My Living Room

Kelly's Korner is starting up the "Show Us Your Life" series again, so I decided to join up this time. 

This week's theme is the Living Room, so here's a peek at mine!

It's itty bitty cozy, so 1 pic does the trick!  I need to learn to take better pictures of rooms.  We have beautiful dark stained floors, but this picture doesn't show them at all :-( and our rug is actually pretty small. ha. 

I loathe corner fireplaces (unless you have a snazzy flatscreen mounted above, which we obviously do not).  Corner fireplaces make it so frustrating to arrange a room around, especially a room with two very short walls and 2 doors.  I've probably tried a bajillion (yes, a bajillion) different ways to arrange, and just gave up.  The new coffee table did help make the space feel more spacious.  I just remember the Nester's motto: It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.

These are a few of my favorite things...

• the pottery pieces we've collected and received as gifts :-) especially our McCarty lamp...i love that thing.  Is it bad to love a lamp?
• my drapes.  the first drapes/curtains i've ever bought/purchased.  My mom and I always sew them.  but these beauties were on $8 clearance at Wal-Mart.  You just can't buy the fabric for that cheap.
• the new coffee table. that my husband built.  with his own two hands!
• the "twig" table, as I call it.  in the bottom of the picture to the left of the couch.  it's such a quirky little piece, i like it.  since my photography skills of this room are far from stellar, here's a pic: 

 Hope you liked the lil' sneak peak inside!