Bye, bye BIG GREEN

For those of you who visited the house when we first bought it, you know that I painfully 'embraced' the green carpet.  We had dark green carpet in our front three rooms- our dining room, formal living, and family rooms.  Our family room is long and rectangular and has high ceilings.  Although the room is large, the room felt very closed off to the front two rooms. 

FINALLY right before the Romo's visited for Thanksgiving, we decided to pull the trigger.  We wanted to knock down a wall between the two living rooms and get hardwoods! 

See below for the dramatic transformation!

Before: formal living room.   The couch was originally against the wall that we knocked down. 

Notice the GREEN on the floor!  EEEK

View of the living room.  The wall on the left will soon be gone...

Day one: Bye Bye Wall!  Notice how the trim is not stained or painted.  We had our contractor change the trim on all the doorways in this room so that they match.

Another view of the room.  Notice how you can see through to the front of the house!

Day Two: Bye Bye GREEN

Our contractor is leveling the floor in the picture below. 

It already feels so much more open with the wall gone!  Look how happy the boys are!!

Day Three: View of the new hardwoods (although dirty)!! 

We chose handscraped engineered floors..VIVA!

We swapped the couch in the other room to be against the windows so both rooms open to eachother.  Jerad loves that our house was pre-wired with speakers throughout the house.  The TV in the family room has two speakers that connect to the 'formal' living room.  This allows people in both rooms to comingle and enjoy music/ programs on the TV.  This has been such a blessing for our large parties!

Now we need a rug!

I chose this Moroccan print to tie our reds & greens in with pops of yellow.  I love the warmth that these colors create.  It also easily transitions into different seasons-  yellow and green for Spring/ Summer and deeper, darker reds and golds for the Fall/ Winter.

All back together now!  See Jerad!  It's COMPLETELY worth it!

A couple more afters

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