Family Room Reveal!

Matt and I have been working very hard for the past few weeks on our family room. We started out by getting a new couch.. that didn't fit in our basement. It's a giant sectional. But Matt and I are determined people and we made it fit. And we may have made a giant hole in the wall and chopped the couch in half to do so. But we did it. 

Here is a picture of our house before we moved in. The picture doesn't do justice on how bad the carpet was. I am pretty sure we got high off of illegal substances when we ripped out the carpet in that room. 

And here is the family room after we moved in. We painted the walls and got new carpet. Poppa K did his magic on the fire place area and laid some amazing tile. But as for decor, we were very lacking. Notice our beautiful DI couches, with no legs.

The room was just so boring. We debated over a bunch of different ideas, and we had many project fails until we finally came up with a winner!

We ended up doing some more wainscotting/board and batten. Since we had a ton left over from our kitchen it went up super quick. Whoever built this house did not know anything about sanding down dry wall seams. So we designed the board and batten to hit right at the seam so you can't see it anymore. Instead of fixing it, we just cover it up. That's how we roll. 

We framed some of Grandpa J's art work that my parents gave us for Christmas. It looks so good in the room and happened to fit perfectly in our $4 DI frame!

I made some framed hearts. Matt says they are too girly. Well too bad, because I like them.

Our coolest find was this light fixture thing. Our neighbor died (I didn't even know anyone lived in the house) and her family was having an estate sale (come to find out that she didn't actually die, she went to a nursing home. Matt got chatty with the family and got the real story, meanwhile I am spreading rumors that she died). Anyway, so we checked out the sale and there wasn't really anything cool. Then we stumbled upon this gem. There wasn't a price tag so I asked the guy if it was for sale and how much it was. He didn't know so he had to ask. Meanwhile I said very loudly " I wouldn't pay more than $10 for that thing. It's definitely not worth more than $10!" He fell into my trap and we got it for $10! We threw on some spray paint and hung that bad boy up! The best part is that it plugs into the wall, so no tricky electrical work required.

 It was another exhausting weekend, but we had so much fun making our family room feel more like a family room.