Room Complete*: Living Room

Two months after closing on the house, I am ready to declare the living room update complete.

Here’s a couple of before shots:

This room was one of the first rooms I took a paintbrush to, largely because there was no wallpaper to deal with and we could move things around with relative ease. Two coats of paint and a new set of curtains later, and things are starting to look a lot better:

The room looks completely different with the new paint job and curtains. The existing paint job wasn’t a bad color, but it was a really rough looking paint job, and may or may not have been the original paint from the mid 1970s. All of the electrical fixtures were updated with new, white receptacles, switches, and plates, although I still need to swap the fixture in the entryway out for another one of the circular lights like I have in the kitchen. The wall with the cold air return got a lighter blue, and the grate was cleaned and painted. Overall, things look much better, just in time for the housewarming this coming Saturday.

* I still have plans to update trim and heat registers, but I’m not moving on to those tasks until the winter or spring of next year. For the most part, the trim isn’t all that noticeable anyways.