Here are a couple of long over due house pictures. I would love to put together a set of before and after pictures for the blog at some point, but I just don't know if I will ever have enough time to search through all the electronic picture files and get that organized. This project sure does deserve it though. I wish all the improvements were as easy as a coat of paint - can you believe how nasty those baseboards were? Note the crooked wall outlet - every outlet in our dining room leans to the right???
This is the wall we cut out to join the up and downstairs. You can see the old floors that Mike sanded and refinished and the new entry way he laid. The treads on the stairs have been refinished and we have painted the front part (don't know what you call that) since this picture was taken. All the baseboards are new too. Mike found a local wood mill that makes a lot of trim to match the old stuff. There should be a bannister in between the yahoos in this picture and the camera in another couple of weeks.
This was behind some of the baseboards Mike ripped out in the dining room. I had imagined a million times what the wall paper in this room once looked like (you could tell that there had been wall paper painted over). This is exactly what I had imagined. We also found an old baseball card and a diving card back there.
This is looking out of the front living room into the other foyer. To the left is the second front door. To the right is the dining room.
This is the wall we cut out to join the up and downstairs. You can see the old floors that Mike sanded and refinished and the new entry way he laid. The treads on the stairs have been refinished and we have painted the front part (don't know what you call that) since this picture was taken. All the baseboards are new too. Mike found a local wood mill that makes a lot of trim to match the old stuff. There should be a bannister in between the yahoos in this picture and the camera in another couple of weeks.
This was behind some of the baseboards Mike ripped out in the dining room. I had imagined a million times what the wall paper in this room once looked like (you could tell that there had been wall paper painted over). This is exactly what I had imagined. We also found an old baseball card and a diving card back there.
This is looking out of the front living room into the other foyer. To the left is the second front door. To the right is the dining room.
8 comments:
It looks great. All your hard work is paying off.
Wow! What a difference. I love the staircase!
1. I like the yahoos in the picture.
2. I like the wallpaper too, don't you wonder about lives lived there before.
3. The name of the front part of the step is called a riser - probably spelled rizer or something funky like that.
Can't wait to see it in person next MONTH
Do you all have heat? Why is Olivia wearing ski coat inside? By the way they are called risers, and mom you did spell correctly. Cant wait to see it next month either.
She always has her coat on. She can put it on by herself you know. I think, mostly she is afraid she is going to be left behind on one of Ridley's walks so she is always ready at a moments notice. And she is just an accessory type gal.
Looks so great, very clean and warm- love it, nice work (:
I meant to ask you, what is a diving card? mom
It's a card with a diver on it. 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea looking diver.???
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