624 Come Alive: The Living Room

So, I know that today is not Wednesday, but today we will be featuring Wednesday's post.

Today we will look at the living room. As you can see by the before pictures, there was a lot of work that needed to be done in our dated living room in our 110 year old house. There was a not very white white on the walls, there were a hideous pink shag carpet on the floor, and under the shag carpet was a layer of linoleum tile, followed by a layer of tar paper.

We stripped out the carpet, chiseled out the tile, and steamed and scraped up the tar paper. Once that was done, we sanded the floors, stained them, and then hit with a polyeuretahne coat.

Amazing that the floor could go from that to this!

Then we patched cracks in the wall, and painted a nice shade of Nevada blue (go wolfies!). After that, we custom built in shelving and decorated to taste (actually we just put the furniture we already had into the room in ways that don't actually fit, but hey, who's counting.)

Hope you enjoy our living room as much as we do. Tune in tomorrow for our first installment of "belly watch '09!"