Before and somewhere in between...

This is one of the best before pictures I can find. Yes, the dogs are the MAIN point of the picture, but I figure here you can see the vinyl floor underneath them (it looks like tile, but no, it's vinyl) The carpet behind Zoe and also on the landing of the stairs...the barely there paint on the wall (a borrrrring off white), and the color the door is stained...YUCK!
oh, AND aren't my kids SO cute!?!


Here's the kitchen, light tan cabinets with plain boring counters. The wall to the left of the fridge is a barn red... like the next picture, which is the half bath. I just continued the barn red into there, but only half way. You can see DH has half installed the bead board and took out the toilet by the time I got my camera ready.



This is the living room. I painted this one wall a green as an accent wall. I actually still really like this color, but! Out with the old, in with the neutral! We also got rid of the couch and now my treadmill is sitting neglected in the garage. BOO!


What luxurious accommodations...


It took us probably 10 days to scrape and sand the concrete out...dang vinyl glue and floor float! I HATE YOU!

Can't forget about the cabinet sanding. Otherwise known as hell on earth. Sawdust (sanddust?) EVERYWHERE. And I mean EVERYWHERE. I'll leave that at THAT.

It felt never ending. It was torture. But, it's done! YIPPEE!



Finally ready to pick a paint color! After about 2 weeks of having paint squares taped to the wall we agreed on one color, got a sample, painted a section and decided we HATED it! We then each picked one and picked a compromise color. We ended up picking the one in the middle. Thank goodness for sample sizes!


The dogs didn't like the painting too much. For some reason they loved to sit up against the wall or section I had JUST primed or painted. WTH? They had to be caged in.

LOVE IT! Love the door, love the wall color, LOVE the smell of fresh paint in the house! The color of the door is also the color of the banister, the stairs and will be the new color of the cabinets!
I am in LOVE with this half bath. I can't believe DH is so good at everything he does! *right here he would say, "honey WHY OH WHY do you doubt me!?!?* He's wonderful! The bead board and railing look AWESOME! I can't wait to get the pedestal sink in (it will go in on the left where you can't see in this pic) as well as get my bathroom back downstairs so I don't have to go upstairs everytime to tinkle!
DH also wanted to tear out the old pantry shelving and replace it with better wood and extend it around the right side. Wonderful! He's a ROCK star, what can I say!?!? I can't wait to go OCD in here.

Well, I think that's enough for now. We still have SO much work to do but we've come a long way baby...
I think Chico's as excited for the tile as I am!
Ciao!