We've put a lot of blood, sweat, tears, hope, and a ton of memories into our house this year. I've compiled a "then and now" post to show the progress we've made. As you'll see in several of the pictures, we've done a lot, but it's still very much so a project house. We have big plans to continue renovating in the coming years, but it's fun to pause and realize just how much we've done this year!
**disclaimer: Yes, there is still heinously ugly, eye-assaulting carpet in some parts of the house. It's next on our renovation project, but...money. So, for now, my poor son has pink carpet, and the rest of us live with vision-impairing green carpet.
LIVING ROOM
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| We added a front door, replaced the window, pulled up carpet and put in vinyl floors, painted, and closed in the original exterior door. (Seen belowwwww) |
DINING ROOM
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| We replaced carpet with vinyl, replaced the window, painted, and inherited Isaac's grandma's dining room furniture when she downsized! |
PLAYROOM
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| We replaced carpet with vinyl, killed at least a million ants living under the carpet, replaced the window, got new blinds, painted, and rearranged at least five times. |
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| Oh, and we added a built-in ironing board (thank you, honey! I looooove it!) |
KITCHEN
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| We replaced the flooring, replaced the window, and got a new dishwasher. |
LAUNDRY ROOM
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| We replaced the cabinets, replaced the floor, replaced the window, replaced the sink and cabinet, replaced the dryer (the old one was ORIGINAL from the '50s), painted, and added a laundry drying rack. Oh, and we gave up cloth diapering after nearly four years. Whew! |
MASTER
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| We filled about 50 large screw/nail holes in the walls, replaced the windows, painted (it's actually a lovely greige -- Silver Fox -- I highly recommend it -- but the lighting and the cast from the carpet makes this picture look funky). |
MALCOLM'S ROOM
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| We replaced the window, filled a few hundred (I kid you not, I lost count) pin holes in the walls, removed shelving, painted, and upgraded the boy to a full-sized crib. We spilled as much blue paint on the carpet as possible, but it's still vomitously pink. Good thing Malcolm is too young to notice or care! |
LUCY'S ROOM
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| We replaced the windows, put in new blinds and valances, took down wallpaper, changed out her dresser for her great grandfather's dresser and his cubbies (in the closet), and painted. My vision for this room is to have some sort of calm, neutral, non-combative carpet in the near future. And won't that be restful paired with four inch white baseboards? Lucy is still convinced that we're going to repaint her room purple (and brown). Keep dreaming, kid! |
OFFICE
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| New flooring, new windows. I probably should have warned Isaac I was taking a picture to post on the blog. Alas, I clearly did not. |
MAIN BATH
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| New paint, new mirror, sealed the cracked grout in the bathtub, tore down wallpaper border, added the cabinet over the toilet (picture on left is "in progress), painted. |
MASTER BATH
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| Updated paint and window. |
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| Updated paint and flooring. |
THE EXTERIOR FRONT
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| We took down 12 trees and a weird stump of a tree that had a planter on it, replaced the fence, replaced all the windows, added trim to all the (new) windows, closed in the breezeway, and gutted the hot tub room and second garage, added a new front door, built a porch, cleared all the ivy, painted the house, and added a bird feeder. |
NANA'S COTTAGE
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| We closed in the breezeway, and are well underway on turning the garage into a mother-in-law unit for my mom!!!! |
THE BACKYARD
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| New windows, uniform trim, fresh paint, new sump pump, removed all ivy from flower bed, added a vegetable garden (not pictured, but to the right of this lawn), and cleared trails on our back acre. Oh, disregard the white covering the sliding door. It's there to keep the door insulated until we can replace it with one that doesn't bleed heat. |
NANA'S COTTAGE (INSIDE)
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| Looking from her front door, through the living room and into the kitchen. |
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| From the kitchen, through the laundry, into the bathroom. Bedroom will be to the right of the bathroom. |
