Quick Living Room Re-Do

Since the Mr. and I moved into our apartment the living room has been giving me problems. The 1970s furniture from my grandma along with the orange coffee table and olive colored dining table does not hit my personality or the rest of our apartment so this last weekend I decided enough was enough.

Armed with a $50 budget I went to Target and purchased a couple of white basket weave blankets and pillow covers for the 6 pillows we own. I got everything on clearance might I add.

Here are the boring befores:

Here are the little more uplifting afters:

I have yet to hang art on my walls yet, but that will come. I am just glad it comes a little more with our style.

What do you think? Yes, my chair is covered in a sheet. We are cheap, people! Like the footstool switch out? The one in our living room now is from my college dorm room and has storage under the lid. Boo-yah!

There is Life Outside of Your Apartment

The title of this post is brought to you by Avenue Q. Don't know what I am talking about? Go here. Anyways, I have been alluding to all the work we have done to our new apartment, and I thought it was high time to show you the fruits of our (loom) labor. Above is the hallway that connects all our rooms of our one-bedroom, classy, dig.

Here are the Before and Afters of the rest of the 600-something square foot apartment.

Living Room

Before/After

Stairwell
Before/After

Kitchen
Before/After

Bathroom
Before/After

Bedroom
Before/After

Feel free to notice that the Before pictures aren't the best because we never thought we were going to be doing demo on this place (thank you cat urine for changing that). Also, I didn't take them. They were painstaking taken by my landlords, while we still lived across the country.

Also notice that there are no pictures on the walls...yet. That is a project that I am taking upon myself soon....er rather than later....maybe. What we did do was paint every wall and take up the carpet in the kitchen (yes, kitchen), bedroom, and hallway and lay laminate wood flooring. We also stripped wallpaper in the kitchen and living room. I know despise wallpaper with all my might.

And yes, as a married couple we have 3 stuffed animals on our bed. Don't be surprised if I make it 4 in the near future when I recover my childhood security item (Lamby the Lamb) from my parents' house later. Don't judge. God hates judgers (I don't know God's opinion on Judges, the people in black robes, not the Biblical book, though).

What was your childhood security item? Anyone have a more unique name for their stuffed animals? (I have Lamby the Lamb, my best friend had Moo-Cow the Cow, and the Mr. had Puppy the puppy. Not very creative children....obviously.)