Renovation Reveal

Only a month and a half later I am finally ready to post pictures of our renovated home.  There are three reasons for taking so long in posting the reveal (I know your don't care but I am going to explain anyway).  

1. We have been very very busy enjoying it.  We LOVE all the renovations and could not be happier with the way everything turned out! 

2. I can't seem to keep the house clean long enough to take beautiful magazine worthy pictures.  I finally gave up and took some with a few messes here and there.  

3. After I took the pictures Joseph put my phone in a cup of water and it broke.  I had to leave it in a bowl of rice for about two weeks and it finally works again and I finally uploaded them to my computer.  

ps.  all of these pictures were taken with my iPhone.  I wish I had taken them with our nice camera but oh well.  Since then the house has never been clean enough to take nice pictures.  Maybe when I am nesting later this year waiting for Baby Martin to arrive I will clean the entire house and take beautiful magazine worthy pictures.   

Kitchen Before

Kitchen After!!

Again... Before on the opposite side

After... we love our new island!

Before the dining room started where the beige cabinets start on the left

More pictures of the new kitchen...

New bench seat... Joe loves it!

I still have so much to do in the kitchen... get a new oval table, paint the chairs more suitable for new kitchen, paint barstools, window treatments... etc. 

Moving into the family room...  Here are some old pics

 The couches in these two pics are switched around... you may not have noticed... 

they were taken at different times ;)

New Family Room!!

We love how large and open our family room and kitchen are after the renovations.  

I am reposting this next picture to show the doorway from the 

family room into our now smaller living room. 

Next is a picture of our old back door and laundry area behind the kitchen.

In our new laundry area we expanded this area into the garage storage room that is beyond the far wall above.  We also used the pumping that was in the closet above but moved it to the other side of the area....  I don't have the best pictures of this area and its a little confusing if you can't see a floor plan. But here are the new pics...

Looking down new hallway...  you can see the new
half bath doorway and into the laundry room

A glimpse into the laundry room

Last reveal is the kids bathroom.  Here is the old bathroom...

Lovely... 

And now the new bathroom... 

much nicer!

Thats about all the photos I have for now.  I still have so much to do (artwork, painting, wallpaper, hanging pictures, arranging bookcases, perhaps a new mantle to name a few) but I enjoying doing it so I don't mind :)

I am not going to lie and say the reno was easy... it was very frustrating.  Especially from the point I became pregnant and on... I am SO SO SO happy to have a kitchen again.  We still need to remodel our master bath...  I cannot stand the bathroom but the thought of renovating again right now makes me a little sick to my stomach.  I know it won't take as long since it will be only one small room compared to a total re-do but I am still scared.  

Here are pics of the master bath... :( 

EWW :(

I cannot wait to have a new beautiful white bathroom! 

Even though I just said the renovation was awful... I am also so so so incredible thankful to have done it! We LOVE the way our house is set up now and get so much more use out of the entire house.  

I didn't post much about the actual renovation or the selections we made.  If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask! 

oh-oh we're have way there... oh oh livin on a prayer"

Not much has been going on here... 

we are just trying to survive living in two little rooms and not go completely nuts ;)  

Here are some pics with the walls up... 

they are almost done filling in all the nail holes etc.  

Our large living room :) So excited to have so much space in one room!

Our smaller living room (I'm not going to lie I am missing this room about now...
getting a little tired of our dorm room)

Our larger kitchen area... cannot wait!!

Our smaller kitchen with dining room beyond

Our nice large kitchen area... Looking from old dining room into kitchen 

Looking back rom old dining room into kitchen

Looking at large living room and kitchen (from the other rise of the room)

And again... looking back before reno

Our now smaller living area

The old large living room we actually rarely sat in

Looking back into old laundry room...
looking at new half bath and hallway to new laundry room

Old Laundry room

Looking down new hallway to laundry room and half bath door to the left.

Our contractor said it would take 8 weeks... We start the 5th week today so 4 weeks down 4 to go.  I think we are doing really good... 

They start putting up the moulding today.  Then they will paint... cabinets and flooring will go in. Tile, and counters and hanging lights and then we are done!! 

Well... we still have to start our other bathroom :( We couldn't do both bathrooms at the same time while we are living here.  

Stay tuned and I will post some of the tile selections :)

A little thing and reno pics

We have been living in two tiny rooms in our house for three weeks... ok they are not that tiny but after three weeks they feel small.

When we first started this renovation we thought we might move out to my parents house for a while but it actually has turned out easier to stay here in mobile with all we have going on.  Because of that we never set up cable in our dorm room.  So we have been three weeks without cable and tonight we set it up and let me tell you it is AMAZING!!! We are loving it! I cannot wait to watch a new episode of mickey mouse tomorrow instead of the only mickey mouse dvd we have.  Philip is currently LOVING finally getting to watch sunday night football and its just nice to feel a little more connected to the rest of the world.

It's the little things...

Anyway without further ado...

Here is the current state of our house :)

you can see a light change in the floor where the old wall used to be.  

The new wall is up with pocket doors connecting the two rooms.

Here is the old kitchen area.

Here is looking back at the kitchen and doorway into laundry area.

There was a wall separating the kitchen from dining room but that is gone:)

And the old kitchen...

Here is the kitchen again... so much bigger by extending it into dining room. 

The pink wood is going to be the pantry... don't ask me why its pink...

These next two are taken from inside the new formal living area.  

Even though it is now smaller it is still a nice size room.  

I am missing pictures of the laundry area... I haven't taking any showing the new half bath walls up.  

The electrician should finish tomorrow morning and then they will start putting the sheet rock up... yay! 

The Dorm Room

While we are renovating our house we are living in two rooms in the back of the house.  We have our current master bedroom and bath (which is all pretty small) and the "dorm room".  We converted our guest bedroom into a living room.  Its actually very cozy :)  We have my mini fridge from college, coffee maker, printer, and toaster.  We have a few upgrades as it is not actually a dorm room... a larger tv, indoor grill, waffle maker, and crock pot.  We normally make breakfast here and sometimes lunch.  We have actually only made two crock pot meals.  I think we are just bumming off our friends and family for now (thank you family and friends)...

Anyway without further ado... here is the "dorm room"

And here is our master bedroom showing off ONE of the window treatments for the doors... I had yet to make the other one : / oh well... maybe in November... 

Pardon the super bright ugly ceiling fan light...