Yup, more projects, with fantastic results
January 19th, 2010Kim and I had been wanting new furniture for our home for years. Pretty much since we actually paid money for a couch/chair combo that was headed to the dump. Yeah, in hind site, we could have simply let it go. I spent a good deal of time, and a lot of Bissell steam cleaner fluid trying to take the dirt, smoke and general stink out of those original pieces. Bleah.
As I was saying, we have wanted new furniture for a while. Mom and dad don’t seem to be to anxious to downgrade their home anytime soon, so our claim to their furniture in the basement would be postponed for many, many years. We finally decided to do it. We have had our eye on a nice sectional with recliners in 4 of the 7 seating positions. The biggest hurdle was that it would not fit in the area that we had dedicated to our family room with the current lay-out. At some point we finally said, let’s do it. We’ll re-arrange the room, and it should fit with barely some inches to spare.
So as we cleared out one side of our family room, throwing most of the stuff to the other side of the room, we proceeded with the cleaning of carpets and walls etc. When the rumor got around the family that we were finally getting new furniture there, the ideas and suggestions, and labor offers came pouring in. The loudest call was to “put color in the room!”. You see, neither Kim nor I profess to be anything close to interior designers, hence the reason that we have white on all of our walls. We’re boring, and not afraid to admit it.
So with the help of my sister Jolene my sister, Kim and one of our neighbors were off and running on Sunday night, say about 5pm or so to get paint. We had a very small window of time. We had a dental and doctor appointment for Ryan first thing on Monday, sandwiched with another appointment for Kim between them. Followed immediately by the expected delivery of the furniture. So, we were up late painting with the much appreciated help of one of our neighbor’s sons, my sister, mom, Kim and I. We had other people over just purely to entertain Ryan and keep him out of the way
Long story short, room looks great! Furniture is wonderful, and long, long overdue. Now all that remains is to get the many piles of junk that we had to move out of the one room, cleaned up, so that we can actually walk in the other half.
Maybe I’ll think on that after I finish taking a nap… in the new furniture.