BEFORE AND AFTER: living room

Well the week of Easter/Joel's Birthday/our Anniversary was interesting....and I will share it all with you but I  have to start with our living room...we had it redone, well we started it by repainting every centimeter and we only have a few more things to do.

 It couldn't have been a worse week to do all this work considering our finances and our time since I was also planning and preparing a surprise party for Joel but/and we were hosting Easter dinner at our house so we wanted it to look nice-so to make this clear...we redid the living room at this time SPECIFICALLY because we were hosting Easter at our house....

I LOVE the size of our fireplace but I HATED this ugly 'Chicago style' brick! I was embarrassed every time it snuck into the background of pictures but now I try to make our fireplace the focal point of our photographs we take! I'm SO happy and pleased with the results so far! It's so fun fixing up our house!

I just want to get a new ceiling fan and have that 'window' next to the fireplace turned into a mirror...in a few weeks we're starting the bathroom....a bathroom that we actually refer to as 'the suck bathroom'....it's going to take a long time but one day my goal of having my 'dream house' will be fulfilled!