Living Room Progress

Here's my living room before any work was done: 

- Beige walls (blah)

- Pea green ceiling (eww)

- Dindgy crown moulding and baseboards (ick)

- Curtain rods screwed into the window trim (Really?!)

- Mock fireplace (Space waster that would only be used for hanging Christmas stockings.)

First order of business was to remove the mantle. Thank you Jason - who picked up a crow bar and just went at it! 

I didn't realize until my final walk-through before closing that there was an electrical outlet on the mantle. So this buddy just hung out for a couple weeks until my electrician could cut the power and snip the wires.

Found out the tiles were attached to brick. Thankfully, there was plaster behind the brick, so there wouldn't need to be any major plaster repairs.

Jason brought his big sledgehammer (my dinky rubber one wasn't cutting it) and removed the brick and tile from the wall. My dad came another day and removed the tile from the floor. 

See you later dangling electric cord! 

I spackled the wall and patched the floor with oak plywood. (This photo was taken prior to staining the plywood to match.) I could have hired someone to patch the floor with planks, but that might have required refinishing the rest of the wood floor - a repair that was just not in my budget. Besides, I plan on putting my couch where the fireplace was, so no one will even notice. The plywood is held down by a few screws, so it will be super easy to remove if I want to do a proper patch in the future.

Here's the living room now:

- Black accent wall (You can't even tell there was a fireplace!)

- Light grey walls

- Painted ceiling, window trim, baseboards, and crown moulding a clean, crisp white