English Cottage Living Room - Before, Partly After & Still a Work in Progress

I am sorry for not posting more pictures of the progress we've made settling into this new (to us) home.   It seems life rushes by so fast and that at times, doing little things, even those that I love and enjoy, often get pushed aside and onto the back shelf of my mind where I tell myself, "I'll get to this later".  Well, it is later and though I don't have as much to share with you as I'd like, I'm going to at least share my favorite spot in our living room.  I promise to show the rest of the room soon but for now the opposite half of the living room has been occupied by my daughters boyfriend who has been staying with us for the past 7 or so weeks until his apartment is ready for him to move into, and so the couch is usually made up for him to sleep on!  

Here is a photo of the current living room just as we found it, a small room just off the entry of the house with a nice marble and wood fireplace surround, hard wood floors, beautiful crown moulding and a neutral shade of paint that I am really happy with and glad not to have needed to repaint.  

I've always loved to incorporate English Cottage style in my decorating but I wanted this room to exude an even cozier feeling like that found in a Country house, just a tad less formal.  This corner is my favorite place in the house to have my morning coffee.  The red checked French chairs are some I found years ago at an estate sale for $25.  I refinished them myself and then had them professionally reupholstered in a Schumacher fabric.  They really need reupholstering again but even if I could afford to do that right now,  I'd probably do a very similar fabric as I love the buffalo checks.  The chairs are really comfy too!

I am also working on a post about a fairly recent find.  It's shown in the pic above and I can't wait to tell more about it. Hint:  It's not transferware!

Here's a little peak at the room taken from further back, looking in from the entryway.   Although I like the arrangement over the mantle, I'm already considering changing it up a bit.  I may move the dog portraits to another wall and hang a large mirror or painting there instead.   Or, maybe raise the banjo clock several inches and add some plates in an arched arrangement around it.  Or, maybe I'll do both! One change first…leave it awhile…then the other!  Who knows?!?!?  What do you think?   I'll share whatever it is that I do, when I do it.

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