Before I get into today's posts, a huge thank you so much for sweet comments about our house tour! I'm so happy all the thought and details we decided on show though in the snapshots I shared yesterday! Now onto today's post about our new sofas!

Months ago Hasani and I were sofa shopping for the perfect twin sofas for our living room. Our old living room set up was pretty traditional in the terms of pieces one sofa and two chairs. The original setup was fine, but honestly the chairs were rarely used any when we had guests over, most people gravitated to the sofa vs. the chairs. Heck, I gravitated to the sofa. Buying a sectional crossed my mind, however since our living room is on the smaller side, I didn't want our space to feel like a giant sofa with no room for anything else.

We soon realized matching sofas would be much more practical for our living room and for our family. Creating plenty of seating when we have friends and family over and plenty of soft spots for our to land on family movie nights! We love movie nights around here. You may also remember from my earlier post about sofa shopping, I had a semi long list of wants in a sofa, read more here. My main must for our new sofa was no back cushions! The back cushions on our last sofa where the bain of my existence. I honestly spent way to much time, fluffy & pumping them back into shape. We quickly narrowed our sofa search down to Crate and Barrel and Scandinavian Designs. We bought our last sofa at Scandinavian Designs, even though I loathed the back cushions, I loved how comfortable the sofa was and the quality.

We bought ended up buying our Martin new sofas from Scandinavian Designs and went with a medium grey fabric....not too dark and not too light, just right. The sofas are made by Rowe, just like our last sofa was. One thing I love about buying furniture [aside from amazing customer service, remember the stove manager recognizes me, whenever I pop in [ I'm sure it has nothing to do with my long list of sofa requirements] is the option to choose from a wide variety of fabric options and the quality. With Crate & Barrel, we were limited to two colors in the 'grey family.' We love that our new sofas have a good solid warranty and the cushions alone are under warranty for five years.

Here our our new twin sofas, we placed one sofa under our living room window and the other one directly across. I'm thinking this layout works best of our living room, helping it feel open to our dining and kitchen areas. I'm in love with the clean lines of the sofa, and all the subtle piping. To top it all off, they are super comfy yet have nice and firm cushions! I plan sewing several pillows covers for our sofas, using these fabrics I mentioned here. I'm excited about our new blank canvas our sofas provide. The currant pillows on our sofas came with our sofa, we had the option of selecting the fabric for the pillows and they made them, we ordered that sofas [and pillows] so long ago, I forgot what the pillows look like. More than likely they'll be our 'winter fall pillows' because they seem on the cozier side. Also the little side table in the picture is our temporary side table, most likely this little table will be outside holding plants in the future.

Soon, I'll share some more full 'in progress, pictures of our living room. In the meantime here's a better view our how our living room is looking. The lights are turned on in this picture so that's why our wall color looks warmer. From this angle, you'll spot my beloved consignment store lamps, and our new to us coffee table I scored for a really good deal on Craigslist.

We are super happy with our new sofas, they feel exactly us and our style.

What do you think so far?

As you know we moved back in out home

last Saturday

, we are so happy to be home! The morning before we 'officially' moved into our home (again) I snapped some pictures to share our home with prior to moving in. Our living room opens to our newly painted cheery shade of

chartreuse front door

. I'm so in love with this color, its such a fun color next to our grey house.

Here's a view of our living room looking in from our dining room area.

Our new wide doorway between our living room and dining / kitchen area really help our home feel so much more open and spacious. One of the best decisions we made during the rebuilding our our home was to make the doorway extra large. Beyond our dining room and kitchen is our new laundry room addition. More details about our laundry room in below.

Here's a glimpse of our kitchen, its still in need of some finishing touches, but I'll get to all that in a later post along with more pictures. I can tell you this, I'm blown away in love with our kitchen and could not be happier! It's truly my mini dream kitchen and I love the space!

Here's a better glimpse of our new laundry room space. I plan on using this space as a laundry & mudroom combination. I'm so happy we went a french door with glass panes instead of going with a full door, it really lets so much light in and gives the appearance of a much larger space.

For flooring in our laundry room, we went with wood look tile, it looks really seamless with our hardwood floors.

Bam! Another pop of color is awaits when you open the door to our back patio. I'm so thrilled to have access from the inside of our house to our back yard. Before we were only able to access our backyard though a side gate, though the garage or Avery's room [sliding glass doors, but we didn't use the doors] I'm super happy that now when we have guests over they have go though our laundry / mudroom verses walking though a hot garage [huge plus] I have big plans for this little space.

View of our front door looking in from the hallway.

Glimpse of Tabari's bedroom, he loves his over-sized light fixture. He's really excited about his bedroom and can't wait to put is personal stamp on it.

Avery's bedroom, we replaced the slding glass door with twin windows, they let so much light into his bedroom. He already loves looking outside while playing in his bedroom.

Our main bathroom is so much bigger and brighter, more details to come on this space along we details of my plan to upgrade our basic 'off the shelf' vanity. It's going to look super upgraded once I'm done!

I shared

our master bedroom

a few weeks back, here's one more reminder our the space prior to moving in.

Now that we are all moved into our home, I'm starting to get everything organized and my ideas for our home more settled. I'm not planning on focusing on one room until its done, but to tackle projects on the list of my priority. So they'll be lots of in progress posts of our home, DIY projects along with before and after posts of a variety of projects I'm working on along various everyday happenings around our house [ trying our new recipes, organizing etc]

I hope you all enjoyed the tour of our house, there's so much more to come!