Out With the Old…
In true back-to-school frenzy, and as a sort of consolation prize for not moving to the city, Tim and I have decided to spend the money we would have spent breaking our lease and moving to buy new furniture and cleanse some stuff. Hopefully, since a lot of this stuff is smaller than the stuff we have, this will get us city-ready for when we move in June, but either way, we’ve had this furniture from our parents for a year now, and it’s about time we did some grown-up furniture shopping. 🙂 Do y’all want to know what we’re going to do? Of course you do. Here are the before pictures, with a little description of what it will look like after. Don’t worry, I’ll post after pictures on Tuesday, when this is all done.
Let’s start with the guest room/office, which will soon be an office/library. We’re going to get rid of that bed, keep the desks about where they are, and put a futon where the bed is now. We’re also going to move all of the books and bookshelves into this room. This will make the room much more functional for us, and will free up a lot of space. I mean, sure, it’s nice to have an extra bed for people to stay if they need to, but in one year, we’ve had two people take advantage of that, and for that, a futon will be just as good. Plus, how much will I love working at my desk surrounded by all of my books? I’ll tell you: A LOT. 🙂
Next, the living room. This couch and armchairs set have served me well, but we are going to get rid of them in favor of a dark brown, leather sofa and armchair. There also used to be a coffee table here that we gave back to Tim’s parents. It will free up the room a bunch, and give us a lot of room to play with Penny. So, the books will be moved into the guest room, the sofa will go where the sofa is now, and our new awesome reclining armchair will go where the one on the right is, by the window. This will also leave the eating area more open, which is good because it’s a little crunched, as you will see.
Here are two more bookshelves that will be moved to the office. To give you an idea, that chair leg you see on the left side of the picture is the chair on the right side of the picture above. It will be nice to have this wall space. Also, that’s Penny’s crate in the bottom right of this picture. Yea, time to move some stuff out.
Here’s the eating area (and bar and china cabinet and armchair that will soon be gone). We’re getting a new, darker (to match the other furniture), smaller square table that seats four and has leaves that fold out to seat six. What an awesome space-saver! We’ll also have four matching dark chairs and two foldable ones that we can bust out if we do have six people over for dinner. If we have more than six people… well, we’ll be eating on the floor, but we would have done that anyway because, as you can see, this table is huge and still only seats five.
On top of all that, we’re getting four foldable bar stools with backs for seating comfort and to replace the wicker ones we have now (you can sort of see a corner of one on the picture above). We’ll have two out, and two are foldable, so we can bust them out when entertaining. Hey – maybe that’s where people will eat if we have more than six.
Between this redecorating and all of the cooking I’ve been doing, does anyone want to come over for dinner? 🙂