Our Living Room

Today I'm linking up with Kelly @ Kelly's Korner for her Show Us Your Life series.  This week we're sharing our living rooms so here's a peak into ours....

This is the view when you come in the front door

Now, first of all, my living room is rarely this clean.  I have a 2 year old and a 4 month old....enough said right?

This is looking at our entry way standing in our living room...

our "shoe rack" is a shelf from World Market

This is our entry way a few years ago before Peter redid the tile and cut the baseboards.  Our house was a foreclosure that needed everything painted, new carpets, new everything so it's been a bit of work.

 the tile was kind of generic and off white so when we found a great deal, we decided to switch it out (and by "we" I mean Peter)  :-)

this is a close-up of the new tile

We also used the same time around the fireplace and made a built-in bookcase where there was this crazy long hole to the left of the fireplace.  Peter did an awesome job, I love it!

This is a picture of the weird hole next to the fireplace, the old tile surround, with no mantle....

and now it looks like this...

I've recently made a few DIY changes to my artwork and pillows...

details for these changes can be found on this post HERE

The kitchen is right off of our living room, and there's a staircase on the leftside leading upstairs.

This is our living room from the kitchen...

I still want to make a few little changes here and there to freshen things up, and it's certainly not fancy, but it's cozy and comfortable and we're so grateful for our home.  Imagine it with lots of toys and puzzles scattered around, with a few raisins and a sippy of milk on the floor and that's what it reeeaaally looks like :-)

Thanks for looking, I love seeing everyone's homes!