Family Room

Before pictures...complete with brown paneling, pink carpet and brick fireplace.

Today we have removed the old "dusty rose, mauve, pink" carpet out of the family room...Yay! 

here you can see the white washed brick

After removing the carpet from the stairs and hallway, I was not excited about removing the carpet down here. Thankfully my husband and dad were able to pull it up. Underneath all that pink carpet....Linoleum! Which is a reoccurring theme in our fixer upper.

After removing the carpet, the padding, and years of dirt, the floor is ready for the new hard wood to be placed. My mom and I  did a whole lot of sweeping!

For this room we have chosen a hand scraped bamboo, Antique- Morning Star. This area is likely to be high traffic and likely to get wet as the kids come in from the pool this summer. It makes me so happy to see it being put in down.

Since this room looked so much like a dungeon A lighter color (Magnetic Gray, sherman williams) on the walls with a dark trim color (Dark Forest B

rown, sherman williams) really transformed this space into our family room. To lighten up the fireplace yet keep the natural brick (which we love) my daughter and I white washed it and then added a rustic wallpaper in the back of the bookcases. This created a wonderful focal point. Everyone that visits our home comments on how gorgeous this turned out.