Living Room

At least one room in the house is now sorted. My apologies that it's still a little messy in here, especially the coffee table and the spare sofa (which is an Ikea Solasta that becomes a Sofa Bed) but exam revision has taken over from unpacking and the tidying is all being left to the wonderful Dragonboy who is working a full 40 hours a week currently. This is the view from our door. Ludlow's cage is down to the left and Attie on the right of the sofa bed.

This is the left hand side of the room from the door. You can just see Dragonboys desk and my (very messy!) sofa. I am trying to be far better about what stays on the sofa. It's often been piles and piles of coursework in previous houses. Not so good to turf off when people want to sit down.

See what I mean about messy! It is nice though to have a set up where I can chat to Rhys and he's not over the other side of the room like he was in the old flat!

Me and Dragon boy have been together for 3.5 years now, and it's certainly true when they tell you that making Ikea furniture makes or breaks a relationship. I've never had any ikea stuff before but I am very impressed by the TV unit. It fits all of our games (right hand side) and DVDS (Left hand side) without any problems and there's enough room for the Wii, Xbox, N64, Dreamcast, Media Drive, Virgin box and DVD player to fit comfortably. The only thing I'm slightly disappointed about with this place is that my bookshelf is too wide to sit in the alcove there so it has to go sideways. Dragonboy is happy because he can put his shelf of dragons up and they're on the right hand side of the TV to balance that out.

The ashes of Simba and Guthrie, our two late hamsters sit on top of the TV unit with photos in a picture frame. In the middle is a peacock tail style candle holder that my friend from my first job bought me and it just looks spectacular.

All in all I am in LOVE with this room. Over the summer I plan to crochet a throw for both sofas in the sandy brown, dark brown and teal of the curtains. I'm going to do it in cotton so it can be machine washed and dried and not to warm for the summer, or winter when we have the central heat on (Yes! A winter with central heating, I am so excited!). I think that will be the final thing that this room needs to just finish it off and make it perfect.


 Note needed here that I am not an interior designer nor do I play one on TV. *I* think this looks good, but I may be slightly blind and have no eye for colour.