Family Room - In Progress

Ah...the family room. Where else do you spend most of your time? This room is really coming together and looking absolutely AMAZING!!! Ray has done an exceptional job at transforming this room from blah to WOW! Check out some of the following pictures!

Here's what this room looked like when we moved in. The color was this ugly peachy/pinky browny tan color. Just yuck.

So, we started to paint it. I choose a very neutral tan for now. Maybe later we'll paint things different, but this color is painted in all rooms that flow into one another on the main floor. It's 'Light Rafia' from Valspar (Lowe's paint).

Here's the room all painted. The ceilings we painted white. We lived with the room like this for a couple of months (we painted before we moved in).

But really...this room was plain and had no storage. What to do, what to do...

So Ray built some shelves! Yep! They are fantastic. The 'arch' follows the same one that's over the fire place. He just made a template and cut out the wood to match. We decided to paint the shelves black to go along with some furniture we purchased for the dining area.

You may have noticed the tile gone in the picture about. Yep - couldn't stand the pinky, peachy ugly tiles. So...down the tiles came.

And here's what we're putting up in place. Some small 1" x 1" tiles around the fire place itself. They're made out of slate.

And then to add even more WOW factor, we're decided to go with large slate tiles (12" x 12") around the entire thing! Plus Ray added a wood mantle!

And talk about a WOW factor! Doesn't this look AMAZING! Really, the pictures don't do it any justice.

Here's an up close picture. The 2"x 2" squares that you see mixed with the 1" x 1" are made of glass. They have a cool 'foil' behind them and it really helps them pop!

We'll be painting the ugly gold/brass to a matte black to match the rest of the fire place. We haven't done any 'decorating' yet in this room, either, but I can't wait. I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this room and how it's looking! Eventually we'll get a flat screen TV to go above the mantle, but they need to come down in price a bit more.

Can't wait to add the same slate to the back-splash in the kitchen (but that's a bit down the road).

Check back again this week - for when we visit my other favorite place of the house - the SCRAPROOM! :)