Living Room Remodel - Progress

I did a post a while back on the living room remodel where I said that I wanted to paint an accent wall, move the couches around, get rid of the bulky coffee tables, redo the decorations on the mantel and make some curtains.  Well, we have made some good progress! 

Here is a reminder of the before look:

And here is our progress:

We have changed the couches around to be more conversational, but we often find ourselves changing it back when we have extended guests over because we know we will be watching TV.  I still want to get rid of the extra chair by the fireplace or recover it.

I took the fabric that is on the large pillows into Home Depot to find an accent color for the fireplace wall.  It's kind of a grey-brown color.  I painted this wall while Greg was out of town if you remember, and we both absolutely love the change.  It warms up the room so much!

Next, I've been working on those darn curtains for several months and just couldn't sit down and finish them.  I'll do a separate post on those, but I'm happy with the way they turned out after all the time I spent on them.  I made them green to bring out the green colors in the room more, but they probably would have looked better if they were in the same color as the accent wall to really bring the entire room together.  I keep trying to bring 3 colors into a room, and it hasn't been working out so well for me.

Finally, the mantel decorations were changed.  I finished this a couple weeks ago.  I bought the metal art piece from Target several months ago, and I love the size of it.  Besides that, I didn't buy anything new for the mantel, and used other items that I had around the house.  I really like the way it turned out.

Well, I still need to carry those black end tables down to the basement and just get them out of the room.  I removed the lamps from them already and completely got rid of the blue in the room.  I still need to paint the center coffee table, and my parents were going to buy me a piece of glass to sit on the top of it and make it nice.

In the corner, Greg has his computer still, but he found out that he is able to connect our TV to the computer through an app now, so there isn't a need for the computer upstairs anymore, so we are going to move it back downstairs to the other TV.

Other than that, I'd say it's coming along pretty well.  I'm excited to start decorating for the holidays!