We had a rare sprint of home improvement motivation, and started painting our living room and entryway room (what I call the "shoe room") just last week. Part of this motivation is:
1. Cleaning up and moving the desk to a more suitable location
2. Repairing many nail pops in the drywall, and subsequent painting
3. Pulling out the old carpet and checking out the hardwood floors beneath.
I don't have many good "before" pictures, but below you can see how we have a ton of furniture crammed into a corner as we paint the opposite side. Not the half-walls which are removed in pictures later.
The breezeway entryway room. I call this the shoe-room, but I think it is a formal dining room. We removed the piano and all the coats and shoes from this room for this shot:
In the living room, the blue carpet was pretty faded.
But beneath all that blue carpet is a beautiful hardwood floor. It was in near perfect condition with only a few blemishes.
This is the shoe room leading into the kitchen. That transition will need a little help.
We painted an accent wall, but I only have pictures of it late at night. It is dark blue and it is a good contrast to the rest of the "latte" walls. The patch of white on the wall is from where I removed the half walls that used to divide the 2 rooms.
I'll get more pictures in the days ahead. But suffice it to say, these are big changes and it really makes the house feel different (in a very good way).
