Stay tuned! Tomorrow (Thursday) is the big reveal re: the living room. The Team is coming at 12:30. I’m not sure if they’re just showing us one plan, or several different ones. I should have asked. Ack! Wish me luck.
If you’re curious, here is a scan of the photo (taken by Tory Zimmerman) that appeared in last Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen. I look SO serious, don’t I? Egads. I am *much* more fun than what is depicted in than photo. Really.
I love that pleading, desperate headline too. Until now I hadn’t realized it came from our entry. I meant to post it earlier. Here it is:
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Our living room is truly a living room, it’s where our family of four spends a lot of our indoor time. We watch television, we read, and we play here. The room needs an awful lot of help and we honestly don’t know where to begin.
The layout of our downstairs is a little strange. Perhaps it’s a standard for this type of domicile, a 1 1/2 story home built in 1943. The living room is separated from the rest of the house and is only accessible from a doorway coming from the front hall. The room is shaped like a Kleenex box, long and narrow, with one window on each end.
The furniture can really only be positioned in one way, or can it? This is where I’m stuck. A non-functional fireplace is the focus of the room, and it shouldn’t be. The moss green couch, which we refer to as “the sinkhole” (and that’s putting it kindly) is our main seating area. This is not a place we can entertain.
The colour of the carpet and walls easily falls into the family of colours that are often classified as “old lady, ” a dusty pink that gets dustier every passing season. I would love to tear out the carpet (there is hardwood hiding underneath!) and introduce a new colour scheme throughout.
Anything. It needs character.
Half the room is filled with books. As a self-professed bibliophile I can’t give them up, yet they are housed in a sad and cluttered assortment of bookcases. The other half of the room is filled with toys. At times we feel like we are being buried alive in our children’s playthings. Help!
Most importantly, we don’t feel this room reflects our personality at all. We needed a living room facelift on the day we moved in here, about seven years ago. Now that the children are past their toddler years we think it
would be a great time to make a change in our lives.
