We’ve been saving for living room furniture for a little while now; in the last few weeks, we finally made some purchases! We did considerable hunting for a couch, figured out what we were basically looking for, and ended up finding what we wanted – at Costco! It was too much like what we were looking for and too much cheaper than what we’d found thus far to pass up. It also happens to be a sleeper sofa, which will hopefully come in handy some day.

With the money that we saved, we followed up that purchase with a trip to Ikea this past weekend, where we found a nice new coffee table and end table that better match the couch and the other furniture in the living room. With a new paint job and new curtains to follow, we’re definitely snazzing up our living room a bit! All credit goes to Julie, of course, for all of her planning and dreaming and doing; any blame goes to me, for sometimes being too conservative to really let her creative juices flow.

The living room is definitely coming together. If you ever stop by, be sure to give your compliments to the designer.