show us where you live Friday: living room edition

Welcome back! It's week two of "Show us Where You Live Friday" that Kelly of Kelly's Korner started. This week we are sharing our living rooms with each other. Be sure and stop by Kelly's for a list of home tours as there are some amazing homes out there. I am getting lots of great ideas for my home...now I just need the money to do some shopping!

Our living room is just that...the place where we truly do most of the living in this house. Everything in it has to be comfortable. We bought our home less than a year ago (it was a spec home so we didn't build it, but it was new). I love the size of our living room, but would love to paint it a darker shade and also do something different with the fireplace. I think I'd like to replace the brick with rock and paint the mantel a distressed black. Until then, I just decorate around it. I almost didn't want the house because of the fireplace, but in the end, the house was just a perfect fit for our family.

The above picture is the view of the living room from the entryway and the pic below shows both the living room and the "piano" room view from the entryway.

This is the view from the "piano" room.

Wow, I think I need to get out the windex and clean all of my mirrors! I didn't realize how dusty/smudgy they are.

This is the room that we named the "piano" room. It is supposed to be the formal dining room, but we just aren't formal people and prefer to eat at our kitchen table. So, we decided to turn it into a room that we could actually use. We pulled the hanging light fixture up toward the ceiling and turned this room it into an extension of the living room. We needed a place for the piano which was the piano my parents had when I was growing up. Darren loves to play, so they passed it on to us.

Thanks for stopping by our home! I'm not sure what we're sharing next week. I don't think Kelly has made that announcement yet!? Have a great Friday!