Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Design Re-mix on no Dime!

Ladies and gentlemen~ for me this is long anticipated. Posting these before and after pictures from my hard work over Labor Day weekend, means I've accomplished something. Yay! Now, although I have to give the disclaimer that the dramatic results are not as exciting in pictures, I do hope you can see that there were some productive changes made. So, here we go!

This will be the front living room...before, very casual and no color pallet. Now, a more formal area, with a retro color pallet and concept:






Just behind the "formal" living area is the dinning room. It bears the smallest changes, though still evident. Before:
And after:








The tea cart used to hide in the back corner; now it is more showcased in its new place.






Just centering the hutch made it more of a focal point...and removing excess items makes the beautiful hand-made table show off much better!

We will skip the kitchen (because I said so, that's why! LOL)...and go to the "sitting room". Before, this was a mess of colors, styles, broken shelves, no real mantle...just a random shelf sitting on the wooden rods that stick out of the wall...kind of a mess:
Now, a cabin-like feel, to go with the HUGE fish hanging above the fire place...Jesse caught it! So I rolled with that theme...and tada!
So we go to the master bedroom, where NOTHING had been planned out, as you can see here:


I established a color pallet and went with it all the way:

Last but not least...the room people stay in if they are guests at the "Lambert Bed & Breakfast"...sorry I don't have before pics, but here it is, ready for the next folks who come our way!


So, there you have it! The rooms you have not visited: the guest bath and 1/2 bath...nothing exciting; the study...not finished~was used as a 'holding room' for all the stuff while I worked; the media room & crafting corner (basement)...not finished yet.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed your little tour. :)

3 comments:

Felicia said...

Cool! I loved it! And I think getting the fishing poles out of the living room added a new element of elegence! lol! And something that might look cool in your master bedroom is if you take the darker paint from that one wall, and use it to paint a cute quote or design on one of the other walls. A friend of mine did that all throughout her media room and it looks amazing!

Anonymous said...

You did good! It looks very sharp!!!

Anonymous said...

I am ready to visit the Lambert B&B! What a wonderful job you did with decorating!! I am SO impressed.
Rita Bosico Ada OK