Living Room Remodel REVEAL!!

So our living room has been officially redone for over a week or so--BUT I'm just NOW POSTING.

I hope you enjoy!! It was a lot of hard work, sweat, time and love! And I'm very pleased with the outcome!
It's functional, fun, comfortable and a bit funky.  I'm posting the awful, brown BEFORE pictures....and the after---are down below.

brown, brown and MORE brown

it was like a bear's den

oh yes and the ceiling...

baby things galore

check out the carpet

.....

AND 

NOW 

THE 

A F T E R

 P H O T O S ! ! ! 

those yellow and red cushioned ottomans can be pulled out and used for additional seating

on our ottoman...Old key and a WWII book.  That would be my German husband's.  

b&w framed art work that represents both our loves--
mine being all things France/Europe--
his being all things mechanical (the WWII plane)
and then a cariacture drawing we got at Kaitlin's wedding that represents us both!

Love these pillows--the one of the far left I ordered at the Etsy shop JolieMarche
She's got some great stuff and can customize some of her designs like mine.
"K" Est. 2010 (wedding date)

the pillow in the middle is also from JolieMarche on Etsy.

I painted this piece.

I love little details-these are the knobs on the doors.
They are of an ancient map of the world.

we also added this backsplash of tile to our bar and extended it to have a little breakfast/bar area

comfy and cozy...and inviting. 
Perfect for reading, watching movies or blogging.

breakfast/bar area

I love the exposed beams and wood floors.

seating pillows tossed on the floors for extra seats for friends--and for Kie to crawl over.

That is it, friends and family! I'm very pleased with the everything.
The living room before was big and had no function and a lot of wasted space.  And not to mention everything was BROWN--and the lovely brown shag carpet.  But now it's cozy-light, airy and filled with our favorite things.  I cannot tell you HOW happy this room has made me and our family.  I also have to give credit-where credit is due.  My wonderful handy husband put in all the hardwood floors, tile, helped paint and put in all the baseboards, new blinds, new doors, new bar and fixtures. Also my brilliant aunt helped me out a lot in the layout and design.  She has GREAT taste and a great eye!  Additionally, I have another 3 areas I want to show on the next blog.  Our front porch/yard got a facelift--our back patio and Kie's nursery!

I've been so busy with life lately I haven't blogged in awhile.  But I'll bring everyone up to speed soon!

Until next time!!


-HK-

Lil Bit of....MESS!

Care to see the current condition of the Knuth household?!

Don't judge.




Ok, you can judge.




It's bad.

And if you're blessed with a house from the 80's---then you'll understand.
Or the 70's? I'm not real sure when brown shag carpet and wood panels were in?
I digress....

ENJOY the pictures....
(but please come find me in a week or two to see the FINAL reveal!)
And remember--we are remodeling on a b u d g e t .
We're a one-income family with a husband that already works 80 hour weeks....
and as much as I'd love to have some money trees growing in the back yard-we are fresh out.

Anyway--here is the house b e f o r e pictures...

like I warned it's pretty awful...

*this was actually taken in December--because I don't have a picture of one of the walls before we started our renovation. (Notice the very VERY small 5 week old in my arms?)

side door to house

one of the back doors

TV/entertainment area

this is an old picture because we no longer have the BROWN recliner.  Yes,  brown dominated our house!

did I mention we needed to fix our ceiling as well?

so much brown you can hardly SEE the black chairs...

take note of the always stylish brown carpet

other side---also brown! excuse the ladder...

a little white paint here and there (the fun has started)
-foreground-ipad, Gerber puffs and Boppy

good bye brown paneling I won't miss you!!

oh yes, here's our lovely shelve system--ignore the neon blue lights they won't be there long

no more brown carpet but look what we found underneath!? 
Good day yellow linoleum... who ever thought going from the yellow linoleum to the brown shag?

we should of just stopped here and kept this--so inviting!

our sweet friends came by to give us a hand with some painting
-Kie is just hanging out with his dad-
*we didn't leave him in the paint room long-just a few minutes to snap a picture

Our floors are FINALLY down (no baseboard yet)

Oh and here is where our furniture has been the last few days---guess it's a good thing it never rains.

baseboards I've been painting (at least our yard looks better than the house)

And our work area-where all the cuts we make.
(Notice all the wake boards?)

Sooo there you have it.

If you are BLESSED with brown panel walls like we had--then you understand and feel my pain.
There's not much that looks good with it.
Our house is old and needed a face lift...however we are on a limited budget.

 And so we have done all the work ourselves. 


 And we never use a credit card (cash only-thanks Dave Ramsey!) so we have to get crafty when it comes to fixing things up.

 Anyway--come back soon to see the finished product.  I'm praying that in two weeks we will be back up and running again.

Until next time,

-HK-