Before and After Day 4: Furniture & Furnishings of a Living Room

The living room of our humble abode began as a small square of carpet, edged on two sides by walkways of that scary, faux-wood linoleum, with handicapped rails lining the walls.  Bare with me on this post - LOTS of pictures!

This is taken from the doorway of the dining room, looking toward the center of the living room.

From the dining room toward the door.

Blurry, but you can see the handicapped rail still up in this one.  It left...uhm...interesting shaped marks on the wall when it came down!  Let's just say the hooks holding it up were mounted by three screws in sections kinda shaped like a three-leafed clover, but the middle "leaf" was longer than the other two. 

Cleaning out...

In this shot, you can see the plywood floor after MUCH hard work of scraping up linoleum.

Who's that peaking around the corner?!  See that yellow paint in the dining room? NO MORE!

Windows up, airing out the funk and ready to paint.

First coat of Glidden's warm caramel after a fresh coat of white on the ceiling.  See that handy little table?  That's my night stand now! Properly covered with a tablecloth, of course.

A look at the intersection of warm caramel meets cranberry zing! I'm sure this was the first of MANY, MANY, MANY coats and cans of red paint.

This is the landing we created inside the front door to keep dirty feet off the new carpet.  We were going to do one just like it in the hallway at the carport door and did...but then ended up using laminate on the whole hallway b/c we got such a deal!  We actually now have two colors of laminate in our house b/c part of it came from Dave's Goody Barn and the other from 129 Salvage.  It's hard to tell the difference, though.

So here we are with 18 days to go til our wedding and I'm at work and...

Andy's supervising while WE'RE GETTING CARPET!

An in-progress shot he texted me.

This is actually the spare bedroom, but it's a good view of the new carpet.  Not the cheapest, but definitely not the most expensive.  We got a great deal from Budget Carpet in down town Gainesville. 

Again, this is the office, but it's just so new and pretty!

Here we are with carpet and red walls and COUCHES!  This couch and love seat have their own story.  They were the first purchase that Heidi made once she was on her own and living in an apartment.  They lived in her apartment, then in the house she and Daniel share, then they got bumped to their kids' play room when they inherited a sectional from Daniel's mom. Sooo....I took them off their hands and got 'em out of their way!

We're slowly adding furnishings here - you can see my swirly curtain rod.  More about the swirls later.

Is this not the cutest picture ever?!  I found this gem at Hobby Lobby and I was describing it to Andy while he was at work.  I was trying to show him how big it was and how good of a deal it was, so I had mom hold it for size comparison. You know cheap skate me, it was hard to spend $40 for a picture, but I had JUST gotten a check as a wedding present about an hour before this.  Mom said, "It's your wedding present from them!  Tell them thank you for it in their thank you note!"  So I did!  Oh - again - note the swirls in the top.

And this is where this guy ended up!

And this is Charlie.  I took his picture at Ross, again to send to Andy to get his OK before I bought him.  This was the most fun shopping day I've had in a while.  Mom and I ended up at Ross for some reason and I found him (who says, but doesn't scream, "GO DAWGS!"), the canisters for my kitchen, and my plates.  I need to post a picture of those, too!  Maybe with the kitchen stuff...

AFTER!  We're still waiting for a picture that will go above the TV
It's about a 3 foot long picture that says "LOVE YOU MORE" as in
♫ "In my life, I love you more"♪ Which is what Andy sang to me
at our wedding!  The fabulous afghan on the love seat was made
for us by Toni (Andy's mom).  I knew it was ours when I saw her
crocheting with red, brown, AND blue!  Our unity candle is on the
cube unit and that's our wedding gift to ourselves there in the middle.
It's 46"  I'm looking for a single-wide cube shelf to put to the left of
TV to make it look more like one, big unit.

Look - Here's Charlie!  He's on the silver table! 

Mirror's from IKEA, sconces were a gift.

Ignore the fact that the picture is crooked and not centered with the love seat and look at the pillows.  These were the very first thing I picked out for our house.  I didn't realize how much they influenced me until I had it all together.  Remember the swirlys?  These are where they started!  There're here, in that picture, on the curtain rods...

and on this awesome lamp shade I found at Garden Ridge!

BEFORE

AFTER