The Family Room

Last March, I came to Ontario with my mom to do some house hunting. We saw about 10-11 houses that day and this one caught my eye.

It was in a great looking neighbourhood and although the house was not decorated to my taste, it had a lot of great things about it. The room that really caught my eye was the family room. I just knew that my family could live in this space. Here is what it looked like when we got the keys.

As you can see, it has a ton of potential. It is hard to tell in the photo but there were some big gouges in the wall where the previous family had their TV. Along the back wall is a series of big windows that let in a ton of light and overlook the back yard. I had already ripped down the crummy tobacco coloured curtains left behind. Next to this room is a kitchen eating area with doors to the back garden and then the kitchen so it is a long shot of space which will be great for entertaining.

Anyway, long story short, here is what it looks like now. My aim was family home and not pretty house which has been hard for me!

We had the walls painted BM Manchester Tan. I wasn't sure if I liked it at first but now I, luckily, think that I do. We got the rug at Homesense, and bought the chaise/sofa and brown chair at Ikea. I saw a great Ikea hack on another blog and put together the coffee table based on it and I have recently chalk painted the fireplace. I will write about those projects in another post. A lot of living already happens in this room and I know once the weather gets colder, we will be in here even more.