Remodeling

I have been waiting to post about our house remodel until we are completely finished ... and then I realized I might never post about it if I do that! :)

We moved in May and have been working ever since.  We've gotten a lot accomplished, but there's still much to be done.  3 trips to Guatemala and having a baby will put you a little behind schedule!

Here's a few before and after pics.  The before pics are blurry because I forgot to take them so I had to grab them from the realtor's webpage when the house was for sale. You can get the idea, though.

I guess the boys' room is complete, minus the bedroom door and curtains.  Curtains are not easy to find and are not cheap, either.  I've decided that I may end up purchasing fabric and making some myself.  When to find the time to do that is the question!  The bedroom door is down in the basement waiting to be hung, but I think I actually like the room without a door.  The door opens into the closet (I guess what I mean is that when the door is open the closet is right behind the door) so you have to close the door to open the closet doors.  Right now, it's just easier to not have the door.

The kitchen needs to be tiled and then it will be finished.  Aaron is hoping to work on it in the next few weeks once Briggs is finished with soccer practice (2 nights a week).

The living room is pretty much done, minus wall hangings.  We are getting family pics taken next week so hopefully by Christmas time our walls will no longer be bare.

Our bedroom hasn't been touched.  We decided to finish everything else before we even tackle that room.  The dining room has gotten a new chandelier, but that's all.  It has paneling, which I would just as soon paint, but Aaron hates it and is going to have it taken down and the walls sheet-rocked hopefully this spring.

We want to redo the flower beds outside, which will also be a spring project.

We did take out the carpet throughout the house and have the hardwoods refinished.  The kitchen had about three layers of linoleum that had been put down with tar .. yes, tar.  It was a doozy to get up.  We put down vinyl tile.

My thoughts on the whole thing: If we are not gonna be living here full time, then don't worry about all the renovations, but it is driving Aaron crazy!

Enough explaining, here's the pics:

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After:

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There's not a before of boys' room, but here's the after:

Ignore all the boxes and junk everywhere ... I'm in the process of switching out summer/winter clothes!