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An eclectic living room makeover, full renovation from neutral to bold and bursting with color. Full of personality and painted furniture. 

Bursting With Color Living Room Makeover

For the month of January, I took a break from custom work and worked on our own home renovation. Our living room had been the same since we bought our house 7 years ago and was in need of a change. We needed a change from the neutral browns and greens that we had been used to.

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The Before – Our Neutral Living Room Before the Makeover

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We had sage green walls and a cozy brown sofa that was too big for the room. It was quite comfy, but over time the kids had jumped and wrestled on it and my hubby would sleep on it more than he slept in the bedroom because he would fell asleep watching television almost every night. The sofa seemed to take up the entire room. The treasure trunk coffee table was full of compartments that were great for hiding Legos. I don’t know why, but my husband hated that coffee table. I decided to sell it on a local yard sale site and everyone loved it. You can actually still find it online HERE.  I should also add that the colorful area rug was purchased just prior to the living room makeover, for most of the past 7 years we had a brown area rug.unfinished-living-room, living-room-before, neutral sage living room, large brown sofa

I managed to find another ‘before’ photo before the colorful area rug, talk about NEUTRAL! living-room-before-redesign

Once we emptied out the room and dropped the kids off with the in-laws for a weekend we were able to get started on the living room makeover.

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The new sofa was delivered before we were ready for it, forcing us to work around it in a big box in the middle of the room.

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Supplies

First stop is to Home Depot for wood trim, drop cloths, paint brushes, wall paint and a few other odds and ends. As it turned out the wood trim was just a bit too long for the truck, so hubby decided to tie the trim to the top of my truck making us “those people” that you avoid on the road! truck-loaded-with-wood-trim

The walls were prepped for paint with spackle and then sanded smooth. walls-spackled, prep wall for paint, spackle holes

The giant sofa box came in handy when we needed a place to put the wood trim as we painted them all white. As you can see we worked into the night since we were limited with time. painting-wood-trim

The sage green walls were then covered with a new coat of paint. We chose Behr Marquee in Close Knit.

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The lighter wall color already makes the room appear larger.

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Wood Trim and Sawdust Disaster

After painting two coats of Behr close knit on the walls it was time to measure and cut the wood trim for the base molding as well as the crown molding.  So much for those drop cloths that we purchased. sawdust-mess, cutting wood trim

The wood trim is installed along the ceiling and floor. After all of the molding was installed we then went around and caulked and painted another coat of trim paint. adding-crown-molding, living room makeover

Painted Radiator Covers

The old metal radiator covers had become dingy and needed to be replaced or freshened up. I decided to paint them. The warm gray was perfect against the light gray wall.

BEFORE:

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AFTER:

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Moving the Television Set Up

We made the last minute decision to move our television from one wall to another. This required hubby to cut new holes in the new wall, and to reroute the cable wires through the attic and down the new wall. Which in turn required me to bang on the ceiling with a stick and yell back and forth with him while he drilled and dropped the line down the wall for me to find catch. If that description was hard to follow, just imagine living it! lolmarking-wall-for-new-electrical, measure placement for wall mount tv

To avoid making more of a mess, we taped a section of drop cloth paper under the area to catch any debris that would fall when cutting into the wall.

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One of the few smart decisions made to curb the mess during the project.

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Conclusion

In the end, the walls were painted, television electrical relocated, baseboard replaced, crown molding added, existing window and door trim repainted, new light fixtures and all furnishings replaced. We completed the bulk of the work during the first weekend while the kids were at grandma and pops, and continued over the rest of the month to add furniture and decor.

The Result – Living Room Makeover – Bursting With Color

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Our living room makeover has been featured here on Shutterfly with a bunch of other living room makeovers. If you are looking for living room makeover ideas make sure to check it out.

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  8. I actually love the orange tables and I’m not a big fan of orange. I’m surprised how all the different colors go together. Nice job! It looks very nice, bright and a room you would want to be in.

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  9. Love it!!! I have the same rug in my dining room, with chairs painted in old white and blue, the top of the table is natural wood, bottom in old white, i have a fabric bench with flowers of all colors and picked up the grape in the cushions, and a burgundy and dark wood sideboard. Color makes the world happy!! Love your site!

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  14. Love-Love-Love your living room makeover! I love all the colors, especially the delicious purple sofa. I love how you tied in colors that seem so disparate, but they work really well together in your room. I get so tired of looking at rooms on Pinterest that are white-white-white with maybe a little hint of gray in a few places. (boring) — Congrats on a fabulous makeover!

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  15. Love your makeover! Especially that purple sofa. I wish it was time to buy a new one, I would so love to get it! I love purple so it would be perfect for me! Next time I need to buy a sofa I so want this!
    I love all your projects too. I have some things on my list to order!

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  19. Beautiful! You are so talented! I want to know….I love the rug but…not sure.. Does it have any red? It comes of different colors in different photos. Would love to have one and have looked at it before I saw your room. Love the coach too.just can’t afford!

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  21. I am in disbelief! I know there are other people out there that have bold and beautiful color but I never thought I’d see the day when someone like you actually used it! If I ever did something like this my husband would have left me years ago! I bring something abstract home and he freaks! I am so in love with this! None of us like every color we see but it just makes sense to have it in our lives. I actually almost fell in to that fixer upper thing. Had purchased all kinds of things and when it came right down to that final moment, I just couldn’t do it! I need color!!!! Ok so I’ve lived with the boring beige and brown most of my life, thank you DH, now it’s time to somewhat live. I am actually in the middle of a redo and I call it Hollywood glam with a kick of old west! It’s coming together slowly but it’s coming together! This is my room, he has his own room to decorate, so I’m doing me! Thank you soooo much for sharing! I can’t say enough about how much I love what you’ve done with this! It might be you but it’s totally me!

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  22. Oh and just curious…is the darker wall, the one with the tv on it, a mix of the stone and Close knit? What effect did you do there? I could sit here all day looking at this…lol

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  23. I am hyperventilating over those two matching blue and white chairs!!! Please tell me they can be purchased someplace on Earth!!

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