The 'Living' Room

We have made a few changes at our house lately. I have to pause for a second and just tell you all how exceptional my husband is! He is good at a great many things, and if he doesn't know how to do something, he educates himself and learns all he can until he feels confident or comfortable enough to take it on... and every time he is successful! Okay, now back to this regularly scheduled blog:

So this latest transition takes place in our upstairs living room. We got an amazing deal on a new area rug! It's a 10x8 and is so pretty... well, here, you be the judge. And it flows really nicely with the red couch and brown chair, and the sort of vintage feel we have going in there, with the trunks and the old school radios and family pictures.

The next upgrade to that room, requires a bit of explanation. When we first looked at this house before we bought it, we loved how the previous owners had the living room set up with no television. Now, I have since come to the conclusion that they had removed it for showing purposes. So we've lived here for going on two years with no tv up in that room. I loved it. I did my Bible studies and read in there and when we had guests, we would sit and chat, but otherwise, that room saw very little action. We decided to make it fully functional for our whole family. So we added this:We put his television up over the fire place. Then Hankie spent the better part of a day up in the attic running wires, putting in outlets, and unintentionally putting an attic access (oops!) in the dining room... seriously, Hank's foot rolled off a beam in the attic and that led to me standing in the dining room staring at his feet dangling through the ceiling. No pictures of that, though, right, baby? Wink!

Anyway, now, because of the newness of it, that room is the coolest hang-out. The boys want to have picnics in there (No way, hosea! Not on the new rug!), watch cartoons, sit and play DS, play board games, and entertain their sister by throwing her dolls around. I will post some pics later today!