Living Room Changes

 I really love the way our living room is turning out. Here are a few things we've added lately...

A snake plant in a pretty new pot from The Natural Gardener

A cool metal "h" that my future cousin found on the side of the road (??) that I painted bright shiny red!

The most exciting thing we've done in here recently is add a GIANT decal to our GIANT mirror that's right smack-dab in the middle of the wall (which makes it very hard to decide where the TV should go, by the way).

Before: No decal, just the most humongous mirror anyone's ever seen.

Half up... And it stayed this way for a good three weeks because we were so reluctant to do the other half.

But finally... it's done!

The decal was delivered in two pieces, one for the city-scape and one for the tree-scape. This is not a re-positionable decal, so we basically had one shot to get it right. The first (top) half was a disaster. It started going on wonky really fast and before we could do anything it was stuck and there was really nothing we could do about it except smooth out as much as possible and cry over some really bad wrinkles. Nick was so upset that he wanted to repurchase the darn thing and start all over!! We got it on sale the first time, but I was definitely not game for spending another $50 only to have the same thing happen again and also have to deal with removing the first bit we put down. Mr. Perfectionist had to just deal with it.

Then we waited until we could work up the motivation to do the other half. We knew the top half was all kinds of crooked in the middle so there was no way the bottom half was going to line up perfectly, so we cut that sucker into three pieces and put them each up individually, which really helped save our sanity this time. We ended up with two extra seams this way, but the benefit was not wanting to strangle each other the whole time. Nobody got strangled and we got all the trees up pretty smoothly, so everything turned out OK in the end. Nick just has to stand really far back when he looks at it so he doesn't get angry every time. :P

Nick finally got the crown molding removed from the beam in the middle of the living room (yes, you read that right, crown molding on a solid wood beam) so my next project will be painting it brown so we can pretend it's pretty stained wood instead of a potentially gorgeous beam that someone painted BEIGE of all things.