After the
holidays it feels so good to clear rooms out of
seasonal decor and start fresh. I am sharing my Family Room Refresh with you today.
Our
family room is square shaped with a center fireplace, I love that part of it. I have switched the furniture around in this space several different ways. This time I took advantage of my husband being home for the holiday and we
moved the TV down from above the fireplace mantel.The electronics got hot when we used the fireplace and this was my "excuse" for the relocation of the TV. Now it sits on our
skinny foyer table I made last fall with the
large window as a back drop. You don't recognize the foyer table? I will show you what I did to it to make it look like a cabinet with doors in my next post.
NO, the doors don't really open.
It looks a lot different than the
foyer table but it was a sturdy piece to start with.
Decorating a mantel is one of my favorite places to make pretty in my home. Having the TV in the way was
bugging me. I covered the huge hole with a former
window headboard that I luckily held on to when we moved. I primed the glass window panes with Bin to stop the glare.
After the Christmas tree was taken away from the far corner, I needed to balance out the window sides. I love the
growth chart so I on the other side I brought in something else I adore.
The
white horse canvases that were formerly in
my bedroom. They looked a bit bland against my light
Carrington Beige walls so I took some wood from
Ben's old bed and framed them out in a ladder style. (another future post)
I use several different coffee tables because I get tired of them after a while. I switch them out when I want a change.
This one only cost me $10. My kids had their TV and XBox on it in the playroom so I traded them for the
old poultry cage.Every seat needs a place to put a drink so I consolidated some craft supplies to free up another crate.
Since this
old crate is working out so well as an end table.
I am happy with the re-arrangement here and it feels refreshed and cozy. I stayed with
black, white and natural for my color scheme along with some fresh greens. I never worry about my woods matching, it makes the space seem as if it were all "collected over time" and that is very "homey" to me.
Happy 2014...I am hoping for a good one this year!
See the follow up post
HERE
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