Curious if you found a similar item as the Pottery Barn Logan Entertainment center as I am also looking for one?

Oh what a cutie! I agree that you have a good reason to not have a lot of time. I've been reminding of that time in my life the last two years that I've been babysitting our grandson. Who cares about decorating when you have a precious little one to love. And I can understand more about why hubby doesn't like changing things or doing more than "has" to be done. He's more worried about being a good daddy and supporting his family than having a "pretty" updated home. Our home was rather sparse with mostly hand me down or used furniture when our first born was a baby. Heck it wasn't much difference by the time our second baby was born. Not saying it wasn't warm and welcoming. It was, but not everything was perfect. I've learned with age, that it's not so important. Perfection, that is. I went through a period where things had to be just so. Maybe it's more living in a unfinished home with a hubby that works a full time job year round and umpires most of the rest evenings and weekends to keep in shape and it pays nice too. We'll be in good shape for retirement and that's a good thing. I'm glad you like the corner door shelf. It's really easy to do. The hardest part was cutting the door in half. It's heavy so it took three of us to do. But if you used two doors you wouldn't have to worry about that. I bought the door through Craigslist since I was going to distress it, it didn't have to be perfect to start with. Habitat Restores are a good source for used doors too. As for the lighting in the entry I was wondering if you'd be able to use a decorative type track lighting in there. They have some really nice looking ones that the "track" curves and all you need is the one box for the fixture.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/smallerhomes/msg0212593512065.html Hope this link works first time I tried to do the clippings. I am one that believes that in a small house, such as mine, you need to make all your furniture function for more than one thing, I shopped for years to find the right piece of furniture here, I do want my TV hidden when not in use, this is my living room, my husband has a similar set up in the family room, only his has a huge stereo system as well as his t v..and his books. we are both big book people..i have bookcases in nearly every room in my house..all my furniture must have storage, or eventually it will be gone. (oh except the seating..my sofas don't..i do store things under my beds though)

Thank you for asking! I have a 1920's side hall colonial. It has some original molding, but other than that doesn't really have much in the way of architectural interest. My downstairs consists of a very small entryway with stairs immediately to the left, a living room to the right and straight ahead a small open hallway leading to the kitchen. Between the living room and kitchen is a dining room, and there is a bathroom off the kitchen. The total downstairs is about 650 SF and pretty much all of the spaces open up into each other. Currently, my living room is painted a flat creamy white with the molding painted the same color which makes it fade into the walls. I'm think that painting the walls a different color than the molding might add more interest. I was thinking doing BM Dove White molding and BM Putnam Ivory walls. I don't have a coffee table at the moment. I had a glass top coffee table and glass top side tables, but now that I have a 20-month old the glass became dangerous. (He tried to climb on it!) So I put my old tables in the basement and purchased these: There are matching twin coffee tables but I thought maybe a large ottoman might be the most practical option for our lifestyle as my son is rambunctious and like to dive onto the furniture. :) Do you think that would be a bad look? I just ordered this rug in blue, which hasn't arrived yet: I think I might get rid of the window treatments, but I'm not sure what color to go with. I don't really like the built in painted wood rod holders so I might rip them out when I repaint and replace it with hardware. I would get rid of the metal side ties as well. I also need to replace the shades, as they have cords and are not safe for my little one to be around unattended. I have an open bookshelf that I used to store things I don't want my son to get to but I need more decorations added to it. (It currently has the phone, a basket w/remotes, a lamp and little else.) I think if I got some sort of corner entertainment center that looked nicer than what I currently have and a flat screen tv, it might help my "media corner". I would also be nice to have a place to put my surround sound speaker, but I don't know if that is realistic. I haven't found anything yet. I wonder if my framed art looks too stuffy. I love Mattise and Picasso but I have five pictures all with the same fram and I wonder if it makes things too boring. I also wonder if it looks to juvenile - I'm 31. Do I need to replace them? Of course changing all of these things will cost money, which is tight at the moment! Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated! I'm going to post pictures as soon as I can. Thank you!