***Warning...this post is heavy on pictures!***
When we bought our house we knew it would need a lot of work. My dad & Zach worked really hard for almost 2 months getting the house to a livable condition. This is the outside, and honestly, we haven't done anything with it yet. We have every intention of getting rid of the sea-foam green paint and adding some green to the yard. But that will have to wait until we (meaning Zach) have a design.
This was the view from the patio door (left) and front door (right) when we bought the house. See that wall?
Yeah, they knocked it down. And it is one of the best decisions we made!!!
And here are those same views today. There is still a lot to be done, but it is much improved!
The carpet in the family room has been replaced (in the whole house, actually). The tile in the kitchen was replaced with wood laminate flooring. The fans, paint and baseboards are also new through this part of the house.
This is kind of a boring picture, but it shows the quality of the paint job through out the entire house when we bought it. I don't think the people who lived here before painted a second coat on anything... so nearly every wall has been painted at this point. There is still some trim work that needs painted, though.
My favorite part of the house - the kitchen!!! Ugly, uneven tile - gone. Tiled counter tops - gone! The dishwasher has been moved to the other side of the sink. We painted all of the cabinets and added beadboard to the fronts, to match the beadboard back splash. The upper cabinets to the left of the window were replaced with full size uppers. We added cabinet pulls to the cabinets and drawers. And added the island.
Still on the list for the kitchen - there is some painting still to do, trim out and replace the lighing in the soffit, and curtains for the window.
The toy room - It's just white (and was when we bought it, but it got a fresh coat of paint anyway), but I finally found some inspiration for the decor...the hot air balloon that's hanging in the corner. I got the chevron fabric (which I'm not normally a fan of, but for this I think it works) to make curtains and ordered some vinyl in matching colors to put the alphabet on the wall opposite the window. I'll take more pics once that's finished.
The master - what was once this ugly pearlized/metallic dusty rose color...
...is now a nice, calming gray (which I realize looks white in the picture). I still need to do something over the bed, I just haven't decided what. This room also got a new fan.
The master bath is one shade darker than the bedroom. It still needs some of the paint, a new counter top & sink, new light fixture and we'd like the frame out the mirror.
The kids room - from this...
to this. Their room is almost finished! I still need to hang their initials above their beds and make a valance for the window. I got some cute yellow polka dot fabric for it.
The main bath - I can't access any of the before pics right now. :( We've replaced the floors (and that's what the cabinets used to look like in the master bath, which also has the same new matching floors).
And as part of their Christmas present to us, my brother & his family came up one day and did some work around our house, including painting this bathroom.
There's still a lot of work to do, but we're slowly getting it done. I don't have any pics of the pantry, but we've started on that room too. I'll try to get more pictures on here as we finish more projects. Hopefully one of these days I'll have more to show on the outside of the house. I wanted to wait until each room was completely finished to show pictures...but that's probably not ever going to happen! :)
