Let the Living Room Makeover Begin!! + Video

Its HERE!! The moment that I officially un-officially move into a loft!! There is a lot of information and awesome things to remember in this post, so if you are a skimmer, settle in cause you wont want to miss this!

First things first, I have teamed up with GE Lighting to completely overhaul my living room AND entryway in 4 short weeks. We are doing it real time Nugget style (hopefully with a few less redoing it twice projects…) Every Thursday I will be sharing a #100reveal project that you can duplicate for less than $100 from The Home Depot and showing off the transformative power of GE reveal LED light bulbs (which will basically give you a room makeover in and of themselves) and a video (!!!) from the series that the unicorn sisters and I have been working on.

Also every week we are giving away (10) $100 Home Depot gift cards and a GE reveal® light bulb kit.

For all 4 weeks.

That’s $4,000 to The Home Depot and GE reveal® LED light bulbs for 40 of my luckiest friends!

So lets’ kick things off with the first episode in our video series shall we?

The living room. I feel like having images that live forever on the blog makes people think that what they see is the reality at all times.

You guys. How about a little reality check?

When the orange couch died we had to have some seating in there. So I moved the Laundry Couch out of my bedroom and into the living room. You know what a Laundry Couch is right? The place that you store all of your clean laundry? (Now that it is in the living room, we have a laundry floor.)

There are random chairs. No rug or coffee table. No art. No desk. The entire thing is just really depressing to look at. Amiright?

The obsession with living in a loft is what pulled me out of the funk. I think its a great idea before you rip everything out and start completely over to stop and look at the space and see what things you LOVE and keep those. Looking at the living room, the things that I loved were the black moulding around the windows. I feel pretty confident in changing everything else.

If you’ve been reading for a little while, you might remember the awesome Craigslist light that I had installed in Ashy’s room that was too little?

That cute light has haunted my dreams. I knew that it needed to be in the living room, but the problem was that we had cut the cord seriously short when we were hardwiring it to the ceiling. It is really easy to look at a light that has a less than ideal cord situation and feel like its not going to work, but the simple fact is that rewiring a light is one of the easiest projects you can tackle.

*One thing of note that will make you probably want to hurt puppies if you forget. When you are wiring a light with wire that already has an outlet on the end you have to work backwards. Start with the elements that are closet to the plug and work your way down to the socket…ie the chain will go on first, then the fixture loop, all the way down to the socket being last. If you miss a piece or forget to do this you’ll have to rewire your socket.

Lamp cord has 2 wires. The way to tell them apart is by the ridge on the outer edge of one. The smooth wire is Hot and will connect to the gold screw in your socket. The ridged wire is neutral and will connect to your silver screw.

Ok so have you guys ever used GE reveal® LED light bulbs? I never had, and I was sort of dumbfounded at the difference they made. They just make everything prettier. Seriously. I feel like I have totally been missing out my entire life not knowing about them!

Check out the difference. (Both of these light bulbs are 60W)

So not only is the GE reveal® light brighter, but can you see the color difference? All of the dark yellow tones are gone! You guys. This is like Photoshop in real life.

Last bit of info, to kick off the festivities I am co-hosting a twitter chat with Nicole from Making it Lovely and Brooke from All Things Thrifty TONIGHT at 8:30 EST! Join us using the #100reveal hashtag for lots of DIY talk!

Before you go don’t forget to enter the giveaway for 1 of the 10 $100 Home Depot gift cards and GE reveal LED packages that I’m giving away this week! All you have to do to enter is comment below and let me know what project you are going to tackle when you win!