Before and After: Living room

I'm SO excited to finally be showing before and after pictures of our house! 

So many hours have gone into this place, but it has been well worth it! We moved in a few days ago and so things are now a mess, but I managed to sneak a few pictures before too many things got brought in.

But keep in mind that we had a million tools and also a bunch of toys laying around.. 

So it was hard to get a really clean picture of the after :)

So here is the living area

Before

And After

As you can see we aren't quite finished..

Some trim and outlet covers are still needed 

But I REALLY wanted to be in before Christmas

So if it wasn't absolutely necessary at the time we didn't worry about it.

And now that we are moved in we will start to tackle the little details. 

It's way easier to work on the house now that we live here..

No more driving back to the apartment every time Micah needs a nap or food.

We can just stay here 24/7 and I am loving it!

So let me just give you a little glimpse into what went into this remodel. 

As soon as we got the keys I was so anxious to get in there and get to work! 

We started by getting the nasty blue carpet out. 

And let me tell you it was GROSS

It may not look super bad in the pictures, 

but anyone that saw it in real life could tell you that it was really bad.

Pretty sure that carpet was really really old.

Just getting it out was a huge improvement and I feel like it made the place way cleaner. 

Once the carpet was out the house looked like this for what seemed like forever.

It was nice cause we didn't have to worry about getting paint on the floor or anything like that.

 I have always dreamed of the day I would get to choose my own wall colors and flooring for my own house.. I have been pinning and imagining what it would look like for a long time.  But then when it came right down too it I didn't really know what I wanted!

It was a SUPER hard decision! 

Lucky for me I have a designer for a husband :)

It was nice to know that he knew what colors would go together and stuff like that.

We make a pretty great team. 

I come up with ideas and he makes it happen by finding the right colors 

When we first thought this house might be a possibility (in October)

I pretty much immediately imagined wood floors throughout the whole living space..

which is weird for me cause I never thought I'd want a bunch of wood floor

(carpet is just so cozy) but this space is just so open and elegant looking that wood just seemed right. 

And I LOVE how it turned out.

The color is exactly what I wanted

We were actually going to do more of a grey on the walls,

but we went to a friends house and they had this color of walls and we loved it. We also thought the warmer color would go good with our flooring.

As it turns out paint is super hard to choose! 

It's basically impossible to tell what the color will really 

look like from those little samples.

So it was nice to see this color on walls before we bought a 

whole bunch of it.

(sorry about the stove in all these pictures.. We had to take it out of the kitchen to put flooring in and it hadn't been moved back yet. haha)

Fun Fact: I didn't really love the fireplace at first

I didn't think I liked the color of the brick, but once we got the walls painted

and the floor in all of a sudden the fireplace could really shine.

And now I love it!! 

It's amazing how it's surroundings affected the looks of the fireplace. 

We got the fireplace inspected and cleaned and had a fire in it the other night

It was awesome. 

We are planning on having a fire Christmas Eve 

so excited. 

What you can't really tell in these pictures is how bad the original paint was.  

It was stained and dirty and just really old. 

It was more yellow then white.

We painted the walls and the ceiling and it made a world of difference. 

Right before we started moving stuff in they moved the stove so I got a few stoveless pictures.

Plus it's kinda fun to see it in different lighting..

Putting the couch in was kind of a crazy moment for us.. 

It was like it brought everything together and made it real!

We had officially taken and unlivable house and made it awesome.

That right there is a pretty great feeling :)

All of the long days and late nights, the stress, and the craziness was worth it!

I'm so glad we went with this house even though it needed so much work.

It's so cool to look around and know that we did this! 

And to know that we got a great price because we were willing to put in the work.

So that's it for the living area! 

up next: The bedrooms :)