The wonders of paint!

I've made major progress in the basement!! As I near the end of a project, I start to get excited about what I'm going to work on next. In this case it will be the guest room. I will always have little things to do in each room but I like to find treasures here and there and add them to my room later. Also remember that I'm doing small affordable changes right now and will do large, expensive projects as we have the money (which should be in about 20 years, haha). You can make a huge impact on a room with just a gallon of paint. Very affordable.

 

Here is the before of the East end of the "big basement" living room. Have I mentioned that we have two basements? They are known around here as the big basement and the little basement (so original). More on that later. DON'T DISTRACT ME!!

Here is the East end now!

Here is another angle. This is looking North east. The kids have lots of room to play now. I need to make the toy area cleaner looking, finish some hole patching, and do some painting. This space also doubles as a practicing space for Jeremy's band. It's great to not have to move a bunch of stuff in order to set up the drum set!

The West end, before. Ugh! God help us, right?!

After!! Yay! I had to live with the furniture on the other end of the room for a while to finally realize this layout. I was racking my brain to figure out how to arrange the furniture until one day, it just hit me! Now, those of you who really know me are probably thinking,"she can't live with all of that brown"! I know, right?! The white walls are a huge improvement but I'm just not an "all brown" kind of girl! It's going to take some time for me to figure out how to make it more colorful. For now, it's a highly improved space. Enjoy the process!!

Another angle of the sitting area.

I still have lots of touch up painting on the ceiling and I want to paint some of the heavy black duct work up there too. I'm always in awe of the transformation that comes about when you paint! Do you have the painting bug yet? Do you, Dad? Hahaa, just kidding. I know you don't like to paint!

 

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