Before and Not Quite After

After a week of redecorating the living room it is finally feeling nice and cozy for about the first time ever!   Before I think we just had too much furniture and not enough wall space. I can not tell you how many times I moved that furniture around and around and around.  We went through 3 coffee tables, a couple of side tables, and a few rugs and two sets of curtains. I was just never quite satisfied. 

At first it was just green, brown, and blue. Then, I added punches of orange.  My orange phase didn't last too long. A little orange goes a long way.

Anyway, here is a before - one of many configurations:

I am still crazy about these curtains so I will give them a try in the new room before packing them away.

  I loved the blue chairs too but could never make them fir quite right. So, I sold them in my booth and made enough money to buy the new sofa.

 Okay, so we spent 2 nights last week painting the green living room white. What a difference a few hours and not even two gallons of paint can make!!

Here is the after (so far)  --- we picked the sofa up on Saturday and I picked the rug up this afternoon.

This is not the "after after"  -- I still have to hang the artwork and find some curtains.

after we painted it white

after we added the new sofa but before we got rid of the other one

The rug really warmed the room up!

That big huge gray thing - that is a set of school lockers I purchased in Arkansas last weekend. I used it as a room divider (and will show you more when the kitchen remodel happens -since those are in the kitchen.)  BUT, I had a big problem of the backside of the lockers facing the living room...so I used the locker backs as if they were a wall:

I like the extra wall space it provides

Not quite finished - still have art to hang behind the sofa (still looking for the perfect pieces) and I have got to find some curtains... but so far we are loving it and enjoying it more than we have the whole time we have lived here!

I will show more photos as soon as I finish!  THEN, on to the dining room and I have big plans for that as well!