A Day In the Life of Two Love Birds.: House Update: The Playroom!

We have now been in our house for 3 months. It feels like so much longer than that though! We have done a few changes to the house and the most recent one was Charlotte's playroom. There is a room off of the living room that is the first room you see when you walk into our house. I'm not sure what to call it. I normally end up calling it the library because of the shelves that line the walls but really it's our play room. When we bought the house I wasn't sure what to do with this room. It has wood paneling that is actually pretty. (It really is, I promise!) The ceiling is curved and painted white. Our fireplace is in this room so I guess it could be called our family room. We didn't have a fireplace in our old house so I am looking forward to using it this winter. Dan and I have a different style that a lot of people. We make quick decisions and luckily Dan trusts my ideas even when I second guess myself.

Anyway...I had been on the lookout for a cool couch for this room. I had tossed around the idea of putting in two club chairs but decided on a couch so that it could hold more people. We actually use this room and I wanted something comfortable. I searched for weeks for the perfect piece of furniture. I found an awesome chesterfield sofa but it was $6,000. Yeah right, no way would I spend that on a couch for a playroom.

I ended up finding a couch on Craigslist by searching "tufted" every few weeks. When we got it home I thought "oh my gosh, this thing is hideous, what did we do." It was super heavy and smelled like wet dog. We got it in the house and I immediately threw a blanket over it because it was such an eyesore. Even though I bought it with the intention on recovering it I couldn't look at it until I had a plan. Our friends had left us a small wing back chair that I wanted to recover also.

After fabric shopping several times I finally found the perfect fabric for the couch and chair. I have recovered furniture before and it's almost more difficult when you have more choices. Now that I have rambled on about these two pieces of furniture here are the pictures.