The whole enchilada...or my living room.

  I have touched on my plans before but I felt I could go into a bit more detail, for no reason at all save my present boredom!
 So here I go again...

      I plan to take some basic, cheap stuff from Ikea and transform an apartment into one fun
pad for the man who just needs to relax and chill at the end of his day. Yes, a man can have class
and even live clean and neat and even decorate his home in style and not be "gay". I am so tired of
that tired ass cliche! Okay, enough of my soap box and on to the good stuff!

   Between Ikea, American furniture warehouse, HomeGoods, World Market and Ross I have, or plan to, obtain:

              from Ikea:

 for my TV

 from Walmart My 40 inch TV...

Ikea... one of these

                                                                                        on either side

 then these as

                                                                                         end tables...

   Then from Walmart I plan to get these cool lamps, which happen to perfectly fit my Asian theme...

                                                                             then this

 

Then American furniture warehouse will help my endeavor with these two beauties...

 

and then to separate the kitchen and living room with style and in that Asian theme, from World Market...

 my new Shinto Screen!

I plan on filling my place with nice plants and a fountain or two, as well as I am checking into obtaining a few of these sweet little salt lights, there's a place a Cherry Creek Mall that has these that are about 11 inches tall and they are B-e-a-utiful!

I plan on at least two Bonsai trees, fakes of coarse, and a handful of tasteful Asian art pieces to fill some shelf space.

I recently went to the fabric store and bought some really nice Asian scenery fabric and stretched it onto three equal sized canvasses and made my own wall hanging, will post pics when it is all hung, it is really nice!, I encourage people to try that themselves, you may surprise yourself.

Update: I went to American today and when we were walking around we noticed that the couches were WAY cheaper than they were two weeks ago...actually affordable. Needless to say, I got a sofa instead of the two chairs..And it was cheaper by about $30. I also got a wicked 8 X 10 area rug, but I couldn't locate a pic on AFW.com...It matches everything else in the room with blues and grays and silvers... Anyway...here is the couch, the pic is deceiving, it is actually gray.

 

it is huge! I can actually lay out fully and not touch either end! They are cushions that come off and can be unzipped, removed and washed! The pillows come with it but I'm not crazy bout those! The arms are very overstuffed so maybe the wood won't be all upside my head in 6 months. For under $400 it is an excellent deal!