I get Pottery Barn’s catalog. I order one thing per year so I’ll stay on the mailing list. Confession…I order more than one thing but not too much more. So many good ideas!!
I’m trying not to be such a CONSUMER… shopping just for the hunt. However, I do like swapping stuff around and interchanging things, and sometimes I end up buying something. But I’ve been really careful spending money. Since I haven’t been working, I haven’t been getting paid. You get the picture! Recently I moved things around in my living room, and I realized I needed something in a blank spot on the wall. The CONSUMER started coming out, and oh well.
I tried to do an arrangement with this giant B pictured below that is actually cardboard. I’d hauled it from Georgia several months ago and hid it. Mike doesn’t care when I buy things but it was a cardboard B. I had a vision for it (Anthropologie) and I didn’t want to try to communicate what I saw in my head into what I wanted him to see in his head. It doesn’t work. We are wired differently.
I spray painted the B a metallic color thinking that you might not realize I got it for $9 at Joanne’s Fabrics. Did I fool you?
Looked pretty bad. The B went into the closet for a few days. I then came up with a brillient idea to put it on top of the entertainment center with a plant. This left a big blank wall spot, and while I wanted the entertainment center in the room, (Just a little over a week ago, I had made a big deal of it and made Mike help me carry the thing from the garage to the house) it looked like a big tall chimney. It’s really a dilemna in this room. It’s a cathedral ceiling so anything short looks squatty but the entertainment center is tall and skinny by itself. Like a lonely soldier.
I could not figure out what to do, and that’s where the Pottery Barn catalog arrived and gave me the idea to use a floating wall shelf. I could place pictures on the shelf and use it to “step down” to the couch so the entertainment center doesn’t stand out like an ugly tree. I didn’t want to pay Pottery Barn prices compounded by the fact that we have no Pottery Barn around here, so I went to Hobby Lobby and found one for $44. Of course, I had the 40% coupon, so it wasn’t too bad..less than $30.
Here’s what it looks like…I just ran and put these pictures on it. Not sure if they are staying.
I like it!
Here’s what it looks like from a few steps back…the couch looks awkward in this picture…I’ll clean the room and get better pictures this weekend. And draft…another tall skinny picture.
Don’t look at the coffee table which is stacked full of magazines and stuff. It’s just in your head. It doesn’t really look that way…I have a vision…
Hey! What time tomoro??? Oh – and – I’m not sure about the couch…..looks like it’s sticking out into the doorway??? We’ll talk tomoro when we meet for lunch at ??? time…
Noon…OG on Eastman Road?
I’ll be there!
Have you thought about taking the top piece off the bookcase thingy? It is slightly taller than the lower section and you could either stair-step the both of them along the way or eliminate one altogether. Maybe put a lamp on top of one? Just a thought.
Yes, I had it off at one point. Short and squatty. I actually had the other entertainment center in there for a bit but it was too short too. I still think Mike will make something PERFECT for that room when I find it, but I haven’t found the inspiration piece yet. Be sure and look at the blog on Saturday when I take pictures of the entire room with some tweaking. I hope it looks better. How’s the dining room going? I want a reveal!!
I could always let you BORROW my fabulous hand-carved book case that was in the parlour…but I will want it back someday. Dining room project has stalled since the mr. came home. We (He) can’t focus on one thing at a time and we’ve run around “starting” lots of projects this weekend. Likely it’ll be when he is out of town next week that I finish it. Oh well…
Funny….Oh yes…I’ll just run up there an stick those in the Prius and head back home!! I’ve got some new pictures of the LR that will be up tonight. I’m starting to like the way it looks! I spoke with Aaron yesterday and he said it looked really good. Yes, they are interrupters. 🙂
We didn’t touch any of my “honey-do” lists today…but we did go see Timothy Green (according to G..”best movie EVER”), Aaron shredded some of the landscaping down to a palpable height, and we watched our newest purchase “the hunger games” as a family…all in all…a good day 🙂 Glad you are enjoying the new layout/decor of your family room….I am still a fan of the floating sofa 🙂
I am so glad that you went to the movie first. We will definitely go this weekend. I know if G. loved it, I will too. We are both fans of happy endings!!!