Fireplace with its accoutrements. :) This painting completely influenced our choice of green paint. It had to work with the mat.
We had the painter repaint the built-in cabinets, too, so they matched the rest of the trim. Before they were kind of grayish-white and started to look rather green with the green walls.
Nathan's cousin Ben and family were on Spring Break from OSU and stayed the night on their way home from Myrtle Beach (we had so much fun!!). The kids quickly discovered our stairs were a fantastic perch from which to watch the carpet installation without being in the way.
Dining room with new paint and new carpet. I'm still debating if I like this new orientation of the table, though. To its credit, it saves our walls from all the dinks of kids knocking chairs backwards. :) Now to figure out what to hang in here...
Since I couldn't get a picture of the "during painting" process for the dining room, and since many have said they can't see a difference, here's a picture of the old and new paint cans. Can you see how the old paint (left) looks faded, or even pink, compared to the new paint?
David showcasing the new living room! He really likes the new recliners. So do I, hehe. I'm still trying to decide how I want to dress the windows. I don't want anything too frou-frou, but I do want to soften them up. Maybe just some sheer swags? Eventually I'd love to replace the mini-blinds with faux wood ones. Or perhaps kill two birds with one stone and do roman shades, except then I couldn't control light and privacy as easily. Ponder, ponder, ponder. With limitless funds, I'd replace the windows with those fancy Pella windows that have blinds built in between the panes ($$$!!!). Riiiiight...
Old vs. new carpet. We liked the basic shade of the old, obviously, minus the stains we inherited. Old carpet (top left) is short looped pile, new (bottom right) is softer, deeper frieze (sp?) pile, plus you can see that it's speckled in order to better hide dirt and stains.
Next on the agenda: replace ivory switches and outlets with white ones, and replace brass light fixtures with brushed nickel. Hoping that will help update the home. My sister-in-law informed me that in their recent house hunt, she observed all the new homes have oil-rubbed bronze fixtures now. A great tip. I think that would be very pretty with what I've got, but it's too pricey for my dwindling reno budget. I guess my "update" will just have to be passé from the start. :)
3 comments:
I love it! Everything looks so nice.
I love all the new pictures. Since we haven't been able to visit, it's nice to see some good close ups of the different rooms. Your house looks really nice. You could try white plantation shutters in your front living room, those are my favorite. I want to put some in our house, but I'll probably only be able to put them in a few windows downstairs, because I think they are expensive, but they look really nice. I LOVE the white built-ins and the green and blue paint next to them. If I were to build a house I would put something like that in it.
oh, and I can tell the difference between the two reds. Oh, and you can ask her, but I'm pretty sure that Mom and Dad have brushed nickel fixtures in their hall bath upstairs, and it looks really nice. Or you could do shiny silver fixtures, (what's that called?) That looks really good too and it might not be as costly. Plus, I have to wonder if someday oil rubbed bronze will look dated whereas the shiny silver(?) might be more classic and traditional.
I bought my kitchen faucet from ebay. Look at the home improvement stores to see what you like and then search on-line to save money!
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