We recently purchased a house. The closing date is next week and already our dining room and living room have undergone numerous renovations, all in my husband's head. There are various scraps of paper littering the house with scribblings and drawings and each day he comes home from work or wakes me up before dawn with three words that I'm beginning to dread - "I've been thinking..."
The living room and dining room are actually one big room, approximately 22'x11'. When we first purchased the house, we talked about doing some upgrades, which to me, translated into painting the room and pulling up the old carpet and putting in some nice laminate. Not so to my dear husband. The house deal was final on March4, and since that time, this room has gone through many stages.
Stage One
Paint entire room a tan/brown colour. Cut two windows into the walls that line the hallway, to open up the space a bit.
Stage Two
Divide the room in two, separating them with a half-wall. Paint the living room and the top half of the dining room green and the bottom half of the dining room, Burgundy. Separate the two paint colours with a chair rail.
Stage Three
Forget the half wall, he really wants to divide this room. Put up a wall in between the two rooms and put an archway in the doorway. Separate paint colours for each room. No chair rail, no windows in walls, but perhaps we'll look at crown mouldings?
Stage Four
Archways are so McDonald's - let's go with French doors in between the two rooms. In the dining room, there will be a bulk head in the middle of the room with 4-6 potlights shining down on our dining room table. In the living room, there will be a bulk head around the room with pot lights as well. Might use the crown moulding, might not.
