living/dining...

In an effort to stick with our holiday goal, Justin and I are hoping to complete our two front rooms by Christmas. Having a goal in mind will keep us motivated, and I'm pretty sure we will be able to accomplish it! We have a couple images in mine for the overall 'look' but are still figuring things out as we go. Here's some inspiration:

Dining Room

Living Room

Progress this weekend!

Taking down and re-doing the picture-rail in the living room became Justin's 'labor of love' project. It had been put up during the last rehab by someone who didn't quite understand the whole concept of jointing wood together... we think caulk was their best friend! Additionally, the way it was situated on the wall left some very awkward terminating points, so Justin wanted to take it down so we could fix it all and just make it look better in general. We'd torn off the old picture-rail a couple weeks ago so Justin and his Dadwere able to put it all back up this past Saturday while I worked on painting our closet. The next day we all worked together and painted the brand new picture rail, the new trim in the dining room, the ceilings, and trimmed out all the walls. Here's a little bit of the progress... we still have 3 coats of paint left on the walls and some touch-ups on the basetrim. But, we got a LOT accomplished in one short weekend! Thanks to Justin's wonderful parents! It's SO nice to finally see it coming together!