New Apartment: After - Living/Dining Room

I feel bad. I promised to post these pictures about 3 weeks ago.. Oops! Well I'm happy to finally share some "after" pictures of our place, and I'm going to start out with my favorite room in the house: the living room.

Our living room is a combined living and dining space, and after having lived in a 1 room studio for a year I was so excited to finally have enough room to entertain. Our last place had a 2 seater table and the couch, so we sometimes had to sit on the floor to eat when we had guests! Now we have the 4-seater table plus some ottomans to provide extra seating, as well as more than enough standing space.

 (Sofa, Pillows)

 My favorite part about the "dining room" space: the artwork! We found the vendor in Union Square, and while we admired their work we never really found any that we loved enough to buy. That is until we went to their website and found this series with the wine glasses and bottle! It's hard to tell, but the color of the glasses and bottle are actually a bright citrine, and we loved that with the other citrine accents in the room.

(Dining Set, Pictures)



 That's our "bar". The plan is to keep the wine fully stocked at all times! (Also, I'm beginning to realize that my iPhone doesn't take as good of pictures as I'd like. This one is slightly tilted also, which is human error..)

(Vases)

 Looking into the living/dining space from the entry way.

(Coffee table/end table set)

 You can tell where the cat's been on the couch! We love that print of the city from Ikea.

 We have two of these, flanking the TV. There was a long discussion about what to do with that space (leaning bookshelves, floating bookshelves..), but I love the end result!

(bookshelf, bird, ottoman, wine cork cage)

 The other book shelf and ottoman.

View from the "dining room" looking into the living room.