See How This Room Looks Now #30dayflip
This week's Friday Favorite is all about my recent love of bringing color into my home. Two amazing ladies, Meredith from Arts and Classy, and Jeanette at Snazzy Little Things, host a monthly challenge and this month it is all about color. It worked perfectly with what I have been working on in my living room. If you would have seen any apartment I have lived in you would see 3 colors...black, white and red.
While I still love all of those colors and they are still in my home, I wanted to expand my horizons and lighten it up a bit. Our home that we purchased a year ago was in need of updates, especially with color choices and lighting. The previous owners had yellow globes on all the lights and the walls were an awful tan/yellow. It just didn't help with giving the room a light and bright feeling. (The photo above is very generous with the lighting. It was not even close to this bright in this room.)
After painting the walls then it was time to replace my darker furniture. We bought a new couch from HOM Furniture and got a new chair from a model home from my husband's office. I also recovered an old coffee table and made it an ottoman. You can see that tutorial here. Those few furniture items already helped to transform the look of the room.
One more project that I did to add a pop of color into my room was to paint my black end table green. I painted it Valspar's Cliveden Pasture. Keep your eyes out for a tutorial on this end table soon! Here is a previous pic of the room before I painted the end table green.
One major transformation which I think has given the living room a whole new look was to redo a lamp that I got for free. You can see the full tutorial here. I primed the lamp with a white spray paint and then recovered the lamp shade with a bold floral pattern that I purchased at JoAnn Fabrics. I also redid a magazine holder and made book storage for my daughter's books. I painted it one of my favorite colors, Valspar's Indigo Streamer. You can see the full tutorial here. I also added some fun pillows to add a little more color to the space.
For more on this project and tutorials of the lamp, ottoman and book storage head on over to my blog!
On my webpage you can see the before and after back to back with a fun plugin where the arrow switches between the two! :)
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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I'll have to get that paint. Thanks!
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Really Nice Job! For me I would have done Purple colors instead of Blue. Still really pretty!
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