Jen's home improvements...

I have wanted to make some improvements to our living room for quite some time now and we finally got around to doing it! For those of you that are interested in home improvments, then I hope this is an interesting post for you. But if you are not interested then this will be incredibly boring for you!! So don't read on haha!
Anyway, so to start with, our old furniture was sort of  'makeshift'. The TV unit and the larger book cabinet were both originally open bookshelves. But when Benjamin started moving about, the DVDs came off the shelf at least 5 times a day and it was driving me mad! So in the end, Ben went to B&Q and bought some wood to make his own cupboard doors. While this did us fine for a while, the units were starting to look very rough around the edges and tatty. When we moved house in September they became even worse! In the past we have always opted for light-coloured furniture so I really wanted to have some darker stuff for a change. Our old leather sofas served us well for 5 years but one was starting to break at the back and they had many scuffs and permanent stains on them. Here are some 'before' shots for you.....

So this time I chose some fabric sofas in 'mink' from Tesco Direct. I had to choose very carefully as we have such a narrow front door, larger sofas would just not have made it through! I really wanted some patterned curtains so I chose some from ebay, which blend in nicely with the teal theme. The rug was also from ebay and I love having a fluffy feeling under my feet :) The walnut-coloured TV stand and nest of tables came from Argos and the larger wall unit came from Homebase. I got the smaller bookshelf from Tesco Direct too.

And here are the 'after' shots....

I am a lover of bright colours so I 'jazzed' it all up a bit with some extra colours in the form of photo frames, cushions and plant pots :) I am most pleased about the fact that I got all of these homewares for such bargain prices and really didn't break the bank at all. xxxxxxx