Making Our Home: THE LIVING ROOM

The living room needed a few renovations when we purchased our house.

 

Here's a picture of the sunroom (left) and living room (right) on the day we closed on our home.  Simply removing the pink blinds in the sunroom and replacing them with white blinds that allow a lot more light to flow through was the first "change" made to our living room.  This allowed A LOT more light to enter the living room which is great!

I liked the mantle and the brick on the fireplace.  We repainted this mantle above white Behr paint in our trim color (White Dove), and then removed the brass fireplace screen and the glass.  Doing this was really easy and gave the fireplace a bigger and updated look!

View from the fireplace across the living room.

In this room like others, after we painted the walls and the baseboards, we also caulked along the baseboards to create a clean line.  Dawson LOVES to help with this!

(Also see the yucky air return grate in the side of the above picture, we replaced that!  It wasn't dirty the paint had come off of it, so replacing it was the method of fixing it not just cleaning.

We painted the walls Shaker Beige (a Benjamin Moore color in Behr paint).

These pictures (above and below) are as we were moving our furniture in.

 

And now the finished room...

 

See? Much better without the brass and glass and with our tall Southern Living Fire place screen.

As I mentioned in the post about the Sunroom, I have high hopes of renovations for the wall dividing the sunroom and living room, but it has not been on our list of top priorities in the first year in our house.  Soon...hopefully!

 

View of the living room from the kitchen.

 

 

The replaced return grate.

The final renovation we made to the living room, was having out fireplace inspected in August.  Now we can enjoy fires in our living room which we are really enjoying!