always wanted a home movie theater...

i love watching movies.  i hate going to movie theaters. luckily, i finally talked stacie into considering turing the front living room into a home movie theater. this room was formerly the kid's L-shaped yellow with green poca dotted play room.  when we remodeled the kitchen and added a wall to make a formal dining room, we turned laney's bedroom into the kids' play room and moved laney's bedroom into the office.  so now i have a 17x13 living room to work with.  the only condition is that the piano has to stay.

when i finally got the go ahead from stacie, we still had not replaced the crown molding we removed when we added the dining room wall.  she helped me with that so that we could have a some-what completed canvas to work with.

here are some before pictures with the crown molding installed:

After the crown was replaced, the plan was to remove the ceiling fan, paint the ceiling and crown (to disguise the unsightly seams), install can lights, hang a projector and hang surround sound speakers, slipcover the loveseat and chair, and build a component cabinet/bar.