house renovations - before and after

Drumroll, please! Here is the long awaited for post about our house (To read the "story" of our house, click here)! I'm sooo sorry I haven't posted it earlier... Note: All captions are underneath each image

So without further ado, let the fun begin!

The house looked like this when we started renovating. (Click on "Continue reading this post" to read the rest of the post)

The Living Room

This is what you saw when you walked in the front door. This is also what greeted us the very first time we saw the house.

Removing the carpet - there were (and are) beautiful oak floors underneath. We didn't have to do a thing to them, they were in such good condition.

After

The Dining Room

The Kitchen/Breakfast Room

The breakfast room

Scraping wallpaper from the breakfast room. That was HARD, hot work.

Taking off the old countertops

The old stove...

This...

...is now this...

And this...

...is now this (We switched the refrigerator and oven spots).

The Main Level Bathroom

This bathroom was covered in black flowery wallpaper (Sadly I don't have a picture of it)...this is how it looked after it was scraped.

This is how it looks now. We kept the tile and "appliances" but repainted the wall part.

The Master Bedroom

This...

...is now this.

And this...

...is now this. All four of these pictures were taken from the same angle.

The Sunroom

(I don't have a before picture, but it hasn't really changed)

Jeremiah's Room

Before

After

He chose to keep the burlap that covers the wall...I think it fits beautifully with his furniture.

The Basement

Before

After

After

Before

After

The Little Girls' Room

Before

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After

After

After

My Room

Before

Before

After

This...

...is now this (And if you've ever wanted to know what my "workspace" looks like, here you are! This is where I blog from, do school, etc. And in case you're wondering...that black shiny thing is my laptop. I took me a minute to figure out what it was myself...).

After

The Guest "Quarters"

(The guest quarters are separated from the house - it's off of the garage. It was formerly the maid's quarters)

Before

After

After (The bathtub was there when we bought the house - it's been there as long as the house has, since 1934. My dad painted it red.)

After

And this is what our house looks like with some Christmas decorations...

I hope you enjoyed the "tour"! As you can see, we still have things to do...art to put up, find out the best way to arrange the furniture, etc, but that will all fall into place in its own good time. :)

Note: Not pictured is the upstairs bathroom, basement half bathroom, mudroom, and library.

I am linking up to Trash to Treasure at Reinvented.

-carlotta