house tour: family room before and after

Home tour continues:

Our family room before was a dark paneled, nasty carpeted, dreary place. We had the sellers replace the ceiling fan with this one before we moved in because the other one sparked when it was turned on and was a major fire hazard!

Love that golden fireplace! Is there a mantel on that brick??

When we first moved in, I painted the bookshelves white and the backs of them green. That green kind of makes my stomach turn....was not happy with it at all:

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And now, here it is today:
I have to disclose that I wasn't 100% happy with this room, but we ran out of time and had to put it on the market. I was going to find a fantastic rug, scrape the ceiling, paint the beams, and wainscoat half of the brick this winter.... yea I had big plans :) It actually turned out to be a good thing, because do you know what the buyer especially loved? The beams and the brick.
It's all good.


I matched the walls (Nester's Tobacco Road) for the back of the bookcases and it was much better:

This is the last week for pumpkins! Had to show you

see this fabulous star??

I found it at Lowe's last year like this (it was actually a rusted black color originally) They sold it to me for $1 and brought her home, gave her a new coat of paintand put her best side forward:

One of my favorite little reminders in my home:

Have a great Monday~I may have a finished dresser to show you tomorrow!! :)