Anyways.. Mom was eager for me to take on this project and fully trusted me. I have to admit, I was surprised! Although I dream of doing this one day, I have NEVER taken on a project this big. Over my Thanksgiving break from school, I spent 4 days working on the room(1 of which involved some Black Friday shopping of course). The house was built in 1977 and has been remodeled quite a bit, but still has a few rooms that could use some love. The foyer started out with brown wood paneling on the walls, and was pretty rough in a few spots. I'm 90% sure I will have shiplap all over my home one day, so of course I loved the looked of the paneling. Shiplap looks somewhat like paneling but runs horizontal on the wall... This paneling was close enough and ended up beautiful in the end. I wanted to paint it all white and give it a fresh, clean look. Mom loved the idea, so it happened(yay). Here are a few pictures of the room before the project began. The door is fairly new and only needed a few paint touch ups.
My before pictures are not wonderful but they will do. If you can imagine it, there were 4 large, outdated cabinets right inside the door to the left, you can tell where the tile is a lighter color. Mom had them ripped out a few days before I came. I had a nice little helper with me too!
