The Living Room Reveal!

 The Living Room Reveal!
I am hence happy to finally live posting this!
That agency I am finally at a betoken where I tin give the sack expect at these pictures again
in addition to relive this memory!
I'll spare you lot the long version...but but know that whatsoever projection you lot undertake is always:
Messier
Takes longer
in addition to is More Expensive
than you lot plan.
We unopen on this adorable 1951 domicile mid January.
I had oculus surgical operation a calendar week or hence later, hence I was non much aid for a yoke weeks.
But hither is the living room when you lot walk in.  MLS pictures.

 Not bad.
They but set inward construct novel carpeting in addition to painted.
Too royal of a greyish for me.
It was nice...but was non us.
That permanent plaster in addition to lathe scallop quondam lady drape was non our thing.
Not ane bit.
This room needed some serious Shaw inward it.
No bespeak for a sit-and-visit room.

 The windows were quondam in addition to leaky...and covered inward ivy.
Adorable in addition to no bespeak for curtains...but quondam in addition to drafty for sure.

 Day one.
Carefully take away carpeting in addition to pad to piece of employment inward some other surface area of the house.
Rip out the "built in" shelf.
That matter was 8 inches deep on laissez passer on in addition to ii feet deep on the bottom...I knew in that location was to a greater extent than wasted infinite lurking behind that wall, in addition to I was right!

 Here's a icon of the woods flooring nosotros institute underneath.
Dog urine soaked in addition to stuck pad.
Poor transitions.
Sad 24-hour interval for us.

 Alas, every 24-hour interval nosotros worked in addition to made the most colossal mess.
Everything dusty, muddied in addition to dangerous.
We enlisted my husbands dad to aid us.  He made small piece of employment of the giant scallop things in addition to cutting out a perfect frame for our room transition.  This is besides a back upward wall, hence it needs to live built upward again.
But no scallops.
See that popcorn ceiling?  Who invented that?  Ugh.

 This was us, daily.
Don't breathe the air!

 I did non desire to embrace upward these windows.
They permit inward low-cal in addition to were pretty...but nosotros had a yoke of problems.
Firstly, where to set our amusement zone?
Second...at night, you lot tin give the sack come across correct into our neighbors kitchen...not thrilling.
I knew we'd goal upward blinding them off anyway, hence nosotros decided to
 fill them alongside foam insulation all caulked in.

 And in addition to hence frame them inward alongside 2X4's in addition to OSB board.
See that lovely paint?
Peeled off the wall inward big sheets when nosotros removed the popcorn ceiling.
Good matter I didn't similar the color inward the commencement place, right?

 We institute a gorgeous gray.
It was at the Restore, hence I got five gallons of Sherwin Williams pigment for $20.  Win.
After priming every wall in addition to ceiling inward the upstairs alongside Kilz Primer...
nosotros finally began the icon gray.

 And the ceiling.  ii coats of pigment everywhere.
Our piteous necks!
My kids are such difficult workers.
And nosotros homeschool, hence it was fun for them to larn all virtually edifice a house!
I'm non showing you lot that nosotros had to rewire all the electrical throughout the house...
equally good equally the ventilation in addition to plumbing...and everything else
 that sucks in addition to takes forever.

 Next came the beams.
My hubby did all the sanding in addition to distressing.
He was covered inward man-glitter.
You volition come across that I am utterly inward beloved alongside untreated pine.
I beloved the low-cal (not yellow) wood.
I beloved it!

 The beams were all placed in addition to bolted in.

 We needed lots of aid for this part!

 Then the beam had some decorative dowels placed over the bolts hence it
 looks similar it's all doweled together.  I painted the window cavities black.

 We got this fantastic laminate from Home Depot for 79 cents a foursquare foot.
It's called Lakeshore Pecan.
With the underlayment it terms us virtually $700 to flooring our
985 foursquare human foot upstairs...minus the bathroom.  Worth every penny.

 We set out the underfloor in addition to taped the pieces together.

 And in addition to hence the laminate but clicks into itself!
The trickiest component division is doorways in addition to edges that bespeak to live cut...

 So nosotros started correct inward the entry way.

 We had a corking cutting zone ready nether the carport.

 Even floored the arts and crafts room (or the exclusively "bedroom" upstairs.

 I beloved the flooring.  It is warm in addition to inviting...but non yellow.
 It's a corking mix of dark in addition to really low-cal wood.  We beloved it!

 We staggered our pieces inward lengths against this far wall.
They are 1/4 steps inward a "random" looking order...but it was all really precise.

 This icon describes how nosotros all felt virtually the floor.
Finally, no dust, dirt in addition to nails...finally nosotros could conduct keep our shoes off!!!

 It looks amazing in addition to cleans upward great!
See that opened upward cupboard where the bookshelf was?
That's my husbands desk/office space.

 We trimmed out approximately the kitchen doorway
(more to come upward on the kitchen later)
But it stayed similar this for a while.  At to the lowest degree nosotros ready our wii, right?

We replaced all the windows inward the household equally well.
With the forepart icon window, nosotros had it replaced smaller than the
 other ane that went nearly to the floor.
This would live meliorate for my desk.

 My hubby built me a desk alongside an acrylic laissez passer on in addition to colored lights that
 shine through it similar a discotheque!

Next nosotros framed inward the windows.

 And built inward the amusement wall.

 We absolutely beloved it!
It fits our needs perfectly!

 We conduct keep a long desk for the kids to o their schoolhouse at.
And our fun amusement area!

 Everyone has a chair alongside wheels...so they tin give the sack whorl approximately the floors!

 Directly behind the kids desk is my husbands.
First the wall looked similar this:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tiny bookshelf alongside wasted space.

 We opened it upward in addition to framed it all inward alongside reclaimed bits in addition to pieces of wood.
Leaving that amazing (but currently non used) piping showing!

 I painted all the OSB board dark to give it the same expect equally the windows nosotros covered.
I beloved how it looks!

My big opened upward tabular array is my favorite.
I piece of employment it all the time!
It is covered inward projects 99% of the time!

 The dark out curtains are prissy for pic nights in addition to LAN parties!
But the window lets inward plenty low-cal to conduct keep pictures indoors during the day!  Yay!
Since this picture, nosotros conduct keep changed my desk quite a bit...but that volition relieve for some other day.

 We acquired this beloved spot from my parents who willingly relinquished ownership.
And straight off tore off the ruffle edging in addition to the legs in addition to added casters.  Now our loveseat tin give the sack whorl approximately equally well.  When it is non needed for the TV viewing, it's flipped in addition to rolled inward forepart for chatting.
I beloved the versatility!
Someday I volition reupholster this loveseat...but it is non this day!

 Way fun, right?!!
Like I said, this redo totally fits our needs in addition to our likes.
We are projection people in addition to bespeak room to piece of employment at desks in addition to exercise things!

 What exercise you lot call back virtually the living room reveal?

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