Red Room

Jerad and I call our front living area our 'Red Room' (if you walked in our house, it would be immediately to your left).  It's come a long way over the past year and I'm really pleased with it's progress. 

This is the before picture with the previous owner's lovely PURPLE pool table.  Somehow through all the colors, I saw possibilities with this room.  I guess when you get 'the feeling' in a house and when you know it's yours, it's yours, no matter the condition!

At first, we didn't have any furniture for the room.  Our tiny two bedroom apartment furniture didn't spread  very far into 2500 sq ft! 

Then, a couple weeks later, I had some SUPER budget buys at an estate sale across the street.  Literally, I got a dolly and wheeled about eight pieces of furniture across the street.  Thats the best $1K investment I've ever made!  Such a steal!  From this sale, I bought the table on the left (which I painted..was originally forrest green) and the hutch.  The two chairs on the right were 'trash' finds from our old apartment.  Why would someone throw away two descent looking chairs?

I did my best to make the room somewhat home-y with pictures/ lamps.

I also bought this fun red writing desk.  I absolutely love this piece and it's distressed coloring!! 

I put this on the back wall of the room.

Here's the desk filled with stationary, teacups and saucers, and mixing bowls. 

I like the slightly helter-skelter look of the shelves' contents, which is unusual for me.  I normally like accessories fairly organized, but for some reason I like this desk to be slightly misplaced.

Next, I made another huge discovery!  My coworker, Shannon, wanted to donate the couch below.  Silly ol' me...who had an empty house, graciously offered to swing by and pick it up to take it off her hands.  Her donation became the main seating area after a quick cleaning of the cushions and pillows!

I purchased some additional 'red' accessories like the pictures on the wall and the throw pillows from Kohls and Garden Ridge and finally the room was coming together!

Then, we removed that yucky green carpet and replaced it with hardwoods.  To protect the floors we added a brown rug and put the room back together (the rug was a wedding gift from Jerry Griffin).  The mirror was a gift from my mom (which I spray painted white), the chair below was my great grandfather's, and the hutch to the right was another $50 garage sale find.

I'm very pleased with the outcome.  I like that we have a mixture of different woods and painted furniture.  Notice the chair on the far right?  That's the chair from our apartment trash!  With a solid coat of spray painting, it looks like new!

 Red is the overall theme, but it's not overbearing.  I feel like its comfortable and welcoming for our guests.  And I hope you like it too!