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BEFORE AND AFTER LIVING ROOM AND DINING ROOM

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Well.....well....well!  Somebody is actually reading my blog!  You guys were commenting like it was 2014:) I am so proud of this project and could not be happier that it was published in Southern Homes .  It was a perfect fit for their Before and After issue. Just to review...... my clients had lived in this house for over 20 years and raised their 3 children there.  It is in a great location and after looking for a new house [with no luck] they decided to do the renovation. After it was all done there was not one inch that wasn't updated including the whole unbuilt space downstairs adding a bedroom, bath, office another family room, sitting area, 1/2 bath, and gym! So....today I am showing you the living room/dining room which were 2 rooms before and now have been opened up to one large space. Right behind the kitchen was the DR  After..... Before  2 doorways were added into the kitchen/family room.  The...

SCOTT'S ANTIQUE MARKET

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Thank you for all the love about my project:) I have more to show you but   I think I'm going to interrupt  all this "before and after" so I can show you what I saw at Scott's last week!   I can't get there as much as I would like but I have a bedroom install tomorrow and I needed a few things for the "gob" of bookcases this room has. Here are the fabrics..... The first thing I needed was a rug and I was lucky to stumble across this beauty...... This is a huge bedroom and there is a sitting area with a sofa and 2 chairs.  We were going to do patterned wall to wall [see above] but we needed something that was good for pets so that changed to a solid**.  This will help to define the seating area now! **Design is not all about beauty.  Function plays a huge part of pulling a room together. I picked up this one for the master bath.... Here are a few other ones I saw.... The good thing is ...