In the 12 years that Justin and I have been married, we’ve lived in 6 different places. Over those years, we’ve used the space in our homes very differently based on what was happening during that particular time in our lives.
When we first moved to Raleigh, just 3 months after we were married, Justin was in school full-time and I worked at a salon doing hair. We had a small townhome with 3 bedrooms which we designated as the primary bedroom, a guest room, and a shared office space. I started my blog while we lived in this townhome, and have so many memories of hearing Justin come in late from studying at the library to find me upstairs in the office pounding out blog posts!
As we started having kids, and then we both transitioned to working from our home, our needs and how we “used” our house changed. We migrated our TV up to the playroom and shifted the family room area to act as the space where we gathered with friends or family to talk. I wanted to update our family room to feel really welcoming and comfortable. The kind of place where you slipped your shoes off, shifted the pillows around on the couch, and really settled in. We love to light fires in our fireplace when it’s cold enough, so the idea of sitting and enjoying company in this space was for a long time what I imagined using this room for. Practically, we needed different seating than what the furniture we moved from the other house offered us. I was intrigued when Bassett reache...