{"id":941,"date":"2014-03-19T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:35:32","slug":"living-room-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Living Room Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Well, here at the Molenda household in sunny (and sometimes dreary) Alpharetta, Georgia, we took advantage of our income tax refund to do a little makeover to our living room.  We basically discarded the old furniture, rugs, and curtains for a new fresh look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Let\u2019s look at how it used to look:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-IMG_3257-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_3257-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"816\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Yeah, it\u2019s a bit cluttered.  We loved the couch but it had seen it\u2019s better days plus our cats &#8230; well, they weren\u2019t kind to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-DSC_0019-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC_0019-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"817\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Two new La-Z-Boy recliners, new area rug, curtains, and entertainment center highlight the changes.  (Maddux likes the changes!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-IMG_3359-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_3359-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"816\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Gone is the couch, the coffee table and entertainment center (already gone here)  We actually used the ottoman during the couch\u2019s last days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-DSC_0020-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC_0020-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"823\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Everything old is new again.  The futon remains&#8230; new futon cover gives it a new look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-DSC_0024-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC_0024-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"841\" height=\"557\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Living room is more open.  Not so crowded or cluttered.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-DSC_0023-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC_0023-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"851\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Cats have new places for their trees.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-DSC_0017-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC_0017-2014-03-19-17-16.jpg\" width=\"852\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There they are&#8230; our \u201cArchie and Edith\u201d chairs.  You can tell who\u2019s is who\u2019s by what we drink&#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We (well, I) tried to buy as much as I could that was Made in the USA.  We succeeded pretty well.  Furniture is by Sauder (Made in Ohio), Futon Cover (Made somewhere in the USA), La-Z-Boy chairs (Made in Tennessee).  I think we did as well as we could.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Anyway, this is our new and improved living room.  This should last us for years to come.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here at the Molenda household in sunny (and sometimes dreary) Alpharetta, Georgia, we took advantage of our income tax refund to do a little makeover to our living room.<a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/?p=941\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Room Makeover<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}