A few of you have been asking to see our couch in action.  Here it is in all of its glory!

Ta-da!  Doesn’t it make your heart go pitter patter?  I think this couch is my new love language.  I was amazed at how much it opened up our living room.  It’s so sleek.  It’s so surprisingly comfy.  The seats look like they wouldn’t feel plush, but they are super squishy!

Here’s what you see when you first walk in our front door.  Ahhh, the beauty.

As you can see, it’s a lot different than our previous couch, which we loved whole heartedly.

I really want to get a coffee table now.  Our previous couch took up too much space to allow for one, but this new couch practically calls for one.

And in case you’re having a cow, don’t worry, we’re planning on painting our walls.  It’s all a little too much now that we have a green couch.  We chose our paint colors right after we got married and right before I really got into blogs and decorating and all that jazz.  So while I love the paint colors, I’ve been wanting to change them for awhile.  It’s hard to decorate with a lot of color and accessories when the walls are so loud.  Especially in our small space.

Okay, let me warn you … Photoshop travesty is about to occur.

This is to show you a teensy bit of what we’ll be going for when we paint.  It was hard to get the exact shade and make it look right because of all the shadows on the wall previously.  And because I did it in like five seconds.  Timothy offered to help, but I told him to get his own blog.  Ha!

In real life, the creamy background color in our curtains is very similar to the creamy background color in our rug.  So the plan is to match that color and go a few shades darker.  Not exactly brown, not exactly cream.  I think it will be a nice warm neutral and will allow for a lot more decorating freedom.  And maybe some of our guests will stop giving us such weird looks because their brain hurts from all the colors we got going on.

It’s definitely a process.

This would be the messy other side of our living room.  Besides picking up most of the random stuff under the previous love seat, we left it like this.  Dirty dishes in the background, the cabinet doors from my kitchen project that I stuck under the couch for future tenants, and my bowl of magazines.  And the lamp that was too short and was sitting on a super cute paisley box I forgot about.  Oh and yeah, NO SEATING.

Our couch and love seat were perfect for my parents’ living room, so we gave the set to them.  I’m not lying, I cried a little.  We have memories of those couches!  We watched movies and wrote blogs and designed websites on our couch.  And when we were mad at each other, one of us would sit on our love seat.  It was the perfect arrangement.

This is the only picture I could find of that side of the room.  Just ignore the tree and focus on the huge love seat.  Gigantic, right?  It and the couch look so good in my parents living room.

So now we’ll be scouting out Goodwills for some amazing chairs for that side of the room.

I’m a little sad to say goodbye to our beloved couch set and our beloved slate blue walls, but seriously.  Zeee couch ees worth eeet.  Even if we’re rocking out cereal and ramen noodles to get our savings account back up.

So what do you guys think?  Do you like it?  Worth the trip to bring our couch baby home?  Do you have any other wall colors you think might look good?  Do you want to come over and sit in it to witness the extreme squishiness?

~Whitney