Work In Progress

We are loving our new (old) house. When we bought the house, we knew that we would be doing some updates, but I didn't know we would have accomplished so much so quickly. It seems like we have done nothing but work on the house in all our spare time. I just have to keep telling myself that it is worth it to live in chaos for a while because the end result will be so much better. So, after 4 days of sleeping downstairs on an air matress that continually loses air, this is what we have accomplished! I will post pictures of our bedroom and Hallie's bedroom first since they are the only ones we have completed, then I will post pictures of the other rooms as we complete them as well.

Dev hard at work on the floors

Devin's wonderful sister Alisa and her equally wonderful husband Ren came over on Saturday for an all day project of sanding and refinishing the wood floors, which are in every room upstairs except the kitchen (well they are there too, but under some nasty old linoleum that ruined the wood floors, dang it) and the bathroom. After doing the floors, we have also painted the living room walls, our bedroom walls, and Hallie's bedroom walls. We added accent paint in the main room, but I will leave that for when we finish that room. We also redid all the baseboards and painted them and hung blinds.

Our bedroom before
Our bedroom after
Add a few furnishings and we are in business!

Hallie's room before- look specifically at her floors so you can see how bad the wood looked
Hallie's room after, plus her crib and such. We decided to keep her walls white since we aren't going to be living here forever. It wasn't worth it to paint them pink or something since the resell would not be as good, I am sure.

So, there you have it. Our house so far. The living room is almost done, we just have to put the baseboards back on and put the furniture back and then we are in business. The real project is gonig to be the kitchen. I can't get those floors done fast enough! We'll see when we have time to do it though.