RED!!!



YAY! We’re done with the red walls in the kitchen! It’s looks great, too. Well, pretty good…. ha. Turns out I’m a terrible painter. The only reason it looks as good as it does is because my wonderful husband went over it the last time trying to cover all of my funky looking spots. The color is really good though! Lets look at a couple of “before” pics first.

Whoever lived here before us put up this atrocious wallpaper border… yuck! I’m SO glad to have that down now. I have to admit… I was really embarrassed to have people come over with that ugly stuff on the wall! It wasn’t too hard to get down, once again thanks to my husband! =)

And for some reason they were too lazy to take down the original wallpaper boarder…. so they put theirs over it….. and the original stuff that doesn’t match AT ALL is sticking out on each side! Check it out….

…. and here it is coming down!! YAY! It took some scraping to get the “under” layer off the wall… but it’s down now and that’s all that matters!

The above pictures and the red paint are in the dining room side of the dining/kitchen area. This next pic is from the kitchen side. We haven’t painted it yet, but the wallpaper is DOWN. =) You can’t see the sink (to the right of the picture, just out of view) because there are dishes in it. lol….

The painting is now is progress…..

And here it is done!! Not too bad, huh? It’s weird how just adding some color makes a huge difference! I’m really excited to see how the final product will turn out. I’m sure it will take us a while to get everything we done in there finished… but we’re on our way now. =)

So what do you think?? Now for the trim (white) and the other walls (white, too) and at least the painting will be done….. at least until my sideboard gets built. =) That’s going to get painted red, too!

A few things.

I have a few things that I haven’t put out yet because I have no where to put them…. yet. =) I love these vases my mom got me for my birthday!! What do you think?

Living Room (Before)

Here is what we’re starting with. The table will eventually go back in the dining room when we get rid of the little munchkins who’ve taken it over! (We have Yorkies and they had puppies.) The first priority in every room is going to be to paint! I’ll post some of my inspirational pics soon. The only new things that we got since we’ve been here are the red chair, the pillows (that I made! I was very proud of myself!), and the futon (we had to have something to sit on and someplace for my mom to sleep when she came to see me.)

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