Taxes ~ Living Room 2012

Last year when we got our tax refund we ended up using it for bills and other unfun things.  For a whole year we have been excited to get a refund, because we had decided what we wanted to buy with it.  A big screen TV, yes there was something smarter we could have done with our money, like save it.  We have wanted this for a while and we waited till we had the money instead of borrowing it.  And really we watch a lot of TV, so it has been nice to be able to actually see what I am trying to watch.

So this years tax money went to our living room makeover.  I love the way it looks now!

We got a new couch, TV stand, new decor, and a new TV.

Before with our 32" TV and SO SO much furniture

Now there is basically nothing in this space, you can just walk in the front door to the dinning room.

So much furniture, blocking the door.  And my very cute curtains, but  I replaced them.

Now you can walk through the door without running into a chair.  OH, and we got a new dead bolt. :D  It has a key pad.

My green and brown and tan and maroon living room.  With a table my kids would bump their heads on ALOT.

The boxes for our new furniture.  We got new couches for a cheaper price if we put them together

I FREAKING love my new couch.  I am sad that I still have furniture that doesn't match, but we love that ugly chair.

Before, this is what you saw when you walked in the front door...runing into things.

Barley taller then the TV box.

In-between stage, when we moved the TV stand but we had not yet hung our TV.

FINALLY on the wall.

Now to fix the TV stand...we had to put the new one together.

Almost done! Just needs DRAWERs!

YAY

New temple picture

Now this wall is pretty to look at.   My husband ran all the tv wires through the wall.  He made it  look awesome.  And even though the tv doesn't look center between the picture and the mirror in this picture, it is.  Just hard to get a good shot in a small room. :D

ONE MORE (last) TIME 

Look how our living room has changed

Yummy red/orange carpet

After the beautiful shelves were cleared out.

After the wood paneling was taken down.

We tried to remove the 7 million layers of wallpaper, gave up, then sheet-rocked. 

We had no carpet, and unfinished walls. 

CARPET

PAINT!

Furniture.

NEW FURNITURE!