Living Room Before and Beautiful After

Living Room Before and Beautiful After

contributed by The DIY Diaries

Woo hoo!  I've been focused on the living room since we moved a few weeks ago and wanted to get some pictures posted.  I really love the way it's shaping up so far and it's a room I've really enjoyed spending time in since the rug, window treatments and the wall hangings arrived last week.

There's still much more to do, but just to give you a little taste, here's a few before and afters!

Before:

 

And AFTER: 

                                  

The window treatments are bamboo roman shades flanked by grommeted canvas curtains from Ikea: 
                               

Here's a shot of our armchair complete with a whimsy canvas and green stitched pillow: 

                                               

Closeup of pillow and striping on chair fabric: 

Our sunburst mirrors (I'm scared they're hung a bit too high?  Do I need to lower them?) 

And those superfun patterned pillows that I absolutely adore on the couch: 

Among the to-do's for this room are to find lighting for the end tables (done in Nov 2009), accessorize the mantel and the nested end tables, find a new end table for the side of the couch by the windows, and OH YEAH.... finish off the media area which is currently in a state of quasi-disaster and looks like this. 

Notice the exposed subfloor?  Yeah.  Nice huh?  But, it used to look like this so we're making progress at least: 

So there ya have it folks, about 50% (maybe a bit more) of the first room redo in the house is complete.  What do you think?