It's Love

It's been nearly a year, but I've finally gotten my office corner and the whole of the family room nearly perfect. LOVE, people. I'm still trying to decide what color to paint the walls, but...it's clearly not a priority. And if you lean decoratingly, please don't point out the flaws. That will just make me weepy...

This print:

(from here) is one of my favorite things in the room. I saw it first right after we moved here and I never forgot it. I finally sucked it up a few months ago and ordered it (don't buy it and if you still want it 2.5 years later...). The first one sent was horribly bent and he happily sent another, quickly. I found the frame and really wanted it to be a focal point in the room. And I could not be more pleased. Even if I do wish I had gotten it much, much sooner.

The print sits on our family bookcase.


It's the case that holds all the books we read, or will read, as a family. It also has workbooks for Sammy and the basket for the remotes and all our travel books. Add our 1-2-3 baskets and a stuffed robot and you have a pretty cute little spot.

I have been needing a new office chair for awhile. As much as I loved my little red number, it killed sitting in it for any length of time. So, when the back injury of ridiculousness happened and coincided with an IKEA trip, well...this happened:

Isn't it pretty? I'm a little, tiny bit in love with it. I kinda want to make out with it on a daily basis, it's so dang pretty. Oh, I mean...


I also think that it finishes off my office perfectly.



I am in love with mismatched, crowded wall above full of all things I love. Isaac bought me the orange typewriter print and I think the I (heart) Oregon print is just perfect.



On the other side of the room is the family room part. First up, the tv corner.


And then swinging around to the couch.

I will not lie. I am fairly certain that I will never find another couch I love as much as this one. Just. Will. Not. We have loved this couch for years and we both know that we need to reupholster it in the worst of ways, but...I don't wanna. I love my big eggplant velvet couch. We had these square mirrors from IKEA above the couch, but I never loved how they looked. So I found some prints and mounted them over the mirror part and hung them back up. Well, all but four of them. And I love how they turned out.


Directly across from my desk (and with just the perfect amount for the couch), is a nook that is Sammy's art corner (with added bonus kitchen!). I will completely admit that I had a vision of this corner since the moment we first saw the house. And it's just perfect. And I can already see in my mind how the art corner will someday be a homework corner...




Finishing off the room, on the other side of the art nook, is the sewing table. Which, even if I'm not a great (or even good) seamstress, is nice to have out and available for those quick rice bags. Or pillow cases. Or repairs. Or blankets. (yup...I think that encompasses everything I can sew!) I was also able to use the extra four IKEA mirrors here, which was nice. I like them there much more than my space needle print, which goes MUCH better over my desk...


Slowly, but surely, I'm getting everything perfect. Next summer, I fear, will be the summer of paint. I have NO idea what color my orange / red / purple family room will be (I'm thinking brown of some shade...or a blueish gray), but I'm happy that I love it so much without the color. The same can't be said about all of the rooms in my house...


(sondre lerche, let love open the door)