Ok so Braden and I bought our house last November and it was in semi-rough shape. I thought I'd do a little husband bragging and show you all the work we've done to fix the place up. I want to thank my family and my in-laws for all the help you guys were! We couldn't have done it without you! Especially my father-in-law, Joe. You are the man! We will forever owe you for all the work you've done! Thanks a million.
For those who don't know, we bought a duplex and we are renting out the bottom apartment and living in the top one. Since we were renovating the downstairs apartment right up till the renters came, I don't have any after photos of the downstairs, so I'll just tell you about what we did. I also don't have any pictures of the outside or the yard yet. Coming soon! :) Anyway, downstairs, there was two bedrooms and a weird storage room with an accordion curtain. There's one bathroom, a kitchen, a living room, a hallway, and a utility room. The set up was kind of weird. You had to go through the utility room to get to one of the bedrooms. Oh and the whole place had this awful rusty colored orange nasty carpet.
Well, we started by ripping out all the carpet and putting in new stuff. Then we ripped out the accordion curtain and put up a wall and door and turned it into a third bedroom. Then we painted it. Then, we ripped out part of the wall in the third bedroom and put in a door so you don't have to walk through the utility room anymore. Then we tiled, put in trim, replaced some light fixtures and switched out a bunch of the appliances for newer ones. All that in about 3 weekends.
Ok so here's a few before pictures of the upstairs where we live.
This was the living room when we bought it. It did have new carpet which was nice. And I think the fire place is so cute!! :)
This is the new lving room! (Excuse the mess) We've painted all the walls tan with one wall a dark red for an accent wall. We put in a light and ceiling fan since as you can see, there were no lights in this room. We ripped out the ugly long kitchen cupboard and opened up the room into the kitchen. We also ripped out that bench thing that TV is sitting on and put in tile so we could put a bar in. Then we put up blinds and curtains htroughout the whole house.
Here is the old kitchen.
And here is the new. We put in new marble countertops, painted it red, put in a bar to the right (not shown here), stained and finished the cupboards, put in a full sized range and took out the cook top, put up trim and a backsplash.
This was the old bedroom.
This is our new bedroom. We obviously haven't painted it yet... but give us a break! We've only lived here 8 weeks! :) This is a picture of our bed that he built! He built the entire frame and headboard! You can't see it very well but it has a full runner around the whole box springs and has 6 shelves built in to the head board! It is so beautiful! I LOVE IT!!! I think he might start an online business making and selling headboards and possibly bed frames so if your interested let us know! :)
We installed a door to the right of our bed so we could board up the other door and put in a walk in closet! Yay! Braden built all the shelves and put up a hanger rack and shoe rack and everything! He's the best!
Thanks to Grandpa Dave's mad painting skills, this is Brylee's new room! It has pink, green and yellow walls. And all the shelves have cute little baby things on them!! :)
I loved decorating her room! That was my favorite part! :)
Oh I love my house! So in two months, we;ve done all this to the inside... I can't wait to get crackin on the out side and the yard! This place has a really great landscape. I am way excited for it to warm up so I can get going! I want to do a big garden and lots of flowers but I am a novice in those areas so if you have advice for me on what and when to plant, I'm all ears!
All this work was done by my amazingly talented husband. I'd just had the baby so I didn't do much other than paint. He's amazing! Thank you Braden for my beautiful house!
