New projects for a new year.

There's something about the start of a new year that makes me want to change things around the house. Perhaps it's about new beginnings. 

I have two projects on the agenda.  The living room is being completely re-done and we're creating a new study.

We moved our living room furniture into other parts of the house to make room for Cary's stuff when he moved in.  But he never actually moved in, only his stuff.  His stuff is in the process of moving out and into his new bf's house.

So we've decided to do over the living room. I should tell you that the room that houses the living room was actually designed to be the dining room. An extremely small dining room.  After my ex moved out, I switched the living room and dining room.

The former dining room, with its 15 foot ceilings, was painted charcoal gray. It looked great with the dining room furniture that I used to have. Now we're repainting it a dark khaki color, which will look great with the burgundy drapes that are currently hanging and will remain.

New furniture arrives next Friday: two love seats in a lighter beige color. They will face each other with a small coffee table we already have.  And since there is electricity where the dining room chandelier once hung, we've purchased a pendant lamp from West Elm that will hang pretty low over the coffee table.

Cary's former (never quite) bedroom will become a study.  It feels like de ja vu, as it was less than a year ago that I did over the other bedroom to be my study.  But that's now the guest room, so we're making a new study.

The room was painted off white before Cary's stuff arrived, and we hung dark brown, wooden blinds. Very masculine.

My glass L shaped desk, currently in the attic, will stay there. We've bought a dining table from City Furniture, which will serve as a desk. Two burgundy wing chairs, currently in storage, will become our desk chairs.  And two books cases, built by my father when I was a kid, will be refinished into a darker stain.  And I will add a floor-to-ceiling blackboard, something I planned for last year's study, but never got around to buying.

Ancillary projects will ensue, including redoing the closet in the study into storage shelves, instead of typical closet fixtures.

This is gonna be a quicky project though. Furniture is arriving a week from today, so painting of the living room gets done this weekend, and I will begin refinishing the book cases this week.

I'll post pictures when I'm done. Wish me luck.