This is our family room and I love this room because we gather our family and friends in here often.
I also dislike this room because it has a few quirky things innit that make it difficult to decorate.
1. There are two very large openings into the room. One from the hallway and the other from the kitchen.
2. The fireplace is in the corner of the room.
3. The windows are not centered on the wall
4. A large bump out that is the back wall of my kitchen pantry. 🥴
I have rearranged the furniture in this room many times to try and get in plenty of seating and also have a good view of the TV without blocking the kitchen entry and allowing for a open feel. It has been such a trick. You can see from my pics above that I am trying 3 different layouts and need a coffee table. Anneke from Coastal Interiors suggested I get a round coffee table so I can have more space. So I am looking at these ottomans from Wayfair and I think I have made my decision to do the tufted one. I’ll post again to show you how it looks once I receive it. Wish me luck! 
I bought a new slipcover for the sofa. (It is an 
by attaching white bulb lights (from outside) across the ceiling of the dining room. 
Then I hung strips of black tulle every few feet. Then I had some white paper lanterns left over from my older daughters wedding and I spray painted some of them black and some of them orange and hung them from the lights too.
that I had laying around and draped it over the table. I had a funky candelabra from Halloween's past and other odds and ends that I picked up over the years from thrift stores to hold candles and placed them on the table. I also had from over the years...a skull, a fake hand that we put into a grinder machine, 
small little skull candle holders, a cool Halloween sign hung from a wrought iron stand, and of course spider webbing. 
and we found the giant spider at Walmart for $7.00! 
We also attached a bunch of smaller spiders to the door frame as you entered the house.
with all kinds of creepy food from our local chinese market. Things like stinky tofu, dried squid and pickled bamboo shoots just to name a few. 
We had the kids each taste each item and the one who won had to eat everything and swallow it. It was hysterical and gross at the same time. 
