I can’t believe I don’t have a before picture. My goodness. SUCH a lame oversight. But alas, here we are, in the “after” stage. Not even talking talking about the basement. Talking about the living room. This is the “before.”
So. Its not done done, but if we wait for that, it’ll still be a long time before you see it. So I guess this isn’t even “after.” During. Progress. Whatever.
Aaaaanyway! As things are slowly starting to come together at the house, I’ve been itching to make the upstairs make better sense. Now, this isn’t a great picture, but we’re going with it. We had just moved the bulk of the toys downstairs so the place was a lot more open. We were just testing out the coffee table in there and trying to decide what looks best where. Since then, we’ve moved the little recliner downstairs, but otherwise, the same stuff lived upstairs. Its looked a little weird at times, with some areas being cluttered and some being too empty. So this morning, we tried something new and moved it around. And guys. Its SO much better!!!
Isn’t it pretty?? So we have the couch and recliner on the long wall, and the pink chair and love seat along the railing. We need another little white table between those ones next time we’re at IKEA. With the love seat moving, we could put the bookshelves back against the piano.
Now there is a nice stretch of wall for what we’ve been wanting it for! We’d like to have our guitars out, and we’ll ideally have this tall cabinet next to the water cooler eventually, to store the very few knick knacky things we have, and to break up the big long wall a bit.
Once ALL of that makes sense, we’ll be able to think about what to finally put up on the walls. Thats a whole other post 😉 But for the sake of this post, can you see how nice its starting to look??? Ack!
The question for YOU, my friends, is coffee table? Or nah? Its nice to have, and it all looks pretty cozy, but it takes up space unnecessarily, and isn’t especially practical, considering the toddler we possess. What do you guys think? Besides the obvious, that its awesome in every way. We already know this 😉
It looks really good! Personally I wouldn’t have a coffee table. With that much space having small tables between the couches and the chairs against the wall makes more sense to me as being more practical for putting drinks etc down on and with kids running around my guess is you’re not really using your coffee table to put your coffee down on 😄
I think you’re absolutely right. I really LIKE the table itself but I don’t think we need it there. It might end up downstairs in the tv area to hold snacks for hypothetical future movie nights. But upstairs, holding coffee, is just asking for trouble with Waverly! She’s already dumped two mugs out 🤦♀️ At least it was cooled off! Lol!
Can’t really envision it from the picture. It may be way too big but would the coffee table work between the loveseat and the pink chair?
I guess proportions are out of whack in that picture, sorry! The coffee table is way larger than it looks here :/ The little white table between the couch and brown chair is likely the size we’d put on the other side too. The coffee table wouldn’t fit between, unfortunately.