Remodeling

I have spent the past 4 days remodeling my living room. It all started on Saturday when I had an allergy attack because of all the dust in my carpet. So I got ambitions and torn up the carpet. Then, seeing as I already had the wood for the floor in my garage, I thought that Sunday would be a good day to lay it down. Barry was not so happy about this. I had told him that as soon as I was done babysitting the nephews that I was going to start on the floor. He had forgotten this and was quite put out by my sudden urge to do the floors. So my helpers turned out to be Nathan and Michael.
I didn't take before pictures because I forgot. But here is what the floor looked like about a third of the way done. I was hooking into the existing wood floor in the kitchen so it looks like I have done a ton, when really at this point I had layed about 30 rows. But those 30 rows included the LONG hallway too. Also, I should note that these pictures were taken by Michael with the kids camera. (My camera has a dead battery and the charger seems to be hiding under all the displaced mess from the rest of the house.) He is quite the budding photographer!!

So after I finally finished the floor, all but the baseboards and a 1 inch gap between the last row and the wall, I decided to secretly paint the room without Barry knowing about it. So I picked out the color and bought the paint brought it home and threw it on the wall. I was thinking that it would be a terrible shame to move all the furniture back in to the room and then out again to paint so I did it all at one time. The paint is drying on the wall around the table as we speak. But I threw the furniture into the room and took a few pictures of it. Now the trim isn't on yet and the furniture isn't touching the walls and the bookshelves are mostly bare but this is how it looks put together.