So, as you may remember from this post, my living room was pretty sad looking a couple weeks ago. It was terribly tv-centric (the last thing we wanted in our cute little living room!) and blaaaaaaand…
Drab and dreary eh? And the television practically hollers, “Look at me! I’m the tv! And not even a nice compact flatscreen telly either. No siree bob. I’m a big ol’ box of a beast. And I’m all you’re going to notice when you walk into the living room. Ha. So there.”
(My television is obviously a wee bit of a snobby show-off.)
Here’s what our living room looks like now that we’ve given it a little faux-fireplace love… :)
Sooo much better eh? I’m quite pleased. :) Obviously we still need to accessorize. I just quickly added the white/teal accessories to the left corner of the mantel (cuz it looked really sad without) and Sweetie put the mirror up last weekend, and that’s as far as we’ve gotten so far (btw, that mirror is apparently rather busy traveling around our house! You may remember it as my happy little above-stove mirror from this post. I suppose that means that it’s versatile. Or that I need to buy another large-ish-sized round mirror. Although Sweetie says we have far too many mirrors in this house already. Boys are rather silly like that. But I digress…)
The fireplace hole (technical term) still needs filling up with something (I’m just not sure with what yet.) And I need to find another horizontal surface on which to perch the television. I just moved our existing tv-cabinet to the right and called it a day, but really it’s too large/deep (and, well, too pine.) A pretty little old white-painted dresser would be a lovely replacement, though, no? :)
Lastly? (Well, doubtful that it’ll be a “lastly” sort of thing, but in the foreseeable future…) We also need to either mount that mirror to the left of the mantel to the wall (hmmm… maybe Sweetie has a point on that too-many-mirrors thing…) (nah…) or stack a few images vertically on the wall or something. Same thing for the right side above the telly (I just plopped a few prints [courtesy of Etsy sellers honeytree and AldariArt] around the tv, trying to cleverly camouflage the big black box. It’s semi-effective?)
BUT, all-in-all, the living room avec faux-fireplace is BETTER. And, honestly, I can’t tell you how excited I am to be able to hang our stockings from something other than either a) the television cabinet or b) the window moulding (true story) next Christmas. Only 8 months-ish to go! (I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for Christmas!) (It’s amazing what a lovely faux-fireplace can do! :)
