10/29/11: Dining Room

Dining Room Paint? Check!

Two whole days ahead of  my scheduled deadline.  Kudos Paul!  Next up?  The Kitchen! I'm starting think we (okay I) got a little over ambitious this close to baby time...

9/30/11: More Extreme Makeover: Living Room Edition

I finally got the vinyl decals for the living room and the girls room.  The girls room will be in a separate post once we've moved Rylee in there completely. This is over the archway in our living room. I absolutely love it! Minus getting some pictures in the new frames in the living room, I would say our makeover is complete!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

9/21/11: 99% Complete!

Our living room that is!  The painting is done, the frames are hung, and the mantle is set.  Everything just needs some fine tuning such as pictures in all the frames and cleaning up the mantle but all in all I'm feeling accomplished.  I shouldn't really say me as Paul did most if not all of the work but I was the mastermind of ideas as usual.

Next - the dining room!

4/26/11: Extreme Living Room Makeover

Our living room needs a makeover badly.  It's not going to be that extreme but it's time for new carpet.  Since we decided to get the new carpet we figured if we are going to paint it at some point we might as well do it before the new carpet comes.  Our carpet has been through 2 puppies, 2 children, 3 cats, and a Canale. I speak of my friend Ryan who does not miss an opportunity to spill something at any gathering. He doesn't discriminate either, he does it everywhere. Beware.  

Our carpet is not that forgiving either, seeing as it's cream.  It's also not very soft.  Doesn't make it very inviting to kids or adults.  We needed/wanted something soft, multicolored (because hey we all know we still have kids, and pets, and a Canale) and cheap.  When we carpeted our basement downstairs we got great carpet from the back wall at Lowe's.  We decided to venture back there and managed to find some for our living room.  It is the sample you see above.

Our biggest dilemma now is paint.  I definitely want some color in the room.  Right now it's all painter's white. We have grey couches with plum/fuchsia and black accents.  The end tables and TV stand are both black.  We've pretty much decided that the majority of the walls will be painted a beige color and that we would really like an accent color wall behind our main couch.  I wanted to make it something brighter and then adorn the wall with black picture frames and some vinyl designs.  I really thought I wanted to do the plum/fuschia. I bought a sample of this:

While I like it in theory it seems to have more of a pink undertone on the wall.  I think we still may go with it only because I'm tired of trying to decide.  That's a horrible way to make a decision I know but I'm really over it.  Anyone have any ideas?  I need help. I need it fast.