the unlived in living room

Behold our unlived in living room.

If we used our front door, this would be the first room you walk into.

Since we don't, this is the last room you see on our first two floors.  Remember that we have a tri turned quad level home.  So our laundry and family room as well as the bathroom are on the base floor.  Climb 5 stairs and your into our kitchen and then this living room.  Then of course you would climb the large set of stairs to get to all the bedrooms and second bathroom.  4 more stairs and you'd get to a walk in closet and the finished attic that at the moment is the play room/guest space.

We've already decided this house will not be good when we get old because it's a lot of climbing.  But I love love having separate spaces for everything.  I think I love it so much because we lived in apartments for 4 years before so everything was all in the same general area.

Anyways, let's get back on track here.

We decided since the family room is carpeted and has a fireplace, it felt more like a place we'd like to hang out.  So that's where we've put all our new stuff and spend all our time.  This poor living room rarely sees us, except maybe some little curious fingers eager to play with the blinds.

Eventually, we'd like to turn this room into somewhat of an office, getting a desk and possibly keeping the computer there. (i have decorations to hang, just waiting to see what we'll use for the family room first.)  For now it just houses all of our old furniture and will perhaps come in handy if we ever have a lot of company at once.  We've left the color same as when we moved in for 2 reasons; one, because there's no wall separating it from the stairs, so whatever color we choose has to be the entire upstairs hallway color as well.  Second, because I chose such a bold color for the kitchen, I don't want a competing color in such a close room.