Helping out and having fun!

This past weekend my cousin (Cello) and his wife (Mel) asked us to help them paint their living room and rearrange the furniture to make it look more casual and less bachelorpadish. So with tools in hand we drove the 45 mins drive out to their house and got to work.

Here are the pics of our fabulousness: I was not able to get a before of the room because when we showed up, my cousin had already started moving stuff away from the walls. So here are a few of the somewhat 'befores'

this is the right side of the room as you walk in from the front door

Here is the left side of the room as you walk in from the front door

standing in front of the mantle facing the left side of the room (from when you walk in the front door) I am not sure if you can tell, but this has really high ceilings!! (FABULOUS)

Looking into the kitchen area. YES, that is football playing on the TV... when you have men doing this type of work on a Saturday and Texas (college team) is playing OU, the TV will be on!! It was ok though, they worked and listened (didn't really watch)

The mantle that is absolutely beautiful! Getting taped up and ready to be painted.

My cousin on a really HIGH ladder doing the edges near the ceiling. You can see here that he is balancing himself really well.

Me, painting around the fireplace.

Hubs getting his paint on the roller - he was a rockstar with the extension pole and roller. He was getting everything painted soo quickly!!

Hubs helping Cello catch his footing on the ladder.

Mel feeling skippidy doo da over the new caramelly creammy color that now covers her once yellow post it walls!!! Their BEAUTIFUL coffee table that was the WRONG color for our transformation. Mel did NOT like this coffee table and I assured her that once we sanded and painted it, that it would look FABULOUS! So she let me transform it.

Sofa table that I scored the night before at an auction that I absolutely loved and knew that it would look good in their entry way. The color was wrong and didn't match the coffee table or entertainment center, so we sanded and painted this sucker as well.

Tada!!!!! newly painted table!! Looking good!!

******* AND NOW - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!! THE ROOM REVEAL!!!! *******

Tada!!! We still have little tweaks here and there, but look at the new room and delicious color scheme going on here!!!

This is what you see when you walk into the room from the front door. Look at the coffee table. Such dark richness and it matches the entertainment console that they got. (don't mind hubby that was falling asleep from all the work!) This is the only picture I have of the crisp white mantle that we totally hooked up! Right above the mantle you see that there are some great pictures and a nice clock. As well you can see that there is an empty frame. (you know I have a love of bare frames) The frame will house a monogram type vinyl piece that Mel will be ordering. It's gonna look cooolio!

The start of the new focal point in the living room! Mel's Cross Wall. This will be a wall filled with Crosses and pictures of friends and family. (excuse the ladder and my shoulder)

I think this sums up the way Cello felt of us being finished! He was all over this work being done! btw.. do you see that lamp in the corner - LOVE IT. Though Mel didn't feel the love for the lamp. It has such a cool lamp shade and went really well with the room.

Still feeling it, my cousin gives us the rock on pose. Looking at the corner of the room from the mantle.

The new sofa entryway table that we painted to match the coffee table and entertainment console. Looking good. Still missing the mirror (which we had, but ran out of spray paint to match it to the rest of the stuff) that goes above the entry table. As well as a small basket for key drop and a basket underneath for shoe catch.

All in all it was a very productive Saturday and we really paid for it Sunday!! We were sooo tired that we were falling asleep at my grandparents house after church.

Hasta!

Adri.