Before and Close to After

Good Morning! I have some pictures for ya of the house...We have been working, working, working. It is still not finished! But I dont want to hold out on the updates anymore!

Before

After, You get the idea! :)

Below: Henry stretching this morning!

This is still a work in progress, I have to finish painting the inside of the cabinets and we need to finish the door fronts.

This is my antique table and chairs. I bought the table for $40 at The Habitat for Humanity Homestore. And I got the chairs for a steal of $20.00 for all four at an antique shop in Middlebury!

Just got the gas line run for the stove! I cooked on it yesterday for the first time! ;) Cant wait to start baking Pumpkin stuff!!!

I LOVE this little vaccum!

Still have boxes of kitchen items! We need to finish the cabinets before I even unpack these!

Still unfinished, but looking way better!

The bathroom where we found useable space that they had drywalled off! This bathroom is actually so much bigger! I love it!

The whole house still need touch ups on the paint! But anywhoo, here is the newly subway tiled shower! I love it!

I will post more later! Thanks for stopping by!

Something Pretty

Okay, so I officially hate drywall!  Well at least the sanding it part.  I thought that I would look at some pretty stuff because I cant see anything {literally because all of the dust}  So here is some of my inspiration motivation!  I need it, and a shower!

Benjamin Moore Natura Paint
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Available nationwide, Spring 2009.

{So I am thinking about going this route, it sounds great to me, have any of  you used it?}

I am loving the stripes.

I cannot wait to get my bed out of storage...It has been a little over a year since we have slept in our own bed!  I cannot wait till that first night to sleep in it!

This is post #98 - On post #100 I will be featuring my giveaway, for all of my blogger friends who have stayed faithful and patient through this renovation that is sucking the life out of me!

Any advice on how to get through this renovation!?!  I need some uplifting, the end seems so far away!

Oh What A Day!

Okay...so, this morning I wake up to a call from our renter in Virginia that a TREE fell through the roof at 1:30 in the morning!

Mind you we are in Indiana! I felt so bad... our renter is so great! We could not be luckier to have had God bless us with her as a renter. She said that she is taking photos of the HUGE tree limb that fell through the roof. AND

THANK GOD it didnt hurt anyone. It came inches from her son and actually punctured her sons bed. I am so thankful he is okay. He told his mom he is going to have such a cool story to tell all his friends at school. So at least he is not scarred for life. I could care less about the house. I am just glad everyone is alright!

So on a much lighter, less woody note:

Here below is a before photo of the window in the front of the house.

And Tada like Magic a window...with shutters. And incase you are wondering why there is such a gap at the bottom of the window! Well I am planning on putting a flower planter box!!! YAY I am so excited about that.

Here is a shot of part of the kitchen in Drywall. I am so proud because I have measured and hung some peices by myself. Woo Hoo! Hubby told me that I am getting good so now I have to help hang all the rest!

Now this is something I am so proud of. I made a planter bow for my garden to go in! I painted it, cut the wood and screwed it all together {all by myself}! I got this idea out of the Better Homes & Gardens magazine.

Renovation Cape Cod

The Project worked on today took my Hubby and a family friend to complete, and all day! But the smaller windows are gone and there is a bigger window for above the kitchen sink!!! Woo Hoo!

Above: Here is our Shack before.

Above: Inside view of the kitchen windows.

Above: A big hole in my house...Ahhh!
Above: Ta Da! New Window! It looks a bit small but after shutters, tall lanscape and a window flower box are added it will be much better. Not to mention how much more light it gives off in the kitchen.

Above: Inside View! ;)

{So while the guys were doing that today, I pulled weeds}

Above: I started new seeds today.

***When I went away for a week my husband had been spraying STARCH on them. How a starch bottle looks like my clear water bottle...Who Knows! Anyways...Restarted my seeds today, If I go out of town again I will get a plant sitter! LOL ;)

Above: More! I stole a piece of wood from my hubby to make a table top in the garage.

Above: Also something I had been working on is this massive mound of weeds in the front yard! Still am not done but I dont have much to go!

Above: Looks much better. Cant wait to plant stuff! Woo Hoo!

Above: I know you are not supposed to cover these things up but it is so hideous...Any ideas?

Thanks for looking! I am getting too ancy! I cant wait until all the fun stuff comes! Like paint colors, lighting, and picking out flooring! ;) Until then I think I will keep working outside, and on my tan too!

Have a great night all!

My Handy Mans Work

I bought this on ebay for only 2 dollars!
Here is the handy man hubby of mine!

Here is the new staircase...being mudded!

Another view!

Here is the Master Bedroom ahead from the hallway.

Here is the other bedroom upstairs. We now have two rooms upstairs from moving the staircase.

The bathroom...New cement board to put up my white subway tiles ;)

We are moving along slowly but surely!

Day 4 Progress of Our Cape Cod

So...It is day 4 of our renovation. Our goal is to move in on May 1st!

Here is our soon to be kitchen, the hubby had to make it a bit smaller because of the support beams for moving the stairs. We will be replacing the two smaller windows with one larger window.


I am almost finished gutting the bathroom. I decided to tile the surround. When removing the wall behind the toilet we found an extra closet that the previous owners had blocked off!?! How stupid, the toilet will be moved back into the closet space and the vanity will be sitting in a closet that was in the hallway which is now blocked off and open to the bathroom.

Here is another view of the newly moved stairs.

Again. LOVE IT!

Where the stairs used to be.

These are our kitchen cabinet door fronts Before

Again...
Now with trim...They will be painted a creamy white and will have new SHINY {Bling Bling :)} knobs.

SEED STARTING UPDATES

Now Remeber back in my post about gardening...Well now I have a yard to garden in, so I started some of my seeds. Today is the first day they sprouted. YAY! I have never had a garden so lets see how it works out!

*Tip: I used Large Popsicle Sticks to label my seeds {tounge depressers}