Our Home ~ Living Room

I am joining in with Kim again on her newly named party, Boring to Better. I am going to finish showing the entry to our home, which is the living room. When you open the front door, you step into our living room. It's not the layout that I prefer, but you deal with what you have. In a perfect world this room would hold a beautiful, shiny black baby grand. But, even though my girls and I all took piano lessons for many years none of us still really play. Kind of silly to buy one just for show, especially when I have a lot of furniture!

The room has lovely high ceilings, but is pretty small. Again, this is the previous owners "stuff", included to show the paint colors and tile colors. We removed the 2"blinds and swags on this window and installed plantation shutters.
A really nice fireplace surround.
This shot looks down the hall to our library and guest bath and room. It's a long skinny hall.
Back to the front door and the pretty trim around it.
This shot was taken right after we moved in, with the painting completed, {same yellow and white as the staircase} but not the window treatments. I also included it so you could see the tile on the fireplace. It's not a very big change, but I just didn't like the tile and so had absolute black granite tile put in. This picture is with the old tile.

The fireplace painted a crisp white with black tile. I like it much better now.
A shot of our floating sofa. I tried to put a sofa table behind it, but the room is just too small.
Some fun little red polka dotted china sits on a shelf. I found it in an antique store and I am always looking for more pieces.

Thank you Kim for hosting this fun party. I love checking out all of the transformations. I imagine from here on out there will be a lot of Christmas posts and I can't wait. It's such a special time of the year and there are so many good ideas in blogland! I tend to do the same thing over and over, I am pretty much a tradionalist ~ but it's so fun to see everyone else's ideas.

Please check out Savvy Southern Style for more ideas.