Door Replacement

All of the outside doors were just awful the main two were actually hollow wood doors, i couldnt believe it when patrick shut the door and showed me the huge hole in the door. The other door used to be better but it looks to have been kicked in at some point and it had one of the window panes busted out. The house is not very well insulated at all, but that is just something we are addressing one replacement at a time.

So we called our wonderful friends over for some free food with a side of a door hanging. It worked wonderfully.

I am one happy lady look at my pretty door!

This is the one that was all busted up it goes out onto the porch.

Thanks guys your awesome!

This was the flimsiest front door ever. They literally kicked the hallow thing down before replacing it. Talk about not making you feel safe. :/

Ah yes that is better!

Playroom

There wasn't much to do in the playroom, I already liked the clouds but we wanted to put some chalkboard paint in the room. We thought about just doing one wall but then which one? Well we thought about it and, Hey, hills go with clouds. So I got to play with the artist inside of me. I'm not very artsy but I had fun with this.

I think they turned out nice I can totally see Wesson drawing little roads on the hills for his cars to drive on.

We also replaced the light fixture. We went with fluorescent mainly because we didn't want to move the junction box so with leaving it where it was our options were basically chandelier or fluorescent and the boys definitely didn't need a chandelier. We were already taking one out. The ceilings were also really low and we didn't need a fixture we would hit our heads on.

From Kitchen to Closet

Our house had been used as a rental and separated into two units so there were two kitchens. The plan was to keep the larger one upstairs and to take out the one downstairs and make our living room bigger.

water damage

I was hoping to reuse the cabinets from downstairs and put them upstairs so we could put our money toward other projects at the moment and do the kitchen at a later date but after a closer inspection that just can't happen. They look nice from across the room but not for me to put food/dishes in.

After we got the kitchen all ripped out we decided we would make a little closet to put the hot waterheater in and all of the filtration systems this is also freeing up space for a linen closet in the bathroom.

Now the living room is a little bigger and the bathroom has more space!

Let the Renovations Begin

Ok so 65 days later the house is ours. The remodel has begun.  Right now I'm just going to show you some of what it looked like in the beginning, things we need to update etc.

The blue room with the clouds really wasn't bad, I'm thinking playroom. Aside from the 1980s light fixture of course.

I just posted a few light fixtures but these show the theme throughout. 

Just about all of the doors have holes in them, inside and out. I really wonder what got into these people.

There were a few red walls downstairs which wouldn't have been so bad if they had done more than just one, very uneven coat. Not to mention they painted around the stuff they had on the walls and on all of the switch covers.

There were two kitchens one upstairs and one down. The one upstairs will be remodeled and the other one of course will need to be removed.