Our little house has a brand new coat

BEFORE
DURING
AFTER :-)
It still needs a second coat but it already looks way better than it did before!

before
after

before
after :-)

painting has begun

The trims and underneath the over hangs have now been painted the cream color and you can see where we have scraped and primed a bunch of spots to get it ready for the green color going onto the body of the house

For some odd reason there were 2, yes TWO front doors next to each other so we took one out and you can see where we replaced the siding to cover over the old door frame. I have bought a new (well not new but salvaged like in our house) front door and stripped it down and will be sanding it down and staining it soon to put it up.

This is the side door that faces our house accross the street and it enters into the kitchen. I have just managed to get a first coat of paint on it so far.

Roof and new exterior trims

The new bathroom window and green board
A quick picture of the color in the bedrooms
The cabinets have arrived!!
We put new wider exterior trims around all the windows (the little window is the outside of the new bathroom window) Now we can paint the outside!
Finally finished the whole roof. I am pretty proud I did almost the whole thing myself!!
more roof....
The front of the house's new trims
I can't wait to get some new color on this ugly house...it will be like night and day. It rained on us all yesterday as I finished the corner shingles and of course I wake up to SUN this morning...oh well now I can paint the trims!

new shingles...uggh my back is sore!

Trimming the corners

The FUNNEST part was carrying all the bundles of singles up the ladder on to the roof...our poor backs at this point!!


they are an architectural shingle so have a texture to them, and need a bit of a warmer day to fully lay down but they are turning out pretty nice...

new window

We put a new window into the side of the house facing ours to open it up and give it more light and more detail on the outside. Now all it needs is a frame and it will look great when we paint the house!
If you look really close in the background you can actually see Nate's truck and our house across the street!

Kitchen Updates

This is what the kitchen looked like when we bought it...yes I also wondered how someone could live like that as well!!

mid demo...

Looking into the living room... We took down the half wall so we can build a little eating bar area from the living room and open up the floor plan a little.

This is what the kitchen looks like now...we have ordered the cabinets and are waiting for them to arrive.

A few changes...

we found nice oak floors underneath the sticky linoleum tiles so we are going to refinish them

we tore down the crappy shed in the back and cleaned up the back yard (you can see where it was attached to the house)
the house has been power washed and scrapped down for a new paint job
testing out some color options...hard to capture the true colors on film... it is much greener in person
this was the bathroom when we bought the house

taking down the tile
the bathroom has been gutted out completely now and we are in the process of refinishing a 41/2 foot claw foot tub for the renovation. You can also see that we uncovered part of a bigger window under the tile wall so we will be replacing that window to make it bigger as well.