Family room, in progress.

I'm slow in posting Tyler's painting progress because he's actually done more than these photos show, but here is the one wall he did last weekend. New shiny white paint on the brick (it was dull, matte off-white before) and Benjamin Moore Night Train on the walls.


The other walls will soon be the lighter BM Gray Wisp.


We keep having to move all of our furniture around the room and it is getting pretty annoying, especially because I'm so useless as a pregnant person -- useless at painting and useless at lifting heavy objects.

Lately I've been fretting over the couch that we'll be getting for our improved family room. We currently have a shabby old futon down there as well as a very well-worn loveseat. My requirements for a couch are these: 1) needs to be a sleeper, 2) needs to have a slipcover, 3) needs to be relatively cheap. It will come as no surprise that these requirements lead me straight to IKEA. Unfortunately, our closest IKEA is about 8 hours away. (At least until they open IKEA Denver which will be in... oh... a couple of years. Too long to wait to buy this couch, though what a happy day it will be.)

These days I'm leaning towards the Karlstad sofa bed in Sivik dark gray. I'm hoping it will go well with the grays that we've got going on in the room. We'll have to have them ship it to us, unfortunately, and that will cost a bundle.
I am liking those clean lines.