New House Journal: Living and Dining Rooms and a New Recliner

We had a busy last week with another partial move and then working over the weekend at the new house. This last trip we got my office furniture, most of the Living Room, more basement stuff, guest bedroom and the big room size rugs for the Living Room and Dining Room that I cleaned last weekend. Phone pics ahead; sorry for the less than perfect images.

We placed the basics in the Living Room and here in the Dining Room. I still have all the china and crystal to unpack for the china cabinet and then all the boxes that hold all my vintage dishes for the china closet. YaHoo! I can't wait to utilize all that space that up till now I've had dishes squirreled all over the house. The big metal Italian basket is temporarily on the buffet till I get other things unpacked. I'm going to keep the DR table freed up and end chairs out of the way for now so I can unload the boxes.

Having the wool area rugs down bring all the colors of the walls and draperies together. I'm happy with how the Dining Room wallpaper looks with the rest of the room. And although the china cabinet dominates the room, I love how it has come together. I second guessed myself so many times with that old imperfect wallpaper, but since I love the look, I'm glad I decided to work with it. I think the taupe stripe adds a lot of interest and some subtle pattern.

We still have some pieces left for the Living Room that will come next trip, but this is how it landed for the moment. The armoire for the TV, our chairs, and my little white dresser are still here at the old house. We'll be using this room (Formal LR) for evening TV time, so we need comfortable but nice looking chairs.

Hubbs hasn't been in love with the leather recliner I bought him 7 or 8 years ago, because he's not a fan of leather (who knew) and it doesn't have a high back on it. For the last 5 years I've been trying to get him to Lazy-Boy to look for a new one. I've scoured the web and retail stores for an affordable, high backed recliner option for him, but he never wanted to get serious about it. 

(new recliner)

Just noticed the lampshade is wonky.

I have a problem with that.

A couple of weeks ago we received a flyer from Lazy Boy advertising a sale, so I informed him we were going to go look. No excuses or putting it off. Time to make a decision. What had triggered my determination was his trying to get me to agree to bringing up a 20 year old tapestry recliner from the basement set that he found extremely comfortable. No. Absolutely not. It wasn't quite as bad as Frasier's dad's recliner, but it still wasn't going to happen.

This is what we found on clearance. It matches all the upholstery in the LR, the busy rug, wall color, and draperies. It has a higher back, nice exposed legs, fabric, and it's not a monster with cup holders. Plus it was 1/3 the original price. The store had just received it and put it on the floor half an hour before we arrived to shop. Perfect timing. I'm happy, Hubby is happy. Our bank account is happy.

Remember this pretty little Bergere Chair from about 7 years ago? You can see it in front of the clock in the above LR photos. The chair is one of my favorites but has original red floral fabric, so I cobbled together a little chair slip to give it a neutral look. Well, I finally have room for it in the Living Room at the new house. So it's making a little comeback after having spent the last 5 years in the basement. I'm so excited it's back!

We have been freezing our tushies off back here in SW Missouri, how about you guys? We didn't get the snow that many of you did, but we had the "black ice" problem on roads and streets. Hubby has a little rugged Jeep and we had to keep it in 4 wheel drive most of the time this weekend on side streets, just to get around. Many people just stayed in and snuggled up, but we needed to keep working. 

I finally convinced Hubbs that we had to modify our 60's child sized closets, so we moved and added horizontal clothing poles. I had planned on a new closet organization unit to be installed in one of mine, but when I found out the cost and that I wouldn't gain all that much space, I needed a new plan. That meant we had to remove supports and raise existing rods then add new ones. Yikes, a lot of work, and then I had to repaint. So I'm doing some linen closet packing and purging this week, then I have to start on sorting my actual clothing. Staying busy, but trying not to go crazy. More lovely phone pics next time.

p.s. This is not a sponsored post, Just happy to have finally found the right recliner.

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