Our Living Room Journey

Transformation of our "Cave" Living Room
(from mud brown to happy yellow!)

BEFORE

This is after we got some lighting in the room.
I thought it was pretty, but mostly pretty just in pictures and not really in person.
Now, the yellow is prettier in person than in pictures.

PLANNING THE COLORS

I helped too!  In between photos. :)

Now the Shelves...

3 coats of paint later...

 

Listening to Pandora Radio - Gaithers :)

 

New Rug is cat-approved

The room is not really this dark of a yellow...

it's a lot softer in person than in the photos.

Only 3 more cabinets to go!!

This is more the yellow that it looks like to me

And just for kicks...he's too cute not to post

My Top "Have-to-Read" Books - (and just books that I really really enjoyed...)

This topic came up in book club last night.  So I thought I'd post the books that stand out to me as excellent reads. I might add to this list as I reminisce. :)

My Top "Have-to-Read" Books - (and just books that I really really enjoyed...)

1. “Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson
or “Thunderstruck” is awesome too)

2. “Sickened” by Julie Gregory

3. “Switching Time” by Richard Baer

4. “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden

5. All those books everyone is recommending...The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Glass Castle, Water for Elephants, Hunger Games...they are really good.

6. “Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett
(and “A Dangerous Fortune” is awesome too)

7. “Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean Auel

8. “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides

9. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10. “Sophie’s Heart” by Lori Wick

11. “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory

12. “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman

13. “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See

14. "Across the Nightingale Floor", by Gillian Rubinstein (AKA Lian Hearn)