 Hello guys! It feels so nice to be in a room besides the kitchen. We have been in there for quite a while doing the renovations, the flooring, all the kitchen but it's pretty much done. We're just waiting on the range now and we moved in as you guys know about two weeks ago and after moving in we were only here for a couple days then I ended up traveling for about a week and a half. I went to Marie's birthday party which was so much fun and then I actually went to a home and garden show in Las Vegas, went to my parents' house for a few days and I'm finally back so everything's still kind of in the current state of when we moved in. Everything was just kind of placed in the rooms and something I want to do is actually get the living room kind of a little bit situated because I was thinking to myself like oh I'll just get to the living room soon but no like we need somewhere to sit, we need somewhere to have people over and guests. I do want to set up the living room just a little bit and something that came is our new sofa. Actually a custom order piece that I had done last November I think and it finally arrived so I'm very happy and excited to share that with you guys. We have some chairs over there, there is quite a bit of just like stuff everywhere as you could see so we have a lot to work on. I also have that gray toned lime wash on this wall which is not at all the vibe I'm going for in the space anymore. I put it on here and then I swear over the course of about two weeks it turned into a gray. It went on tan and it is now gray and it's just gotta go so let's get started. I want to start kind of clearing some stuff out. Definitely looking much cleaner in here. I just went through all the boxes, took everything out, put some of the decor over on this table over here and then there's still some bits and bobs over there but I kind of want to talk about a couple of the furniture pieces in here. First thing we're talking about is the rug in this space because I've had countless questions since putting it down and sharing it in a couple videos where this is from so I actually got this at the Rose Bowl flea market probably like eight months ago I'd say and the thing about this rug is it was actually the rug that the vendor had all of his other rugs on top of so this was like his booth floor if that makes sense then all the other rugs were on top of it but I saw like a little corner like this of the rug and I was like that one down there is so beautiful so he ended up taking all the rugs off and he sold me this massive humongous rug which I'm going to measure it and let you guys know how big this is he sold me this for $600 which I thought was such a great deal it is stunning look at the colors in this rug you guys and it's not like it's dirty or anything like it's still in such great condition and even the back side is so beautiful with all the actual like woven details so this one's a little bit more saturated whereas the back is almost more of a muted tone so I have the option to do either side if I wanted to welcome to the new sofa I love this couch so much I absolutely love a leather sofa as a lot of you guys know I've actually only owned leather sofas my I had a Chesterfield kind of leather sofa and then I had the article sectional which I adored that couch like one of my favorite sofas I've ever had had that for about three years and then got this one and the thing I love about this one is I actually got to customize it this is a caramel sofa from Pottery Barn and it has the wood base on it I think it's so pretty I love the wood base just adds a little bit of warmth to the bottom but the leather that I actually opted for this was the aviator leather in the color black woods and it is just such a beautiful color it's like a dark dark brown black hints of gray it is just like if you could imagine like a mushroom color intensified almost to black it's kind of like that it has like this greenish brownish gray undertone to it that I just love and I thought it would be perfect for this space I didn't want to do another brown leather couch because there's so much brown happening in this house we have the brown kitchen we have the brown ceiling in here I didn't want to bring too much brown in the rug it's like a rusty color so I thought adding a little bit of more of a cooler tone because this couch does lean a little bit cool even though it is kind of that ashy brown tone I thought it was really pretty and I love it I also opted for the bench seat so as you can see it's just one long seat as opposed to like different cut up sections which was another customizable feature of the sofa and I love it it is so comfy it's like perfect to sleep on I mean you could totally you can probably take these off and make it into a bed the couch is actually in the right spot right in front of the fireplace which is right here I wanted to go there I probably even gotta move it a little bit forward but these are my accent chairs which I definitely wanted to get re-upholstered I just don't exactly know the wall color in here yet as many of you guys know I went through trial and error in this living room I painted three different colors of lime wash and I did splurge on these incredible incredible Monterey chairs I got a pair of two of them and it's because when I went into the antique shop the lady said that she had only had one of these like a set of two of these chairs in her past 35 years of having her antique store and I love love love Monterey furniture I think it is so beautiful it kind of has this rancho sort of western style to it which I love I feel like it can easily tie into a Spanish style home definitely gonna get them re-upholstered she actually got them re-upholstered for this like green chartreuse color but it's just not what I want to go for in here um however I do love the chair so I'm gonna kind of put them in position the backs of them as well are painted this one has this kind of design on it and right here it says Monterey and then over on the other chair which we have a bunch of stuff blocking the store because it just swings open when it wants to and it's windy um this one has a red design and then it has the horseshoe monogram right there which is another one of the Monterey symbols something fun about these chairs is they are actually woven with a rope at the bottom um which is a fun detail I love that and it's really functional but it's still super comfortable you don't at all feel like you're sitting on a rope or anything I've also yet to tell you guys my plans for this back wall I am so excited about this back wall whole wall of built-ins just wait that's all I'm giving you guys right now is it's gonna be all built-ins with those stained glass doors that I found in the middle I do want to see the scale of these chairs because the sofa is pretty chunky and this living room is big but it's not huge if that makes sense I kind of want to do this like corner seating moment here almost where one chair is kind of more catty corner here and then the other chair is kind of like that I'm sure a lot of you guys have noticed that I tend to do very kind of structured living room layouts like couch and then like two chairs two stools like everything I always have done is very just linear and structured whereas I want to start playing around with more interesting layouts and kind of putting things in spots that you might not think they'll go in so like you can have this little table here which is from Wayfair by the way it is so pretty I'll link it for you guys but we could do like a little kind of side table in between those I don't know if that's going to be the one we can do like a little lamp on there and I also love that the floor has outlets in it we have outlets in the floor so they could run under the rug and actually be useful coffee table scale is very off um it is tiny tiny tiny in here we can definitely stretch it longer this way I actually feel like we might be able to do like a really long skinny coffee table which seems fun I've never had a space I could do that with but I'll tell you a hot way to have you for me to bring that by myself so we're just gonna use this one for the time being from the previous living room all right something else I can also tell you guys is all of tree is not the tree for this living room I don't think it looks very great in here it doesn't feel like it fits it's a little bit more kind of French minimal vibes if that makes sense and I'm kind of going for maximal Spanish Gothic vibes so maybe like a more spooky plant would work our little makeshift console table slash I guess it could be like a desk work space in the living room but I do need to get like some piece of furniture for this area or honestly probably more so this wall here because this wall over here is really massive with the opening leaving so we could put like a large hutch here or something and like a cool piece of artwork here but for the moment I'm just going to kind of style this more as a console just get some decor up so it feels a little more homey in here um so let's get this into place and then I have a cool piece of art I want to show you guys this is my fun piece of art that I got I found this actually on Facebook marketplace it's an 18th century oil painting and it was so affordable I had to well as affordable as an 18th century oil painting can be get it I thought that even the back side honestly like I'm someone that would use this texturally wait should I do that is that bad like am I allowed to do that what if I need it against the wall like that kind of texturally until we actually design the sloping room space and then we can hang it you know so at least I can enjoy the back side is that bad let's do some books is it weird to just lay a mug I think it's cute you guys see these little sconce spots right here there were two sconces there before didn't like them I'll try to pop up a clip of them they were not original either they were actually plastic that was painted to look old found some new sconces I'm going to pop up a photo right there if you guys saw I actually was rewatching one of my thrift videos and I saw these sconces in the clip and I think I pointed them out in the video too I was like wow these are so beautiful and I went back and watched the video I cannot stop thinking about them something about them just brings a little bit of the kitchen into the living room they look like gestures for some reason a little gesture hat and I want to put them right there be so cute okay I'm kind of feeling like we need to go shop the lone fox room too because we have some throw pillows and some decor I could grab now I want to make a point guys that this artwork would not look so stark if it wasn't on a yellow wall the walls in here are yellow so once they're gone from being yellow I think it might look a little better but also I've had this piece for so long I'll probably end up donating it once I get to actually you know making over this space I'm also kind of thinking about swapping this and then putting this great floor lamp that I have in the middle you couldn't see what I was talking about there oh yeah that looks so much better so much better I like the floor lamp here and then the table lamp here I just swapped those two and it made quite a big difference oh I know right it's like the couch isn't on the wall and then yeah the pottery board one I love it look how pretty the color is so good is that not the best leather color you've ever seen of course this is all going to be built in at some point okay and then what it'll all be painted too of course to like look better but like look at that like that looks she and then the lamp you know thank you all right guys so this is like a living room look how cute this is looking so far it really feels so nice in this room now that there's furniture like I have not seen this room with furniture at least like citable furniture we just got the sofa the other day so it feels so nice to have more furniture in here now this of course is just temporary I am going to be doing the built-ins back here it's not temporary like these chairs are staying being re-upholstered couch is I love this sofa it is absolutely beautiful I want to warm up the walls a little bit I actually kind of want to bring the walls to a tone like this mica color kind of like more of a topy tan color I don't know if I want to do plaster lime wash or just normal paint I'm not a thousand percent sure yet and then over here I just did a little kind of decor setup just something else to have in the space for the time being but I love it it feels great in here and I still also have to figure out our TV situation because I want to do a TV above however I do not want to kind of like ruin this little original moment back here I want to kind of build something that allows the TV to pop off of it and the great thing is that there's actually a plug so we can plug the TV right in there so this room has to be the next one we're working on like I feel so inspired after just putting some of those pieces in here and cleaning it out I just there's so much potential for this space and my design mind is going crazy so I'm thinking I want to just go to the fabric store um and just get some fabric swatches for these chairs and just kind of get my ideas around those because I feel like once I have the chairs in the sofa in the rug which are already in the room you know and I have the fabric for the chairs it'll really allow me to determine the paint color on the walls because those are going to be our most focal pieces of furniture in here just got to F and S but look how cool this mural is that's outside with all the fabric I've actually never noticed that we're at F and S let's see what fabrics we can find for the chair oh my gosh you guys Jamie says she has a gift for me I know she's like wait wait right here I have a gift for you I just walked right in what is that who is she oh my gosh the velvet I know oh my gosh some pillows you guys this fabric I loved so much like is it like it almost looks like it's like painted yeah it's so pretty but it's also very expensive um so oh my gosh Jamie got me a yard of it and now we can make some pillows I wanted to do like a bold pattern on the couch and I think I think you guys already saw which when I opted for which I'll pop it up here if you didn't see um but this was another one I was going for I could not tell from the back when you brought it out I was like oh is that muslin it's a muslin for me oh my gosh but we're thinking what about for the chairs what do you like this fabric gives me fall vibes yes which is what I love oh you're kind of like putting it over a chair so we can see kind of try her on oh that's actually I love that on those chairs I think the scale of that would be really it's I also love how there's like a prominent almost check like this prominent box I really like that a velvet like this I do like the velvet on it currently also this color oh my gosh it's like a dusty lilac-y brown these are all vintage linen I just see these as such pretty curtain panels this is the room that you guys have not been in quite a while and this room actually used to be purple if you remember I actually had it painted while I was gone on my birthday trip so today I'm kind of going to start situating this room I'm actually shooting a bunch of the items for the vintage drop that's coming out on the 12 which I am so excited for I think this video is probably coming out on Thursday or so so I'm going to be shooting a bunch of the items for the vintage drop today they're really everywhere like all over the place there's a bunch of stuff you guys I'm really excited and I want to start kind of situating this room get a shelf set up and turn this into a studio space shelf is up I will link these below for you guys I use these everywhere I have them in my garage or I had them in my old garage I also have four or five of them actually in my storage room they are incredible and they hold so much I love how deep the shelves are but gonna start filling this up with all of the vintage items because they're just scattered around there is even a bunch out here you guys it is all over the place so guys this is everything I've been collecting for the vintage drop everything is literally hand sourced from flea markets thrift stores antique shops things that I personally would use in my designs and that I love and then I come across but not always do I have a space for them or I already have something that kind of fills the needs so I wanted to create a kind of curation of vintage items that I would use which is dropping on the 12th and you can actually get notified if you just enter email on the website I'm gonna send out an email newsletter once it's live so that you guys can shop it I've been shooting for a few hours now and here are the items for the vintage drop over here been working over here Justin's over here we have some curtains up it is a whole situation in here but I'm just going to set the camera up and do a little time lapse of the shooting process spilled juice on the ground