Living Room Renovation: Part 3

Part 3 is our last and final reno for the living room space - there's a few more finishing touches I'd like to do and we'll get around to doing, but for now, I LOVE the space and spend a lot of time in this room... 

All of the pieces that are tired together from our few years of living together and can be found here:

Side tables: Brownie Furniture

Entertainment center: Slumberland furniture

Couches: Parents

Chair: Slumberland

Lamps: Home goods

Mirror: Home goods

Baskets: Michaels

Ceramic Pots: West Elm

 
 

Enjoy!

e.l.l

Living Room Renovation: Step 2

Next step: Paint!

It's amazing how much a fresh paint job can do for a room - especially when you're starting with fairly white walls. We looked and debated for a long time what color to do on the walls - the ceilings in the living room walls don't have any corners so we didn't have the opportunity to do any accent walls - one solid color is all that we can make sure (although I have thought about painting the ceilings; Allan isn't too keen on that idea...) 

Supplies:

- Behr Brown Teepee pain

- Brushes

- Rollers

-Tape

- Canvas drop sheets

- Trim glider

- Step stool 

Before photos:



 

You'll have to check back for the next post to see all of the after photos - I forgot to take some after photos with the empty room - whoops! - but I promise there will be another post soon with the finished look with our new carpet!!

Enjoy!

e.l.l.

Living Room Renovation: Step 1

As promised (a few months ago...) it's time to start showing off some of the work that we've been doing in the house!

We decided to start in a room that we're knew we'd be spending most of our time in - with each other, family and friends. After shampooing our living room carpet (multiple times) it  became pretty clear we weren't going to get the dark, dirt embedded square out of the center of the room and it was time to replace it, open up the entry way by tiling it so people aren't walking in on nice carpeted floors, and it could use a real good paint job (the trim is next on the list for painting, but for now, we're trying to enjoy the last of our warm weather!). 

Materials:

- Ceramic tiles

- Cement backer board

- Thin set

- Drywall screws

- Grout mix 

- Spacers

- Mixing bucket

Tools:

- Power drill

- Trowels (2)

- Tile saw

- Sponge

- Rubber grout float

This project took about two weeks - not because it was real grueling, but on days that it rained we focused on inside work and of course once we started this project, the beautiful weather kicked in! We looked at a few different DIY tutorial and talked with my dad who just finished some tile work at home too - this was the DIY tutorial we followed most closely:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/how-to/step/0,,221776_156354,00.html

Here's the step by stop process in photos:

Previous carpeted floor

Our nice surprise!

Tile lay-out process

Tile lay-out process

Spaced out tiles

Finished product... Could not be happier with it! Especially with our fresh walls, new carpet, and decor! --- That post will be next ;)

 

Our "to-do" list is still about a mile long, but this project was great to do together and I am so looking forward to turning the rest of our house into our "own" with the help of our family :)

enjoy

e.l.l.