Picking out the colors for the living room was a little difficult because I also had to consider what I would like in the front entryway, sitting room and kitchen while considering the colors.  All four of these rooms/areas are open to each other with a small wall between the sitting room and living room yet you can still see into both at the same time.  I’ll have to put together a layout of the house soon to help you visualize.

Here is where I started.

Big room with lots of eye sores – dirty carpet check, wall paper border check, sliding doors that don’t work or lock check, check.

It still had good bones though, big space, tall ceilings and I can’t complain about that only get excited opportunities are endless.

This would be our primary gathering place in the home, it is upstairs, right off the kitchen and the fireplace makes for the perfect family room.  The previous owners put the television in the corner but I wanted it on the wall so I could also see it while in the kitchen.  The wall was off center and would have pushed the tv way off to the left side (probably why they put the TV in the corner, no body puts baby in the corner) making the room forced and unbalanced.

That was a pretty easy fix, see that back 4 season porch area… well Brad, my husband claimed that would be his office so a little more wall space and a couple of doors would help him (and me) out.

I closed of a small portion of the doorway to make it a standard double door size and put in glass doors so we could all still enjoy the view through the porch (yes, view yet to come but we are making some progress).

Check out the space after some paint and new doors.

I washed the carpets knowing they would be staying for awhile, painted all the trim white and lastly had to replace the doors with some that worked and locked.  I changed the paint less than one month after this picture was taken.  The dark color on the back wall was looking dark navy with my stone and other colors, I was hoping closer to black in stead of country Red, White and Blue.  I kept the Sherwin Williams Rembrant Ruby and changed the dark blue out for SW Library Pewter.  I love the pallet above and this is what I would be working with in the next three rooms.  It’s coming together one gallon at a time.

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