Yay for my house

So, I've been working super hard at finally getting my house together. I feel like I have the living room and work room, dare I say it, done. Check out the photos below!

The infamous light box. I bought this at a selvage store in Chicago, it's from an old hospital. When they said that it 'worked' I simply assumed that I could plug it in and have a great piece for my wall. But of course 'working' turned out to be a phrase open for interpretation. So I did have to rewire this thing. The lights do work, they are just not on for this photo. I have old dental slides that I can put up, but I was thinking to print out photos on transparency film and light them up instead.

Best part about my house: these windows. Worst part about my house: these windows. While they are great for letting the daylight in, they also let the neighborhood and all who pass through my ally know what I am up to, especially when it gets dark. So most of the time these shades a pulled. The fish don't seem to mind.

I bought this cabinet just as a cabinet (I got a flea market vendor to 'throw it in' with my 'desk' purchase). I added legs and painted them black to match. I don't currently have anything totally unique to store inside the clear glass door (but I am on the look-out for some cute taxidermy animals - nature scene maybe?) so I filled it with pretty colored shopping bags and boxes. The 'R's I've been collecting and this is a nice way of having them all in one place. Oh, and that glass lamp still needs a shade.

This shot is not particularly interesting, especially since I skipped over my built-in shelving that holds my entire collection of Kid Robot Simpson's characters (saving for a later post). But I really like this bag I got at Scout. It is holding a million other bags that I take with me when I go shopping for groceries and the like.

I left my house looking for a desk. I came home with this. (which is why I call it my 'desk') I just couldn't leave it at the flea market what if it would have gone to a home that didn't give it any love! Well it's mine now and I give it warm and gentle Pledge rubs. I cut mat board to give the drawers real bottoms so I can actually use them for other things besides card files.

Finally, an organized work space. The drafting table is a lovely donation from my boyfriend's storage unit and the white cabinet is from Ikea. That top part pulls down to reveal my sewing machines. The painting is almost done. It's been almost done for a couple of months now....

My couch. It was green and I covered it with this white canvas. It was a $20 yard sale find. The side table was once all pine, I painted it white and covered the center with dark wood grain contact paper. You can see peaking out in the corner my donated (my handsome man didn't have the room for this in his place) DWR vertical book shelf. The pillows are mostly covered with 45rpm bandanna wrappings.