It's starting to feel like spring today!
I thought I would post our living room here. This is the before from the house brochure.
It was so fun to work on this room together. My idea of the perfect date is spending time fixing up our house, talking and listening to music. It took us a whole weekend to do this room and the dining room.
We added beadboard wallpaper. My husband did the wallpapering and I did a lot of painting. Layla encouraged us from the sidelines! I love the result. A lot of our guests cannot even tell that it is not real beadboard. I think the lighter wall colour really brightened the room.
We found our couch on Kijiji and the old cupboard we won at an auction. One afternoon we drove past a sign for an auction and decided to be spontaneous and see what it was like! It was lots of fun, and what a great place to find inexpensive furniture. My husband was bidding against just one other woman, I think she was an antiques dealer, but the crowd seemed to really be on our side since they knew it was our first auction!
The leather chair is also from Kijiji. My husband really wanted a leather chair and it is very cozy. The coffee table I found at a thrift store and painted.
The mirror I was lucky enough to get from the City.Cottage store. If you are in the area you should really visit, everything is so pretty there!
Since it felt so springy today I set a nice table for our dinner. I found four of these pretty blue glass bowls at the thrift store.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful spring-filled week.
I thought I would post our living room here. This is the before from the house brochure.
It was so fun to work on this room together. My idea of the perfect date is spending time fixing up our house, talking and listening to music. It took us a whole weekend to do this room and the dining room.We added beadboard wallpaper. My husband did the wallpapering and I did a lot of painting. Layla encouraged us from the sidelines! I love the result. A lot of our guests cannot even tell that it is not real beadboard. I think the lighter wall colour really brightened the room.
We found our couch on Kijiji and the old cupboard we won at an auction. One afternoon we drove past a sign for an auction and decided to be spontaneous and see what it was like! It was lots of fun, and what a great place to find inexpensive furniture. My husband was bidding against just one other woman, I think she was an antiques dealer, but the crowd seemed to really be on our side since they knew it was our first auction!
The leather chair is also from Kijiji. My husband really wanted a leather chair and it is very cozy. The coffee table I found at a thrift store and painted.The mirror I was lucky enough to get from the City.Cottage store. If you are in the area you should really visit, everything is so pretty there!
Since it felt so springy today I set a nice table for our dinner. I found four of these pretty blue glass bowls at the thrift store.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful spring-filled week.
I'm linking this to Funky Junk Interiors Saturday Night Special and Transformation Thursday at the Shabby Chic Cottage