Monday's House Update: The Family Room

Lo and behold...finally a house update!

OK, so the last time I gave you all an update on the house (really the flooring) was two months ago (just scroll down two posts and you'll see it). It was about the flooring being almost done. Well, we finished the flooring on the same day I posted that update. So it's been done for 2 months and I'm just now letting you know. Ha! I've been busy.

Anyways, so with the flooring done we finally started to put furniture back into the correct rooms and started doing a bit of decorating. I have so many plans and ideas for each room...but little money to make them happen. So we are taking each idea I have and making it happen slowly (as money allows). 

I hope to give you all an update on each room of the house on each Monday (yea...let's see if that really happens. Ha! I promise I'll try). So lets start with the family room!

Here are two before photos showing what the room looked like before we purchased the house:

Drum roll please....now here are pictures of the room as it looks today (I still have more decorating to do, as you will see)...

The furniture is from our last house. The curtains and pillows are all new. I'm still looking for a large rug (8X10 at least) for the center of the room. Apparently I'm really picky cause I've been looking for months and can't find the one I want.

I still need to put photos in the picture frames put I'm waiting until I have all the pictures frames hanging throughout the house before I determine which photos I want in each frame (again...I'm picky).

I need to find a painting for above the couch, although I may paint one myself if I don't find what I'm looking for. Which will be hard since I don't know what I'm looking for...

We want to get a big flat-screen TV to hang above the fireplace (hence all the power and stereo plugs Tommy installed above the fireplace). Not sure when we're going to get one though. We'll have to win the lottery first. And I don't see that happening since we don't play the lottery.

And of course I still need to hang something I haven't decided on each side of the fireplace as well as decorate the coffee and side table. However with two toddlers, I think I'll leave the coffee and side tables empty until they get past the stage of breaking stuff.

*editor's note: there usually isn't even pillows on the couch and chairs. The boys keep throwing them onto the floor and I'm tired of Titus laying on them. And toys cover the floor. The above photos were totally staged.

So in conclusion, I still have lots to do to this room. It's a good start though. I'm just thrilled the floors are done and the boys can play in the room.

Next Monday I'll give an update on the dinning room. But I hope to blog a couple more times before then (on other topics of course). Have a great day!