Before & After: A Small Victorian Living Room Gets an Apartment Therapy Makeover

Pin it Ashley Poskin lives in a beautiful old Victorian house in Sterling, Illinois -- a small town west of Chicago -- which she is also restoring. The house is large, and Ashley and her husband are actually human, so it's taken awhile to work on each room and make it into a home. (That's her boxer Charlie front and center, checking out her small living room that's still pretty devoid of decor and furniture.) Because Apartment Therapy can't resist an empty room, we descended upon her small town ...