Family Room Beginnings

So the process of redoing the family room has begun. Prior to moving in, we had removed the blue carpet and staples, screwed the floor down, sealed the pet odors into the plywood, painted the trim and ceiling, and removed the wallpaper border. The past week or so we have removed all items out the room, and Josh began fixing the walls this weekend. As you can see, this is a long thin room that exits on one side to the back porch and on the other to the garage.

And here's the lovely fireplace. Oh, right, you can't really see it with all of that junk stacked in front of it. Don't worry, I'll get right to moving it out of the way for the picture. . . on second thought, we'll show you it once we're done.

So all we have left to do is:

1. sand and prime the walls
2. touch up along the ceiling (there was a wallpaper border there, so when we painted the ceilings we couldn't get right up against the edge)
3. paint two coats of color onto the walls (color still to be announced--thinking a blue)
4. install new outlet covers and wall vent covers
5. install the laminate hard wood flooring
6. install new floor vent covers
7. purchase or find furniture for the room
8. decorate

As you can see, it should be done in no time, especially with our fast-paced work ethic of late! I'll post the after pictures sometime next year. (Can you hear the sarcasm?)