Loft Transformed to Family Room

Another day, another tour! I want to show you our upstairs loft. I’ve tried to use it  in several different ways and none of them seemed to work. It has wonderful light, high ceilings, and large windows. However, it doesn’t have a closet or any privacy. So it’s not practical for a bedroom.

Here it is before I ripped up the stained carpet.

Yuck! I pulled up the carpet and put a couple of coats of Sherwin Williams porch paint on the plywood. After new paint on the walls and the addition of my “bleached” couch, it started to come together.

Here it is now.

My favorite part of the room is the light fixture which replaced an outdated ceiling fan. I fished it out of the dumpster of a furniture store! No, I didn’t go digging around. I was driving by and saw them as they were throwing it away. I asked if I could have it and actually scored two of them! The coffee table was $10. at a garage sale. I had to literally dig it out of the garage. Of course it had an ugly, old finish on it that begged to be covered with paint. The pillows I made myself.

We have loved the loft as a family room and I think that it will stay that way for a long while.

I’m still working on getting the tv side of the room looking like I want it to. Ugly cords showing aren’t my favorite.

The best part is that it got the tv out of my smallish living room. Now when my grown kids come over, there’s room for everyone to hang out.

What do you think? Good use of this space? What would you use it for?

Tanya