When people walk into my house, the first thing they see is the arch. If they look to the left they see the wood stove and Brett's desk in front of the window. Then they see down the hall into the kitchen. Everyone comments that the house looks like a castle. I want to keep it that way, but also have a contemporary feel and efficient use of space.
Here I will post living room photos from before we moved in (If I can find any).
And here are some things I'm considering to improve matters... Photos are stuff I've found on CL and haven't bought yet. Starting from the northwest corner of the room...
- Need to find a new place for our computers. They collect junk. One could go in the kitchen and one in the laundry room. Or BOTH could go in the laundry room.
- Build a better aquarium stand to hold the 75 gallon and a new flat screen TV - build in storage for the games and/or movies if possible. Reclaimed wood with big details would be best.
- Move 30 gallon aquarium into another room. Laundry room?
- Get huge round swivel chair, big enough for two, to put by the banister overlooking the dining room. There's one at Spencer's but it's around $400. It's really perfect though. It can swivel to talk to people in any room. And it's low and off to the corner enough that it wouldn't obstruct much of a view.
- Put Iron lamp against low south wall, overlooking big brown recliner I loved at Mor (around $500)
- Put ornate end table to the right of that