Our 1970'S Household Makeover Business Office 8: The Living Room Updates

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Hey ya'll.
I'm drawing a blank.
So, I'm going to create total upwards this lilliputian infinite adjacent to the tiny pic alongside non-important words therefore that nosotros tin chop-chop larn to the meat of the post as well as beak similar normal people.

Because sometimes I receive got a meg things to tell you, but my encephalon jams upwards when faced alongside an introductory paragraph.

New rule: Virginia is occasionally excused from introductory paragraphs as well as tin instead simply quote Lionel Richie lyrics or accept a pic of her hand. I'll relieve those options for later.

Let's motion on to the meat.
So, I disappeared for a week. Sometimes I simply demand to accept a lilliputian intermission as well as larn on vacation, which is just what I did finally week. For the past times 10 years Jesse has taken me on a lilliputian opor-garai for my birthday (which is on June 13th, therefore nosotros celebrated a lilliputian belatedly this year), as well as each twelvemonth nosotros essay to larn somewhere new. This twelvemonth nosotros ended upwards inwards Hilton Head, South Carolina, which chop-chop became 1 of my favorite places.
And I had therefore much fun that I got totally lost inwards the 2d as well as came abode alongside roughly 1 blurry opor-garai picture.
Note to self: I think I enjoyed myself agency to a greater extent than because of said photo-negligence.
Awkward truth.

So, anyways, nosotros simply got dorsum on Sunday, as well as I've spent the finally few days trying to photograph the living room.

And basically, all attempts were futile...and there's a truthful cat inwards every unmarried picture.

So, my apologies for the feline intrusion. I tried to take away them from their natural habitat, but at that topographic point are even therefore no doors anywhere inwards the house, as well as my attempts proved impossible.

So, this is the progress study on the living room. It's even therefore non finished, but this is the most functionable it's been since February, therefore I figured I would percentage the progress alongside you.

Estimated completion is even therefore laid for May 2032.

I'll start past times reminding yous where nosotros began.

This is the living room when nosotros initiatory of all moved in, consummate alongside dark forest trim, wall to wall carpet, as well as those põrnikas catcher lights that receive got taunted me since 24-hour interval one.

And of course, a living room post wouldn't move consummate without paying tribute to this picture.

The living room as well as therefore went through nigh 10 other questionable transitions, all coming to an cease when nosotros ripped upwards the carpet dorsum inwards February.

That kicked off a 5 calendar month torture-fest that ended upwards educational activity me several valuable life lessons, similar how to successfully loiter at Panera when your trouble solid looks similar this:

As yous know, my days at Panera eventually came to an end. The floors were finally installed (after some major hiccups back inwards April), as well as eventually nosotros started moving some slice of furniture dorsum in. I sold most of our materials at the start of the renovation inwards an elbow grease to start anew, therefore basically all nosotros had to motion dorsum inwards was our 2 sofas.

My promise is to eventually supersede those large ol' fellas alongside something a lilliputian less tan microfiber, as well as possibly something a lilliputian smaller (to allow for unlike room configurations) but for now, I'm simply grateful to receive got anything inwards at that topographic point at all. I didn't ain a couch until I was nigh 26, therefore whatever couch is a fabulous couch if yous inquire me. :)

Next on my living room to-do listing was replacing the low-cal fixtures. That ended upwards being kinda tricky because at that topographic point are a total of 5 low-cal fixtures inwards this 1 large space. There are 2 inwards the living room, 1 inwards the entryway, 1 inwards the dining room, as well as 1 inwards the kitchen (which I shared finally week).

Since they tin all move seen at the same time, I didn't desire to work 5 of the same fixture, but I did desire to create some sort of cohesiveness amid all of them. I ended upwards finding a slap-up fixture at Lowe's for a decent price, as well as brought abode 3 of them...2 for the living room as well as 1 for the dining room.

And I must non receive got been the solely 1 who liked them, every bit I had to larn to several unlike Lowes to uncovering all three.

And as well as therefore Jesse did what I ~~can't~~ prefer non to do...he climbed a giant ladder as well as hung the lights.

I receive got my limits: that 2d ladder rung.

So, simply to remind you, here's what this infinite looked similar when nosotros initiatory of all moved in: wall to wall carpet, orangish wood, as well as assorted boob lights.

And hither is what this infinite looks similar today alongside novel floors, a novel stair rail, newly painted walls as well as trim, as well as updated low-cal fixtures.

It seriously makes me blob upwards a lilliputian bit. I simply can't believe it's finally all coming together. There's even therefore so much piece of work left to move done, similar finishing the trim, replacing the doors, replacing windows, gutting the entire lower level, as well as doing a lilliputian piece of work on the bathrooms, but I'm allowing myself a lilliputian downwardly fourth dimension this summertime to simply relax as well as taste a few truthful cat cuddles.

Commence feline invasion.

So, after the lights were installed, I moved on to finding a rug. I had my see absolutely onslaught getting a moroccan shag rug, because I dear them, as well as after a lot of searching locally as well as online, I finally ordered this one from Rugs USA (on sale for 50% off at the fourth dimension when I ordered it).

And within 24 hours of ordering that rug, something crazy happened: Rugs USA contacted me to offering us a carpet for our living room.

So, naturally, I asked them nigh the 1 I had simply ordered, hoping that possibly I could provide it as well as receive got them shipping me a bigger size (since my lilliputian budget had maxed out somewhere nigh the tiny version). Well, it ended upwards that they were currently out of stock inwards the bigger size that I was hoping for.

So, instead, they offered to shipping me my dream rug, the existent wool version, which has ended upwards beingness the softest affair on the planet.

And that's when I basically fainted.

I'll allow Tootie as well as Cheese to reenact it for you.

How I larn anything done about here, I don't know.

So, anyways, I ended upwards alongside 2 rugs. The smaller 1 that I purchased (which I decided to choke on as well as work inwards the office), as well as the giant 1 that they sent me (which every bit yous tin see, ended upwards getting lots of dear inwards living room).

And I'm pretty certain Cheese called dibs, because she's rolling about on it, having the fourth dimension of her life 24/7, as well as misfortunate Tootie sits on the sofa similar a rolypoly.

So, anyways, that's the carpet story. Plain as well as simple.

Tootie says non to experience likewise bad for her. She sneaks inwards some naps when Cheese gets distracted past times her ball.

So, here's what the living room looks similar from the opposite angle, looking into the dining room as well as kitchen. Jesse has been working on trimming out the walls nosotros knocked down, which yous tin come across a lilliputian chip of inwards this picture. Turns out, trimming out a wall is kinda tricky, therefore nosotros are moving turtle-speed on the trim back work.

I've brought inwards a few pillows from my pillow hoarding closet. I don't dear them, but I don't loathe them.

So, for now, eh, they'll do.

I also decided to larn out the stone wall lone for now.

I even therefore don't dear it, but I loathe it less, so....eh.

I added a lilliputian abstract icon to the mantel.

And as well as therefore added a large woven handbasket adjacent to the stacked logs. It's currently housing the heap of magazines my mom brought me on her finally 'Here are the magazines I've been hoarding for you.' visit.

I actually await frontwards to those visits.

I took roughly forty magazines out of that handbasket for that photo.

I also decided to hang that reclaimed mirror that I got for $20 over the couch. Ever since nosotros spackled nigh 400 wall holes as well as spent a week painting, I've been avoiding the walls.

It's a approving as well as a curse.

Blessing: Feeling actually peaceful similar some weird minimalist.

Curse: Fighting intense urge to create forty slice gallery walls. Developing twitch.

So, for now, I'm simply hanging a few large things as well as stepping away from the hammer.

Anyways, I also replaced our former thrift store TV stand upwards alongside a novel thrift store TV stand upwards that I scored for $50.

If yous missed the finally DIY disaster post, here's what it looked similar earlier I painted it.

And here's what it looks similar instantly after some pigment as well as updated hardware.

Pardon the tiny TV. We moved the large 1 that's commonly out hither dorsum to the sleeping accommodation during the renovation as well as I receive got yet to haul it dorsum out here. You powerfulness call back the Dirty Dancing photograph industrial plant life at the cease of this post that form of explains it.

I fifty-fifty painted the insides of the drawers to arrive experience similar novel (or at to the lowest degree non aroma similar thrift store).

I even therefore demand to uncovering a few cease tables and/or a java table, but a daughter tin solely practise therefore much at once, therefore for instantly I'll simply appreciate having a house to sit down as well as relax other than our bedroom.

And I desperately desire to tell yous that Tootie appreciates it too,

but I fright I've hitting my truthful cat quota.

As for the balance of the head area, nosotros hung the chandelier inwards the dining room as well as had to swag it over because it was nigh a pes off-center. And instantly my search begins for dining room tables. I'm to a greater extent than excited nigh this component subdivision of the procedure than almost whatever other, every bit I've been without a dining room tabular array for almost 2 years.

Before nosotros knocked downwardly the wall, our dining room was therefore tiny as well as non fifty-fifty the smallest circular tabular array tally well. So, instantly that the wall is gone betwixt the dining room as well as kitchen, I receive got therefore much to a greater extent than infinite for a dining room.

There's a whole long story nigh the dining room tabular array situation, as well as it's a funny one, but I'll relieve that for some other post, possibly when I uncovering the table. Or some chairs.

Anyways, that's pretty much all for today, ya'll. Thanks for caring nigh what goes on inwards my lilliputian world. I'll move dorsum before long when I receive got something else interesting to share.

In the meantime, I'll in all likelihood move on the couch similar a grunter inwards a blanket
and Cheese volition move acting un-lady-like on the rug.