The Living Room!

We're calling the living room DONE! It feels so good to check off this one.

Here's a peek into the room from the perspective of coming into the front door.

Here's a similar angle shot from before:

Other then just the furniture swaps, we removed the curtains to be able to see the view of the backyard, the awful awful textured wallpaper and painted the room Benjamin Moore's greyhound. Ami actually painted the whole room while I was in Miami for 29 hours, and I came home (on my birthday) greeted by a newly painted space. It really was a shock! And awesome!

This space is what we call the "piano nook". The previous owners had a big grand piano over there, and even though it's gone, it's memory lives on. Also, this picture was taken before I painted the dining room side of the room in the same color, so pretend the quarter inch of dining room wall to the right is greyhound too.

The mirror was from my mom's house right in the entry way and the chairs are our old patio seats from the DC condo. It all works in this corner with the dark wood bookshelves.

Here's the Piano nook before:

And a shot from the sliding doors facing "in":

 And a shot from the dining room:

This is another before, taken from the piano nook. As you can see the set up of the furniture is totally different. We wanted to keep as much flow as possible from the dining room to living room AND not block the view of the beautiful backyard or cut off access to the fireplace. It's trickier than you might think! 

                       

My dad and Nachama bought us the living room pieces as a housewarming present. So in this room at least, no craigslist, no thrift stores, just real "grown up" furniture. The big round cushy ottoman is on wheels which is great for company, and for boys that like to go for rides on it. And the table in the corner on the right, that's the table that Ami brought home for me from Israel on the trip he went on right before we got engaged. He had it planted into my apartment with the ring box open sitting on it. The table will forever be known as "the engagement table". It's a beautiful piece that you can't really see the detail in, but come visit, and you'll get a closer look. 

PS. More details on updates to the entry hall and dining room to come! Oh, and we're working on a mini-update on the hall bathroom also.