The Living Room

Our condo featured on open living room - dining room - kitchen space, but I treated each of the areas as its own zone. Click to check out the dining room and kitchen.

Here is what the living room looked like when I moved in- builder beige walls but amazing, thick crown molding.

I was very lucky that my condo's carpet was in such great shape when I first moved in. We wanted to add flooring, but that never happened.

The first thing I did was paint! I chose Olympic One's Summer Breeze from Lowe's. I think it is gorgeous and makes the white molding just pop.

Next I filled it with my old furniture. It was a lot of accumulated furniture that I moved from apartment to apartment since college.

Next, I rearranged the furniture for a more open floor plan:

I rearranged and was SO much happier with it, though there was much to be done:

We had a bad couch situation for a while after we moved in together, but eventually we got it figured out.

Here’s the current look. Bleh, I know. I want a deep blue or grey L shaped sectional to go in the corner.

This piece was beside the couch and was one of the few things in the living room that I actually liked at that point. The drawers all worked and I got it at the Habitat for Humanity store in Cary, NC. The lamp was a thrifted brass lamp that I spray painted and the weird genie lamp is from Lowes and holds pet treats. The framed picture is my sister and creeps people out (don’t you think it looks like a funeral pic? It’s from her sorority and she is very much alive, no worries.)