Living Room Makeover

When we first decided to move house, 2.5 years ago, we spent a day looking around the house and prioritising the work that needed doing. 

We gave ourselves a month to overlap the move, so we still lived in our flat, but were at the house everyday decorating.

There was one room that we decided early on needed to be decorated before we moved in - the living room. People would come and visit us and the 1940's look just wasn't us, so we wanted to make sure the one room that they saw, and that we spent the most time in, was more modern. 

Deciding on paint was a quick job. You'll remember my post here, where we were testing different colours. We went with Dulux Natural Wicker. It went on a lot more 'corn yellow' than we anticipated but it dried far lighter, almost to the shade on the tin. We've never hated it, and luckily it matched the cream gloss wood that you'll remember is EVERYWHERE in this house! 

But more recently, as those of you who follow my regular posts here and on Instagram will know, I'm a real sucker for whites and greys, and when we visited a friends house recently, I fell madly in love with her walls. So much so, that I immediately went and ordered 2 litres of the same paint a few days later! 

This is the Albany 'dovecote' paint that she used and I am going to be using soon. 

If you look at the skirting board, you can see the walls are very close to white, but the paint has a lovely warm blend to it. 

We also have a bare wood floor, and are shopping around for a new fluffy rug, so I know it's going to match well.

With the wood floor, beige walls and brown sofas, it's just always felt a bit too matchy. 

I still haven't found the time to paint the skirtings white, or paint the fireplace tiles white, so that'll be a job for when we do the walls, and hopefully add a real clean feel to the room, which currently only has white paint on the ceiling and above the picture rails (but it's not been repainted in a long long time!) 

Stay tuned over the next new months to see this transformation take place! I'll be blogging every day for a week with updates on the progress, and lots of before and afters (because we know everyone loves them!) 

Xo