Living/Dining Room

My parents were visiting this weekend and my mother agreed to help me organize my home. I had been so busy with school that I had no time or energy to make our place comfortable. Mom and I only focused on the living room... and we didn't do too much, but it looks and feels much better than before she came. It used to be a wide open space, but we have now sectioned it off into "living room" and "dining room" which has been great! I don't know where my "before" pictures are... just imagine nothing but the yellow couch. All of the pictures are blurry as my camera was dying and I was trying to take some quick snap shots for this.

This is the living room. Please note that one wall is brick and the other is stone. Very interesting indeed. We got the chairs and the table from the Kelowna Gospel Mission Thrift store. We were quite excited about that. I did not put up the purple curtains, in case anyone was wondering.

This picture is taken from the yellow couch above. Our TV (which is used for ancient nintendo) is tucked in the corner because I think it is an eye-sore. 

Next we have the "dining room" half of the room. We do not have our table in our kitchen because, as I mentioned earlier, our kitchen has no windows and a door which does not accommodate company or a pleasant meal together. Note the yellow couch in the corner to give you a frame of reference. Those thingys on the wall were a DIY project. I'll take a better picture of them in a bit.

Here we have the door to the room and two Norman Rockwell prints I picked up at the thrift store. I am hoping to eventually find a long table or a low dresser thing to stick under these prints so our phone will have something pretty to sit on. And I can put table linens etc in there. We'll see how that goes.

We used to have this rug in our bedroom. It is so misshapen, but I like that it gives definition to this little nook. We are still deciding what we want to do with this. 

It is amazing what these little changes can do to the place. I feel more relaxed and more at home since making these changes. It is wonderful!!! It may have something to do with being finished my classes, but I enjoyed making the space our own. It is beginning to feel like home.