Current Living Room

In an effort to remember how far I have come (hopefully), I will be documenting some of our apartment and design decisions I have made. Though our apartment has made a LOT of progress since I moved in, there are still quite a few things I'd like to work on and improve upon.

Here is our living room!

So far, this is my favourite area. I am in love with the natural light, my fiddle leaf fig, and my gallery wall. At first I tried to avoid this set up. I really didn't want anything in front of the window. But the room felt SO closed off previously. The back of the couch was the first thing you saw as you entered our apartment, and you had to walk around it to "enter" the room. After moving everything around, the flow has greatly improved and we still get lots of light.

I painted most of the art on the walls in order to save money. Someday I want to replace them with true prints.

This was one of the first projects we did in our apartment as a married couple!

Looking at this photo, I am a little disappointed. There is definitely work to be done here. Mostly, hacking the ikea pieces. (Also, ignore the cords. We have some computers hooked up to the tv right now). I am not hopelessly in love with this couch, but we managed to snag it (pretty much brand new) for 60 dollars. Retail price was 600! We are very pleased to have a couch that allows us to lay down.

You can see the edge of this window in the photo before this. We love our little plants!

After all of the hype with bar carts, I really wanted an area in our house with one. We don't drink often (as you can probably tell by our choices of alcohol), but I felt it was a fun thing to have so I turned an old shelf into a tray. 

Things I would like to improve:

• Cover the Ikea media center with dark stained wood.
• PAINT! As newlyweds, painting in an apartment we know we won't be in very long seemed a waste of money and time, but there are rooms that bother me. 
• Spray paint the curtain rod?
• Replace some of the plastic frames with glass ones.
• Get a new rug (this probably won't be possible, but a girl can dream.)
• DIY a more mid-century looking coffee table. 
• Figure out how to make the lamp work with the rest of the room.
• Strip and stain the vintage side table. 
• Re-cover the brown pillows with black and white fabric.
• Get a nice throw blanket.
• Put a plant on top of the bookcase in the corner.
• Fill that empty container with something. Straws? lemons? 
• Get a real tray for the bar items.