Family Room Improvements

We "finished" the fireplace surround almost a year ago, but I've been waiting to post pictures until it was truely 100% finished. All it really needs still are the handmade ceramic knobs on the cabinets, which are still being made. Actually, they were made once and determined to be too big, so Neil is redoing them once he gets his studio in order again. My main motivation for this project was to have a place to hide most of the little guy's toys. The cabinets on the right are all full of baskets of balls and trucks and books, etc. It works great, but somehow there's still overflow, so it's time to do the basement playroom shelves. We built-in a spot for our tiny old tv, which worked great until we joined the 21st century last week and bought a flat-screen. Now that's on the left hand wall and we're having to move everything around. I spent forever looking for a rug for this room and finally found one on overstock.com over the winter. Then last month the new crate and barrel catalog came out with this rug, which is perfect. Oh well! I'd still like to get a leather ottoman to replace the coffee table, and plan on making some new pillows for the couch when I finally get around to getting the sewing machine out.