The Beginning....of the End??

This is a blog all about the renovations of our humble home. Here it is.

Sorry about our lovely cars parked in the way. I only had a quick minute to snap this before picture. You'll see what happens next in a later post. First, a little back story....

When I was 2 years old we moved into this house. My family has lived here ever since. A few years ago Steve and I moved back to town and we bought said house from my parents. It has been fun raising my children in my childhood home.

Not much has changed about the outside throughout the years. It's been repainted, the storm doors were added, the cement pad out front has been great, and the pillars were beefed up a bit a few years ago. Other than that....not much.

Now...on the inside. It was renovated quite a bit about 20 years ago. We started out with multiple colors of patterned shag - orange, blue, brown etc. Each room seemed to have it's own theme. We even had carpet in the the kitchen, dining room and bathrooms. Thankfully my parents had better taste later on. It's been repainted inside many times. New flooring a couple times. A bathroom was added downstairs. New light fixtures and trim. I think you're getting the idea here.

Even though we've done a lot of 'sprucing up' the basic footpr

int of the house had basically stayed the same. Well, that's all about to change! We love the lot and the location of our house, so moving wasn't a great idea. There were just a few areas that weren't really working for our family and so we decided to start some small projects.

We started with our bedroom - because who ever starts there? We decided we wanted to have a nice room to escape to when the renovating became too much. So, we knocked a hole in the wall to the spare bedroom and made it into a 'walk-in' closet. Repainted and new trim. New knockdown on the ceiling. Bedding, fireplace, TV on the wall....you get the idea! For some reason I don't have any pictures of the transformation. I'll have to take some after shots to post later on. Well all this construction got us going and so we decided to do a little more! and this is a sneak peek at what our house looks like now!

I'll post more later about our progress. I'll start from the beginning and catch up to where we are now. I'll also apologize in advance for the lack of before and after pictures. I am getting the hang of it now. But, most of you have already been to our house and you already know what it looks like. Or...what is used to look like!! ;)