Days 4, 5, and 6.

Day 4: Set up a one room outbox
Day 5: Make a floor plan
Day 6: Learn about color

I've been quiet the last few days because the tasks didn't really lend themselves much to blogging, with the exception of the floorplan fiasco.  I set up our outbox (which is just a box of things that you think you might want to get rid of, which you go through after a week and make a final decision about), put some of my stuff in, and realized there's no way Brian will put any of his in.  (He really likes his stuff.)

We worked on this floor plan last night, and we totally need help.  (I realize now I really should have made the floor brown, since, you know, that's the color of the floor, but I digress.)  The layout that's up there now is roughly the same as the layout is currently, except that there are two chairs instead of one+end table, and there are three bookshelves instead of two green ones. The little blue square is an ottoman, the colorful thing there is the pinball machine (which is cabinet-style, not giant machine style, and the light brown things are a DVD rack and the 9-cube thing.  Everything is proportional.

So HELP.  How do we lay out this room so that the pinball machine isn't neglected in a corner, and we're not splitting the room up so harshly into two pieces?  Keep in mind that there's a 3-4 inch ledge at about waist-height that goes around the length of the room, except on the wall where the bookshelves are now, and the red bit is another ledge where the fireplace is, but it's thankfully much lower.

Looking at the pictures in the previous entry and the layout, any suggestions for color are appreciated.  I realize we're going to have to do warm colors, which...ugh, and Brian has made it clear that he doesn't want anything too contrasty, which nixes my idea for super dark on the bottom and light on the top.  Possibly a green on the bottom? Maybe?

how i did i get here i'm no good with decorating