As per my prior post, up next the living room! Before I proceed, I gotta warn you the pics are full of the day to day mess of living and renovating… I thought about cleaning up but then figured I would never post a pic or write a post if I took the time to clean and sort first, so please excuse the mess!
Since the living room and kitchen are side by side and flow into one another and Sam had completed the banister it just made sense to paint the walls and complete the room.

Kitchen on the right and living room on the left, they sort of flow into one another.
I chose a neutral colour to help tie it together. I used the curtains in the kitchen as my starting point and pulled a brown from them.
I then went to home depot and found a Behr pre done colour combo card that matched the brown, makes life easy!

Behr paint swatch
After painting the first wall with Brown Teepee 700D I realized that the space started to feel smaller so I changed the second colour from the darker colour on the card to lighter Oyster W-B-720, for the remaining two walls.

We finally got to put up family pics, they have been in boxes for 3 years! Lots more to go but this is a good start.
We also completed a project that has been half finished for years. We started with 3 of these inexpensive Ikea wood dressers, painted them white, attached them together, placed a piece of our old sofit across the top, sanded and stained and bought new knobs, voila! The chest of drawers is only 11″ deep so it fit perfect on the ledge beside the stairs.


In our living room we have a nook which we designate the office, it’s to the left of the TV in the pic above. I finished scraping the window frame and Sam put it up, what a difference the moulding detail makes. The window treatment is still being debated!

We can’t fix the back part until the summer when we can pull the window out completely! We also have to fix a broken pane of glass, hooray for tuck tape. It’s quite drafty!

I know you love the mess!
We painted the back hall as well since it’s all connected. I caved 😦 I was looking for the perfect antique piece but couldn’t deal with the mess so we bought an Ikea wardrobe, they had the bedroom event so we got 15% back in gift cards, I couldn’t resist! There wasn’t much choice at Ikea for what we needed; shallow depth, tall and sliding doors, so I went modern and clean, white, white and white!

This is just to give you a location perspective

We took a walk to Home Sense (love this store) and look what I found! What are the chances that it was the same colour as our walls?? One of those things that I felt was just meant to be, and inspirational too! One piece of wall art down, only 4 more to go!

Inspirational wall art!
Up next, we are painting the front hall.