Fixing Up My Living Room

...so I can sell or rent my house... And LUCKY YOU - you're here in the BEFORE and DURING stage!!! That's right -- so far, there's no AFTER or HOW TO.

This lens is one of several about how I am trying to improve my whole house, inside out, by myself and on a tight budget, in order to make it saleable by fall of 2010.

This is an extension of my Main Page, Fixing Up my House to Sell. You can read there why and what I'm doing .. and even make your own comments and predictions!

I decided that most, if not all, of the rooms need their own lens to show the details of what needs to be done, and what is being done on them. As I work, there will (God, I HOPE) be after pictures, too!

Doing my renovations this way is an attempt to motivate myself into action, as well as to help others who think things like this are too much and can't be done - as well as to inspire procrastinators to stop procrastinating so they won't BE in this position!

So, this is about the living room, which right now seems to be one of the ones that requires the least expensive work (hurrah) though that may come back and surprise me at some point.

It clearly needs a lot of clearing out of "stuff" - in the pictures you'll see that I'm using it as a storage for things, mostly things to give away (books to family).

Good Size but the windows...

These windows have been a curse since I moved in -- I had window people look at them and they kind of shook their heads.

So, I think they should just be left as is.

* Except windows need to be cleaned
* Refinish the very nice original wooden floors (here and all through the house).
* Paint the walls a nice off white.
* Patch the ceiling and any marks in the walls