Kelly's Tour of Homes - Living Room Edition

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Tool Time! Kelly's Show Us Where You Live Friday - Living Room Edition Time!

Where we started in 2005...btw this is my first and only home...

{don't mind the cute little lady...that's my mom!}
Can you believe there's not even a ceiling fan?! People! No need to die of a slow sweat!

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So here is our humble abode, now. I'm quite proud of the mantle. When we moved in there was none! It took me a few years, but with my parents help I was able to make my own.

You will notice I have a LOT of pictures in my house and practically no art. That's because I like to look at my family and well, it's my house so I can do whatever I want. ha.

Our living room is very narrow so it makes it difficult to arrange furniture {that and the fact that we have oversized furniture}.

The TV is from my single, college days and we'll keep using it 'til it works no more. I would like to have a nice entertainment center for that area, but for now it's the TV and family portraits!

This particular wall has seen a LOT of portrait arrangements and rearrangements. I'm not satisfied with it as is, but it will do. Any suggestions?

I know, I know...they say pianos should be on an interior wall. Sorry.

This grouping of pictures is of my family...

My chair is a swivel, rocker, recliner and I LOVE it. It's actually the ONLY piece of new furniture we have bought as a married couple {four years in just seven more days!}. It's a Lay-Z-Boy and therefore I have the option of reclining just the back or the back and my feet! I like to recline the back and rest my feet on the floor so I can rock.

{Lay-Z-Boy is the ONLY recliner with that option...trust me, I searched HIGH and low.}

I love having my chair placed by the window so I can look out at the yard. We live on the outskirts of town in a quiet neighborhood with large lots. It's not fancy, but it's quite nice.

More pics of my fam...

The table was a freebie from the church gym.

I'm either going to stain it darker or paint it black??

This bowl works great as a catchall for keys...

The couch was a freebie from my MIL and I picked up the coffee table at a yard sale for a mere $20. It offers me plenty of storage and that's a good thing.

B's fam...

They had fair warning I was going to put them on the blogosphere!

Looking from the living room into the kitchen/dining room...

This is B's chair and he dearly doesn't want to part from it...it's big and comfy and best of all worn in; it's a Lane we bought secondhand from my parents! We've searched and searched for a new chair to replace it, but we always come home empty handed. Now B is interested in a double rocker recliner/loveseat.

After I hung the pictures on either side of the window I thought they would probably look better if I flipped them, but it took me too long to get them straight and I was tired of measuring {and missing!}. What do you think? Should I switch them to opposite sides? The group of four would probably look better on the bigger half of the wall, huh?

I would love to go out and find new furniture for our living room {yardsale, thrift store, furniture store}...I would definitely choose items on a smaller scale. Any suggestions on rearranging? I've had it pretty much every way imaginable.

My left blind broke as I was raising it to take my pics today. I've been on the hunt for fabric to make drapes for this window and matching drapes for the french doors in the dining room...should probably get on that!