Home Tour: Living Room

Happy Monday!!!

I am so glad that you are loving my home tour.  Thank you for all your comments. :)  It's about time I did this.  I figured I would show you before we move, lol!

Today is our living room!

This is another very simple room!  (That seems to be theme around here.)  I really wanted a perfectly detailed and decorated home but it was taking more time than I wanted to spend so simple it is!!  Plus, we always have so much "stuff" out that we use on a regular

The paint color in here in called, Fairway Oaks from Benjamin Moore.  

The painting, clock, and pillows are all from garage sales and everything else in the room is from my Mother-in-Law.

Ok, I forgot, this Pottery Barn lamp is from a garage sale too! (Yes, I know, we have the best sales around here.)

I didn't want to curtains in here and I feel that it makes this room clean and simple.

Oh, wait......we can't forgot about my husband's trophy over here, lol.  

He is very proud! 

So, there you go! That is our very simple living room!

It is mostly used for cuddling up to read.

Do you have a living room?

What do you use it for?

Related Posts

Home Tour: Dining Room

Home Tour: Master Bath

Girls Room on a Budget

Closet Organizing ("her" closet make-over)

Have a great day!

Bonnie :)

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Our Dining Room Do Over

 

I hope that you are all having a great weekend so far.  I just have to tell you that I just got some great deals from my neighborhood garage sale  this week and I can’t wait to show you my stuff at my Twice Owned Tuesday Party.   Please join me because this week is going to be GREAT!!!

Today, I want to show you my NEW dining room!!!

I am excited because, for the seven years I have been married, I have never had a dining room or a dining  set.  When we first got married, we didn’t have a dining room and in this house, we turned our dining room into a living room.  And we turned our living room into a study. 

But when we got  a free dining room set from my Mother-in-Law, I could wait to re-arrange my house. 

I want to show you my NEW DINING ROOM.

     

I love having a table to decorate.  I showed you here that I got all these items on the table for for only $34.00 .

      

I added this planter that I got from a garage sale for only $3.

    

Here are my before and afters.

This is this room as a living room.

 

And here it is now.

Before.

I changed the vase for a candle holder that my MIL gave me and the picture that I got from a garage sale.

Before.  I don’t know how to get a good picture at this angle because of the windows.

After.  I would love to find a hutch to put in place of the mirror.  I will keep my eye open for one.

Before.

After.  I love it!!  I liked it before too but I love the change and a table to decorate.

To see the  before “before and afters” of this room, read this post.

What do you think of the new room? 

Do you like to decorate your dining room?

How often do you change your tablescape?  I know I just decorated it, but I already have new ideas.  So exciting!!! lol.

Have a great weekend!

Bonnie :)

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Our Living Room for Less

I seem to be on a role showing you how I decorate every room in my house on a budget.  I showed you my family room, guest room and hall bathroom and now I will show you my living room.  This room is actually a dinning room for most people but I don’t have a dining set so I use this room as a front living room.  I am not in love with this room but I am content with it right now but I am always on a hunt for new things to change it up.

Here is a couple different views of the room.  I painted it Fairway Oaks by Benjamin Moore which I love.  The color is not tot light or too dark.  We went with a pearl finish.
     

I got that super cute table at a garage sale for $30, that picture for $6 (I spray painted the frame) and the frames were about $10 total.

I love those FACES!!!!

I spray painted the vase.  I think that it was $3.00 and I got  that  POTTERYBARN lamp for $15.00  Can you believe it??? Love it!

That lamp was also spray painted and I think that it was only $5.00 and the table was $10.00. (I painted the top black, the legs were already black)

I LOVE these candle holders, POTTERY BARN, of course!  They were only $8 total!!!!  They are almost my favorite things in the room.
 
I also love this clock!!!!  Again, like EVERYTHING else that I buy, it’s from a garage sale  and it was only 20 bucks!!!  Ok, they had $40 on it  but I asked for $20.  She said yes!!!!  It can’t hurt to ask.  (TIP:  I almost ALWAYS ask them to come down in price and most of the time they do!!!!!!)

   
Wasn’t that beautiful?
Ok, now the mirror.  I actually did buy this from Menards.  Don’t worry it was on clearance for only $80.  It was silver and gold but I spray painted in black. 

I love the details!

I covered the pillows.  I bought all of my fabric from Wal-Mart.


The couch was FREE!!!!  It was a gift from my husband’s Grandpa!

I bought this chair for only $20.  I got matching ones, the other one is used here.   

This is a Waverly rod from the Goodwill for only $20, the rods are from Linin’s ‘n Thing for $20 and I made the curtains with fabric that I already had.  I am really happy how they turned out!
 
I put on new shades that were $1 each.
   

Here are some really embarrassing before and afters.
Before.
  


After.

Before.  Gross!!!  I seriously don’t know what I was thinking!!! ha ha!

After.  Way better, I hope!!!!  I am happy with it!  And I did it all on a budget!!!!

After looking at these before and afters…..I am liking the “after” way better than when I started writing this.
Bonnie :)
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