Small Space Media Console: Our DIY Solution

Finally, we got around to photographing our living room. As you can see in these shots, our house is tiny! We actually live in the top floor of a two-flat. We are just under 750 sq ft which is great for two people but definitely gets tight with two great danes and a toddler. But we have loved our time in our tiny home and it is filled with lots of memories!

This is the heart of our house. Our living room is connected to our dining room (which is where E is standing taking this picture)/ the vantage point. To see our dining room see here. To fit everything, we ended up DIYing a lot of our furniture, namely the media console in this picture. I have a post coming up that will describe in more detail how we did it (it was about four years ago!) E also installed the speakers into the wall himself, and I added some DIY art above to take the emphasis off of the TV and give the room some more height (the ceilings are only about 8 feet tall.)

That is our front door just to the right of the TV. And the dining room is just to right of this picture for your reference.

This bookcase (Ikea Besta) serves to divide the big room into two areas (living/ dining.) And to keep the two rooms connected, I kept the rugs the same pattern and size.

Our one bathroom is the door right behind the couch. The artwork above the couch is E’s great uncle Stan, who was a wonderful artist, and we are lucky to have some of his work featured in our house.

When E’s family renovated the apartment about ten years ago, they bumped out the dormers of this room which raised the ceiling in the far half of the living room, and they installed the windows. Because there is a brick wall half way up the wall (right below the window sill) they stayed with this style of window, and built a window sill that matches the rest of the renovated parts of the house (see B’s room here).

Hate that darn cable box! We built these shelves before we got cable so we never put that into the calculations for how deep the shelves needed to be.

Here is the big ol’ couch. It is actually an apartment sized York Sofa from Room & Board but is about seven years old. It has definitely seen a fair bit of use (hence the cushions never staying perfectly fluffy!)

As I mentioned above, I just did some easy DIY art and framed them in some Ikea Ribba frames. I will do a full post on the process later with my inspiration images and the process!

This little basket is full of B’s books. As I mentioned here, with living in a small space we have to keep her toys to a minimum. And they all have to have a place! We have been so lucky to have been given tons of hand-me-down books from our neighbors, they are B’s favorites!

Couch: York Sofa from Room & Board (7 years old)
Bookshelf: Ikea Besta
Gold lamp: Target two years ago
Gold dipped bowl: Target Nate Berkus
Pillows: All on couch from Target, orange one on Eames style rocker from Ikea 7 years ago
Eames Rocker: Overstock “Vinnie White Cradle Chair”
Sheepskin: Ikea Rens
Media Console: DIY (post to come with details)
Rug: Overstock.com
Baskets: Target
Artwork: Abstract from E’s great uncle
Succulent planters: Pottery Barn Bosphorous Bowls (gift from wedding)
Faux-malachite box: DIY see here
Gold Urchin: Furbish

Small Space Living: Media Console & Living Room

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