Living Room Updates

For awhile the TV was sitting in front of the fireplace, but then I couldn't see the stockings! The living room isn't very big either so it kind of felt like you were inside the TV. So, up on the wall it went! It is a little high, but the only place for the giant TV. We bought a mounting bracket for the TV and Glenn worked his handy man skills. I was really only helpful when lifting the TV and that was marginal I think.

I bought the wooden Japanese window shutter without any clue what I was going to do with it, but it works pretty well as a fireplace screen...well, until we get a gas insert for the fireplace, but that will probably be awhile since we would like to upgrade the stove to gas at the same time.

Here is a true BEFORE from when we were house hunting:

And AFTER:

We've since moved the cabinet on the left over to the right of the fire place to cover up all the ugly cords. Once Glenn gets a longer cable of some sort, we can move the PS3 and cable box off of the mantle too.

Only a couple more boxes to get rid of and we will be cardboard box free!