Before and After

Okay, you asked for it (or some of you did, anyway) . . .

front of house
before: after: inside front door, looking down the hall
before: after: living room
before: after:

not entirely happy with the faux finish (for lack of a better term) on the fireplace wall. it'll do for now, though. i am, however, exceedingly happy with the red and light blue combo.
looking into dining room from living room
before: after:
if anyone is interested, trying to stencil letters on your wall sucks. vinyl letters, however, from greatlettering.com, do not. you can order anything you want, in a lot of different fonts, and they are very easy to apply. i am trying very hard to resist the urge to order every quotation that i can think of that i love and putting words all over my house.

dining room
before: after:
my amazingly talented sister-in-law, Rhonda, made these curtains. she is fabulous!



guest bathroom
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after:




guest bathroom sink
before:
now you see a goobered up chunk of molding on the right that's missing . . .



after:
. . . now you don't!



stairs
before:
after:


kitchen
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after:

laundry room
before:
after:
(now the back porch)







back of house
before (minus the missing windows and the holes that the tornado made in the back wall):


after


This seems like a good time to thank everyone who helped us with the house or watched the girls while we worked on the house. I don't know what we would do without friends and family who are willing to help us, even though we are the ones who got ourselves in to this mess to begin with :).

And most of all of course, thank you, Jeremy, for the many, many hours of hard work that you put in to the house. You are our family's superhero!!!!