Living room: built in cabinets

So Ed did get the living room finished over the weekend. Well, a 4 day weekend. He is off on Fridays and took Monday off as well and spent most of the 4 days working on the living room. I am pleased with the way it came out! Here is a list of what was done, some of it was done the previous weekend and in the evening after work.

• Paint walls
• Paint ceiling
• Paint alcoves and shelves
• Paint crown molding
• Add can lights in ceiling
• Change out ceiling fan
• Change/add light switches to dimmers and fan control
• Put together and install four 24 inch base cabinets from IKEA 
• Put some shelving back in
• Make and trim out top for cabinets
• Put filler in for cabinets

BEFORE 

The paint colors made the room seem so much smaller. 

AFTER

The room is coming together quite nicely I think! 

Cabinets with shelving for storing games, puzzles and such. 

Cabinets with drawers to hold our numerous DVD's! I used the space under the bottom drawers to store other items such as the large Scrabble game and box set CD's. I moved the CD's from the entertainment center to the old DVD cabinet that looks like an old fashion card catalog. We will be replacing our entertainment center and furniture this summer. 

Here's the can lighting with the new ceiling fan. The old one was not our taste and had stopped working in clockwise direction anyway. 

Just look at that freshly painted ceiling! You can see where he stopped painting at the entry to the kitchen. I had no idea the ceiling was off white, not white. 

This I am excited about. I no longer have to stand on something or find a tall person to adjust the ceiling fan. 😉 I can also dim the lighting over the fireplace and the can lights that were just installed. Sometimes I want it really bright and sometimes I don't. I love dimmers! 

Here are the details:

• Two 24 inch base cabinets with shelves from IKEA with Bodbyn doors in off white
• Two 24 inch base cabinets with 3 interior drawers from IKEA with Bodbyn doors in off white
• Trim and filler pieces from IKEA in off white
• Reused shelving for top on cabinets and shelving above cabinets
• Wall paint Sherwin Williams eggshell color Accessible Beige 
• Trim paint Sherwin Williams trim and cabinet paint in Alabaster. It matches the IKEA cabinets perfectly. I was surprised because I chose the trim color before the cabinets! 
• Can lighting is from Lowes
• Fan is also from Lowes

We still have to pick out and install handles on the cabinet doors, paint the fireplace mantle, replace the tile on the fireplace surround, rip out carpet and put down Pergo to match the rest of the house,  paint the base trim and do touch up painting. Most of that won't be done until after the kitchen is done in May but we still have plenty to work on like painting the ceilings, remodeling the powder room and staining and installing treads on the stairs. Flooring will all be the same Pergo throughout the house so we will do that after everything else is done. Hopefully June. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris

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