We are renovating the house in three stages. We're finished with Stage One, which was basically making the house move-in ready. We had to replace all the floors as well as disinfect scrub til my hands bled clean and paint all of the walls and trim. Now we're in Stage Two which is refinishing some furniture, updating fixtures, knobs, etc. Stage Three will come in the spring, with new cabinets and countertops and hopefully finishing out the basement.
The house was in good structural condition but cosmetically? It needed a lot of help. Holes in the wall, stains everywhere, ripped vinyl floors.
This is the before view from the living room to the hallway. While I love the french doors, I didn't love the colors. For one thing, they totally clashed. For another, they made the space feel really small and dark. 
Here's the after! 
I love the mismatched, cottagey feel of the new floors. I prefer cool
colors as opposed to warm so we painted the walls a gray based beige
color. The back wall we painted a grayish brown, because our couch sits
in front of it and I thought it needed grounding. Jeff asked me what I
knew about grounding and I was all "Jeff, I scrapbook, get off me".
The bookcase was an old piece from collage that used to be brown and
worked much better in the space after we sprayed it black. I think
overall it looks much more airy now.
Thanks for stopping by to peek! I can't wait to have more to show!
(Paint colors: the dark wall is Safari Beige and the light walls are Oatbran, both by Lowes)
