Living Room Switcheroo

Unfortunately, the switcheroo does not involve a new sofa. I wish. Katie was right - the green chair (and the rest of the furniture) got moved around. But with our amazing monthly savings I'm thinking I could make a case for a new sofa AND a trip to Europe by the end of 2009. We'll see how we do with saving the rest of the year, my car's on the blink. Back to the Living Room, though.

I grew up rearranging furniture. My mom rearranges the living and family rooms numerous times a year, and on the few occasions 52 weekends a year I was grounded, I spent my time rearranging my bedroom furniture. I don't want to know how many gouges I scratched into the hardwood floors during my solitary confinement days, but I'm sure my parents happily traded a few gouges for the calls from Juvie they would have received had I not been redecorating.



Anyway, it's bothered me that I could only think of one layout for this room - the couch dividing the living room from the dining room with the big green chair flanking the sliding glass door. So, with Mr. B out of the house, I started flip-flopping like John Kerry in '04.


And I love the result. Mr. B is undecided, but it's a cozier set-up - we can even set our drinks down on the coffee table, now. It's very exciting.

And, while we don't have a new sofa, we do have a new chair. I emailed Sherry at This Young House before the New Year and asked about the slipper chair they have in their Den and Living Room. She came through and I ordered the chair within seconds. B spent about 4 hours putting it together one night so he's not a huge fan of it, but since I wasn't around for the construction I love it.