DESIGN INDECISION

Well here's Bella enjoying the fireplace. I'm glad SHE'S relaxed, 'cause I'm not! LOL

OK as you can see I've changed up this corner a bit. First of all, I moved the bookcase around the corner and put the cat tree in its place. This helps eliminate the unbalanced look and when I paint the wall gray here it'll help the cat tree blend in better and hopefully not be so noticable. Now about the TV stand... I haven't replaced it yet for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it turns out the TV armoire I THOUGHT I wanted from Target turned out to actually be cheap particle board with cheesy veneer when I actually went to the store and looked at it. Nor did it look as cool as it did in the picture. SIGH Then there's the issue of me just being cheap. Because the fact is there's nothing actually wrong with the TV stand we have now, it happens to be in perfectly good shape. So I feel guilty replacing it. It's only REAL drawback is that it just doesn't have enough media storage. And because it's so wide there's no room for a media cabinet. Also, I just LIKE the idea of the armoire because I like the ability to just shut the doors and have all the electronics hidden away. The indecision is killing me! LOL Any ideas or suggestions?

Yes I know the window looks like crap. Fortunately, I DO know what I'm going to do here! I'll be replacing the current window treatment with curtains in a silvery fabric (yet to be determined, it'll depend on what's available when I'm finally able to go shopping for it) with a valance that will actually go in the middle rather than on a seperate rod in front of the curtains. This is because I never close my curtains. My view is too pretty! Plus I do have a blind that I can close when it's hot and I want the room to be darker. The OTHER thing I'm going to do is raise up the curtain rod to the height of the ceiling and extend it out to where it touches the walls on either side. This is because the wall surrounding the window is very narrow and our fusebox is on that wall. The curtains will hide the fusebox this way and also give the window the illusion of being much larger. And it'll hide more yucky white apartment wall! Yay!

Now here's the real bane of my existence... no not Bella! Well, not most of the time anyway. LOL No, I'm talking about the wall behind her. On the plus side I've recovered all the couch pillows. The small ones are a metallic red cotton with a cool raised pattern. The big ones are done in black crushed velvet on one side and black upholstery velvet on the other incase I want to throw them on the floor. I'll do closeups later. Anyway, I think they look pretty cool. But then there's that blasted lonf wall. It's going to be painted in textured gray like I plan to paint the L shaped wall behind the TV. I also have a plan for dealing with the art and knicknacks that will look MUCH cooler than the current arrangement. So what's the problem? I'm just not happy with my furniture arrangement! For one thing, if you look to the left of the couch and see the tall black velvet draped "table"... well that's actually the dratted fishtank again! That's right, it's been booted from the bedroom and it's now in the living room. Where I also don't like it. And we can't set it up and put fish in it until I can finally decide where it's going to go! ACK! The OTHER problem is that the furniture in general, couch, tables, chairs, just don't "flow". There's not a good conversational area and the furniture just seems to be all bunched up in one section of the room. For the life of me I just can't figure out a configuration I'm happy with. Where are you guys when I need you?????

Well, at least Chaos also enjoys the fireplace. I guess if the creatures are happy something must be right! LOL Anyway, feel free to give me some ideas! Better yet, come over and help me move my furniture around! LOL