HGTV-like Makover!

Friday afternoon my mom arrived to begin our much anticipated "HGTV" makeover.  While I worked and before Brooke got home, she painted a few accent walls and got everything ready.  Here are a few before pictures...

Notice the fantastic hall tree...

One side of our living room

And the other side of our living room

This is our dining room - we were going for "college-contemporary." I think we succeeded.

More dining room

And the work begins!!

My mom and her stud finder. She's going to leave it with Brooke and me.

She looks like she's posing for an HGTV poster shot.

I think watching my mom attempt to drill in these screws was probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Love the wall wine rack!

Chaos.

Allie stopped by on Saturday to teach her swim lesson.  It was not warm.  She's a trooper.

Brooke working hard. Wait...

Go mom go!

Brooke after skillfully and masterfully moving and hooking up our electronics.

One of our many surprises was these fabulous aprons my mom made (!) for us.  Are they so cute?  I know you're jealous.

Our friend Taylor stopped by Saturday evening - she was in town to shoot a wedding.

Doesn't Brooke look awkward driving Tate's BMW?  I think I'm gonna have to take over next time.

We powered through the rest of the cleaning and organizing to finish up.

The dining room now!  That's my old dresser.  My mom painted it black and both made and bought all our beautiful new decorations.

Love the curtains!

No more hall tree!!

Our living room seems so much bigger. Basically we move everything from one side of the room to the other and changed a few things up and it works so much better.

After finishing up we decided we needed margaritas...

while Brooke slaved away over dinner.

Check out that cute apron!!