Good morning!
Guess who slept until 8:30am?! Amazing! I guess my body needed it after my long run yesterday. I find I always feel a bit drained after long runs. The body needs lots of rest and apparently my body needed a solid 9.5 hours worth.
I was so excited for pumpkin pie this morning! I am so smitten by this latest vegan overnight oats concoction. I love, love, love having my veggies in the morning and since spinach in vegan overnight oats didn’t work out for me, I am quite excited that pumpkin did because pumpkin is super healthy and a great food to add to any diet.
I used the same recipe as yesterday! Click here for Creamy Pumpkin Pie Vegan Overnight Oats.
J’adore.
(See I’m working on my French!)
Magnifique.
CREAMY goodness! (Not sure what the French translation is for that!) ;)
Family Room, You Have Come A Long Way!
Now I would like to show you some BEFORE and AFTERS of our Family Room! Well, they are technically not ‘afters’ yet because we still have a lot of work to do (and furniture to buy), but they are more like ‘mid-way’ pictures if you will.
This is what our Family Room looked like when we moved in and set up our furniture back in December 2008!
Don’t you love the 70’s lamp shades rocking in there?
It was a tearful goodbye, but we chose to part ways.
Dark, dingy, and depressing!
I will note that the wall paper was GLUED on and took us 2 months to remove. The wall paper was also lined with wood! so it came off in wonderful 2 inch increments (even with steaming). Good times! ;)
Mid-Way pictures (What it looks like TODAY!)
Much warmer and brighter…
These chairs are on loan to us right now. We are storing a bunch of my brother-in-law’s furniture in the basement and they said we could try out their chairs to see how we like the set-up.
Giraffes fit perfectly on this wall:
We also put up chocolate curtains:
We are also going to put some kind of shag on top to cover the bar and blinds, but we’re not sure what would look good.
Originally, we put up white curtains and did not care for them! We took them back.
The white just looked too stark in our opinion…
Future plans for the family room include hardwood flooring, art/photography on walls, and furniture (coffee tables, chairs, corner unit for electronics). In due time!
Unfortunately today is a house work day for me- cleaning and laundry! Necessary evils.
Have a great day!
Absolutely lovely. It’s very warm and looks cozy!
I also have the giraffe print, hehe completely fell in love with it!
Wow, this looks AMAZING!! I can’t even believe that’s the same room!! I love the colors and furniture…it makes the room look so much more open with all that dark paint!
Your house looks STUNNING! Beautiful furniture, all so charming and cosy looking. Yours is like my dream house :)
I really want to know what you’d just been watching on TV in the 1st pic though..end credits make me curious!
My memory fails me as it was December 2008…but I will take a wild guess and say one of Eric’s kung-fu movies ;)
the room looks great! we’ve also rehabbed our entire house. It’s amazing what a little TLC can do for the feel of a room
*Je l’adore = I adore IT.
Also, that’s an amazing improvement! I can’t even tell that it’s the same room, it looks so warm and homey! The old version looks kind of like a billiards room in a sleazy bar.
What if I love the oats like a human being though? ;)
Same thing!
I really love all the pops of green! You’ve done a great job!
Whoaaa your family room has done a 180! Seriously, it doesn’t even look like the same place. Do I even have to say that the ‘after’ shots look a lot better? :)
Incredible change! It does look much brighter, airier, and welcoming. Great place for entertaining, reading a good book (EPL), or taking a nap ;)
Wow– it looks SO much better!!!! Home projects take a lot of time, but they are SO worth it. We just did a major makeover of our living room (new paint color, furniture rearragement, etc.), and it just makes me so much happier when I walk into our house now!
good choice…much warmer
WOW!!!! What a difference, looks so cozy now!
Wow that is an AMAZING transformation! I couldn’t have even dreamed that one up! The room is beautiful! What awesome work you have done. Congrats!
Wow! If you hadn’t said it, I wouldn’t even know that was the same room!
Amazing!
Wow! It looks amazing! I love the color scheme the colors are gorgeous together and make it look so bright and open! I think you should come to my house and decorate!
Beautiful room! Want to come decorate for me? :)
I just love your house Ange! Wanna trade? lol
I love the open space and all the natural light in your family room…the green and chocolate are great color combinations!!!
Your family room is stunning and that fireplace is BEAUTIFUL!!
What a fantastic change! You should show some more pictures of your beautiful home!
Uh oh…I think you’ve inspired me to re-do my bedroom. The Fiance better hide his credit card. Evil laugh ;)
Such a cozy and sweet room now. I don’t know about you, but I find it much easier to relax in a room with lighter color walls and neutral tones.
I like the chocolate curtains – they look very nice! You could maybe make some kind of wood cover thing to cover up the curtain pole — that way it would match the wood beams on the ceiling?
What a change though! The walls look so much better painted white — that dark green looked so dingy and depressing!