The before photos are totally embarrassing but hey it doesn’t look like that anymore … it turns out I took before and after pictures in the same spots so I put the video together to show the big huge difference …
Finally posting the after photos of our kitchen … it is just so magnificent …David and I couldn’t be more happy with it … it is just perfect … I love everything about it … and I especially love that David is so happy with it he cooks us amazing meals all the time …
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We are in the process of replacing all the doors in our house … the ones attached to rooms that had work got replaced as part of the work … the other 7 David is doing on his own … and has decided to go the “from scratch” route … so he has to do everything involved … this is a video of the first door he did … it came out GREAT … I can’t wait to see them all done … even if we have to do it bit by bit and will take some time … he did such a great job the house is going to be rockin’ when he is finished …
So they are finally finished working on our bedroom … now the work that is left is up to us … putting everything away … cleaning …
So the bathroom is phenomenal … it is so much better than what we used to have … now we just need to move our stuff from the kids bathroom into ours and start using it …
We also repainted our bedroom … I didn’t realize how much I didn’t like the peach we had until the new colors went up … we did 3 of the walls a light grey and the wall our bed backs to in dark grey and I am in love … it came out so wonderful … now we just need to clean up the room and arrange our stuff …
But since we painted I am now really wanting to paint the green armoir we have in there … I think it would look awesome in black …
Once we put up the black temporary shades I decided I wanted the window coverings in there to be black … so i think we are going with black wood blinds … should be very sharp …
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Well it is looking great … the floor tile is amazing … I am in love … the toilet is in … the shower is tiled … fixtures are in … the sliding door is in place … we are just waiting on the vanity and sinks and cabinet … a glass wall at the shower… and some paint and we have a great master bath …
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It is still a work in progress but Schuyler is moved into her new room … there were moments I thought it would never happen … this was our office and to be quite honest it hadn’t really been used since March of 2008 when my desktop died … I got a laptop and just stopped needing the room … so it became a “dumping ground” of sorts … and there was a lot of stuff for us to get out of there … and lots of stuff to move around to get the bed and dollhouse and bookcase and everything into the room …
But all the work was totally worth it … Skye loves her room … LOVES it … she adores having her dollhouse in her room … she loves all her cabinets and drawers and her books and little people … and the pink fuzzy rug she picked out …
All we have to do now is hang up all her butterflies on the ceiling and find some great stuff to hang on the walls … but it has turned out to be a great space … and it can only get better …
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So the new big huge shower is taking shape … wall knocked out between what was the closet and bathroom and everything getting ready for tile … it is looking so awesome and is going to be a nice big bathroom …
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So we have lived in some places with horrible wallpaper … when we looked at homes 4 years ago we bid on one that I thought had the worst wallpaper ever … until demo started on the master bath … this is the single worst wallpaper I have ever seen … I can not believe that this little bathroom at one time was totally covered in this horrible stuff … so happy it was gone from everywhere but behind the mirror when we moved in …
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Here is our original closet which will become the sink and vanity area of the new bathroom … and the old bathroom door all closed up …
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The closets came out fantastic … we each have our own … several shelves … nice deep drawers and lots of room to hang stuff … but since they are smaller than the walk-in closet we had and the spare closet we had, which was filled to the gills, was in what is now the kids bathroom is gone … it forced us to purge … and purge we did … 4 huge bags went to Purple Heart … and we still have more to go purge once we go through the tubs in our fireplace room … it was good for us … we hang on to way too many clothes …
So with the closets finished phase one of the master bedroom is complete … these photos show everything in the closets which means the demo for the bathroom is ready to begin …
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