Saturday, June 23, 2012

One year later: The hall bathroom

Aside from paint and hanging pictures we have not done a thing to this bathroom! Although we did have to replace basically everything inside of the toilet (all the screws, inner workings, wax ring, etc) but that isn't all that exciting to write about!

Before

After

Before

After

What we've done
  • Painted the walls, beadboard, and trim
What we'd like to do
  • Add crown moulding
  • Rip out the jacuzzi tub and replace with a claw foot tub
  • Rip out the wall tile and replace
  • Rip out the laminate flooring and replace with hexagon tile
  • Replaced the blinds with plantation shutters

One year later: The master bathroom

The master bathroom is TINY! I mean really tiny! So taking pictures of it isn't all that easy. From talking with my neighbor and from the looks of the bathroom we believe it was either added in the 50's or remodeled in the 50's.

Before
This was taken from the doorway, the only place you can actually take a picture from! ha ha

After

Before

After

Not much of a change huh? The walls were white when we moved in and we painted them a very light shade of grey, so light that you really can't tell much from the pictures. Not much else would work with the pink and grey tile!

This is the biggest change to the bathroom and I unfortunately can not find a before picture. We added a faux tin ceiling. I love it so much!

What we've done
  • Added the faux tin ceiling
  • Replaced the shelf with a small cabinet I found in a thrift store and painted
  • Replaced the blinds with cellular shades
  • Replaced the sink faucet
  • Painted the walls
  • Removed the old shower door track
What we'd like to do
  • Right now not much else can be done. The only thing that jumps out is replacing the handle on the toilet. How exciting!
  • ONE day I'd love to rip out all the tile and paneling and replace it with white subway tile and hexagon tiles on the floor.

Monday, June 11, 2012

One year later: The kitchen

So far we've done the most to the kitchen!

Before
This was taken standing in the kitchen nook area. The laundry room is to the left, and the main entrance to the kitchen is to the right of the stove.

After

Before
This is the kitchen nook area. The picture is taken from the main entrance of the kitchen. The laundry room is to the right and the door to the master bedroom is to the left.

After

Before
This was taken from the main entrance of the kitchen. The door you see is to the laundry room, the nook area is to the left of the door.

After

Before
This is between the main entrance to the kitchen and the kitchen nook area. The picture was taken from the sink area.

After

What we've done
  • Replaced the refrigerator
  • Put in new vinyl flooring
  • Replaced the kitchen blinds with cellular shades
  • Painted all trim, doors, and windows
  • Painted the walls
  • Replaced the shelves
  • Replaced the counter tops
  • Replaced the sink and faucet
  • Painted the inside and outside of all the cabinets and drawers
  • Replaced all the cabinet pulls and hinges
  • Added crown moulding above the wall of cabinets
  • Replaced the light fixture above the sink
  • Replaced the quarter round along the baseboards
  • Built the chalkboard box around the hot water heater
  • Installed microwave and toaster inside the cabinet about hot water heater
What we'd like to do
  • Replace the blinds in the kitchen nook with cellular shade
  • Replace all outlets, switches, and switch plate covers to white (they are almond right now)
  • Install a back splash
  • Build a cabinet to go next to the stove
  • Install dog door on laundry room door. There was one previously, and it would look nicer the the sheet we have there now! The cats like to hang out in there.

One year later: The playroom

Cash's playroom in the second bedroom in our house, you can access it through the hallway or through the master bedroom. The previous owner used it as a office. It makes for a great playroom, as Cash grows it will change with him to suit his needs. I imagine at some point in will become a den where he can watch movies or play games with friends.

Before
This is looking in from the doorway in the master bedroom. The door you see is the closet.

After

Before
This is standing in the corner near the windows. The doorway you see goes out into the hallway. You can see into the living room also. To the right of the doorway is the closet pictured in the previous before picture.

After

Before
This is taken from the doorway into the hallway. Windows on the left and the doorway into the master bedroom is on the right (you can see a sliver of the door casing).

After

What we've done
  • Not much aside from decorating!
  • Replaced the light fixture. The fixture was in the dining room when we moved in, I recovered it and installed it in the playroom.
  • Repainted the outside of the door to the hallway
What we'd like to do
  • Install shelving in the closet. Right now there is just a hanging rod which serves no purpose in a playroom. Shelving would make a ton more storage space.
  • Remove the popcorn ceiling. Its the only room in our house with a popcorn ceiling and I'm not a fan!
  • Replace the blinds with cellular shades.
  • Repaint all trim and doors

One year later: The front of our bungalow

We are nearing the one year anniversary of moving into our house! We closed on our house June 3, 2011 and then rented back to seller for a month. We moved in on July 3, 2011. I wanted to make a big post of before and after pictures and list the things we've done so far and what we'd still like to do. I figured it'd be much to big for one post so I'm going to break it up into a few over the next month.

Before
Our house the day we looked at it for the first time, I don't have one from the day we moved in but it looked basically the same minus the flag, boat, porch furniture, and wreath.

After
Here's our house today, a little over a year after closing and almost one year after moving in. Not a HUGE change, but we've done a lot of little things.

What we've done
  • Added stairs the the side of the porch
  • Painted the porch and stairs
  • Replaced the ceiling fan/light and carport light
  • Added a porch swing
What we'd like to do
  • Rip up the driveway and replace with pavers. Right now we have a paver walk way and the driveway under the carport is pavers, so we'd like to continue the pavers through out the entire driveway.
  • Install gutters along the side of the carport to help with the flooding in the carport during a heavy rain. We'd hook the gutter up to our rain barrel to make it more efficient in collecting rain water.