Living Room Makeover

I didn't have a good picture of the living room with our furniture (this is from the previous owners) but this gives you a good idea of the walls, etc.  I knew as soon as we bought the house that this room would be perfect for wainscoting but also that it wouldn't be first on the list.  Almost within two years is pretty good!

Prep time.  This takes a lot of time.

Cutting & rolling the bottom.  

I ended up doing this twice because the first white was too white.  I ended up mixing two colors to get the perfect white, but then later for the boxes Lowe's couldn't color match it so I had to mix again. 

Putting on the top color

The room stayed this way for a while before we got up the nerve to cut boxes

A little dark, but this is once I got all the boxes measured, cut, glued together, glued & nailed onto the wall and caulked and wood filled.  Oi!  SOOO much work!

Ahhhhh!!!  I LOVE it!!  So worth all the hours spent devouring blog tutorials, choosing a style, picking out wood, measuring, cutting, gluing, taping, painting, caulking, measuring, nailing, more gluing, more painting, more cutting, more measuring, more caulking, wood putty, mixing, etc.  Now I get to find lighting, curtains and pictures.  As nice as it would have been to have it done by a pro I find it very fulfilling to turn out a successful project all on our own.

Here's a good before on this section

And after.  LOVE!!!!