House Renovation {part 3: DR & LR}

I really should be showering right now, but the dining room and living room were clean so I decided to take advantage and do post 3 on the house renovation. I took this picture above of our china in our china cabinet while snapping a few pictures of the room and thought it was very fitting to precede the dining room post. Justin made our china selection all on his own... not bad for a guy! I think he liked it because there were dogs, horses and guns on it! What a great compromise for china that both men and women will dine from!

These two rooms are directly off the kitchen and family room. Here are the before pictures...

Dining Room (Justin standing in door to kitchen)


If you turn around 180 degrees you'll see the living room

(lovely butterfly wallpaper is accented on the foyer wall too)

the foyer

Originally the only entrances into these two rooms were from the kitchen or the foyer but thanks to my husband's handiwork we opened up the wall 9' between the LR and FR for a better flow.

progress (you'll see that terazzo in the FR that almost caused a divorce) :)

We removed the foil wall paper, the white carpet, the vertical blinds and the dated curtains. We added a little paint (Benjamin Moore: Camoflage) to the walls and wood floors. My sister donated to the cause a gorgeous antique light fixture that she bought on ebay for $16. The Lamp Man himself had to rewire this one, as it was a tad too tricky for a novice like me. The the furniture in the LR and the mirror and light fixture in the foyer all came from that same antique mall that I love and ironically all from that same booth! The rug in the foyer came from AAA Freight Salvage house.... it was brand new and 100% wool and the best part $50. The blinds throughout the house I bought on blinds.com and the curtains came from none other than JcPenney and the curtain rods from Home Depot. I think that covers it. So, here it is now... I took many more "after" pictures; the before were taken when we were just "looking" at the house so I unfortunately didn't get every single angle!

The end...