Living Room Remodel

I have been wanting to change our living room for a LONG time.  It has taken me a couple years of talking about it to get Colin on board, mainly because he painted the room 6 years ago when we moved into the house, and it took him 13 hours because of the painting technique that he used.  He finally got tired of hearing me complain about the living room being too dark agreed with me that it was time for a change.  I started searching Pinterest for ideas and came up with a lot of them.  I am now on Pinterest restriction.

Here is a picture of the color of the living room before-

Wall and dark wood around the windows

The brown and dark wood had to go. We started by repainting the ceiling (if you've ever painted a ceiling, you know how much fun that is).  We painted the windows white and put up crown molding.  Now, it should be said that neither of us are particularly "handy" people when it comes to tools and such, but Colin researched online and watched some you tube videos of  how to put up the crown molding and by the time he was done with the room, he was a pro semi pro.  The funniest part of the whole crown molding process is that when Colin would go from the living room to the deck outside where he was cutting the molding, Wally would follow him outside and stay there next to him while he used the saw like he was helping.  Skittles was content to just sit in the recliner the full 4 days and watch us work!   

Figuring it all out

Piece of cake

Not too shabby

He still loves me the infinite mostest despite me making him help me with this!

 We also wanted to get rid of the brass around the fireplace, so we painted it black with a high heat spray paint, and then painted the mantle cream.

Fireplace Before

Fireplace After

We put up a chair rail and painted the top half of the room a soft blue and the bottom half a cream color.    All the windows and crown molding and chair rail were painted white.

Wally approves too!

It took 4 long days, and we were so sore we could barely move when we were done, but we like the way it turned out.  It's so much brighter.  New furniture will soon complete the transition.  Next up- kitchen remodel- as soon as I can bribe convince Colin to tackle another home improvement project.  :)