Some more changes in the Hodgson house

There have been lots of changes to our main floor within the last month. During the week that I was painting our kitchen, I also decided to change up our sitting room....yes that week was chaos. That room doesn't have a light in it, or windows, so it's very dark...lamps can only do so much. The fact that we had a big black book case, plus a black leather couch, didn't help at all.

As I mentioned before, we are starting renovations in our basement, which meant that everything from the basement had to be cleared out. Andrew had decided that he didn't want to keep the black leather couches down there, so we decided to sell the one upstairs too since they are a set. I searched high and low in kijiji and craigslist for a new couch to replace the black one, but couldn't find anything. In the end we actually found it cheaper and got a much better deal to buy a new couch at the Brick.


And, while I'm selling things, I should probably get rid of the black book case that is making the room feel like a cave. Here's the room before:









And after:











This beauty was a roadside find from my sister. It was outside her neighbors house and she saw the potential it had. Look at all those drawers! And nope, I actually don't want to paint it. Shocker right! I'm keeping it exactly the way it is.

The room is so much brighter and more welcoming with the new changes. In fact we actually visited in there on the weekend when my parents were down, which we never did before with the old stuff.

What do you think? Much better?