Living Room-The Plan

We have our hands in a couple projects right now, manly the garage but I'm also trying to figure out the living room. Remember a while back when I said I wasn't in love with the living room rug? Well, I'm not. I decided that I wanted to throw a huge cow hide in here [it'll have to be a real one this time because the DIY ones are too small for the space]. Once I decided on the rug it seemed like other things needed to change too to give the living room the feel that upstairs living room and guest room have, that darker more rustic vibe. Basically, I'd like to add a leather chair, build a new fireplace and plank it to the ceiling and move the bookcase to another wall, not too much. To get a visual I changed up my mood board...

but even so, I couldn't really picture how exactly the space was going to come together so I hopped on my laptop last night and searched for a free room design program. I found one and created a quick design and took some pictures of it to show you [and me] what I'm envisioning....

I have to say, its so nice to see how it will actually look all together in the space. It definitely solidified for me that I want to make these changes, so now I'm on the lookout for a bargain cow hide and leather chair, then we'll have to rebuild the fireplace so hopefully in the next month or so we'll be back with a few minor changes a whole new look!

-Jackie