In addition to remodeling our kitchen, we also updated our living room/dining room and hallway. This is a before picture from the day we moved in. We have a SUPER long living room (like 25 foot by 13 foot) so there was that extra space back here that we didn't know what to do with. We had some bookcases back there and moved that chair around but nothing worked great.

With the kitchen remodel we made it a dining room:

We took down the vertical blinds, put up a chandelier, ripped up the carpet and put in the new flooring, and then painted it two colors and WILL have a chair rail. The only reason the chair rail is not up yet is because the window in the picture above behind the table is going to be replaced. When we get a new window, the size/trim inevitably moves so we can't cut the chair rails yet. So right now it's just a wavy paint line.
The picture below is our living room at the other end right after we moved in. It was so soon after we moved in we had no couches or furniture, so we put our bed right in the living room. That was our old tv and bookcases and whatnot.

Again we took down the vertical blinds, and we have a new tv and moved the bookcases to the office. We also put the new flooring in here as well. The walls were painted the same beige color as above the chair rail line in the dining room.

The entirety of the living room and dining room ceilings were painted. We also are going to put up curtains on those windows once I find ones I like! Also...ones that the kittens MIGHT leave alone.
Our hallway leading to the bath and bedrooms was carpeted too. Don't mind the white smudges at the end near Linus...I was painting the ceiling and walls and purposely wiping it on the carpet from my fingers. Hey, if we're throwing away the carpet I can do what I want!

Here is the after....after painted ceilings, painted walls, and new flooring:

So all in all - very exciting! We haven't hung anything back up on the walls because I'd like to decide what to put where and maybe add new things if possible. That will take some time. I did fill and paint over all holes (including the old vertical blind holes that they apparently had to hang twice with mollies so I had 28 mollies to pull out and fill with spackle) so we have a blank slate!