Family Room Makeover - Keeping it Simple

Do you a dark room or a neglected room in your house? Mine was our family room. It’s in the basement, no one ever sees it really, so I put it off and didn’t do anything with it. Then one day I decided that it was time to spruce it up and make it look better and not be embarrassed to have people come down into it. So here it is!

Here are a few before pictures of it. I told you not very pretty. And not very clean… And very boring and plain. Not very colorful, that’s for sure!

This is the room that we spend a lot of time in, so I had to make it kid friendly. Besides the kids’ bedrooms, this is really their room. So there is a chest for toys, the kids’ computer and some little chairs just for them.

Our entertainment center, just a little better than the before right?!

Couches with new slip covers because the kids had stained the couches so badly. And of course cute pillows.

A nice bright red wall, I love it!

Being in the basement, the room needed to be brightened up, literally. So I got a couple lamps from Better Homes and Garden. My little yellow table needed something, and this lamp was perfect for it!

Fun decorations on the tv stand, including a BHG wax warmer. I love how it looks and it’s has one of my favorite scents in it, cilantro pineapple.

The walls are big, so each wall has something big on it.

I normally make my own pillows, but I couldn’t resist these amazing pillows from BHG. The reds one would have taken forever to make and not look nearly as nice.

We had the one little chair but it was a constant fight on who got to sit in it, so we had to get another one. It even reclines too! This chest I got from a garage sale for $5, so it stores some bigger toys.

To help me spruce up my family, I headed to Walmart and Walmart dot com and got some Better Homes and Garden things. The selection was great and I was able to find things that matched my family room perfectly!

Right now BHG has a contest going on, a pin it to win it contest. Dream up your own makeover and enter it in the Room Refresh Sweepstakes.

Disclosure: I received compensation from Better Homes & Garden for my time and participation in the Better Homes & Garden Refresh Challenge. Although we have a material connection, any publicly stated opinions of Better Homes & Garden and their products remain our own.

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