Sep. 16, 2009 - A Tour Of Our Home

Part 3: The Living Room

Our living room is a very large open area. Its length goes from the front of our house to the back. We have made 2 different areas in it by using our sofa as a room divider. This is a view of our conversation area from the kitchen. The sofa is on the media side of the room.

DH's preferred spot to sit is on the sofa. He is on his feet all day long at work. He likes to come home and put his feet up. DH works in a furniture factory. He reupholstered the sofa for us on a discontinued frame.The trunk beside the sofa was made by my daddy as another Christmas present. Here is a closer view.

The next picture is a view of our front door. You can see part of our hugh picture window. The white chair was once DH's granmother's. The green chair belonged to my great-granddaddy. DH reupholstered both of those as well. The side table was given to us by DH's parents.

The next picture is a view of my desk and our bookshelf. You get another look at the green chair and our picture window, too. I bought the desk from Walmart using the money I got for Christmas from my in-laws. DH is upholstering a desk chair for me. When he gets it finished, I will share a picture of the finished product. The bookshelf was built by daddy for a remodeling job he was doing. The client called him back a few months later to remodel again. He tore all he had built out. He brought all of it home with him. When we moved in he said we could pick out what we wanted.

The next picture is the view from my desk. As you can see, I can still see the tv and I have plenty of room to spread out my scrapbook materials when I scrapbook. The ottoman behind the sofa is one of two DH upholstered. The ottomans are the companies to his and hers chairs DH upholstered as well. I will show those toyou in a minute.

Here are the 2 chairs I was talking about early. They are positioned in front of our bar. I hope eventually to build bookshelves underneath the bar. The chair on the left DH built to fit his body frame. The one on the right he built for me. It has more padding in the back so I sit up more allowing my feet to touch the floor. For you see I am only 5 foot 1 inch tall. My chair is where I put my feet up and rest. The little table in between the chairs was built by, you guessed it, my daddy. You can see the sliding glass doors to the left that lead out on to our deck.

Opposite our chairs is our entertainment system. We have had it for along time. I believe we bought it at Lowes Hardware. It houses all of our tv viewing equipment; tv, vcr, dvr player, converter boxes (we don't have cable or satellite), dvds, etc.  We postioned it here so I could view tv while cooking or baking, if I so desired. To the right is DD's telescope, with all of our pillows in front of it. You can see the second ottoman. Here is this view.

If you look closely, you will see one thing is missing from this room. Any guesses?..... There is nothing on my walls. I don't know what to hang on them. Family pictures, landscapes, mirrors,I just don't know. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. We don't want to put any holes in the wall until we decide what we want on them.

So that completes the living room tour. Stay tuned for  Part 4: The Master Bed and Bath.