In the Hive

Boy oh boy, does our living room look different than at the beginning of summer!

This worked out great to hide my various players and such and the remotes still work through the fabric so we don't have to lift it up !

I am making some new pillow covers, coasters, and a shelf curtain for the new living room decor!

We stopped at Kohl's tonight and got a new rug and runners in this pattern for the living room redo! Pretty cool.

We did a lot of work the past week! We have to go back and catch up on our trim and we are getting new furniture, but here is a snap shot series so far!

Obviously this is not my living room, but that is the honey blush color I am using on most of the walls, and the trim paint will be the cream most likely. We are trying to decide the color for new curtains by "trying out" different colors on the sofa since I can't find a picture with curtains. Of course, then at some point, we need to get new furniture! 

The paneling came down last night, far easier than we could ever have imagined. It was only nailed on, thank goodness. The not so easy part was Michael had to remove the window trim on the bottom because it was nailed on over the top of the paneling! But, all in all, we are progressing! We can't believe we looked at that ugly panel for 11 years and thought it would be too difficult to take down!

Picked some veggies from the park, Karl is grilled some of them up for dinner! I put the last coat on the saffron threads wall and started the honey blush in the hallway. PAINT PAINT PAINT.

I painted on the first coat of our darker shade this am. This and one other small wall are going "saffron threads" and the other will be a lighter "honey blush".

We have some little jobs to finish up in the kitchen yet, and now we started on the living room! Yikes! Michael is also going to take down that nasty plastic paneling you see! I am so tired of cutting in and painting trim!!!!

The kitchen is progressing...FINALLY. It took a long time to get the wall paper down!! We spent today painting the ceiling, trim, and walls. Michael has to go over the "Sassy Green" walls again. Then we have to get new chair rail.....

Ok, I can take wallpaper removal off my list of things to do before I die! What a mess!!! We haven't done anything with the kitchen, and we moved into this house in 1998 - it is long overdue for an overhaul. We did put flooring in a while back, but that is all. So, we decided to take down the nasty wallpaper!