Show and Tell

Kelly over at Kelly's Korner is hosting another "Show Us Where You Live Friday". It's so fun! I've never participated but I loooooove seeing what other people have done with their space and stealing their ideas.

Today, it's all about living rooms. If you're old school like me, you may think of the "living room" as the place where most people keep a couple couches and cute little tables, set it up like a conversation area and then once in a blue moon, someone may actually use it. The "family room", to me, is where everyone gets together and where the most important detail, the television, lives. I was so excited the day my parents knocked down the wall between those two rooms and got rid of the useless and made the useful a muchmuchmuch bigger room. It just made sense.

When the hubs and I went house shopping, I was completely turned off by houses that had a "living room". I would try to think of other waysI could possibly use the room because I wasn't about to be buying furniture to fill the s-p-a-c-e. Thankfully, the house we chose has a large family room and none of the other.

So, all of that to say... I'm going to show my family room, not a living room. And I'm sure a lot of people out there call what I'm going to show you, the living room. Which is just fine. Just clarifying here.

ONTO THE SHOW!

If you've been following us, you saw the pictures after my mother-in-law and I spent days painting the family room back in this post. (There's more pictures of the yet to be finished family room there also, FYI, we're still moving into this house...) If not, here's one to bring you up to date.

The wall is still empty. Which is eating me up on the inside. I haven't made it around to painting the blank canvases yet but I did seriously consider getting this painting on Monday when my mom offered to buy it as a house warming gift ->

I love the colors and the idea of incorporating horse racing into our new Old Kentucky Home, but I just wasn't convinced. I'll have to hash it over a bit more.

Just as I am still thinking about getting these super large and extremely comfy pillows for the sectional. Can you spy with your little eye the pillow model, my mother, peeking through the two?

My MIL also found these candle holders at a yard-sale for $4! I painted them and still want to do a bit more in the faux finish department, but the structure is awesome!

I FINALLY found the perfect round mirror for above the mantel... just need my husband to get here and perform his husbandly duties, which includes hanging all wall decor =) {You'll see the mirror leaning against the fireplace on the floor, perhaps you can imagine it in it's correct place.}

A couple pics of the entryway.... this is the front door to the house. You walk into the family room from here.

The new shelves are painted and up as well! Now if I could figure out just what looked best on them AND the mantle. Details, details...

Our work in progress... hope you enjoyed!