Before and After, The Old Living Room

This first photo was taken just after we bought the house, and probably the day I took the old couch out of this room and finally opened the front doors for the first time in 10 years. If any of you have been reading this from the beginning, you might remember that under this piece of old cut rug, which covers the whole room, there was a layer of roofing felt over the original wooden floor boards. The room was painted a very interesting shade of Pepto pink, but note that new framing is already in place as are new windows.

Here is the room after we cleaned it out and added finished the new framing around the door and the other side of the room where the stairs are. You can just see the framing for the downstairs bathroom in the left side of the photo.

A long time coming, but the room is almost done. Ceiling and floor will be painted by the end of the week. (I hired a painter for the next seven days to catch us up). There will probably be a pull out couch here by the end of the month.