This post is mostly me thinking out loud. And maybe someday after we get new furniture, I can read this again and see what I said here that I wanted and what we actually got.
About a week ago, I told Charlie that I've been thinking about getting new living room furniture. I also want to completely change the look of the living room - not just furniture, but also paint, curtains (we need new curtains anyway), and possibly the art on the walls. Though I do love the pictures in the living room, so I don't know if I'll actually be able to do that. lol
I told Charlie that I don't want to be one of those people who have the same furniture, paint color, and decor for decades. Like when you walk into a grandparent's or aunt's house and it looks just like it did in the '70s or '80s. If it's financially possible (and I understand when it isn't), I want to be able to replace furniture that's dated or stained/wore out/falling apart and freshen things up with new paint color and so on every 10-15 years. Twenty at most if the furniture stays in good shape for that long.
I bought our furniture back in February 2009 and it's starting to get wore down and stained in places. Plus, Charlie wants to be able to recline in front of the TV and our couch doesn't recline. He actually said he just wants two recliners in the place of the couch and I told him that this isn't a bachelor pad. lol I want an actual couch. So I said we could get a couch that reclines. (The couch we had before reclined - the two end seats.) But he says he doesn't want a reclining couch. *sigh*
Anyway, our current couch is dark brown and the two chairs (which are recliners, but aren't that comfortable) are an ivory/light beige/cream color. Since our floors are a medium to dark brown, I'd like to get either a gray or navy/dark blue couch. (Or maybe even a forest or dark green.) I don't think it works really having brown floors and a brown couch. lol Maybe whatever chairs I choose could be patterned? I don't know. I'm still thinking about it. Though I don't know when we'll be able to get new furniture. I'm hoping next year, but we'll see.
This was when the furniture was brand new. I've had a couple blankets (a blue and white afghan and a couple Indian/Mexican blankets) on the back of the couch for years to help the cats not sink down between the cushions and the back of the couch and to have blankets nearby to cover up with.
There's a second chair like this one on the other side of the living room. Both chairs have a brown throw covering the upper/upright/back part of the chair. The chairs and tables are in different positions/places now, but on the same side as they were when I took these pictures.
This table is quite beaten up now - between Charlie's hot bowls/plates when eating (I put a place mat there a few years ago after some damage had already been done) and scratches and nicks from cats and years of use, it's not as beautiful as it was. We won't be getting a new TV table.
Our current wall color is a beige color. (Bermuda sand - it almost looks pink in certain light, but you can't tell if you're not really looking for it.) I don't know what color I want to change it to. Actually, I thought about a shade of blue, but our kitchen is green and that would be too much color in one area. And I don't want to change the kitchen color because I still love it. Our dining room (more like aquarium room because Charlie's aquarium and all the stuff that goes with it has pretty much taken over :-/ ) is light yellow. If we go with an actual color (rather than a neutral like beige or gray, which I don't care for), it would have to work with the kitchen color and I would probably carry it over into the dining room so that we don't have three different colors in that area. I know we technically have three different colors now, but the living room is a neutral, so I think it works fine.
If you enlarge the first picture above, you can see the wall colors of the kitchen and dining room a bit better.
The hallway is the same color as the living room. I'd want to carry any new color down that way also. So probably nothing too dark in such a narrow space.
The curtains are a light to medium blue. I got them to go with the blue of the throw pillows. They were cheap, have a few stains now, and are a bit too shiny. lol I'm not going to think about what color curtains I want until we get new furniture and I can decide what will look good with it.
So, yeah, I'm thinking about making a change in the living room and hoping I can get Charlie to go along with it by some time next year. We still owe on the floors, so it isn't likely to happen this year. I want the change not just because I'd like something new, but mostly because of the condition of the furniture. As I mentioned earlier, worn out spots, stains, and the cushions on the back of the couch are starting to tear away from the back part.
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Tuesday, April 26th, our fish Gandalf died. We found him on the bottom of the tank and a few of the hermit crabs were around him. I guess trying to eat him. He was Charlie's favorite fish. :-/ Poor Gandalf.
Our blue tang fish, Dolores, isn't coming out as much and it didn't look like he/she was interested in eating during the last feeding, so I'm afraid he/she might die soon as well.
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Since my last entry (the one before the beach meme), I've made a few new purchases.
Each of the following pairs of heels are by Dream Pairs and were bought from Amazon. I first bought them in yellow to go with the dress I got for Easter last year. And then I got them in blush patent later that same year, I think.
I paid around $33 for these after tax.
These were about $39.
These were less than $31.
I ordered this London Times dress from someone on eBay. (This is their picture. I take no credit for it.) I paid less than $27 after tax. Shipping was free.
I ordered this Connected Apparel dress from someone on Poshmark. (This is their picture. I take no credit for it.) I paid $59 and change after shipping and tax. More than I would normally pay, but I think it's beautiful and I really wanted it. I think the original price was around $100.
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I started reading the 9th Outlander book, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone, in late November of last year, but I'm nearly halfway through the book and not a lot has happened. (I've never been bored with an Outlander book before and it's never taken me this long to read an Outlander book, even though they're big books.) So, a few days ago I started reading the 5th book in the Surviving the Evacuation series - Reunion. A nice change of pace. I'm really liking it so far. I'll either go back to Bees after I finish Reunion or possibly read book 6 in the Surviving series and then go back to Bees.
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Well, I reckon that's it for this update. My internet keeps going out, so I hope I can get this published and not lose it if my internet goes out again. :-/
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