Home Improvement: Before and After

I promised some before and after pics of the stuff we did on the house. Some of these "after" pics are current and some are from right after the work was done, about last June. But this is pretty much what my house looks like now:

Dining room as seen from living room. Front entrance to the right, kitchen to the left.

Now, at a slight angle. We are planning to get new windows this year and some wainscoting. Plus, a dining table would be nice.

Living room as seen from the dining room.

Today. You can't see it, but we took out the wall AC unit, as well.

Fire place as seen from side hall.

Today, as seen from the green couch.

Milli's room as seen from the door near the stairs.

As seen from the door to the hall near the bathroom.

Today.

That is the "shoe closet."

It is now Molly's room, too.

Narnia corner.

Dress up station.

Reading and feeding area.

Our bedroom facing north.

Today, facing northeast.

My sewing and craft station!! My favorite place!

Office area of bedroom.

Our bedroom facing east.

Today.

Our bedroom facing southeast.

Today, facing south. Ed's game area and Molly's play place. Ed had to move his game station upstairs while Steve is here.

Laundry hook up.

Today. We plan to tile this room eventually.

Kitchen and eat in facing southwest.

Facing southeast. Door to laundry room to right, guest room to left.

Facing west/northwest.

This summer. Notice the fruit!

This summer, notice the coffee station!

Guest bath.

All we did to this room was tile it.

Stairway a little blurry.

Today. I finally hung pics this week. I'd like to do something like this:

Milli's secret room.

Today!

Harry's room aka the cupboard under the stairs.

Full.

The bonus room off the office.

The office/guest room is currently occupied, so the games are upstairs.

This hallway is the same except that the cabinets are full.

Side hall.

Last summer. There is now a tea cart next to the stove and the kitchen wall to the right is also orange.

Busted up shed and junk.

New fence piece where shed used to be. Eventually we will replace the entire garage.

View from the corner.

No more broken fence. We hope to build a stone wall someday.

Front walk.

Front walk in June.

Our House

For those of you who follow me on facebook, this will be a repeat of some pictures I posted last year. But some of you were not my friends last year and some of you may have missed the posting, so here are some pictures of our house before the renovations. I will post a before and after montage later.

Dining Room.

Living room as seen from the dining room.

Eat in area (sorry it's a little blurry).

Laundry room.

Master bedroom that we use as a guest room/office/game room.

The top of the stairs. Built-ins!

Milli's room.

Our bedroom looking southeast.

Our bedroom looking east.

Our bedroom looking north.

Milli's room from the east.

We have a corner lot.

From the back. Milli took her first spill on the sidewalk just then.

Garage/shed.

The driveway is just beyond the gate.

They left some junk behind.

That is a tour of the house in January. We did some work on it and moved in over Easter weekend. I can't believe these were taken a year ago already! So much has happened and our house feels like a real home now. I hope to show some after pictures later. Stay tuned.