However, I have finally had time to work on a lot of my projects that have been set aside. Eventually, I am going to create a scrapbook with all of these pictures. I've started collecting them in a folder on my laptop. But I've decided to share some here too. Here we go...
Living Room Before (Previous Owners):
Living Room Midway (Us):
Living Room After:
I had to angle the camera down a bit for the after photo because the light was creating a glare. Plus I wanted to show off the 115 year old hard wood floors that were refinished. The pictures on the wall and the curtains are the same as in the "mid" picture, though. There is some discoloration on the floor in this room, so we had to get an area rug. The dining room and entrance will not have large rugs, though. I might cover the throw pillows on the couch, but that's not a priority right now because they don't totally clash.
The coffee table does not fully match the room, but it has major sentimental value. My husband's father was a hobbyist woodworker, and he made the table. He was killed in a car accident 4.5 years ago, so things like this are important to us to display.
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Next up is the upstairs bathroom. This is the one room that has been done for almost 2 years, but I still am pleased with how it turned out. We did not want to get rid of the blue tile because it's still in decent shape (and would be expensive to replace) so I had to work around it.
Upstairs Bathroom Before (Previous Owners):
Upstairs Bathroom After:
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The last thing I'm going to post about today is the window seat in the dining room. This is the project that I've been working on for the past two days, when I am able to sit at the sewing machine.This is what the window seat looked like when we purchased the house, with red walls in the dining room -- right next to the seafoam walls in the first living room pic above -- you can actually kind of see it on the edge of the picture. Needless to say, it was not a good color combination! These two rooms open right into each other, ugh. Anyway, here's the original seat:
When we first moved in the house 3.5 years ago, we painted the living room the rich brown you see above. The dining room was painted a light neutral green, to balance the dark, rich color in the living room. Here is what the window seat looked like for a few years:
Here are the before and after pictures of the throw pillows:
In the next installment of nesting/remodeling/home projects, I will show the painted and refinished dining room table and chairs as well as before and after pictures of the dining room. :)
