a shine machine: The Living Room

As you may or may not know, my little family moved into a new house this fall. It has taken a LONG time to get things even starting to look the way we want it. This house is amazing but it needed a lot of work (which honestly was a prerequisite for me. I love a project). So, at the very end of October we moved everything from our condo into the basement of this house We also set up a bed for Adam and I and Amelia's crib in the basement and we each had one box that we basically lived out of for about a month and a half while construction was going on our upstairs. We redid the floors (twice! They installed the wrong floor the first time around), reacousticed the ceilings, all new light fixtures, all new appliances, new vents, and had the entire inside painted white.

As soon as we got the upstairs back in working order, a sewer pipe in our front yard burst causing our basement to flood (with a ton of our stuff still down there). So yeah, it's slowly but surely coming together. Today I thought I would give you a peek into our living room before and after.

This the living room before. It was beige and carpeted. The room is huge and the owner before had it laid out kind of weird. He had a living room space and then in the back of the room he had an antique hoosier cabinet used as a bar of sorts. We knew we wanted to use that extra back space as a dining room. Here is it so far:

So as you can see we wanted to have our whole house flow with the Mid-Century Modern feel that we both love so much. The paint, flooring, and positioning of furniture really opened up this space and brightened it as well. I am still working on some art to hang on that back blank wall by the dining room table and some more art behind the television but other than that, this room is pretty close to being perfect in my eyes. Here are some closer up images: