The Living Room and Office

One of the first rooms that we started working on was the living room. The house had a great feature to it- what the realtor called a 'florida room'. That is just fancy talk for a sun room that has been finished. The layout of the house is as follows: you walk into the front door and step directly into the living room, to your left is the dining room, and to your right is the 'florida room'.

Here is what that area looked like when the house was purchased:

As you can see this area is not too bad. That is probably one of the reasons that we started with it. Here is the work that has been done on it so far. Like most of the house, most of the work that has been completed is painting the rooms. I love neutral colors, and if it was my choice the whole house would be some shade of tan or cream. Lucky for the Lowes and Home Depots paint departments, my boyfriend likes some color. 

As you can see, one of the biggest changes, other than the color of the walls is that the floors have been refinished. The hardwood floors were in horrible condition when the house was purchased. Since my boyfriend wanted to get the floors refinished in the house, we had to complete all the painting before that could happen because the whole house is hardwood except the two bathrooms and kitchen . We started working on the house in December 2010. The house has three bedrooms, two bathroom ( both of which had wall paper up before we started to paint), kitchen, dining room, living room, and office. The only room in the house that has not been painted is the guest bath and in a future post you will see why. The carpet in the florida room, which will be used as an office, was replaced with hardwood floors. We think that it helps the house flow a little better.  We also took the mirror over the fireplace down.  The office and living room are painted the same color- a nice manly green color.