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The living room is livable

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Living Room Makeover

Our living room makeover is finally complete. (Mostly, anyway.)

Neutral living room

Neutral living room
Neutral living room
Neutral living room

So far, we have:

  • Pulled up the carpet and painted the floor
  • Added recessed lighting
  • Installed crown moulding
  • Painted ceiling (Martha Stewart’s “Pebble”)
  • Painted the windows
  • Painted the front door to match the walls
  • Removed the cheap trim from around the front door and replaced it with trim original to the house
  • Re-built the stair landing
  • Added texture to the walls and painted (Martha Stewart’s “Tailors Chalk”)

My favorite part of this room is the textured walls.  It’s subtle, but it adds so much and I am crazy about them.  Here is an up-close:

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I will be doing a whole post on the walls in the future with how we did it and more pictures of them.

The walls, ceiling, lights and crown moulding were all done by/with Dad when they came to visit last month.  It was a lot of work, but he did an awesome job and he did it really fast.  Thanks again, Dad, we love you!

And now that I’m looking at the photos myself, I think I’ve gone a little too vintage-y with the decor.  Maybe it’s time to replace the tables with some simple, straight lines?

There are more projects and details that went into it that I’ll share with you eventually.  I was going to share a list of the things we still want to do in the room, but I’d rather not think about that right now.

It just feels good to be done!

Here, again is what it looked like when we purchased it:

Living Room 3 Living Room 4

And now:

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  1. onshore

    January 14, 2013 at 5:59 pm

    Wohoo! Wow, the livingroom looks excellent. Everything goes so well together. I don’t think I would normally care for as patterned sofa, but here it looks good. Well done!

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  2. Q

    January 15, 2013 at 4:36 am

    Wow that is totally gorgeous, hope you are sitting in there enjoying the space and patting yourself on the back for a job well done!

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  3. Olga StarDec

    January 15, 2013 at 8:42 am

    You’ve done a great job so far! Cant wait to see the rest.
    http://www.stardust-decorstyle.blogspot.com

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  4. Christina O

    January 15, 2013 at 4:30 pm

    Thank you, ladies! We have been sitting in it a lot and saying “ahhh” lately.

    Reply
  5. Mini Dork

    January 19, 2013 at 5:35 am

    You’ve come a long way baby! WOWZERS what an improvement. Great work!!

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  6. trishie

    February 6, 2013 at 5:46 am

    That’s a beautiful living space. I love the fabric couch, just gorgeous.

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  7. Anna Williams

    February 11, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    Looks fantastic Christina – I love, LOVE the painted floors xx

    Anna (My Design Ethos

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Finished! (ish) let's just pretend the new mantle Finished! (ish) let's just pretend the new mantle is painted a warm gray. It will be soon. 
It was $94 for the whole thing. 
Swipe for the before. See everything at littlevictorian.com
#100roomchallenge
So we were making great (though last- minute) prog So we were making great (though last- minute) progress. Then we're putting the picture hanger on the DIY art I made for the room when the 80-pound dog comes in and steps STRAIGHT THROUGH THE ARTWORK. 😵 

Hubs is trying to fix it as usual. But seriously...I don't know if any more obstacles could be thrown at us during this challenge. 😂 

3 hours to go. 
#100roomchallenge
Ugly photo time! We're doing the $100 Room Challen Ugly photo time! We're doing the $100 Room Challenge on our dining room (that you guys haven't even seen the "before" of yet). It's a super fun challenge to stay within $100 and makeover a room in a month. We're behind schedule, but there has actually been progress. I'll try to remember to share here, but there's more on the blog! LittleVictorian.com
#100roomchallenge
Update: the MCM is officially sold! We did eventua Update: the MCM is officially sold! We did eventually finish most of our restoration/renovation projects. I'll share the updates in the coming months as we get settled in to our new place. 😁
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