How to Decorate a Living Room: two Years of Design Flops

Hey ya'll. As mentioned yesterday, today's the twenty-four hours that I embarrass myself. 

We're going to receive got a walk downwards retention lane together with witness my living room completely challenge my abilities to tastefully decorate a room. 10 dissimilar times.

It's genuinely 12, but we're rounding downwards to 10. Hold me tight, ya'll. This is gonna acquire awkward and embarrassing. REAL fast.

Before nosotros acquire started, a quick explanation of why I combat amongst this room.

1. Decorating is a process, together with i I wasn't rattling practiced at for quite a while.

2. This room is shaped similar a cheese wedge.

 3. We pass 90% of our fourth dimension inward this room, together with at the terminate of the day, it has to live comfortable. Therefore, I'm teetering on the ledge of but calling it a twenty-four hours together with installing wall to wall recliners.
Also known equally Jesse's life long dream.

 4. I've spent 90% of my fourth dimension inward the yesteryear 2 years trying to brand do amongst materials that but didn't work. Sometimes you lot tin position an entire underground of lipstick on a slice of thrift shop furniture, together with it nevertheless but looks similar thrift shop furniture. As fourth dimension has gone on, I've genuinely learned how to brand one-time slice of furniture hold off awesome (10 of my success stories constitute here), but it didn't genuinely start out that way, together with I definitely made a few miserable purchasing decisions early on. It happens.

So, let's start our story amongst where the living room is today, a house I'm pretty happy with.
It nevertheless could live improved almost 800 times over, but it's getting there.

So, that's the living room today. 
Now, let's rewind 2 years together with start amongst what this room looked similar when nosotros maiden off moved in.

This is twenty-four hours one, totally empty amongst scary woods cut down together with bland paint.

 I've committed hence many heinous decorating crimes over the yesteryear 2 years, that business office of me wishes I had but left this room empty together with rolled some on the flooring instead.

Here's when nosotros lastly moved our handmedown slice of furniture into the room. The couches nether those saggy brownish slipcovers are pink.
They are hot pink, together with they nevertheless totally alive inward our basement. 
And you lot intend I kid.

Eventually, nosotros lastly got some novel furniture. At almost $399 a pop, the couches were both relatively cheap (although it felt expensive to our piddling budget) together with a squeamish upgrade from hot pink.
This photograph also marks the fourth dimension when I maiden off discovered my beloved of epitome furniture. That dresser the giant TV sits on was the maiden off slice I e'er painted.
Obviously, I was dealing amongst some proportion issues.

It genuinely wasn't that bad inward the beginning. I but didn't receive got a lot to move with, equally afterwards nosotros bought our couches, my budget totally dried up. So, I speedily turned to buying mismatched slice of furniture together with trying to repurpose it into something that worked. What's funny is, I eventually sort figured out the correct means to do this (like inward the principal bedroom), but I definitely worked out the kinks of redoing slice of furniture inward this living room. 

This poor, miserable living room.

The side yesteryear side few versions of this room clearly grade a descent into decorating madness.

Since I was left without a java table, I decided to thrift one, together with because I desperately wanted an upholstered ottoman, I upholstered the java table. That didn't move out hence well. It was a practiced catch inward theory, but inward practice, non hence much.

 Don't worry, it totally gets worse earlier it gets better.

I went through several dissimilar 'reupholstering the java table' phases, all the piece trying out tons of dissimilar wall decorations. 

When Christmas came, the 'ottoman' got reupholstered again, together with hence I decided to adorn the wall amongst 800 tiny mirrors.

But, acquire create for it to REALLY acquire worse.

I know. It's hence bad. It's hence funny to me now, together with hence embarrasing.
But kinda inward a hilarious way. I receive got no catch what I was thinking.

And I must receive got realized it was a total flop, because I similar a shot abandoned that hold off together with turned the room into a night dungeon of dingy greens together with browns. 

Enter the accent wall.

There's hence much going on amongst this room, that I don't fifty-fifty know where to start.

I consider May 2011 kinda my decorating stone bottom. It stayed similar this for a piddling while, together with I moved on to other rooms. That ended upwards existence a swell thing, equally I got a adventure to spread my wings inward another rooms together with genuinely acquire ameliorate at decorating. So, I came dorsum to endeavour this room i time to a greater extent than correct earlier I started blogging inward December. It wasn't great, but it was getting better.

By the way, that's that same java table. 
It got un-upholstered together with stained.
That miserable piddling fella has had a difficult life.

Finally, (below) I got an actual upholstered ottoman and realized that the accent wall was but also dark. I painted it a brace shades lighter ,and replaced the TV console amongst a to a greater extent than appropriately sized unit. That genuinely helped. 
But, let's live honest. There's nevertheless a lot incorrect amongst this room.
You run into it. I run into it. Let's but hug together with non scream it.

And of course, I painted the accent wall similar iii dissimilar times. 
Poor Jesse.
And I nevertheless loathe it. One of these days, when I tin convince Jesse to climb the ladder again, I'm but going to pigment this entire infinite i color. I clearly bespeak to intend almost my pigment color for a looooong time. 
Seriously, miserable Jesse. He's such a exceptional man. This room could live fuschia for all he cares.

And finally... 

That brings us to today's room. It's nevertheless non perfect, but it feels hence much better. I nevertheless desire to pigment the walls all i color, rip upwards the carpeting together with install hardwood floors, together with i twenty-four hours I'd genuinely similar to acquire some dissimilar couches, equally they're but also large together with acquire inward impossible for me to modify the layout of the room.

Any layout ideas, guys? I'm totally over this whole 'pushed against the wall situation' together with would similar something different. But I receive got to figure out a means Jesse together with I tin both receive got a total couch. We similar leg room. Talk to me.

So, that's it. One awkward living room, a i thou 1000 dissimilar ways.
Thanks for letting me portion my flops amongst you.
I beloved ya for it.
'Til side yesteryear side time.
To run into what's happened inward this room since this post, click here together with here. It's a lot.
We've pretty much gutted this entire space. 

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