E’s Living and Dining room makeover

E has an amazing space on a hillside overlooking the water.  I think she would agree with me when I say it needs a bit of freshening up to live up to its full potential.  Here is the loooooong wall with the fireplace, we are going to flank it with built-in cabinetry:

Living room before

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Master Bedroom tweaking

After we finish our upstairs bathroom we are pretty much done with our house… although I have never felt our master bedroom was totally finished, it needs pattern, texture, something.  I was down there this morning saying I thought the bedroom needed some work expecting the typical rolled eyes from hubby and he agreed with me!  And get this, I want to put some hot pink in there and he is totally down with it!

So, here is the bedroom, I didn’t even bother to get it all picked up before these pictures:

bedroom

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And the Foyer gets its share of Holiday Bling

Here is the foyer all dolled up, those prints were the easiest thing to do.  Printed out some images from the computer then glittered them.  And to tell you the truth, they are still on my wall, holiday schmoliday:

Holiday Decor foyer

Here is a shot of the main entry table.  What you don’t see on the right is a big ass paper mache reindeer who was beginning to be his gorgeous glittery self yet did not get the full glitter treatment.  

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Holiday Decor finds its way into the Living room

Here is the mantel decorated with all the holiday trimmings, I desperately want to paint that fireplace screen a glossy color now, maybe chartreuse?

Fireplace mantel decorated for the holidays

and closeup…

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Holiday Decor continued into the dining room…

And we continue the holiday decor into the dining room, wreath on the window is in sad need of a ribbon!

dining table

And when I say everywhere I mean everywhere, the china cabinet gets some bling too!

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