Living Room
We ripped out the carpet before we even moved in and the floors were in pristine condition :-)
One morning, as the girls, then 3 and 1 and I were eating breakfast, I started ripping the wallpaper off the walls until it was all off. Then I had to scrub and scrape the glue off, prime and paint.
The ceiling tiles came off without much problem and a little spackle and paint later...you would never know they had ever been there!
I am really happy with the way our living room turned out. I think it is warm and cozy.
This is room where we do most of our entertaining. We also read in here. Sometimes I blog in here. When Jason gets home from work, if we don't sit out on the deck, we sit in here and talk about our day.
I had decorated our previous house rather modern. I had all light wood. I had bought this wine cabinet at Crate & Barrel. We thought of replacing it with something in a darker wood, but we couldn't find anything that we really liked and that was in our budget, so last winter I stripped the finish and stained this wine cabinet with red mahogany stain to match the rest of our living room furniture.
On the end table is a photo of A and my sister-in-law. A was a flower girl in my brother and sister-in-law's wedding. They both look so beautiful. I love this photo.
When I was born, my father gave my mother a rocking chair. My grandmother, my mom's mother, who I called Naunie, loved the rocker. So my father found this one and refinished it for her.
I have always loved these globes. When I was a little girl, one of my parents' friends had one and I thought it was so cool and so beautiful. I always wanted one. My Uncle gave us one for Christmas a few years ago.
I love these shelves with frames of our family at different ages and stages of life :)