Monday, February 16, 2009

Home Ownership

Brian and I have lived in our house for about 2.5 years and are still very much in the process of making home improvements. Since the day we moved in, I have hated the carpet in our family room. Most of the house has beautiful hard wood, but the family room had this awful forest green patterned carpet that had yellow bleach spots and felt like sand paper. When we had Addie we swore we would replace it before she was able to roll around or crawl on it. Well, she's been rolling for months and luckily was a late crawler (she was 10 months) and we FINALLY replaced it. We also painted (the previous walls were yellow complete with stains where the previous owners had hung pictures), replaced the ceiling fan and put in new baseboards. Now, we just have to finish putting new trim on the windows, hang the curtain rods and curtains we have, and figure out what we want to do with the brick shelving. I LOVE OUR NEW CARPET!!! It feels like heaven! Addie loves it too. Now maybe one of these days I will find the energy and the time to take down the fruit wall paper in the kitchen!!

Before


After!!!!


Before carpet, paint and furniture that is comfortable and actually matches.


After! I also love our couch. It's so comfy and fits so many people.


Yet another angle before:


Final after!!

2 comments:

Kenny said...

Doesn't it make such a difference when you are happy with a room--especially one that you probably spend a lot of time in? I remember how wonderful it was when we finally painted our dining room. Every time I walked by it I had to stop and appreciate!

Kim and Jim said...

Looks great!