Our Home Tour: Living Room Reveal with Wainscoting

Over the past few months we have made a lot of changes to our family room! It first started when we got a new sectional from IKEA--Chad was so embarrassed of my last "vintage" couch :) And with a new couch comes a new arrangement of course! We had fun rearranging the furniture and the feel of the room a bit. Knowing me, we will probably move it back at some point; I like switching it up! :) Then I got a gorgeous new rug (from RugsUSA) that I LOVE! A new coffee table, and side tables came up and just recently we finished some wainscoting! AND I LOVE IT ALL SO MUCH! :) ...I am excited to share it all with you today :)

Here is the "before" picture of our living Room:

and the After!! :

It feels like a completely different room! The blue paint is a little brighter that we expected..some days I like it, other days I don't. So we haven't decided if we are going to keep it. What do you think? :) Here are some more pictures! 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Wainscoting :)

Tutorial to come!

Picture frame tutorial

Lamps are thrift-ed, I painted them. Lamp shades are from Target.

I love being able to hide our TV! 

This fun old window is the perfect way to display pictures of us when we were little, as well as some of our parents and grandparents! 

and this ladder makes displaying our blankets so fun!

Coffee table I refinished

This side table was another fun project! Tutorial HERE

Bella is displaying my stenciled curtains :) You can see the Tutorial HERE 

Well, what do you think? I love all the changes we have made and I hope you do to! 

Our Home Tour: Kitchen & Dining

Our kitchen was looking pretty clean so I thought I better take advantage of the opportunity to do a little photo shoot :) Plus, I thought I should show you how it looks now before I get to work changing it! hehe! For Christmas I told Chad I just wanted the money to do some kitchen projects. I am so excited to start working on them soon and will update as I go! Here is the kitchen now:

DIY Stools my Hubby Built :)

Metal Wall Art turned Pot Hanger

DIY Roman Shades

DIY "Eat" Letters

 Refinished chairs and Dining table

 I Love having this tray on our table to keep things together, it keeps it from looking cluttered!

Stenciled Wall

Picture frame turned Chalkboard

 Refinished Retro Gold and White Dresser

Our Home Tour: Family Room

The family Room is the only room in our house that I feel is somewhat "finished". I still have a few projects I want to do for it but they are small. So I figured its about time I show it off a bit! :)

One of my future projects: This lamp needs some lovin' and updating. We have

also discovered how NOT sturdy this little end table is...Lucy enjoys knocking it over :) So I need

to replace it soon....

I Love, love, LOVE these curtains from IKEA. $25 for a PAIR!!! Future project:

I want to add some stripes to these curtains

 Chad made me this curtain rod! I love windows and I didn't want to break up our view by hanging individual curtain rods 

over each window. But as you might expect, its not easy finding a curtain rod over 15 feet long! :)

We found this easy and cheap tutorial HERE, total cost under $20!

 This DIY ladder was another simple Chad project :) I stained it with a simple 

vinegar stain to help it look worn. 

Window as vintage Picture gallery. There are pictures of Chad and I as babies, 

his Mom and family, and Chads G.Ma as a baby. I need to get pictures of my parents 

when they were young to fill in the empty panes.

Its coming together! I still have a little more work to do and I will update as I finish!