Saturday make over

Somehow we launched into completely re-doing our living room.
This always seems to happen to us. We undo just a few stitches of a potential project and before you know it, everything is open wide and the stuffing removed.
I suppose its good though, that's what gets things done in our house.

For example: the hallway and kitchen floor. "Let's just tear up a little of the flooring to see if there's decent wood flooring under there."
Well this being and 1860 house with a 1940s addition... there was no tearing up a little bit of floor. There was the crappy linoleum, followed by subfloor, then layers upon layers of old brittle newspapers from 1944 (for insulation), then another layer of really old linoleum, and then finally the original wood floor planks, which were so brittle in spots, the ladder broke through a few of them. Before you knew what was happening, all the layers were being torn up and then we decided to knock down a wall. And of course we had no money for re-doing anything. but we were able to creatively redo the whole thing for about $600, over a few months. Paint is always affordable.
"A Small Makeover Project" ala us.

Greg wanted to go to furniture stores to "just look at" brown leather sofas, which is what we agreed we would replace our couches with once the pets were gone and when we had the money.
No, we don't have the money. So "let's just look". We went to like 9 furniture stores in 2 days. Brown leather sofas don't vary much. They either are traditional, modern, or have those dumb huge gold nail heads in them like you're in a judge's office. (My apologies to anyone who owns one of these. It seemed sales people kept leading me to those. I know my children would absent-mindedly (wrong, I know) pluck at the nail heads until they came out, while bored and watching a movie. )
As soon as I walked into a furniture store we'd tell them what we were looking for and while they lead us to "The Barrister" (or some other dumb name for the gold thumbtack leather couch), I'd add on: And no gold nails in it!

So Greg being Greg (stubborn and persuasive), we ended up financing a couch~ 6 months same as cash. Not a huge deal because he gets his vacation check in February which will cover it and then some. Then I want a cheap, but decent coffee table from Ikea, some new decorative shelves from same, a floor lamp and that is it. We're converting our coat closet into the entertainment center. We've got big cool shelving (for cheap! Ikea!) that is being fit in there to house the TV, players, movies, and board games.

The couch is being delivered next Thursday. Need to find somewhere for old furniture to go.
Today will be spent painting the living room (I just did this 3 years ago!). There's plenty of washed off crayon, pencil and marker marks on the wall from both kids. Eamon doesn't do that much anymore (usually).

All right, off to the grocery store in jammies. I don't want to shower and get on real clothes because then I won't want to paint if I feel clean. If I stay dirty I will be far more productive.
Just like I can't garden when I've showered for the day. Only slightly OCD.