Gettin' Comfy

When we last updated things with the basement we were going crazy with distressing shelves, sconces, and a chalkboard.  A few weeks ago the hubby and I were at our wits end with the seating arrangements and decided to buy a comfy couch for the basement.  You would think it would be an easy process since we already knew what we wanted. Nope.  It took THREE and a HALF hours.  I'm not a big shopper for anything, especially furniture, so about 45 minutes in I was over it.  Apparently trying to find a sectional is a difficult process.  They were either too squishy, not squishy enough, over priced, too big, too small, coloring was wrong, awkward, wrong fabric, wrong color.  Until we found this comfortable beauty...

We bought it at Colders and while it took us FOREVER to figure it out, this couch is SO worth it.  It is made by Ashley Furniture, I can't find a link for it, but we are in LOVE.

Furniture can really make all the difference in a room, if you don't believe me look at what we started with:

And after our adventure in furniture buying:
















I think we have Mae's seal of approval, but she's easy to please.

DIY Distressed Sconces

To go with our distressed, industrial-ish theme we are working on in our basement we decided to keep the party going with some sconces.  We did the same thing as here and here and really think this finishes that area.

We found the "candle holders" aka drinking glasses from Target for about $2.00/per and hot glued them to the wood platform that was attached to the galvanized pipe.

The candles, I got from Target and are battery operated  because I really do not want to burn down my house.  They are really nice and have a timer so we have one less thing to worry about!

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One slight problem we ran into was when we hot glued them to the platform, we obviously had issues with being able to get whatever we put in it, out.  So to fix that problem, I added some character to it by adding some acorns to the bottom.  **We will eventually end up gouging out a hole in the platform for the glasses to sit in since the hot glue makes it difficult to get the candle/anything we put in them out.

Tying up any loose ends??