Of Nautical Storms and Changes in the tides Pt.2

While we have a very long way to go - an arduous road to organization, we decided to give our upstairs a rest and do some really fun things, such as begin redecorating our living room! This of course is proving to be difficult....

In December, right around Christmastime, my girlfriend realized that there was a leak, which of course was warping our ceiling downstairs. We had to get that fixed, and what you would imagine to be a smooth sailing of recovery became a hellish ride of too many visits from the same people for not getting it right in the first time. Long story short - we've had a hole in our ceiling in our dining room since the beginning of January and it wasn't until yesterday that our leak was fixed. With this in mind, we've pretty much had everything shoved into the living room - which meant that we couldn't possibly take down anything from Christmas or clean anything from the holidays. That was until this past week where my girlfriend and I decided to say "forget it. We're moving everything back into the dining room and decorating" - we had gone shopping at home goods (which, by the way is my mothership now) and target to get some stuff to furnish our very very cold living room. It was all just piled up in our kitchen, because we had no place for it, but after a lot of consideration, we've managed to pull something together

We decided to go with a nautical theme to really brighten up our home. Using pastel and a lot of colours. 

Here's a look at our mantle where we've decided to add a touch of Disney with our Pin collection. 

And we've decided to get rid of all of the ash in our fireplace to decorate it with this beautiful piece here. 

We also even went and added some greenery by decorating Moose's new cat tree in the nautical theme!  This cat tower was $70 at Petsmart - on sale. Then, we went to Beverly's and bought some greenery, which we stapled onto the wood post. We also hot glued some nautical rope onto the post, and then glued some succulents, starfish and shells onto the rope and post itself. The red plant looked kind of like coral and so we tucked those into the greenery. (close up photos below)

So, instead of spending $600~$1000 on a cat tree that kind of sort of looks like a tree, 

We spent a little over $100 to make our own custom tree that goes with our decor. 

 Which, I think Moose is quite fond of... 

We needed to put a cat tree in our living room as a place for Moose to escape to when we have a puppy. 

Feel free to tell me what you think about this. We're thinking of getting rid of one of our bigger couches and replacing it with two armchairs instead. Just to open up the room more. We've got so much to do, and so little time!