A Little Bit of Lovely

I love all of these sayings! They inspire me. I threw in a few pretty

images as well. You know I couldn't resist!

Have a blessed week!!

Switching The Living Room

So in the next chapter of our new old house there has been an exciting twist - we have decided to switch the living room and dining rooms!

I was at first hestitant to do this because I wanted things to be in keeping with the original plan for the house, but we have been trying to figure out how to fit a couch into the old living room, and it just wasn't working. And we really want to be able to seat the maximum amount of people comfortably.

Here is the living room from the house listing pictures:

There really isn't room for a couch on the wall where the piano was and it didn't make sense to block the light. Here is that same room that we will now make our dining room:

I would love to get a long white harvest table that seats 8. A seven foot table will work perfectly in the space.

And here is the living room (which was the old dining room) in the house listing pictures

And now as our future living room:

I love the bay windows. I can't decide if I would like two chairs or a small loveseat in that area. A bigger couch will go on the right wall.

Also, I know I want simple white roman shades for those windows but I don't know what to do with the dining room window. I don't want to block the transom but I can't think of any other options other than sheers that have rods at the bottom and top like the previous owner. Would just one rod at the top look better maybe? If you have any ideas I would love to hear them!

Here is the before picture of these chairs from Kijiji before I got them slipcovered. I think they were cute like this too, just not exactly my style.

I have found the most amazing lady who sews slipcovers in our area and she did a wonderful job.

Layla wanted her baby in the pictures too, and held her up to the camera, saying "say cheese, baby!"

Paint Colour and A Sink

A couple questions answered...
Just wanted to post a few of these answers on here since I have had a number of emails about them!

1. Living Room/Dining Room Paint Colour - This is a pretty blue-green colour by Valspar (found at Lowes in Canada) called Clothesline Fresh. I even love the name! To me it is a perfect country cottage blue/green, and pretty much acts almost as a neutral because every colour I put against it seems to look nice! I also used it in our new bathroom.

2. Our Old Kitchen Sink - I'm not sure why but I have suddenly had a lot of emails asking about our old sink, and I'm happy to say it is the Domsjo from Ikea. We now have it in our laundry room in this house. It is a wonderful, big, sturdy sink, and very well priced!

More house pictures to come and a giveaway!