I've delayed posting about this little project for far too long! I remodeled my living room starting back in October sometime. It's been an ongoing process, but I'm basically done at this point.

Old Living Room:

Old Living Room

I don't have a very good picture of the old living room... but you get the idea, right? Lame and crappy brown carpet and a bunch of old-assed wooden trim around the floor and windows. Bleh.

The Solution:

Phase 1: Tear things apart!

     
I think the subflooring was prettier than the carpet

Phase 2: Put in new Laminate Floor and Woodwork!

This worked out very well as it was a continuation of my kitchen flooring project from a while ago. Since the laminate flooring "clicks" together, it was simple to continue the same flooring type into my living room.

 
Continuing on from the Kitchen Floor (seen on the far left)

Hallway extending to Bedrooms (note crappy woodwork on staircase)

It took some definite elbow grease to get done, but, in the end, it turned out pretty sweet. Probably the most time consuming part of the process was cutting the laminate flooring to fit around the 3 doorways in the hallway.

Rather than replace the old staircase railings, I chose to paint them white. If more fundage becomes available in the future, maybe I'll get something better. The white doesn't look too bad, though.

Phase 3: Profit!

Some finishing pictures! (FYI, the Lower Left picture is a doorway) 

All in all, I spent probably a good $1100-1200 dollars on the new flooring, woodwork, and paint. Not too bad. Hopefully, if I sell this house someday, it will yield a high return on my investment!

If not, I'll have to go into the underpant stealing business....

Underpants Gnomes!