Why don't you have a seat?

So when you first buy a new home you're filled with project-itis. Paint this, replace that, rearrange this, organize that. Then you get burned out (or at least I did, big time). Note to self: next time don't buy a complete fixer upper and give yourself one week to get it right before you move in! So I think I'm finally over the burned out phase and I'm feeling like doing things to my home again.

I really have my Mom to thank for this. After almost 20 years of only changing paint colors in the house I grew up in, she has suddenly been taken over by redo-fever. It started with a new buffet in the breakfast room and a new desk in the "office." That office suddenly needed a new coat of paint. Then it turned into a new bed in the guest room (formerly known as my childhood bedroom). Before long the family room also needed new paint, but not before brand new couch and chairs were ordered and delivered. This has progressed into a new table for the breakfast room and I am just waiting for the phone call that she has repainted that room too. There are more things on her list, but apparently she is taking a break for a moment.

Not to be left out of the furniture frenzy I did a little President's Day Sale shopping and fell in love with a leather chair (which happened to be on floor sample sale and was a MAJOR steal). Since my taste tends to be a bit more feminine, I felt like I needed a leather chair to balance things out a bit. Now this chair doesn't exactly scream "come sit in me with your brandy and cigar," but I guess it is a step farther towards masculine than my couch (which was called pink by the movers, but is really more red for the record).

I think the chair perfectly completes my living room and it looks great next to my (hopefully someday upgraded) "fireplace." Hope ya'll like it and stay tuned because I found the perfect bar stools for $14.99 each and after I am done with them you would never know I didn't get them for a much more expensive price.

Although I do know someone you might have to fight to sit in this chair. It is his new favorite spot.