Before & After

I was supposed to post these pictures a while ago, but I've been a blog slacker. Better late than never, right? We lived in our kitchen for awhile while Colin completely remodeled our living room - new walls, trim, new fireplace, etc. He had help from his family and we are forever grateful for that! I will show pictures of the entire room when we get our updated furniture in, but for now, here's the before and after of the fireplace:
This was the before picture. It was a monstrosity of dingy bricks.

Here's the after. It's stone with concrete surround/mantle and a new insert that makes our house super toasty. Yay for a fresh living space!! Oh, and can you believe how bold my color choice is on the walls? We were scared at first, but love it now.