Game Room renovation and design

So this was a horrible brown room and was just used for storage. We never went in there and honestly tried to ignore it. One problem- it is right off of the front door. We decided it needed a change. We gave the red couch that got me through med school to my brother and started fresh. And by fresh I mean from craigslist.

The old...

 Mostly a room for the dogs to lounge in the sun and store crates

Beginning the reno. Carpet is mostly ripped up and the brown is really showing its ugly.

 Super dark even with the windows open

These were on clearance at Target for $16 each. Not exactly a steal, but inspiration is born. My husband ok'd the pink and I ran with it. If you give a mouse a cookie so to speak. Don't you love the floors in this picture too?

Browsing craigslist to find a wicker trunk. The hubs hates wicker but I knew we could do something with it for not too much money. I paid either $20 or $25 for it because it wasn't perfect and then decided to cover it with Watermelon Krylon paint.

While browsing vintage shops in St. Louis I found this beauty. It was WAAAY more expensive than almost anything in my house at $114 but I had to have the cane back and loved the shape of it. The fabric looks atrocious here, but when we got it home it was actually kinda nice in an old person way.

The walls were painted the same essential grey as the office and guest bedroom. There are two layers of cove ceiling and the grey up there made it look so much taller! You can see the floors are in this picture too- waaay better than the beige nasty carpet. The poofs are in there and the unpainted trunk too. The grey flower rug is $19.99 from Ikea and finally looks good with the paint.

This is a chair listed on craigslist for $30. It used to be a banquet hall chair and it was hideous. So I bought it.

The chair is on the right. Husband took all the cushions off it and is using no sanding Zinser oil primer on the chair and the table. The table is another sweet Craigslist find for $10 buckaroos and was the same color as the chair. We are actually doing this on the porch- in all fairness it was raining but we are a little Hoosier too.

 Same pieces with Zinser on them, awaiting white latex paint to finish. 

Different angle, but you can start to tell they will look good in there

Krylon Watermelon painted trunk and my precious floors!

 So I wanted to recover the chairs in Waverly Santa Maria Desert Flower fabric. Problem is it was $29.99/yard. Well if I had that much money to spend on fabric, I wouldn't be DIY-ing all this furniture! The photo on the left are the fabrics I tried to like and the photo on the right is the dream Desert Flower fabric. 

 
 

Long story short- I HAD to get my fabric. It was perfect for me. I got it at Hobby Lobby using a 30% off coupon, but it still hurt me quite a bit. After finishing the room though, I wouldn't have been happy with anything else. We still needed to recover the cane back chair.

 The cane chair recovered with a close-up view at the piping trim.

The round chair piping on the back and the seat. The back piping was a bit of a trick and took three tries to get right

 

After recovering the yellow cane chair and adding some dog photos onto the wall.

 

 The bar side of the game room. The shelving unit was also craigslist for $40. How lucky can you get.