Our living room so far

Since we are constantly doing projects or adding things to the house, I thought it would be nice to give people an idea of what we've done so far. Here are some before and after shots of the living room. This is one of the areas of the house that is the most complete when it comes to decoration and projects.

The living room before (no, that's not our furniture-the house was staged):


As you can see, the house had bare white walls and really light carpets. It was very bright, but that's about all it had going for it. After we bought the house, we tore up the carpet, refinished the floors and painted the walls. These projects also brought about the need for other projects, like filing in the small, dime sized holes in the floors (why these holes were there in the first place we have no idea) and putting in quarter round. The end result now looks like this:


A much better angle of the room:


The newest addition to the living room is the circle rug. It brand new and we love it. It matches well with the runner (behind the couch) that Mom just gave us, too. Now, for a ceiling fan/light and painting that pesky quarter round...