The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

We did it!! We reached the finish line and our old pal the flip is now on the market and FOR SALE!!  Cue the confetti and streamers. :)

Party in the Air

Now that every inch of the flip has been fluffed and puffed beyond all measure, I think it’s high time to see how far it’s come over the past 3 months!

Without a doubt, the great room underwent the biggest transformation. It was a gigantic undertaking to figure out how to combine four different rooms (den, kitchen, breakfast room & enclosed patio), get the vaulted ceiling figured out, fix the flow of the kitchen, and a billion other things.

Here’s how the great room looks now:

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

And here’s a reminder of how these four rooms (that we combined) looked when we bought the house on September 29, 2010:

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

What do you think?

This room gave us the most headaches during the renovation, just trying to figure out how to make the most of this gigantic space, but in the end I think it’s the room that most buyers will fall in love with.

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Maybe I’m being sentimental, but I can just imagine an entire family hanging out in this room, kids doing homework at the kitchen table while the dad reads his newspaper at the peninsula and the mom whips up something tasty for dinner.  Can you see it?

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Okay, now it’s time for a bunch of gratuitous great room shots. I got a little camera happy. Hope you don’t mind. :)

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

The Flip: The Great Room, Then & Now

Whew, enough pictures – I’m ready to hear what you guys think!

Confetti image via Flickr.

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Can I Live in this Room?

I’ve been drooling ever since I came across these images of designer Beth Keim’s living room in the fall issue of Southern Flourish:

This room just sings to me – bold pops of color offset by loads of cream and white are kind of my thing.  But what really gets me about this space is the walls – the blue is both bold and soothing at the same time, and I think it’s the perfect, yet unexpected, compliment to the vibrant colors in the room.  Without those walls, nothing else would really shine.

In between my bouts of lust, I’ve realized that I could probably create something similar with the decor that I already own.

Bold pillows?  Check.  Neutral-ish sofas?  Check.  Tall gourd lamps?  Check – the turquoise ones from the dining room (maybe I could stack some books under them for extra height).  Cream and brown area rug?  Check – several options like the existing one in the den, or the zebra rug from the dining room.

I would need a new coffee table (I talked about painting it here, that could still happen, or I have another as-yet-unveiled plan for it), and I love the white, sculptural floor lamp so I would want to add one of those.  The biggest problem?  Our paneled walls.  I just don’t think I could paint them a vibrant blue without looking crazy. But maybe it would work someday when we move to another house?  Not that I’m dying to move, but there are too many fun design ideas to stay in one house forever, right?  :)

Maybe it’s the change of seasons that’s making me want to switch things up a bit.  What about you, do you have the itch to mix up the decor in your home?

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Oomph, There It Is

It pains me to pay a lot for something when I’m pretty sure I can achieve a similar look for pennies on the dollar.

Like when I spied this gorgeous coffee table from Oomph the other day:

Lacquer-y goodness?  Yes!  Almost $2,000?  Heck no!

While I was busy getting over the sticker shock I started thinking about our coffee table.  We got it at Macy’s right after we got married {we had lots of store credit, as most newlyweds do} and in the 3 years that we’ve had it the coffee table has gotten a few nicks and scars, and we now have a brown rug.  So it’s a lot of brown going on in there.

Anyhoo, the point is that the pricey Oomph coffee table reminded me a lot of our much-cheaper-plus-we-already-own-it coffee table from Macy’s:

{ I de-styled it so you could see our coffee table in all its glory. }

Can you see the similarity, too?  Okay, maybe it doesn’t have all of the cool angular patterns that the pricey coffee table has, but I think that the square shape and narrow wood slats give off a similar vibe.

So here’s where I’d love your input – would you go ahead and paint our coffee table?  And if so, what color would you paint it? {Here’s a reminder of the color scheme that we have going on in our den.}

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