our new living room

 i've wanted new nice couches for...forever

we've been married almost 10 years 

and we've gone through so many craigslist couches it's hard to keep track

so a couple months ago i decided it's time for some real furniture

and since i don't have much control over our budget i decided i would save my hair money

and buy couches myself. even if it took forever

i started saving in february and by the end of may i had enough

(with the help of michael pitching in and selling our other furniture)

we found some couches at downeast home after looking all around on memorial day

and ordered them 

then decided we should look for our new rug

because our old jute rug has a big stain from a diarrhea accident 

and the cleaning that had to happen afterward

so i headed to target with the little kids and saw this HUGE rug on clearance

but it was all wrapped up with no picture so i wasn't sure what it really looked like

 an employee helped me find a picture on their little machine

i wasn't sure about the colors

  i tend to like cool blues and grays but i told michael about it anyway

 we'd already sold our blue couch a day earlier

 eleanor loved the extra space for dancing

 that evening someone came to buy this one and downeast home called to tell us our couches arrived

yay!

 we went and picked them up

so exciting!

 the kids have loved playing in the boxes

  michael added the legs (with henry's help of course)

 that night we went and bought the rug i'd seen

we figured we should at least try it

and we found a couple chairs, too!

which took alllll of the money we'd saved

 my friend crystal came over to check everything out 

and helped us figure out the best way to arrange everything

and i love what we settled on

 i took a few pictures the next morning

 i don't know that these will be permanant here but it's good for now

 i love this room so much!

the chairs and couches and rug go so well together

it's a different look than i was going for but i totally love it

 i will still probably change the mantle and add some pictures on that wall

and maybe change out the pillow covers but i'm so happy with how far we've come

and that all that hard work (i've done so much hair lately! saving went way faster than expected)

paid off, and that we finally have grown up furniture that we picked 

 thanks for supporting my goals, michael!