Living Room and Piano Room Update

I love, love, love how our living room and piano room have turned out. They make me happy. Aren't they beautiful?!

Getting them to this point has been quite the process, a process we hadn't quite planned on in so many ways. It all started with new furniture. We bought new dark brown leather couches late last year. That purchase led to the purchase of a gray chair. That purchase led to a new paint color on the walls. Once those changes were made, we felt it was time to pull up the carpet and outdated wood floors and put down new floors, something we had really wanted to do since the day we moved in! With the new floors down and a few other homey touches completed in the two rooms, we are where the rooms look today. They aren't quite complete yet, but they are so close to that I wanted to share pictures of the entire process today.

To begin, here are a few "before" pictures. Unfortunately, I never got a picture of the rooms before we purchased new furniture and painted the walls gray, but you get the idea.

Flooring coming up! Goodbye gross carpet and outdated wood!

Ready for new flooring!

Here is where we hit a few bumps! Oh, it was stressful. Looking back, those bumps don't seem so bad, but living through those bumps was not fun. First, we found out our fireplace was not installed correctly. We thought at first the floors were unlevel, which would not have been fun either, but it ended up that the floors were level, but the fireplace wasn't. We decided to go ahead with the floor installation and prayed that we would be able to finish off the fireplace without it looking too awkward. Thankfully, we were able to do so, but not before we hit a second bump. We found out that our French doors leading to our back deck had rotted out and needed to be replaced. This was an expensive find and cost us a lot of time. At first we were told we had to wait two weeks for the new doors to be delivered. That seemed like a terrible deal to us! Well, two weeks would have been wonderful. The doors ended up taking seven weeks. Living without our living room and piano room for seven plus weeks was not fun, especially since all of our furniture was piled in our dining room and kitchen. Thankfully, the doors were eventually delivered (we were beginning to doubt their existence) and we were able to move on.   

Spencer loved helping his dad!

Finally, here are the "after" pictures! The completed time frame has us pulling up the old flooring on March 25th and finishing installing the new flooring on June 3rd. I wasn't kidding when I said it was quite the process. 

Home sweet home.