Saturday, July 05, 2008

The Transformation

Here are some pictures of our house. It closed around June 10, and we've been working nonstop! We met some of the neighbors last night, and they were telling us about the previous owners. We are only the second owners. While they had taken great care of the house, it was all the original carpet, light fixtures, wallpaper and so on.

Okay - now to the pictures! Most of the work in the pictures involves ripping out the carpet and scraping wallpaper. The wallpaper was terrible to remove. We will never, ever, put wallpaper in a home!

From the outside, with all the carpet in the truck:
Here's the living room:
The wallpaper was finally ripped out, and we got to prime the living room and pick paint colors. We chose the upper right color:
Painting has started!The kitchen and dining area before work started...
...and after work started:
And some fun momentos from the kitchen that were quickly removed!The hallway before any work (well, without the light fixture): The hallway with wallpaper beginning to be removed:The hallway primed for paint! The hallway painted, and the ceiling too! And some views of the backyard:That's it for now. I'll post more when we make more progress. Carpet will be installed in the next two weeks!

3 comments:

  1. I am so proud of you and excited about your home and the way your life is progressing! Your backyard is wonderful!!! You should be able to create a private relaxing retreat to get away from everyday heaviness back there. May you have a blessed and perfect wedding.

    All my love,

    Ally

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  2. Anonymous6:12 AM

    Ok, the "memento" of the old lady is creepy. Glad you didn't decide to keep that one . . .

    The backyard is beautiful! I'm excited to see what the house looks like after everything is finished as well.

    Looking forward to the wedding!!

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  3. I agree with Amanda about that old lady memento. Hopefully the previous owners aren't reading your blog. Heh heh

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