Pretty City Sweets n' Things: Home Sweet Home

So our living room has been done for a while, I just haven't had the time to take some pictures. So here is our semi-new house's living room/formal sitting area.

I have a few before pictures of what it looked like when we bought it. EVERY room in the house had FIVE (or more) layers of wallpaper. All the hard work is paying off and by the time Baby Baltzell gets here the house will be done! The kitchen is done, and has a new refrigerator in it. That's right, I picked out my first kitchen appliance as a married woman. Other rooms are all pretty close to being done, they just need decor. Soooo..... There is an end in sight!

The living room is so big, we had to break it into two areas. One is the "living area" where the t.v. and couches are. The other area is like a "sitting area" with the piano and chairs.

Here is the living room before:

(the sitting area)

And after:

And these are just some of my favorite details of the room(s):

Our wall sconce(es) from our missions trip to India, where we met. There is another one on the other side of a window that sit in between them. These are, of course, very dear to my heart.

Two, of my many, rummage sale treasures. I found both of these chairs in separate rummage sales. Both are antiques and are both a couple of my favorite things about this room.

This is our piano. A lot of the decorations on here were used at our wedding as decor for the reception and etc... (yes there are already some Christmas decorations sitting out.)

I LOVE this painting! This is sort-of our entry-way piece.

This is the famous book shelf that our Pastor made us. I had seen one that he had made in the church and bragged on how much I liked it and before I knew it, I had one delivered to my front door! He is also going to be making us a wardrobe piece for the baby's room.