What's been keeping us busy?

After all the posts about our plans for the guest bedroom and living room, it seemed about time to give an update.

The bedroom, complete with burgundy curtains, lamp shades, and duvet. I think the red looks nice against the gray and purple:

We've been spending most of our time on the living room. First, we settled on curtains for the bay window. Eventually, we'll put up a second bar for the white ones, but for now we have them all strung up on the same rod:

We put a beautiful fan D's grandfather gave us on the mantle. It exactly matches the burnt red accents we've already bought:

What's really been keeping us busy is the wall unit we've been putting together from Ikea cabinets and Elfa shelving. It looks weird without shelves, but we're getting to that part. We're buying wood today to stain, using Minwax English Chestnut.

(I took that photo before we put the fan up...)


I'm spending Columbus Day priming the bathroom in preparation for paint, even though we still don't have a paint color. Someone gave us the good advice to find curtains and rugs first and then match them to a paint color. Unfortunately, we like black and white accents, which still keeps all our options open. D is just going to run to Sherwin Williams sometime this week and come back with a surprise, since I'm much more indecisive on this than he is. In a meantime, keep voting in our poll.