Slipcovers finally get the ball rolling

Way back when we first moved here (October 2008) I bought the ugliest couch, chair and ottoman known to mankind.
I had always intended to slipcover them, but never got around to do it. Well, I take that back. A year or so ago I bought slipcovers, but for some reason didn't realize that I was not buying T-cushion. Derp.

A while ago, I found a website that sells deeply discounted slips from companies like Pottery Barn. Today, I finally bought what should be the correct size and shape slipcovers. Hopefully.

Two chairs and a couch for $104. The shipping is $25 of that, so they are even cheaper than you think.

This is the one I bought, but in natural.

I wanted white, but it wasn't available for the couch and I was not willing to pay $307.03 more to get white at the suggested retail price.

Yeah. This will do just fine.

So now I am on a mission to finish painting the coffee table and end tables in the living room. I have had all of the supplies for almost a year (sigh...) but haven't bothered to do it. Now I have to.

I also am considering painting my green french provincial dresser that holds the TV. I bought it for the shape first and the color a very close second, but I fell in freaking love with a room and I want to duplicate it. I have never in my life duplicated a room but this one, I am seriously considering doing just that.

Ok... it isn't really copying a room as much as it is pulling pieces of a few rooms that I love. That's not cheating, right?

Curtains. For the love of God, the curtains. I have LOVED this fabric from the moment I saw it. L-O-V-E-D. The only reason that I didn't quickly buy it and make it in to curtains for my living room is because I am afraid that it would make the room too dark. Ugliest furniture ever is reeeeeeally dark, and darker fabrig panels hanging on the only source of natural light might be a problem. But now, ugliest furniture in the world will be light, so I am wondering if it would work. I ordered a swatch because I was sure I was going to go for it.

And then I saw these curtains. I drooled a little. Now I am torn. So very torn.

Here is the cabinet that my TV sits on. I love the cabinet and love the color, but am thinking of changing it to this. In all honesty, I can change it back if for some reason I don't like it, but I am pretty sure I will love it. When I set out to find a piece, I was looking for something that I could paint white and distress. I paid $300 for the cabinet and would have paid that even without the finish. 

Once I am done painting and if I ever decide on a curtain fabric, my next chore is a rug. There is currently a rug but it is a darker rug and wasn't necessarily my first choice. We needed a rug and a friend had a huge rug for sale for $50, so we bought it. We have crappy apartment beige carpet, so we definitely need something. What, I have no idea.