After 9 years of marriage & hand-me-down furniture, we decided it was time to have a living room of our choice. Yes, we're spoiled. I neglected to take "before" shots of our living room, so here's a picture I found of my children playing in it recently. Gotta love it when they can make a great big creation together. Kaelah was actually a major catalyst in this project. Sometimes we would leave a friend's home and she would ask me, "Why is their house prettier than ours?" After many homes where she would sometimes ask this and sometimes not, I realized she liked homes with lighter paint colors. Didn't matter if they were clean or not, just the paint was enough for her.
Step 1: give away the pink sofa (Craigslist) and green chairs (neighbor). Find a different place in the house for the camel chest (basement). Easy.
Step 2: pick paint colors. The hardest part of the entire project! I don't know how many times we went to Home Depot, but let's just say I'm super glad it is close by. Note: Our former colors were Behr Gobi Desert and Raffia Cream. We had gotten lots of compliments on it, but after 7 years we were sick of all the brown in our home. Brown walls, brown carpets, brown hardwood floors and kitchen cabinets, brown furniture.
Step 3: get the children and dog away from the painters and come home to progress. The dog is the hardest one to keep away for long periods of time, fyi. Our living room color is Martha Stewart's Pink Sea Salt.
Step 4: have Grandma and Grandpa babysit while Dan & I travel all the way to Ikea to save hundreds of dollars. This is a picture from when we had partially unloaded the truck. I still can't believe a sectional, coffee table, end table, plants, art work, etc. all fit into our mini van.
Step 5: adult Legos, as Dan called it. I think it took a total of 8 hours to get everything all put together and hung up.
Step 6: write a blog post about the finished project. Will do next.
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