Living Room

Since we have been living in this house, I think I have moved around just about every room! I am a chronic room rearranger and because we have small kids, I find myself looking for better rooms or layouts that suit our family for the moment we are in.

What was once the living room, is now our master bedroom...

Original

Newly painted "living room"

What once was the kids play room, is now the living room...

The kids play room has been relocated to the "back room" area and both of their bedrooms are now upstairs and swapped out { Jude is in Isabelle's old room and Isabelle is in our old room} The 3rd bedroom {which was converted into a kitchenette for renters} serves as a huge walk in closet for the kids and storage. There is also a full bath on the second floor. Are you confused yet?

Back to the living room. So, once we were "living" in this room more, I had had enough of the sun yellow and grass green.  Here are the befores...

                                        Play room befores

                                          Living Room Befores

 The first step was picking out a color. Since the kitchen is a green/gray color and open to the living room, I had to choose something that would flow from one room to another. I picked Behers Rainforest Dew and had it mixed up at Sherwin Williams. I filled HUNDREDS of tiny tack holes and some larger ones. I then primed ALL the woodwork and fireplace. then started in with my tinted primer on the walls.

The color of the tinted primer had me nervous. It was supposed to have a light green undertone, but wound up looking like butter. So, back to SW we went and had them play with it until we came up with the final color, that I LOVE...

 

This July was my hubby and I's 5th wedding anniversary. We always buy each other the traditional year gift as a tradition. This year was wood and this is my gift...

 

 

Love it!!

 

I have plans to paint out the mirror in a fun color {ideas?}

Add some backing to the shelf for support and a pop of color

Wanting more throw pillows with fun colors and patterns and have an idea for a huge gallery wall behind the couch...

 

Here you can see the transition into the kitchen...

It was A LOT of work. The walls required primer and 2 coats of paint. The woodwork needed sanded, a coat of primer, and 4 coats of paint. The fireplace was primed twice, painted with 2 coats, and had all the grates removed and painted.

Still to do:

Flooring
Window treatments
TV stand
Paint Mirror
Reinforce book case
Add decorative touches

Next on the list? The upstairs. I don't think I have posted a single picture of our second floor. So, if I am not boring you to tears, you should come back to check it out!

Living Room Rearrange

One of my favorite things to do in my boredom is rearrange my furniture. This might also be one of my husbands biggest pet peeves about me. He likes things to always be the same and I can never make up my mind about what I want and lets be honest, its basically playing doll house with a real house and thats what all little girls dream of doing, right? About one of the only perks of being away from my hubby right now, is that I can rearrange to my hearts content :) So, here are some pics of the ever changing living room...for now ;)

This is where we were last time I checked in..

I didn't move things for a while on account of all the Christmas décor being up {which if you missed that you can look back here} but once that was taken care of, I couldn't resist!

Of course when moved furniture around I am always left with these pesky marks. Good thing I know a little trick ;)

Let an ice cube melt into the spot and then fluff the fibers with the prongs of a fork.You wont even be able to tell afterwards. Your welcome :)

The couches stayed in the same place but I moved the desk and added a shelf thanks to the charity of my friends Brecklyn and Justin.Thanks guys! {If you read my family blog See Our Sweet Life, then you have probably heard about Brecklyn before lol.}

The tv pretty much has to stay where it is since that's where the cable comes in. { I have plans to paint both the desk and this tv stand, color suggestions? Yellow? Black? Aqua?}

Well, that lasted a little while. Until I found a cute set of sheets that I thought would be perfect to cover the patterned unmatching couches. Which inspired me to move some things around yet again.

I left the couches again, but swapped out the iron medallion over the mantle {which was just slightly to small} for some patterned decals that I scored super cheap from LTD commodities.

I moved both lamps onto the mantle and moved the chair and sidetable/lamp under the window on the left.

Both the floor lamp/table and the lamp on the desk used to be brass. I gave them both a little revamping which I will share with you later :) I moved the desk where the chair used to be and left the shelf in the same place.

The medallion found a home above the desk for now { I have plans to use this wall for something else}

The other couch also stayed but was covered and got some company in the way of an ottoman and a side table. {Still in search of a solution for covering up the arms, ideas?}

Rocko seems to enjoy it

An this just wouldn't be a complete post without a up to date before and after. Drumroll please..............

                                                     Before

                                                                                  After

Still a work in progress but I am loving the journey :)