Sprucing Up the Place

Watching HGTV much too often after Fletch was born, we started to get an itch to change things up around the condo. At the beginning of the year, we installed a custom mixed mosaic tile backsplash in our kitchen to go with our newly installed marble counter tops. We were contemplating wood floors, but we are not going to be here much longer to enjoy them, so that idea got scrapped. What we have been doing lately are small things. We finally purchased a bar! We spied with our little eyes this bar at World Market, the Verona Bar.

I'd take a picture of ours, but right now it has containers of Christmas cookies on top of it. Here's what it looks like closed:

We absolutely love it. It holds all of our wine glasses, martini glasses, cocktail glasses, shot glasses...well you get the point. I promise we do not have drinking problems, and yes I know that one of the steps is denial, but really we are fine. It freed up a lot of cabinet space to get all of that stuff out of the kitchen. Now there is more room for sippy-cups and Atom's expanding pint glass collection.

In the living room, we replaced our old brown velour curtains with some lighter striped curtains. It is amazing what new curtains can do to a room. Disregard the large dog enjoying the fire.

You can't see the top in this picture, but they have the grommet holes on top. I found them on sale at JCPenny online.

Most recently we finally got a wall decal for our weird diagonal wall in the living room. We knew we wanted to add something to the wall, but our large TV is up against that wall so pictures or large paintings wouldn't look right. One of the many daily deal sites we use had an offer with a wall decal company. After checking out their designs we picked out a cherry blossom branch.
I think it looks pretty cool. Cherry Blossoms are appropriate since we live in the DC area. Plus the pink breaks up all the brown in the room.

To add some more texture to the room, I just made some new throw pillows for the couch. The ones we had were getting a little too squishy and may have been drooled on a few times. I found some really pretty flannel remnants for under $5 and threw these together.

I think we are done with the living room for now; Unless someone designs a piece of storage furniture that makes large amounts of toys disappear and re-appear when needed. Someone get on that please!