Before and After: Living Room

The next couple of months I will be working on Before and After series on the work done on the house do far, since many rooms are nearly completed.  I am starting with the living room; the first room you see when you walk into the house.

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This is what you see when you walk in the door.  Wide curtains make the small window look bigger, especially in person.  The walls were painted Behr Wheat Bread, and the coffered ceiling was painted bright white.

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The small archway and built-in bookcases between the living room and kitchen were removed, and a large 10 foot opening went in its place.  This created a more open floorplan, and brighter living spaces.

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An overhead light was added to the dining nook.

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These views aren't identical, but pretty gives you an idea of the changes.  Curtains  have been added to the window alcove.

Most of the major renovations have been completed in the living room.  I am most happy that we opened up the living room to the kitchen, and painted the coffered ceiling.  Both changes make the room look much bigger, and modern.  The room no longer feels isolated, dark, and dated.  The house was built in the 50s, but the multiple renovations really only expanded the house.  It seems that affordable cosmetic touches were completed in the late 90s/early 2000s.  The house needed to be modernized with an open floor plan, new electrical considerations, and crisp, neutral paint colors.

MORE ROOMS TO BE ADDED