Living Room Complete

Here are some pics of the living room mostly complete. We do want to get new furniture but that will happen at the end once our addition is done.

Now we plan to work on the girls rooms and the main bathroom.

Paint

Ceiling

This is the coffered ceiling. Ryan will be adding embossed ceiling tiles in between the beems. They will be painted a metallic copper colour once we find some paint we like.

New Trim

Here's the old trim

Then I took off all the old trim

Ryan made and installed all the new trim
He also laquered our front door
Here is hte new trim around the bay windowAs you can see the trim is almost the same colour as the wall but we are going to be painting those walls too so the real effect of the trim will not be seen til that happens. But there are other things to come first.

The New Floor

It's Done

Start of Spring?

Well, Yesterday I was very happy to see the last of February's snow disappear. We had a lot of snow in February and it took a lot of warm days but it was all gone. So we felt like spring was here.

NOT!!! See what happened last night.

Those who are in Alberta will realize that this is quite normal really and that it will probably happen a few more times before we hit a couple weeks of real summer before this weather pattern starts again in the fall.

Start of our Home Renovation/Addition

So Yesterday we officially started our home reno. We ripped out the living room carpet. Picture with carpet(taken in Summer) and without carpet

And then Ryan started putting in our laminate flooring. He was having a rough time with it as it did not want to stay together. But he got a bit done in the hall way.

His hands were pretty cut up from ripping out the smooth edge, something that is not at all smooth but full of small nails sticking up to hold the carpet in place. He also had a piece of smooth edge stuck in his hind end. Too bad it was out of there too fast to get the picture.
We discovered some interesting lino underneath the carpet at the front entrance.

Katie thinks we should keep it.

So tonight Ryan plans to get the hallway finished and hopes to have more luck since he talked to the "experts" while at work today. So here he is hard at work.

Here are the colours we have chosen so far for our house on top of the laminate.

Main colour- Feature

Kitchen- Dining room

Here is Ryan's progress tonight