The FourNest / Living Room Ideas

I've been (secretly) planning my next moves for redecorating and rearranging our living room. We spend most of our free time lounging around in this room, and while it serves its purpose and meets all of our needs, I've been dyyying to give it a makeover.

When we first put together our living room, we bought and selected pieces that we both liked, not really thinking about the space as a whole. I didn't originally have a specific vision in mind, because I was more focused on trying to furnish and finish the room as quickly as I could so that I could invite family and friends over. So now that I've had more time to rethink our living room palette, I realized that it's lacking some color. Josh and I both love neutral colors - white, gray, black, brown - you name it. Our leather couches are a deep espresso color and our coffee table, end tables, and media console are all black. I love color, but I seem to use it sparingly in my home decorating. We've had the same accents in our living room for a few years now - so I thought that it was time to give it a little splash of color!

With that in mind, the biggest things I'd want to do for the living room is find a colorful area rug or set of pillows, replace our coffee table, and add more decorative accent pieces. If we have enough space for it (insert: money), I'd also like to add a chair of some sort to put near our bay window. I already found the perfect coffee table to help tone down our dark couches and furniture from World Market ($229). I'm leaning towards decorating with an apple color, a few whitewashed frames, and mercury candle holders to complete the space. Hopefully in the next few months I'll have a before and after post to share!

Other decorative items from World Market.

The FourNest / Basement

When we moved into our new home, one of the first DIY projects I wanted to tackle was the brick fireplace in our basement. I absolutely loved how the brick went from floor to ceiling. It had a lot of potential, but it just looked drab and boring and was in dire need of a face lift. Not to mention, it didn’t help that I didn’t like the peachy orange walls and copper-colored blinds (hard to tell in the photos, but it is not pretty).

I followed the steps to paint a brick fireplace from one of my favorite DIY blogs, Young House Love. And with the help of my then-boyfriend-now-husband Josh, we tackled it one evening after work.

What a difference the freshly-painted white fireplace makes! I am so in love with it. We painted the walls a greyish blue, switched to a simpler set of white blinds, and added a mantel to the fireplace. We were on a tight budget to furnish this space, and were able to get most of the furniture pieces from Ikea. Because we enter and exit our home through the basement, we wanted this space to be cozy, comfortable, and welcoming.

This is one of Vega’s favorite places in the whole entire house, just because of the shaggy area rug. When we don’t hear or see her for awhile, she is usually fast asleep on the rug with her head underneath the small coffee table - which is a childrens’ playroom table!