redecorate my living room

My couch!

This weekend I finished everything I could do myself…

I painted everything… Cleaned up my mess. Got a flatscreen TV (I have a very little living room and this will free up a lot of space… And it was on sale!)

Cleaned the kitchen of dust…

Now I just need my couch. I wanted to have all this done before the couch was delivered.

My boyfriend is also putting shelves in the closet for the dvd player and FIOS box and all that so it will look neat.

To Do:
Get couch delivered
Veg out (technically I did this yesterday, but I want to do this on my new couch)

Primed yesterday… It finally seems like everything is coming together. Even more so after I paint.

I have been doing all this after work, so I can only get a little done a day.

I found the tv I want to get. This weekend I am going to go buy it

To Do:
Paint
Move everything back into living room so it is not in my kitchen anymore
Get flatcreen TV
Clean the rest of the house because (despite my best efforts) there is sanding dust EVERYWHERE
Get couch delivered
Veg out

Electrical is done. When I get home from work, i need to prime and paint.

Cleaning up for painting wasn’t that bad. I am glad we got a shop-vac… Its a wonderful contraption!

To Do:
Prime
Paint
Move everything back into living room so it is not in my kitchen anymore
Get flatcreen TV
Get couch delivered
Veg out

Electrical was 90% done… Then we found problems… Fixed them…

Now… I think it is 90% done

Finished sanding. Today I clean. And hopefully prime.

PS.. This is the before picture

To Do:
Clean up the ridiculous amount of dust I have generated and prepare for paint
Prime
Paint
Move everything back into living room so it is not in my kitchen anymore
Get flatcreen TV
Get couch delivered
Veg out

Electrical is 90% done. Ceiling is done.

To Do:
Sand down rest of the wood paneling
Clean up the ridiculous amount of dust I have generated and prepare for paint
Prime
Paint
Move everything back into living room so it is not in my kitchen anymore
Get flatcreen TV
Get couch delivered
Veg out

It looks like a disaster. Like a really back home improvement show.

There is dust everywhere from taking the texture off the ceiling and sanding down the wood paneling. Pieces of plaster and brick that fell out of the wall when my boyfriend was doing the electrical work.

Apparently in the wall, there was a major fire hazard in the wiring that the boyfriend found. That could have been very very bad.

I still need to finish sanding the walls (so I can stain it) and the ceiling so it is smooth. Then clean up dust, and paint.

Deep breathes. I can do it.