Want to pause for one moment to say that today would be my nephew's 22nd birthday. I miss him very much...think about him always! Last year I posted more about him - you can read it here or here or even here.
Now...on to today's business. Kelly, over at Kelly's Korner, brought back her "Show Us Your Life" home tours. I gotta tell you that while I love looking at everyone's posts, I'm not crazy about plastering my house on my blog, so my post is going to have a twist. Not so much a tour of the room itself as much as my favorite things in the room. The things that make it home. So here you go! Meet my living room!!
My house is very old, and the lady who lived in it right before me painstakingly applied embossed wallpaper to the ceiling in the living room and dining room. I know - sounds crazy! But check it out...I think it has a great classic tin ceiling look. Way more unique than tiles (which is what you'd find underneath).
Right now, my living room is painted a couple different shades of red, but that will be changing soon. I love the color, but it's not a very big room and the dark paint really makes it seem tiny. (I hadn't learned that bit of advice from HGTV until AFTER I painted the room...rookie mistake.)
My lil welcome sign. My sister, Lori, gave this to me for Christmas one year, and I just love it. She found it (I think this is right!) at Duckwalls...which was a very fun store in her town...pre-tornado. It didn't rebuild after the tornado, so my Duckwalls collection is now very limited. Moment of silence...
Ahhhh I love this little guy. I had been hunting for a fireplace for months, because I thought it would be the perfect ambiance for my home...and I couldn't find anything I liked in my price range. During Christmas break last year, I found this gem on clearance at Meijer. It was the only one left, so they held it and Dad came over with his van to haul it home for me. We were thrilled (especially Dad, since this was about to impact him directly) to find out it came pre-assembled!
I love it that it can be a corner unit OR a flat wall unit. It has a "false top" that pops up to make it a corner unit. It runs with heat or can run with the flame only. I can't wait to see how this looks with Christmas stockings this year!
I really don't have many DVDs...and it's true that most of them are Gaither Homecoming! (Primarily the ones that feature David...not that there's any correlation...) In the winter, when I'm stuck in the house all the time, I love to put in a DVD and sing at the top of my lungs. My apologies to the neighbors...
One thing you will find all over my house...picture frames! I'm all about making a home by displaying reminders of the people I love! This frame was a gift from Lori a couple of Christmases ago...she got it online at the Personalization Mall and I thought it was a great gift. We had this picture taken when we were all together for Cassie's graduation. Probably time for another one soon!
I have a strange attachment to the lighting of Christmas lights. When I was in college (remember this, Christina?) we had a dorm room lighted entirely by strands of Christmas lights. So calming! So I have this basket with pine cones and these little flowers. I got the flowers several years ago at a Homemaker's Idea party (come to think of it, the basket is from there, too!) and still love them. I have several sets, actually - a few I use year round and some are reserved for Christmas trees. Each flower has a clear plastic center, and you put a light bulb in it so the flower itself lights up. So pretty!
Another of my favorite pictures...Cassie giving her graduation speech behind the Presidential seal! Pretty cool!! And you can see there...a candle. In the winter I heat several rooms of my house with candles because I'm too cheap to turn up the heat. :) This candle is coffee scented. YES PLEASE!!
Please meet the wildly popular Fat Chair. Everyone loves the Fat Chair. Most of my friends actually ask to sit in it, rather than the love seat, when they come over. It reclines and is so blessed comfortable. The material actually feels like a blanket. One of the best purchases I ever made. As you can see, Braeya also loves the Fat Chair and can often be found perched right there where you see her. It's so handy that she coordinates with it....
One of my good, good friends from high school, Amber, drew this picture. IN HIGH SCHOOL. Isn't that amazing? (Amber was the one who traveled with me to Hershey last summer.) Anyway, Amber's been a brilliant artist ever since we were kids, and then she did this picture, which sealed her brilliance, I think! I believe a judge in Kokomo purchased the original, but she had a handful of prints made of it and I bought one of them. I much prefer to display the art of those I know in real life, and Amber is certainly an amazing talent!
And finally - the curtains. These are on their way out too, mostly because they've been up for about five years and have just seen better days. I have new curtains purchased to go with the forthcoming paint job. But these curtains were made from scratch! My former boss's wife came over and sewed them for me based on an idea from the Pottery Barn catalog! I paid less than five bucks for the whole thing - material, ribbon, and cat-enticing-fringe!
So there you have it! Bekah's living room! And it's definitely lived in! (I skipped taking pictures of the place where the carpet needs cleaned because I got adhesive on it doing a craft project...or the crumbs on the side table because I usually eat my dinner while watching TV...or the little place where I accidentally took the finish off another side table while removing nail polish...)
I really don't have many DVDs...and it's true that most of them are Gaither Homecoming! (Primarily the ones that feature David...not that there's any correlation...) In the winter, when I'm stuck in the house all the time, I love to put in a DVD and sing at the top of my lungs. My apologies to the neighbors...
One thing you will find all over my house...picture frames! I'm all about making a home by displaying reminders of the people I love! This frame was a gift from Lori a couple of Christmases ago...she got it online at the Personalization Mall and I thought it was a great gift. We had this picture taken when we were all together for Cassie's graduation. Probably time for another one soon!
I have a strange attachment to the lighting of Christmas lights. When I was in college (remember this, Christina?) we had a dorm room lighted entirely by strands of Christmas lights. So calming! So I have this basket with pine cones and these little flowers. I got the flowers several years ago at a Homemaker's Idea party (come to think of it, the basket is from there, too!) and still love them. I have several sets, actually - a few I use year round and some are reserved for Christmas trees. Each flower has a clear plastic center, and you put a light bulb in it so the flower itself lights up. So pretty!
Another of my favorite pictures...Cassie giving her graduation speech behind the Presidential seal! Pretty cool!! And you can see there...a candle. In the winter I heat several rooms of my house with candles because I'm too cheap to turn up the heat. :) This candle is coffee scented. YES PLEASE!!
Please meet the wildly popular Fat Chair. Everyone loves the Fat Chair. Most of my friends actually ask to sit in it, rather than the love seat, when they come over. It reclines and is so blessed comfortable. The material actually feels like a blanket. One of the best purchases I ever made. As you can see, Braeya also loves the Fat Chair and can often be found perched right there where you see her. It's so handy that she coordinates with it....
One of my good, good friends from high school, Amber, drew this picture. IN HIGH SCHOOL. Isn't that amazing? (Amber was the one who traveled with me to Hershey last summer.) Anyway, Amber's been a brilliant artist ever since we were kids, and then she did this picture, which sealed her brilliance, I think! I believe a judge in Kokomo purchased the original, but she had a handful of prints made of it and I bought one of them. I much prefer to display the art of those I know in real life, and Amber is certainly an amazing talent!
And finally - the curtains. These are on their way out too, mostly because they've been up for about five years and have just seen better days. I have new curtains purchased to go with the forthcoming paint job. But these curtains were made from scratch! My former boss's wife came over and sewed them for me based on an idea from the Pottery Barn catalog! I paid less than five bucks for the whole thing - material, ribbon, and cat-enticing-fringe!
So there you have it! Bekah's living room! And it's definitely lived in! (I skipped taking pictures of the place where the carpet needs cleaned because I got adhesive on it doing a craft project...or the crumbs on the side table because I usually eat my dinner while watching TV...or the little place where I accidentally took the finish off another side table while removing nail polish...)
2 comments:
An admirable living room! I like the red, but if it makes it look small, then do what you need to do. Besides, you seem to have a burning need to change things every once in a while, so this should be right up your alley anyway.
My living room belongs to my roommate, so it wouldn't tell much about me. And my room is too cluttered for me to be willing to post any pictures. I guess I won't be playing along with this game (though I do love to play games). Maybe the next quiz. Or list. Or something wordy like that...
LOL - I will see if I can find you a quiz so you can play along! :)
And what...me? Need to change something in my house? Say it isn't so...
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