Home Interior: Our 1970's House Makeover Part 8: The Living Room Updates

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Hey ya'll.
I'm drawing a blank.
So, I'm going to fill upwards up this niggling infinite side past times side to the tiny moving paradigm alongside non-important words therefore that nosotros tin speedily larn to the meat of the post in addition to verbalize similar normal people.

Because sometimes I receive got a 1000000 things to tell you, but my encephalon jams upwards when faced alongside an introductory paragraph.

New rule: Virginia is occasionally excused from introductory paragraphs in addition to tin instead simply quote Lionel Richie lyrics or receive got a moving paradigm of her hand. I'll salve those options for later.

Let's motion on to the meat.
So, I disappeared for a week. Sometimes I simply demand to receive got a niggling intermission in addition to larn on vacation, which is precisely what I did lastly week. For the past times 10 years Jesse has taken me on a niggling opor-garai for my birthday (which is on June 13th, therefore nosotros celebrated a niggling slow this year), in addition to each twelvemonth nosotros essay to larn somewhere new. This twelvemonth nosotros ended upwards inward Hilton Head, South Carolina, which speedily became ane of my favorite places.
And I had therefore much fun that I got totally lost inward the minute in addition to came domicile alongside unopen to ane 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, in addition to I've spent the lastly few days trying to photograph the living room.

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

So, my apologies for the feline intrusion. I tried to take them from their natural habitat, but at that topographic point are nonetheless no doors anywhere inward the house, in addition to my attempts proved impossible.

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

Estimated completion is nonetheless laid for May 2032.

I'll start past times reminding you lot where nosotros began.

This is the living room when nosotros foremost moved in, consummate alongside dark woods trim, wall to wall carpet, in addition to those põrnikas catcher lights that receive got taunted me since twenty-four hr catamenia one.

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

The living room therefore went through virtually 10 other questionable transitions, all coming to an terminate when nosotros ripped upwards the carpet dorsum inward February.

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

As you lot know, my days at Panera eventually came to an end. The floors were finally installed (after some major hiccups back inward April), in addition to eventually nosotros started moving some article of furniture dorsum in. I sold most of our materials at the outset of the renovation inward an sweat to start anew, therefore basically all nosotros had to motion dorsum inward was our 2 sofas.

My promise is to eventually supervene upon those large ol' fellas alongside something a niggling less tan microfiber, in addition to perhaps something a niggling smaller (to allow for dissimilar room configurations) but for now, I'm simply grateful to receive got anything inward at that topographic point at all. I didn't ain a couch until I was virtually 26, therefore whatever couch is a fabulous couch if you lot inquire me. :)

Next on my living room to-do listing was replacing the lite fixtures. That ended upwards being kinda tricky because at that topographic point are a total of 5 lite fixtures inward this ane large space. There are 2 inward the living room, ane inward the entryway, ane inward the dining room, in addition to ane inward the kitchen (which I shared lastly week).

Since they tin all live seen at the same time, I didn't desire to exercise 5 of the same fixture, but I did desire to create some sort of cohesiveness amid all of them. I ended upwards finding a corking fixture at Lowe's for a decent price, in addition to brought domicile 3 of them...2 for the living room in addition to 1 for the dining room.

And I must non receive got been the exclusively ane who liked them, equally I had to larn to several dissimilar Lowes to discovery all three.

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

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

So, simply to remind you, here's what this infinite looked similar when nosotros foremost moved in: wall to wall carpet, orangish wood, in addition to assorted boob lights.

And hither is what this infinite looks similar today alongside novel floors, a novel stair rail, newly painted walls in addition to trim, in addition to updated lite fixtures.

It seriously makes me blob upwards a niggling bit. I simply can't believe it's finally all coming together. There's nonetheless therefore much piece of work left to live done, similar finishing the trim, replacing the doors, replacing windows, gutting the entire lower level, in addition to doing a niggling piece of work on the bathrooms, but I'm allowing myself a niggling downward fourth dimension this summertime to simply relax in addition to 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 catch absolutely assault getting a moroccan shag rug, because I dearest them, in addition to after a lot of searching locally in addition to 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 virtually the ane I had simply ordered, hoping that perhaps I could provide it in addition to receive got them shipping me a bigger size (since my niggling budget had maxed out somewhere nigh the tiny version). Well, it ended upwards that they were currently out of stock inward 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 in addition to 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 ane that I purchased (which I decided to boot the bucket on in addition to exercise inward the office), in addition to the giant ane that they sent me (which equally you lot tin see, ended upwards getting lots of dearest inward 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, in addition to wretched Tootie sits on the sofa similar a rolypoly.

So, anyways, that's the carpet story. Plain in addition to simple.

Tootie says non to experience likewise bad for her. She sneaks inward 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 in addition to kitchen. Jesse has been working on trimming out the walls nosotros knocked down, which you lot tin encounter a niggling chip of inward this picture. Turns out, trimming out a wall is kinda tricky, therefore nosotros are moving turtle-speed on the trim down work.

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

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

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

I nonetheless don't dearest it, but I loathe it less, so....eh.

I added a niggling abstract paradigm to the mantel.

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

I actually await frontwards to those visits.

I took roughly xl 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 virtually 400 wall holes in addition to spent a week painting, I've been avoiding the walls.

It's a approbation in addition to a curse.

Blessing: Feeling actually peaceful similar some weird minimalist.

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

So, for now, I'm simply hanging a few large things in addition to stepping away from the hammer.

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

If you lot missed the lastly DIY disaster post, here's what it looked similar earlier I painted it.

And here's what it looks similar at ane time after some pigment in addition to updated hardware.

Pardon the tiny TV. We moved the large ane that's commonly out hither dorsum to the chamber during the renovation in addition to I receive got yet to haul it dorsum out here. You mightiness recollect the Dirty Dancing photograph flora at the terminate of this post that variety of explains it.

I fifty-fifty painted the insides of the drawers to larn inward experience similar novel (or at to the lowest degree non olfactory belongings similar thrift store).

I nonetheless demand to discovery a few terminate tables and/or a java table, but a daughter tin exclusively exercise therefore much at once, therefore for at ane time I'll simply appreciate having a house to sit down in addition to relax other than our bedroom.

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

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

As for the residuum of the master copy area, nosotros hung the chandelier inward the dining room in addition to had to swag it over because it was virtually a pes off-center. And at ane time my search begins for dining room tables. I'm to a greater extent than excited virtually this constituent of the procedure than almost whatever other, equally I've been without a dining room tabular array for almost 2 years.

Before nosotros knocked downward the wall, our dining room was therefore tiny in addition to non fifty-fifty the smallest circular tabular array jibe well. So, at ane time that the wall is gone betwixt the dining room in addition to kitchen, I receive got therefore much to a greater extent than infinite for a dining room.

There's a whole long story virtually the dining room tabular array situation, in addition to it's a funny one, but I'll salve that for some other post, perhaps when I discovery the table. Or some chairs.

Anyways, that's pretty much all for today, ya'll. Thanks for caring virtually what goes on inward my niggling world. I'll live dorsum presently when I receive got something else interesting to share.

In the meantime, I'll likely live on the couch similar a squealer inward a blanket
and Cheese volition live acting un-lady-like on the rug.