Starting Out Savvy » Our Home http://www.startingoutsavvy.com Life in Sensible Bites Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Living Room Before and After http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/02/living-room-before-and-after/ http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/02/living-room-before-and-after/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:33 +0000 Jamie Lee http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/?p=941 Before Peter and I moved in together, I read a lot of articles about difficulties that many couples face when trying to merge their decorating styles. So when I moved in I waited and waited until eventually I couldn’t stand it anymore. I needed our place to feel like a home. We decided to pick one room and focus our efforts on making it feel livable. We’ve had some detours along the way but I can finally say that it’s finished, or at least as finished as a room can ever be.

Last night while looking back on the before photo, Peter exclaimed, “How did you even live here?!” The funny thing is that he lived here for three years like this before I ever moved in, except without the TV or the coffee table. It was really bare.

Disaster!!

After Photo of Living Room

After photo of Living Room

(Sorry, I forgot to straighten out the cover on the chair before I took this photo.)

I would love to add a rug but, unfortunately, one of our dogs can’t control his bladder when he gets excited. We love him anyway.

You can read more about what we did here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.  *Deep Breath* On to the next room.

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