Rearranging Furniture...

It's sometimes crazy what triggers me to change things around in our home.  

Over Christmas break, we had a few family movie nights.
 It was after midnight when we finished,
"The Christmas Story"(one of our kids' favorite Christmas traditions).
I kept looking over at our sectional in our living room.  My mind started churning and I looked over at my husband and asked if he was ready to help me move some furniture? He looked at me like I was a little crazy, but luckily we are both night owls & we started moving things around.

  We moved our sectional into the great room, which makes more sense for watching movies...we all fit comfortably and actually have some space to lounge out.

Here it is in the living room.

It is a perfect fit in here, but it will definitely be used more in the great room.

The material always felt like it would be a better fit for a TV room.

Here it is in the great room now...

 At first, I thought it might be too big, but we are really enjoying it there.

It's weird, but when you are sitting in there, it actually makes the room feel a lot bigger than it did before.

 Now I have opened a can of worms figuring out where to put everything else.

I moved our black shelf into the kitchen...

I  really like how it matches our table...

My sister is going to buy my leather set.

Then I found my couch at Ashley Furniture for a great deal!
I actually found it in the classifieds from a wholesale store that was about an hour away.  

We went into the Ashley store closer to our house and they had the same set.
They price matched it and I saved another $250.00.
 I love a good deal.

I love tufted furniture!  

Now we have to find two chairs and a coffee table to complete the room.
Here are a few of my "inspiration" rooms:

Traditional Living Room by Plano Home Builders Shaddock Homes

Source  and Pinterest

Pinterest

They are both beautiful rooms and I like how this is going to look more "formal" for our living room.

When I started putting away our Christmas decor it started me on a major "clean out"!

It feels so good to get rid of junk.  I actually tackled this storage area we call the "pit".
It took me ALL day, but I had a whole car full of stuff for goodwill.
While I was unloading, the kid asked me like three times, "Is that everything?"
I know how to fill up my car... Lets just say it was a good de-junk!  

We hadn't touched that area in almost 10 years.  It was the space you'd feel with "stuff" and shut the door.  

I love getting organized for the New Year!
 We are off to a good start!

Today, my mom & I started on my sister's house to make room for her to take our old leather set.
She gave us treat on our way out and said not to come back ;).
Unfortunately, we don't listen too well...see you in the morning Clarece!
{UPDATE}
Click Here for the link to our Updated Living Room.
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