Re-decorating Birthday Gift Cont'd - Vignettes

 Sorry to be late with another post of the re-decorating project.

It's taking longer than we thought! 

Keep in mind we are in our late 70s! LOL!

I neglected to say in the last post that my sweet husband

has helped us some. He did most of the high places

over the kitchen cabinets in the last post! Thanks, Joe!

For this week's project we decided to switch the 

family room furniture with the living room furniture!

Yep, we had to call on Joe again for help!

Below is a BEFORE picture of Jan's living room:

And this is a BEFORE picture of her family room:

 

The laundry baskets are there to keep her dog off the white sofa!

Here's the other side of the family room BEFORE:

 

 Notice the white faux fireplace on the right.

White sofa from family room to the living room:

 

 Okay, here's where we ran into a snag! We want that big

picture hung over the white sofa, but we aren't strong enough

to lift it, and Joe has rotator cuff shoulder problems and can't

do it, so we have to get a handyman to come do it!

(Remember none of the decorating is done yet.)

It the meantime, we decided to do a few vignettes.

 This pretty white Bombay chest is in the living room BEFORE:

BEFORE: Accessories on top of Bombay chest:

 AFTER: New vignette above and on top of Bombay Chest:

The new vignette has only two items and another painting above:

 

 We are eliminating a lot of small items.

Next we did new things to the faux fireplace:

I forgot to take a before picture up close

(see it in the group picture above)

So I'm showing the first vignette we did on the fireplace:

But soon changed it to THIS,

AFTER:

 

More of a clean cut look, don't you think?

Did you notice the picture over the fireplace

was first over the Bombay Chest?

We brought it to the family room because of the blue.

I also wanted to add an update with

something similar like Joanna Gaines would use!

I love it, do you?

Stay tuned, I'll continue posting as we finish more vignettes,

and hopefully you'll see two full finished rooms next time!

For kitchen cabinet tops redo also see:

https://thingsienjooy.blogspot.com/2018/01/redecorating-birthday-gift.html

I'm joining Susan's Met. Mon., click here for lots of fun!