New Paint and Hardwood Floors

 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).