Category Archives: before and after

Before and After: Living room

The living room was big white and pretty empty when we first saw it.

Can you believe that Josh didn’t like the door knobs in this house?! I kid. They were not anyone’s cup of tea.

Looking from the kitchen into the living room.

Josh recruited many family and friends to help paint and stuff. We have the best family!

The bee-bee gun for shooting pigeons off the roof.

I took Kaylee over to the house with me to check on a few things during reno. She passed out by the front door. The next photos are of the mostly done living room. I still need to finish caulking baseboards, and do some touch up painting.

I got this AWESOME shoe dresser from Ikea. Inside those four drawers is a hot mess of shoes. 🙂

My area rug is getting sort of sad…. I found a dreamy orange and white chunky stripped one online that I fell in love with. Dreamy as in it’s just a dream…… Pretend it’s there though.

Looking from the play room toward the kitchen. I think Josh bought the biggest t.v. he could. I was not thrilled with having such a massive t.v. in the living room because I knew we would get used to it, and not be able to go back to a more reasonable size when it left. Jon and I are SO very used to having the giant bachelor t.v. It’s going away to Joshily house soonish. Jon has been eying replacements.

Looking from the front door into the house. Jon says we need more color. I think the orange rug would be perfect……. 🙂

Before and After: Kitchen

The kitchen is still a work in progress, but here is what we started with, and how far we’ve come.

First business of demo. Get rid of those awful bars!

The island is floating. It makes it nice for cleaning. Also I was able to flip it the other way, and open up the walkway around it.

There is the funky cubbie hole for the microwave. That’s the wall turned pantry.

Next to go was the beam.

New counters, a tile back splash, and painted or new cabinets. Ya, those things would be nice. Someday…..

We think it’s coming along nicely.

Before and After: Master

The master bedroom was… interesting.

See when you have a kid who has a major house dust allergy, things like trendy nightstand pendent chandelier things are on the list of decor that is the enemy. It’s like asking for EXTRA things to dust. Who would want that?

Our niece Rebekah thought they were so cool and looked like earrings. She was bummed when we put in the ever popular ceiling mounted “boob” lights. But hey, less to dust. That is our motto around here.

This giant mirror got framed out an relocated into the hall bathroom. And of course we painted the white walls.

This closet got flipped to the other side of the wall and is now the kitchen pantry. The doors knocking into each other were I am told obnoxious.

The drywall guy did an awesome job with this giant patch job.

My sister and Jason came and helped me paint the master. They work the graveyard shift, and came over early in the morning right after work to get it done. By 12:30pm they were quite slap happy, and I sent them home.

Slap happy Jason removed (to prime/paint) the old-ugly-wasn’t-going-to-replace-it because-it-was-still-in-fine-working-order light, and broke it. No one was sad about it.

There was an unbelievably tetanus shot looking medicine cabinet here. We tossed it, and were left with a much nicer looking hole.

So we (Jon) filled it in, and framed it out.

Pretend I keep pretty things here. Okay.

I’ve got these plant shelves in every.single.room of the house. I wish I didn’t, they are a pain in my dusting tukkis. But they are nice to put crap on…. It’s a love hate relationship.

See that armoire? That’s my closet. This is the first house we’ve lived in that the master only had one closet in. I don’t have many cloths so Jon get the “real” closet. He has almost three times as many clothes as I do. Work, church, regular….

Okay so we changed nearly everything about this room. We would like to eventually change out the sink, counter, and cabinets.

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