One Room Challenge, Week Five: the tv wall and the ottoman

Thank you so much for all the lovely comments last week. I'm sorry I haven't responded to everyone, but I love reading your comments and I appreciated every single one.

This is week Five of the One Room Challenge--only one more week!  See past weeks here: Week 1 (moodboard), Week 2 (curtains), Week Three Part 1 (art options), andWeek 3, Part 2 (splatter painting), and Week Four (bookshelves).  

Our living room is 12 x 11, with a fireplace and a full wall of windows along one side.

The obvious place to put a tv in our living room is either over the fireplace, or along the only wall that isn't full of windows.  I don't mind the tv over the fireplace look, but we decided to put the tv across from the sofa on the far wall.  Here is that wall shortly after we moved in:

You can read about how the campaign dresser I planned on putting in that spot was stolen during the move.  I decided to work with the furniture that we had, which were the small Expedit and two Billy bookshelves.

The underbelly of the Expedit is a tangled mess of cables and electronic stuff we need but I cannot identify.  So I wouldn't have to look at this horror, I convinced my mother to make a skirt for the Expedit, using this tutorial.  I considered a gorgeous cobalt blue velvet for this project, but settled for the $5 a yard polyester.

At first, the polyester skirt had a "conference table at a hotel" air about it.  We trimmed the skirt with a greek key trim, which made it a bit fancier. 

The skirt has a flap in front that lifts up so we can access the shelves underneath.

I wrapped the same navy blue fabric around the foam board pieces in the back of the bookshelves.  I think it really makes the white and red pieces stand out.  

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I also found a round ottoman for the living room. 

You might remember a few weeks ago I found a round leather tufted ottoman at the home consignment store, but it was more than I wanted to pay.  I stalked it for a few weeks, and then one day it was no longer there, so I assumed it had been sold.  Two weeks ago I was browsing the home consignment store when I came upon the same ottoman in a different corner of the store, upside down on top of a table.  After some haggling with the store owner, the ottoman came home with me.  

Sadly, the ottoman was in the house all of three minutes before the kids plucked buttons out of the tufting.  Ergo the yellow tray covering up the damage.

See what the other bloggers have done this week:

Beth - Chinoiserie Chic

Lauren - The Cottage Mix

Sherry - Design Indulgence

Lindsay - Everything LEB

Barbara - Hodge:Podge

Kim - Kim Macumber Interiors

LisA - Lisa Mende Design

Tiffany - Living Savvy

Jessie - Mix & Chic

Linda - My Crafty Home Life 

Alison - My Little Happy Place

Danylle - Nana Moon

Nicole - Nicole Scott Designs

Julia - Pawleys Island Posh

Jennifer - The Pink Pagoda

Nancy - Powell Brower Home

Lindsay - The Pursuit of Style

Emily - Rue de Emily

Lindsay - Sadie + Stella