I've just given you $10,000

[Jejune]

because I'm generous like that. Unfortunately, I'm also weird, and I'm insisting that you spend that money fixing up your living room or you forfeit it. What are you going to do/buy? Feel free to post pictures of your purchases.

[Lori]

That's really, really hard, because we bought new sofas about two years ago, and we love them, and even though I could get much posher ones with my $10,000, I wouldn't do it, so I'd try to figure out how to work it around my couches. Plus, my living room is extremely, extremely tiny.

I'd definitely get new windows. Our windows are really, really old, and new ones would be great.

We have a little shelf that runs around the living room that I really don't like. It keeps us from having any tall furniture, like bookshelves, in there, but doesn't hold anything, so I'd definitely have that taken out, and I'd like to have some more practical, built-in shelving done around the top of three of the walls, but leave one without it.

On the wall without the shelving, I'd get a bigger entertainment stand. I'd like one that had bookshelves on the outside and then a cabinet with a door for the TV and other electronic things. And if I had $10,000, I'd probably get a nicer TV, and I might be super, super nice and get Sean a Playstation 3.

I could also use two nicer side tables for near the couch, and one with a lot of storage room for knitting stuff would be great.

But I think that's really all we'd change, so I'd probably have a lot of money left over, and I'd give the extra back to you. ;)

[Intuition]

Shitloads of books and bookshelves to house them. A new coffee table and couches. A new computer desk. Some really nice, large paintings on canvas. IKEA, IKEA, IKEA.

[Mary]

All-new furniture, for sure. We desperately need it, anyway, and are planning on getting it sometime this year. I'd also get a flat-screen LCD t.v. to hang above the mantle and I'd pay someone to come in and put up crown moulding and paint.

Oh, and I'd rip up the carpet and put down wood. Hmmm....I might just have to settle for a sizable downpayment on some new furniture in order to do all that other stuff. ;)

[Christine]

Oh pooey! That's the room we've already just spent a fortune fixing up!

Let's see, for $10,000, we're knocking down the wall between the kitchen and living room and extending the kitchen cabinetry out into the dining room. Then I'll tear up all the floor in the kitchen/living room/dining room and getting a nice new hardwood floor. A few area rugs and some gorgeous wall art...

I'm not even close to $10,000 though! How about a big red sectional sofa to replace my normal sized one? What else? I'll get Dave a PS3 and upgrade the girls computer that's in the living room. That's all I can do - everything else has already been done! :giggle

[Desirae]

Oh gosh. First off new furniture! The stuff in there is an awful color for kids and really hasn't held up well at all... considering the houe up until this Spring was empty 8 months of the year that's pretty crappy! (It was crapped out before we moved here so it's not my kids. ;))
I'd replace our entertainment stuff also and redo the tile... maybe hard wood instead.

[Sarah]

New furniture for sure! I'd also get a fabulous antique lamp to hang from the ceiling. Our house was built in the 70s, so it doesn't have a light fixture on the ceiling. I'd repaint, redo the wallpaper border, and get new carpet. I'd also get new curtains. I'd get a real wood entertainment center (not like the fake wood one we got from Walmart). I might upgrade our TV, I'm sure dh would want to. I'd also get him a PS3 and and a Wii. Those would be used in the living room, so they count! lol

[wendygrace]

Oh, only $10,000. Hmmmmm. Well, first things first. The carpet has got to go! I'd probably put in some nice Pergo. Then I'd paint. Then I'd get new furniture and probably a new TV and one of those entertainment centers where you can hide the TV so you don't even know its in there unless its open, that locks and a cabinet that locks all the DVDs. And a new computer and a cabinet for all my homeschooling stuff full of homeschooling supplies. And books. But most of the books are in the loft so possibly not. Oh and window treatments. Must have window treatments! :)

[GreysFan]

A new couch to match one of our loveseats (we have two and one is really old). We just got a new entertainment center, so I'd get a bigger tv. I think I'd also paint the living room...not too sure what color though. We also only have two lamps to light our living room, so I'd love to change the lighting situation. It's pretty square, so I don't think just one light in the center of the ceiling would help much, maybe some sort of track lighting or something. Our windows also don't stay open very well and our doors (screen and wood) could both stand to be replaced. I THINK I've spent it all....

[Jenny]

new furniture, floors and plasma tv

[Jejune]

Oh pooey! That's the room we've already just spent a fortune fixing up!


Well, maybe if you're nice to me I'll give you more money another week for a different room. ;) As long as I'm playing eccentric rich person I might as well go whole hog.

[Jurgita]

We just bought new furniture for our living room, but I would buy new couch and two loveseats. That's the next thing we were planning to buy.

[Beka]

ohhh ohhh as i am hopefully moving soon i shall assume i have a large living room...

i shall buy a biiiiiig red faux leather corner group sofa which has metal action sofa bed integral with it (for guests to stay over) i will keep my walls the lovely wild honeysuckle they are but have a dark brown faux leather roller blind at the window and floor length red drapes around that

re-do my floor a nice wooden laminate with under floor heating (as i hate being cold)

some weird ikea light fittings, i don't want a tv as if i have such a lovely living room the last thing i want is playstation games rattling my brain in there, a biiiiig raw/natural wood table and 8 chairs for dining....

errrm i shall get back to this with pictures

[Shana]

Yanno, I'm kind of a furniture snob LOL Sooooo I'm not sure if 10k would be enough for exactly what I want :p

But okay.... since we're living in an apartment, I can't do anything major like rip up flooring and put down gorgeous wood flors so that is out.

This gives an idea of the type of thing that I love (http://www.thomasville.com/CG156/Bridges-2.0-Living-Room.aspx). It is the actual furniture that I left in the kids' house when Mike and I separated and do I miss it? HECK YES:wail

So anyhow I would buy all of that collection for our wood purchases, maybe not EVERYthing listed on that page, but a great deal of it.

New couch, loveseat and a LARGE screen television with a really lovely, tasteful (see above LOL) entertainment center to hide all the nasty cords that we currently have laying around. I hate that!

I would have to do some searching to find an exact match on the actual sitting-on items. I am super picky about furniture (I am not a fan AT all of what Brian has, and it's a very nice leather couch/loveseat set. See?) and I would need a GREAT deal of time to figure out what I want. When Mike and I bought the furniture for our living/family rooms, it literally took me weeks to find something I wanted.

[Lori]

Shana, that's gorgeous, and totally my taste. I'd be :wail, too.

[Kristen]

I'd extend our dining room oak hardwood into the living room. Then I'd buy dark leather furniture, put up crown moulding, and buy a flat screen. I'd also buy some really nice black furniture(coffee table and such) from Pottery Barn.

I already painted and put up new window treatments, so that could stay.

[Christine]

How about $10,000 for the kitchen or bathroom? :giggle

[Kristen]

Could I have 10K for my yard and the exterior of my house? That's what really needs some $$$. :giggle

[Christine]

Really! We just discovered that we're going to have resheet our entire roof, so we could really use that $10,000 there!

[malcontent]

* I'd have professional painters come in with scaffolding and paint all the walls with Sydney Harbor Duchess Satin paint. (Maybe French Silver?) http://www.coxpaint.com/store/cart.php?target=category&category_id=325

* I'd buy some excellent-quality wooden bookshelves and a good armchair with down cushions.

* I'd have the furniture professionally cleaned.

* If I had any money left, I'd buy a painting or print from a largely unknown but promising artist.

[giffy]

I'd replace the window with a double glazed one that actually opens and closes. Then I'd get new drapes for said window. I'd also consider getting a new space heater and possibly, if there was some $$ left over, a new floating floor so the draughts don't come up through the floor like they do now.

[Kristi]

Well first of all I would tear out the iron woodstove in the back of it. I hate that thing. I would take out the hideous pinkish and whiteish tiles the previous owners put in and put in hardwood flooors like they have everywhere else in the house. Then I would buy a new couch *A leather sectional I thinK) and have a built in entertainment center put in. :)

[TracyS]

Sofas & chairs, entertainment unit, computer hutch, and a coffee & side tables (perhaps some cute lamps if there is extra left over).

We have most of these things already, but I'd like better quality pieces that are going to last.

[Jo]

Well, we have collected some lovely furniture for the living room so that part is finished. I would use it to put in hardwood floors, get it professionally painted and get the drapes done. Though what I have in mind is going to be more than $10,000. I would to have beg the eccentric rich person for more funds.:giggle