Extreme Home Makeover!

I started redecorating the living/dining room about 8 months ago and got new leather couches and a new computer table and chairs but I was too chicken and cheap to pick out a paint color and make new curtains but I finally did it.  The yellow  has been here for 9 years and I was ready for a change.

Living room/dining room BEFORE...

Before...

I had bought orange and green couch pillows to try out a new color scheme in the room but I didn't LOVE the orange and couldn't commit to it fully. The curtains are still red from my previous color scheme.

Kitchen/family room before...

I loved this color of green for so long but it needed to go too. Mostly it was dirty and needed freshening up. My friend Liz Barrett painted her kitchen the prettiest color of light greyish blue and when I saw it I knew I was ready!

Rustin hanging out in the old family room next to the kitchen.

DURING...

We hired Acey Nixon to paint- call me for his number- he was awesome! Good prices and they sprayed everything downstairs (bathroom included) and the upstairs hallway (that was yellow) and all our doors and moldings- they even painted the stair railing- 

IN ONE DAY!!

It was weird having EVERYTHING covered in plastic and it was funny listening to the sound of tape being pulled off the rolls all day long.

 It took them most of the day to tape and cover everything and just a few hours to paint it all.

AFTER!!!

The tan color Acey helped me choose for the walls is little darker than it looks here because of the flash.

It was fun to reuse some decorations and get lots of new ones! I found some on my own but my friend Kristin Palmer totally saved me by taking me shopping at her decorating boutique (on her birthday!) and making me the beautiful flower arrangements on these sconces and another one. 

What a talented and very nice friend!

This is the front of the living room. The front door is just to the left of the picture of the temple and the sacred grove (Santa gave them to me for Christmas- thanks Santa!) I found the fabric for the curtains and couch pillows at Creative Home Fabrics and sewed them all myself. My right hand is still aching from all the hand stitching of bottom hems and pillow edges. 

I LOVE THIS BENCH AND CLOCK!!! 

(and the cute kids in the pictures!)

Both are from Kristin's store and both match the room amazingly well. This is the entry way and is what you see when you open the front door. The pattern on the center of the clock is almost exactly the pattern in the drapes, just reversed. The pictures are from the photo shoot we had in december and I found the frames at Hobby Lobby. The big 16x20 of the family should be done today and will be framed very soon.

The other half of our long living room. Instead of a dining room table we have a computer table and that's where all this blogging magic takes place!

MY FAVORITE THINGS! 

I tossed the whole orange theme out the window when I saw this brown and blue fabric. I love those colors and the material so much I decided to base my room around it. The blue pillow in the front is equally yummy and is the perfect compliment to the other. The green I already had and I love how they all look together. p.s. Do you love the looped fringe around the brown/blue pillow? I thought so!

MORE FAVES!

I told Kristin I needed some storage for the computer paper and stuff and for the music books that always end up on the floor by the piano. She bought me two AWESOME trunks that morning. Look how the pattern on the metal band around the top matches the curtain fabric. She hadn't even seen or heard about it yet! How does she do it?

Here is the family room/kitchen. It's hard to tell exactly what the blue looks like in these pictures but it is Benjamin Moore's "beach glass" and the tan is their HC-44.

 I LOVE THIS BLUE!!!!

The view from the kitchen into the family room. The white bench in the corner used to be in our entry way. I was not sure what to do with it so I tried it in there and I liked it.

I already had this mirror and still love it and the couch pillows are just a few months old and the rock band drums are the bane of my existence!!!

MORE FAVORITE THINGS!

These are from Kristin's boutique and I fell in love with them. 

They are right above my stove.

Kristin made me this super cute and funky arrangement, complete with artichokes and feathers! It might just be my most favorite thing! 

I can't decide!!!

A new clock and a re-used plaque that my sister-in-law, Jami, made for me that I used to have in my entry way, but I love it even more here!!! 

Thanks Jami!

Even Tess's bathroom got a make-over!

It had a red shower curtain and tan towels.

We stayed with the whole blue and brown theme with a more aqua touch to it. 

Still looking for something perfect for the wall! 

Any ideas??

Thanks for visiting my house! 

Hope you liked your stay :)