exact green as our couch, and its yellow/gold/brown/tan colors coordinate everything else. Thank you Anna!

Still to come are new drapes for the window and the double doors and some pillows. Those pillows are also our landlords and I am not wild about any of them. These things will have to wait a bit though as I pretty much blew through my home budget buying the rug and picture frames.

Oh, and one last picture...

The BYU helmets have finally made their living room debut. Richard is being so good about letting me do whatever I want in the living room that I couldn't say no to the helmets. Besides, they are always great conversation starters when people come to our house for the first time. :)