The Living Room

The Living Room Series



Empty


With new paint, then new carpet



Put together.
The bookcase is a bit bare and the picture frames are empty....but you get the idea. :)

Kids' Bathroom

Before & After

The Basement Laundry

For some reason, when they built this house, they put the laundry hook-ups right in the middle of the basement. (The place that will someday be our fabulous great room (/theater/game & play room). So it became necessary to move the hook-ups to a different part of the basement. We put some plans together and found our best option was to create a utility/laundry room in the back corner. It's not ideal, but it's better than having it in the middle of the room. Here's a few pictures of the progress.




Original hook-ups are the white pipe stuff sticking out on the left side.






Original Utility Area.



This is the hole in the concrete they jack-hammered to connect the laundry pipes to the main stack.





Someday we'll add drywall, cabinets, a door, and flooring....but for now, this is it.

The House - New Carpet

Here's a couple pics of the carpet, before & after. We did not like the minty green. :)

The House - The Lawn

There's so much to do with this lawn, so many weeds to defeat. Here it is after its first mowing...and some more weeding.

Don't laugh at our mower, we love it. :)

The House - More painting

Master Bedroom (Before & After)

Connor's Room (Before & After)

The House - Day 3

The House at the beginning of Day 3



Before & After:

(first coat of paint in the Living Room)
Paint Color is Behr: Basketry



Before & After:

(first coat of paint in Kylie's Room)
Paint Color is Behr: Botticelli Angel



BTW: I highly recommend Behr's new paint with the primer built in. It covers very well. 2 coats and we're good to go. We could have just done one coat, but with the texture on the wall we got better coverage doing a 2nd coat.

The House - Day 2

The House - At the beginning of Day 2.

Can you see what's different??

-The front door is black

-The front door knob and lock are new. (Satin Nickel...with brand new locks and keys)

-Some weeding got done (thanks Mom & Dad)...can't you see that spot just to the left of the front door??

The House

So, you may already know that we just bought a house. We closed on Monday and now the work is beginning. For the next little while, our blog will be a way to document all the "great" changes we'll be making...with before & after pics.



So, here's the before pic of the front of the house. This is from Day 1, before any work.



As you can see, there's plenty of work to do just on the outside. (can you say weeding?)