Thursday, June 28, 2012

Picture Dump!

I have been really terrible about uploading pictures, or uploading anything really. Now I don't have the "we just moved" excuse to rely on so here are a TON of pictures!

I'm starting with the oldest project, the addition! Here are some before shots:





 Technically they are "in progress" since we were in the middle of painting.


These are from the day after we closed.  










Here are the after!




  
 Here are some shots from a family party we had so you can see some of the changes.





Nice face Alex


And here's Boo enjoying the view!


More to come soon! I'm hoping to over gardening in the next update :)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Before and After

When we first moved in our house was a GIANT mess; granted it wasn't as bad as some others we saw, but it needed a lot of help.
Stuff like this drove me crazy:
At first I thought "those people must have been drunk when they painted those stripes", then I realized... It's PANELING. Two of the three bedrooms had one wall of paneling. What's worse is that they covered tacky paneling with tacky wallpaper! Ugh. Here is how the bedroom looked after paint:
MUCH better. I still haven't taken any pictures with the furniture yet, but I wanted to get some stuff on the walls before I took the "finished" pictures.

Now let's get to my favorite reveal, the kitchen. When we first moved in it looked like this:

Ugly ugly high gloss eggplant paint with bare unfinished wood. What is wrong with people?! How did this EVER look good?! At first I thought the floor was grey tile with black grout, come to find out it's a nice shade of beige under all that filth.
And now this is what it looks like (minus the drop cloths of course):


Voila!
And that is just changing the paint color, imagine how nice it looks with furniture and cats in it! :) This weekend we are going to try and tackle painting the family room... all 500 sq feet of it (eeeek!). We are starting to cross a few things off our million item list, wish us luck!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

First Post!

So here's the deal, I'm starting a blog about our adventures (or misadventures) as brand spankin new homeowners. I thought this would be a great way to share pictures, get input, and an awesome way to look back at all the hard work we put into making this house a home. Now lets get to the gratuitous house pictures! Yesss!

Here is where we started:
This is actually the listing photo, but since we got the house in December we haven't had a chance to take a nice picture!

We have got a lot more work ahead of us! WAY more pictures to come :)