Living Room Changes

 The living room has come a long way. Immediately when we saw this house I knew I wanted a fireplace. We built two in our last house so I knew we were up for the challenge, but we got busy with other projects and it fell to the back burner. Here's how it looked at the start of the year. 

And my plan for the space...

Finally, before Thanksgiving I convinced Zack to help me bring the fireplace vision to life. initially I painted it the same color as the doors in the house but I do think down the road I'd like to plaster it or paint with roman clay for more texture. 

After the holidays I was ready to take the next steps and do my "built ins" next to the fireplace. There are several ways to do this, you can build them yourself, which I would have loved to do but we just don't have the time like we used to and what time we do have together we just don't feel like spending it working on projects SO we chose the prefab route. Our ceilings are tall though so I had to look around for shelving that was the right height and color. I found the ones I wanted, the Billy bookcases from Ikea in birch but they were out of stock. I set up an alert for when they came back in stock hoping it wouldn't take long and lo and behold, a week later they came in stock. Our Ikea is over an hour away and but the shipping cost was ridiculous so I set them for pickup and ended up driving there in a snows storm for these babies. It was worth it. Here's how it looks now. 

I did plan to add doors to cover the bottom two shelves but they were out of stock at the time, they recently came back in stock and are on the way to us now! This room has come so far and it feels so good now! Hoping I can convince the hubby to get me a Frame TV to finish it off 🤞

---Jacqui