family room

Before...
While I love industrial carpet, mental ward green and florescent lights as much as the next girl, we knew this would be a room where we would spend a lot of time, so it needed to be a bit more...perky.

...and After.

I'll post more pics when I can figure out the lighting on my camera but here is where we are today. We built out the shelves in the built-ins to look a bit more substantial, added some pot lights (we need to add more) and replaced the carpet with a softer wool. We also did a tone on tone stipe paint treatment in the room which was not nearly as taxing as we thought it would be. The back of the built-ins are still brown from my "I love blue and brown" phase so those are on the list to paint a different color. Maybe green or a bright blue? And once the girls are past the spitting up on the carpet during tummy time phase, I'd like to put in hardwoods. And then there is the whole knocking down the wall plan too. Sweet dreams are made of this...