Use A Rug To Define Your Living Area, step by step

We are working on a few projects this morning, but in the meantime we thought we’d toss out this work-with-what-you’ve-got quickie. Some people have been asking where we got the armless loveseat in our living room, but that is in fact simply two of our old low-cost-o Dolce chairs pushed together with two Ikea faux sheepskins covering the seam. See, here they are divided:

And united:

Thanks to the front legs sitting on the rug, they do not scoot or separate, so they are in fact fully functional. If we were going to keep them this way for a while we’d likely use metal L-brackets to connect them from underneath the frame, but since Karl’s arrival could fully change the layout of our living room we are going to hold off on that and simply see how things go.

One day at a time is certainly the mantra these days. And it totally works. We may have five million things on the ol’ to do list, and we may be constantly switching gears (from room to room and painting-projects to fabric-hunting), but we are surprisingly not-overwhelmed. Thanks to taking things day by day. I know it sounds like a Backstreet Boys song (or even a “vintage” NKOTB hit) but we have consistently been ok with embraced corny. So we are simply trying to sit back, enjoy the journey, and sing in harmony to girls who scream and faint see where we end up…