The Taylor's: Our House is becoming a Home

About 14 months ago, Curtis bought this house. It had so much potential! The ceilings were so high, and the walls were blank. Literally. The walls, doors, ceilings, baseboards, everything was completely white! This was great, though. We would buy some paint, put it on the walls, and it will all be easy, right? Well a year after we got the house, it was still white. We had an ugly green pleather (gross, right?) couch that was probably as old as we were. It was the most uncomfortable eye sore out there. Finally, Curtis asked if I wanted to paint this morning..Of course! We bought a new couch and had 2 weeks until it came, so lets get all the painting done before then. Well, we started to tape....and we taped, and taped, and taped. Our original plan was to tape Friday night, and paint on Saturday. We taped into Saturday, and just had to start painting so we could finish over the weekend. We ended up finishing all the painting Sunday night pretty late. I think we spend over 24 hours over one weekend for this project! Thank goodness we got it done Sunday, or it would probably still be unfinished.

We used frogtape to tape the house, I highly recommend it! It works pretty well. We used some kind of Behr paint from Home Depot in Brown Tepee. Curtis next big project was mounting the TV on the wall. I have to admit, he did a pretty good job with everything! Our house feels so much warmer, and just in time too! For our living room to feel homey, it only took some paint and a weekend, a TV mounting kit from Monoprice, a new black leather sectional (good luck every trying to find one of those!) from Macy's, a coffee table and end table from RC Willy's, a bookshelf from target, a TV stand from IKEA, a console table made by Curtis's sister, and a cute accent rug from Homegoods. I was definitely homegoods happy that day! We are still looking to add some curtains and some art. Still so much to do, but here is what we've done so far. Enjoy!