The living room, like the rest of the house, originally had white walls. But after a few months I decided I wanted to jazz it up a little bit. I wanted a modern look and couldn't find any wallpaper I liked, so I started looking at scrapbooking paper. I finally found this green paper I liked at Ben Franklin. It reminds me of the green paint on the walls at a gorgeous apartment I saw recently (which, unfortunately, was rented to someone else...)

I will be painting the door white, and adding trim around the doorways and window.	I'm also going to add crown molding and baseboards.

Once I'm done with the trim, I will be adding curtains to the window and doorway into the kitchen. I saw some curtain rods I liked in the Pottery Barn catalog (the type with decorative ball thingies on the ends) and decided to make my own with beads. I'll post pictures when they're done.

I was surprised that I couldn't find a couch I really liked. I wound up ordering a Realife living room kit on eBay (circa 1974) and making my own. It's not perfect, but I'm very pleased. Here's a close-up.

The couch is made from a suede-like fabric that used to be a toiletry bag from a United Airlines international flight.

The bookshelf in this room contains a lot of the same books that are on my own shelves. For awhile now, I have been scanning the dust jacket of every hardcover book I can get my hands on, and shrinking them down to 1:12 scale. I've almost filled up the bookshelf.

Whoever lives here has excellent taste in literature...