"Before" pictures

I didn't want to post "before" pictures until I had the appropriate "after" pictures to accompany them, however, here they are. The living room and the girls' bedroom are very close to being "done". By done I mean at a great spot, very comfortable, but not completely finished for the end of time.



In the past week I have painted two coats of paint on the girls' bedroom floor, hung the closet rod, moved in their dresser, hung up two lamps and moved in a rug to accompany their beds and a bedside table. There are a few things left to do, like put up mirrors, hang the canopies, hang the curtains and move a few more things down to make a comfy reading nook. The closet is far from done, I want to put in more storage, but that won't be done for a while.

Then, today, in the living room I painted and hung curtains on the main big window at the front of our house. We have lived here for four months and that is the first window that has had a proper window treatment. I bet our neighbors will be glad when stop putting on a show for them!



Without further ado, here are the pictures (and I didn't clean up. If I had to make the whole house tidy for pics, they never would have been taken!)


Soooo. Here is the living room. That is our front door. You can see I had already started taping and removing switch plates to prep for painting. That rug was only there for about half a day, it belongs in the girls' playroom.

In the right you see that huge window, if you are looking at it from the inside of the house the front door is just to the right of it. That is the entertainment center my dad built us. We LOVE it but can't find the perfect spot for it. It might look okay in this photo, but it's partly in the door way to the dining room.

The reason we can't put the entertainment center anywhere else is that it will either block a window or won't fit on the wall because of these wall sconces. The jury is out on these things. I liked them when I thought they were original to the house, but our contractor didn't think they were (then again, he was kind of an idiot.) Anyone know? Our house was built in 1917. Anyways, that desk, behind our gross chair, is directly across from the front door. It's a tough room to put furniture in, for sure.

This is the view from the playroom door through the dining room towards the living room. You can see better how the entertainment center blocks the doorway. To the left is the stairway to the downstairs, to the right in the kitchen. The junk behind the fan is there temporarily. It is also blocking wood-burning stove.

If you stepped in to the kitchen, where you can see those tiles on the floor of the above photo, this is what you see. We generally like the kitchen except for the cupboards. There are not nearly enough of them and the ones that are there are pieces of junk.

If you are standing in front of the door in the above picture, this is the view of the kitchen.


Oh hi fridge! I love you. I love your water in the door. I love your ice in the door even though you're stuck on "crush". No matter. We love crushed ice. If we wanted whole cubes we could go through the trouble of just opening the door! On the left, where you can see our SUPER taco shells, is just empty space. Why wasn't there cupboards put there? Whatever. We put a shelving unit there. It works. Sort of.

I didn't take any pictures of the loo or the playroom. The playroom looked like a bomb hit it, which it does about 99% of the time. Actually, I DID take a picture of it, to post on my other blog so I can whine about how messy it gets. But this picture here is one end of the girls' bedroom, after painting, before furniture. Their door is to the left and that window is the egress window that threw our entire remodel right in to the crapper. It's a lovely window, though, nice a big and functional.

If you stand at the door and look right, this is what you see. The closet of the room used to be along the whole entire other end, where the new egress window is now. We moved it to this end. The window here is new, too, but the hole was already there for it, unlike the egress window which needed concrete cut out for it. That little shelf peeking out from the closet was there before the remodel. It's set in to the wall and is very curious.

So there you have it! I will start posting some "after" pictures soon.