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Redecorating

Friends invite each other over to their houses. My husband and I have lived in our house for over a year, now I'm not saying we haven't invited friends over in that time. We've had tons of people, even a few parties in that time. What I'm saying is that we've had people over and our living looks like we just moved it.

See?

Doesn't it look like we just moved in yesterday? Not July of 2011?

I told my wonderful hubby that enough is enough. We have a beautiful red wall in our dining room and we've put little accents of red throughout the rest of the downstairs. Red vases on our bookshelves, red tea towels in the kitchen, black and red painting in the hallway... you get the point.

Well, we hoped on the freeway drove down to our local IKEA and bought a few things. We put everything together, ok Brian put everything together, and look how great it is now?
Red Rug-GISLEV, Red Pillows-GRANAT, Bus Photo-VILSHULT

Please ignore the curled rug, like I said, we came home and put it all together then I just got so excited I had to take a picture for you. Everything there we bought at IKEA except for the super cute pillow in the corner. I made that.

Now next time you come over you wonder why we haven't unpacked the rest of the living room yet.

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