Double Dip of Hip: Home History: Living Room

I have decided to add a new page and series to my blog. As many of you know, before I started this blog, we renovated a historical home in Pendleton. While we were renovating it, that is all I could concentrate on. A blog was just out of the question at that point. However, I think I am ready to share our project with all of you! As I add to the series, I will be adding before and after pictures of each room to the "Our house" page on the blog. You can read the blog posts to see more details and pictures of the makeover.

Today, I am going to start with the living room. The living room was covered in wood paneling and an outdated ceiling fan. It also turns out that wood paneling is only made in 8 foot panels. To cut down on the cost of buying more wood paneling, they dropped the ceilings from 10 feet down to 8 feet to match the panels. So the first thing we did when we closed on the house was tear out the wood paneling and ceiling.

Here are some before, during and after pictures from different viewpoints:

This is what the living room looked like before we did anything.

Once we tore out the wood paneling, we found plaster. We then had to tear out the plaster to put up drywall.

This is the lattice work (always under plaster as a base) and a few sheets of drywall.

And finally, here is the after. We added drywall, painted, and added furniture. I think the taller ceilings also really help.

Here is another view point:

I was so excited that I had Kyle take a picture of me in every room. So you get to look forward to several balloon pictures of me in this series. You can also see the nasty ceilings here.

The ceilings are still low in this picture. If you look at the window in this picture and the next two pictures you can see what a difference two feet make.