A Vast Improvement

Our most wonkus room in the house is the family room. It has furniture that doesn't fit, or match, or is actually a cooler we're using to hold the X-Box. There's a lot of snazzy 90's oak and a mishmash of yellow-y tan colors on every surface.

But not for long! Step One: Get New Furniture is officially underway. This pretty young thang arrived on Friday morning:

Ah, my beautiful new couch! We ordered it from Macy's over a month ago, but it was on sale and SO perfect for what we want to do in here that it was well worth the wait. The fabric is actually a gray tweed with some light brown strands woven through it, so it's a best-of-both-worlds neutral.

We didn't just get a new couch, we also scored an amazing deal on a side chair:

Hubsey and I have been eyeballing a particular Eames chair since we found out we were moving. Sadly, the real deal is $495, which I would only pay if it came with a little baggie diamonds. (It does not.) So when my friend Chris told me about an outlet selling something nearly identical, I was all over it. Guess how much this was? Just guess. Go on.

$55.

I KNOW. I ended up at the store on a total whim, and it's lucky I went because I bought the very last one. They won't be re-stocked until October. Whew!

So with these new pieces we're making a lot of progress. We're not out of the woods yet, but getting the large furniture taken care of is a relief. It's feeling less like a storage locker down here and more like an actual room. What's left to do? I'm glad you asked:

We'll put the projector wires up through the ceiling (there's already a pipe for that), paint the pole, trim, and built-in shelving white, make an upholstered coffee table that actually fits the space, and eventually hang something on the walls.

And Mom, because I know you're wondering about that chair, here's a picture for scale. It's normal-sized and comfortable.

Have you had any happy furniture adventures lately? Or switched things up for a new space? Maybe you wanted something expensive but lucked out finding a knock-off?