In this panorama shot you can see the green chair, the sofa, the love seat, the two end tables and the new computer desk.
My goal for today was to get all of the furniture that belongs in the living room, in the living room. This required that we put felt feet on all of the things we could, or cut old carpet scraps to use as temporary pads until we can choose what exactly we will use under the recliner and the desk chair.
In addition to getting the existing furniture back in place, we also brought the new roll top desk in and put it in its place.
We have temporarily put the printers and internet wiring on top of the roll top desk until we can get a combination TV/Printer stand for the middle of the living room wall next to the desk and the piano. This may or may not be reasonable, but at this time it gets the internet and printers working and gives us a good idea how much space we have for a TV stand. As you can see the piano is still up on the piano dolly and I will need some help to get it down and on to its rubber feet catches for the rollers. We definitely don't want it rolling around on the hardwood floor, intentionally or by earthquakes etc.
We now have a good idea how big of an area rug we need to cover the space, but we don't want to cover all of that hard work, so we will be looking at our options. Most of the area rugs at Wal-Mart are 8 feet by 5 feet. At this point I have no idea how much of the floor that would cover. But we need to get something soon and get the coffee table in here so I can put my feet up and watch TV!
I have to admit sitting in here without the big desk and with the dark floors I really feel like the character of the room has really changed. I'm sure it helps that there is a big open space in the middle of the room without the coffee table. I was talking to a friend today that said he painted and put "can" lights in his living room ceiling. I have been thinking of that prospect myself. The benefit of "can" recessed ceiling lights is that they are very good down light. The down light is good for lighting up reading or highlighting items on a wall. In our living room, it would also reduce the glare from the primary light source being right in the middle of the room. While we really like the appearance of the fan/light combo in the middle of the room, the fan blades have a stroboscopic effect on the light when the fan is on. The fan blades "cut" through the light and that light pattern swirls around the room. If I can put in can lights that won't be happening. We can reduce the amount of light coming from the fan light module, still have some to light up faces etc., but significantly reduced. I could even put in a light block to prevent the light from going up and being "cut" by the blades. This would also be a form of down-light, but would be distributed by the frosted globe of the fan light.
Tomorrow is another big day at church, so I'm sure little will happen on the home front. As soon as possible I need to measure out where the island goes and start prepping the floor for that to go back in. I'm hoping to do some of the pre-work on the island before it comes back in the house so I don't have to sand the butcher block and then sweep up from that. The butcher block needs a good resurfacing, something we have never done. It also will need whatever treatment the rest of the cabinets receive. It seems like the cabinets in the rest of the kitchen were chosen to match the cabinets on the island. In that light, the easy to remove veneer of wood on the old cabinets is the actual wood of the island, so it will have to be covered with whatever we choose to resurface the rest of the cabinets. All that to say, we need to figure out what if anything can be done to the island before it's brought back in.
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