Saturday, April 23, 2011

Before and After - Finally!

So, here are the pictures of the house!! Keep in mind that I took these pictures with my camera which is no fancy thing and so they are not good. Don't give the house justice. First we must start with the outside.....


Cute right? Nice and small, but cozy. :) Next, the living room. This after we pulled off all the baseboard. We are now replacing all of them with 3 in wood baseboards. Before, there were these nasty thin plastic looking ones. We hated them. They HAD to go.

Now, the kitchen! TONS of cabinet space, almost too much actually, plus a dishwasher, range and a fridge. Of course, a much needed paint job was in order. Color!

And the bedrooms....pretty much they all looked like this. Fake wood trim and dirty white walls.

Also... florescent lighting....


Now bathrooms! Full tubs with showers in both.

And the utility/mudroom. I love this...heated, but separate from the rest of the house. I always hated having the washer and dryer in the hallway.



NOW! After the painting and trim work and hours reaching up those high ceilings....the AFTER pictures!



The living room! The walls are pale honey, the top part is cork and the kitchen is....


RED!! I LOVE IT! the accent color is the same cork that also goes into the living room. We wanted to tie it all together.

The hallway

So, for the bedrooms, we left one of them alone completely. We want to wait and see if it will end up being a nursery. :) However, the master bedroom, we went with a dark pewter color. Hard to imagine in this life, but it is such a calm soothing color, especially for a bedroom.


We painted all the trim white. We wanted it to pop.
And the office...green! It looks too yellow in this picture, but that is because of the horrible florescent lighting. Since then we have changed the light bulbs to daylight ones. MUCH better.

So there is is! We left the bathrooms and laundry room alone. Although we will put a new coat of paint on there this summer. We also want to change out the sink in the kitchen and hopefully tile the bathroom and kitchen floors. I can dream right?


3 comments:

Gina said...

Wow, good job guys. It looks really nice. That's so exciting you can have a house!

S.A.R. said...

I am so impressed! NIcely done!

Ashley C. Griffiths said...

Super duper cute! Can't wait to see it in person!!