Redesigning a room.....
It's been a while since I've posted anything. Seems like Facebook takes up all my time and I basically let everyone know what I've been up to through that. Plus, I write in a regular journal for myself. It's been a few years since I've started writing a journal on a daily/or weekly basis. So between the two, I have just plain been ignoring my blogging.
The holidays are coming and my family room sucks! The carpet is dirty. I tried cleaning it with my carpet cleaner, but that was a big waste of my time. Doesn't look a whole hell of a lot better. Needs to be professionally cleaned. The furniture needs to be professioally cleaned....it's a light mushroom color. And you know how you just get use to looking at things and not really seeing it for what it is. Well, I took a good look and saw how bad it is looking. The chair is worn in spots and cleaning will not help....it needs to be reupholstered. So I figure I may as well just reupholster the whole thing. I have a sectional in a corner....basically a couch and love seat combined, and a chair with a matching ottoman. It's a wood frame, so it just has cushions...seats and backs......easy and much cheaper to upholster.
The kids think we should just go buy a new set. Now why on earth should I buy a new set??? I love my furniture! I loved it when I bought it 35 freaking years ago!!, and I still love it. It fits perfect in the corner. Oh, once before I looked around. Went to alot of furniture stores on a chance that maybe there might be something else out there that I would fall in love with that would fit so perfect in that corner of my family room. And sure there were a lot of nice sets, but they make them so huge now....that overstuffed type....way too big for that corner. And anything you find in a furniture store is going to look nice but, trust me, everything is made with cheap material. They don't make 'em the way they use to.
So I just reupholster. This will be the third time I've reupholstered that set. Plus...it's cheaper to reupholster than to buy new. I'm getting it done this time for only $1350....that's a couch, love set, chair and ottoman...plus two bolster pillows! And it's good fabric.....regularly $82/yard on sale for $62/yard. Some material I looked at was under $40/yard, so this is good fabric I'm getting. It better be, cause it's going to be the LAST time I'm doing it. It better last until I'm dead and gone!! Then my kids can sell it, throw it out, or put it down in their basements....I won't care by then...
And why get my carpets cleaned??....I'm replacing that too!
Went to Home Depot and got it ordered. They'll be coming to measure on Monday.
So by the holidays I will have a whole new family room look. Hopefully, maybe, I'll get my new TV by then too. I don't know why Sears isn't getting the model we want...grrrrrr.....I keep checking. I've tried talking hubby into just getting a Samsung or a Panasonic or anything else....but nope....It has to be an LG. So wait we will do.....
So that's what I've been up to lately. Redoing my family room. (It's cheaper than moving)
The holidays are coming and my family room sucks! The carpet is dirty. I tried cleaning it with my carpet cleaner, but that was a big waste of my time. Doesn't look a whole hell of a lot better. Needs to be professionally cleaned. The furniture needs to be professioally cleaned....it's a light mushroom color. And you know how you just get use to looking at things and not really seeing it for what it is. Well, I took a good look and saw how bad it is looking. The chair is worn in spots and cleaning will not help....it needs to be reupholstered. So I figure I may as well just reupholster the whole thing. I have a sectional in a corner....basically a couch and love seat combined, and a chair with a matching ottoman. It's a wood frame, so it just has cushions...seats and backs......easy and much cheaper to upholster.
The kids think we should just go buy a new set. Now why on earth should I buy a new set??? I love my furniture! I loved it when I bought it 35 freaking years ago!!, and I still love it. It fits perfect in the corner. Oh, once before I looked around. Went to alot of furniture stores on a chance that maybe there might be something else out there that I would fall in love with that would fit so perfect in that corner of my family room. And sure there were a lot of nice sets, but they make them so huge now....that overstuffed type....way too big for that corner. And anything you find in a furniture store is going to look nice but, trust me, everything is made with cheap material. They don't make 'em the way they use to.
So I just reupholster. This will be the third time I've reupholstered that set. Plus...it's cheaper to reupholster than to buy new. I'm getting it done this time for only $1350....that's a couch, love set, chair and ottoman...plus two bolster pillows! And it's good fabric.....regularly $82/yard on sale for $62/yard. Some material I looked at was under $40/yard, so this is good fabric I'm getting. It better be, cause it's going to be the LAST time I'm doing it. It better last until I'm dead and gone!! Then my kids can sell it, throw it out, or put it down in their basements....I won't care by then...
And why get my carpets cleaned??....I'm replacing that too!
Went to Home Depot and got it ordered. They'll be coming to measure on Monday.
So by the holidays I will have a whole new family room look. Hopefully, maybe, I'll get my new TV by then too. I don't know why Sears isn't getting the model we want...grrrrrr.....I keep checking. I've tried talking hubby into just getting a Samsung or a Panasonic or anything else....but nope....It has to be an LG. So wait we will do.....
So that's what I've been up to lately. Redoing my family room. (It's cheaper than moving)
posted by Diane @ 1:02 AM
1 Comments:
At 1:22 PM,
JUST A MOM said…
yay new looks are so fun! yeah facebook has taken over,,,
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