Living & Dining Room Progress

 Remember this post?

Oh the paneling...

Well, it's actually been done for awhile, but with all the house stuff, unpacking, summer, and work, I haven't gotten an update on our progress.

The day we closed we ripped out all the paneling upstairs.

Underneath, we found sheetrock (thank you God!!) but in addition to nailing the paneling, they also glued it.  So, when we took it off, there was pieces of sheetrock ripped off, black adhesive marks from the glue, and a lot of mudding and taping to do.

After ripping it all off

Bob (Mike's dad) took over with a lot of the grunt work to get it ready for the sheetrocker to clean it up.  Had to rip out all the nails, scape off ripped sheetrock, prime all the walls, and scrap the popcorn ceiling to replace it with orange peel. 

While it was a pain, and long process to wait for it all to be done, still so glad we hired it out. 

New chairs

I love that the fireplace looks more grey then pink now

Entry way is so much brighter



2 colors meetin in corner

Ta Da!!

We went with two colors, both by Sherwin Williams.  The main color is Collande Gray, which has some brownish tones to it, and the large wall behind the couch, and down the hallway was Big Chill,  we wanted a shade of gray slightly lighter than the main walls since the hallway is so dark.

 

As you can see, we still need to replace the light fixutres and put up some curtains.

 

To do lists:

Entryway:

• Rip down paneling (done)
• Fix sheetrock
• Find new light fixture
• Replace door/window
• Replace wrought iron railings
• New tile instead of brick
• Paint

Living Room:

Remove Paneling (done)

Fix sheetrock

Remove curtains (done) and hang new ones (purchased)

Replace carpet (about 5 years out hopefully...)

Paint

Replace ceiling sheetrock and popcorn texture with knockdown

Replace trim

Figure out lighting in here (no lights in ceiling) - added some lamps

Dining Room

Rip down paneling (done)

Fix sheetrock

Remove and hang new curtains (purchased)

Paint

Replace light fixture

Long term:

• Knock out wall to the left, extending kitchen
• Putting sliding glass door in
• Remove carpet for kitchen flooring
• We will make the kitchen larger, more a combined kit/dr, similar to previous home, we dont care for a formal dining area. For now, will be used as a play area/toy room