NEW (or at least new to us...) FURNITURE

So at LONG last our living room is starting to look a little less like the schizophrenic mess that it was (and believe me when I tell you it was as bad as you can imagine). When we moved in, we had an unfortunate combination of furniture living-room wise. Mine was too-small and uncomfortable. Eric's was not my taste.

So once the house was finished, we moved in and lived in the space. We tried a bunch of different configurations with my too-small but too-bulky gold loveseats which have since gone on to be spectacular in my sister's house in Baltimore (thank God because you hate to throw away furniture).

Once the furniture from this house went up to Baltimore, we were left with basically no seating. Oh, I also sent up the round marble coffee table too- which looks GREAT there as well.
So by Christmastime, we were living with the world's most uncomfortable pink (although it had to have started life out as red) silk Victorian sofa. It was very low to the ground. We put it under the Marty Brief art piece. Then we found a HUGE coffee table on Craig's List- a family with a baby who is baby Vake's age was getting rid of it because of the corners (ahem!).

SO. We lived with this configuration for awhile with the idea that we were going to get a new sofa.
(just so you have a visual- I unfortunately did not take a before!)

And about the time of the house tour, our good friend Katie decided to move her khaki big sofa along and asked if we'd like to borrow it! Hurray! I had something slightly different in mind (mostly no skirt) but you cannot argue with free.99. We said thank you thank you and Eric went to pick it up with Big Red aka Hector.

Behold the transformation.

So we decided to spend the couch money in a different way- recovering the chairs that I had bought at estate sales and auctions. This one, below, is an incredibly comfortable huge channel back chair for Eric- he sits in it and works all the time... (and please make sure you admire the pink sofa)...

There it is, transformed with dark brown velvet- don't know what's going on with the pillow in this shot...

And the real stars of the show- the gold velvet pair of chairs- great, funny shape- UGLY fabric. Recovered in blue linen now and SO pretty.

Better after, right?

There are going to be some more small changes implemented in weeks to come. I will keep you posted.