My houzz

Assuming I get a holiday bonus and not a subscription to the jelly of the month club, my plan is to get a couple of chairs for the front room to form a little conversation area. People have been hanging out in that room now that we've set up our record player and speakers and I'm sick of dragging chairs in from the dining room!

Since there's still a little time before the holidays, I decided to upload pictures to houzz.com to get opinions from wannabe designers on styles and colors. Ha! Within minutes, I had opinions on a million different things and nothing about the chairs.

Eventually, someone recommended chairs from West Elm and even did a little mock layout for me. So now I have a style and arrangement to keep in mind when I start furniture shopping. And plenty of other decorating ideas to consider :)

I'm laughing a little bit about the feedback I got from people on houzz, but I'm actually pretty happy with how it all worked. Thanks to Kylie for the recommendation! Who knew it would make such a difference to pull my couch away from the window?

Here are a few pictures of the room now. I'll post again after the new year whenever I've made progress.