New Livingroom

Some of you may know or recall that I was getting a new couch and recliner for my living room.  Before it was delivered, I painted my living room.  I took pictures once they were delivered, but I also discovered that my old coffee table was too low for my new couch.  So, I've been on the lookout for a new table.  With the spacing in my living room, I don't have room for a big long traditional table, so I've been hunting for something a bit smaller, but taller.

In the meantime, a week and a half ago, my tv died.  It was only 8-1/2 years old, but it was an old, tube, bulky, extremely heavy, tv.  Heavy enough, that I can't lift it on my own.  I moved my cable box into the bedroom and hooked it up to my little 15" tv to hold me over until I could find a new one.  Last Sunday, I bought one, 40" HD LCD for $400.  A new tv means I have to get rid of my entertainment center.  Recall a picture I posted a couple years ago of that entertainment center.

Last Monday, I had a maintenance guy come after work and carry the tv to the dumpster.  And to unhook the cable box and tv, I had to move the entertainment center partially away from the wall, so the top half it was cleaned off.  During the week I took the stereo to the left of the tv out to the dumpster also.  It had a five cd changer, dual cassette deck, radio tuner and a turntable, but the cd changer didn't work and I can listen to music on my computer, and I only used the turntable for my Christmas records.  Bye bye stereo.

So today, I took the rest of the stuff off the bottom (kept the dvd player, tossed the vcr) and moved the empty entertainment center out to the balcony for a toss over the railing.

My hope was that the fall to the ground would break it apart, which I could then carry easily out to the dumpster.  It worked!  I got everything over to the dumpster in about 5 trips.

So now I have a big empty wall, waiting for me to find a tv stand so I can unpack the tv and have Comcast come to set it all up, including a new HD DVR.  Here's the picture of my couch and recliner.

You can see the table is low for the height of the couch.  The recliner is just to the right out of the picture.  There isn't a lot of room between the table and chair for getting to the sliding door, so a smaller table will work better there.

Tori, both couch and chair are a deep red, almost a cranberry color.  Once I have everything else I now need to get for the living room, I'll take new pictures to show you how it looks.