Merry Christmas!

Hope yours was as great as ours!!

Happy Halloween!!

New Stuff....

Woohoo....look what I finally did...

Can you find the hidden meaning???

For those of you waiting to see the main floor of my remodel....yayayyaya...I gotta clean it!!!

House Transformation Part 3

Ok...I really have no excuses this time, so let's just get on with part three.

The last two rooms upstairs are Devon and Rya's bedrooms.  Devon's was very similar to Jaedyn's, just a little bigger and Rya's is the old master bedroom.

Dev's room before, from the door looking in.

 The little nook will eventually be where his desk goes.

 His itty, bitty closet.  the one thing I wish I would have done in his room is move the light switch.  It's right behind the door!!

 Rya's room before, from the door looking in.

 Towards the door and with a view to her HUGE walk in closet.

 Another view of her room.  She absolutely hated the paneling.

 Kinda blury, but her walk-in closet.

 Dev's with soom of the panelling down.

 Rya's without panelling (although the blue was not much better).

 Found a second closet door behind the paneling.

 Devon's during demo.

 Two doors to her huge closet!!!

So many holes to patch from that darn panelling....uggghhhh!!

Dev's room with flooring and paint.  The colour is hard to tell in the pics, but it is more brown than it looks.

Rya's room with flooring and paint.  I have to give the girl credit, she did alot of the work herself.  From tearing down the panelling, to stripping the wallpaper border, to picking the colours to painting the room. 

And finally, the finished rooms!!

 Still need to build the desk and get something to cover up that messy closet!!

Rya's room still needs alot of finishing touches, but it's getting there.

So that's it for upstairs.  Next time we will start the tour of the main floor.  You won't believe the changes!!!!

House Transformation Part 2

Ok....I know I've been slacking.  I blame exams!!
Anyway, time for part two...

So from the back entrance lets head upstairs.  The second floor is basically the kids floor.
The stairway up.

The room at the top of the stairs



Same room, looking back towards the stairs

The looooong hallway

One of two fairly disgusting bathrooms in the house.

What is the deal with the toilet??  Why does it have a lift kit??  These are questions I will always wonder about.

Strange storage cupboard in the corner across from the toilet.  The corner of the one triangle shaped cupboard was making a hole in the ceiling...awesome!

There is something about having a bath in someone elses tub that always grosses me out a bit....yuck!!  Plus the door would bang into the shower door.

The next four are what will be Jaedyn's room.  Don't you love the panelling and wallpaper borders??  Ugh...it was everywhere up there!!

Let the demo begin!!

First to go was the bathroom.

We gutted it!!!!

And made a mess everywhere else.



The rest of the rooms just had the carpet pulled out and the panelling and wallpaper removed.



And after clean up, time to put it all back together.  I think this is the point that I was starting to get frustrated, because there are not as many pictures at this point :)

Love, love, love the floor!!  Soooooo much better than the gross carpet that was there!

 Do you think you can quess Jaedyn's favourite colour???  lol...

And the final results!!!  Still a bit of decorating to do, but good for now!!

First off, the room at the top of the stairs has become the kids hangout with a TV mounted on the wall and all their video games.  They seem to love it.

 The hallway looks better, but still needs some art or something along that long wall.

Kids bathroom.  So much brighter!!  And I love not fighting with them for the bathroom in the morning ... mind you they still fight over it, but not my problem...lol...;)



And finally, Jaedyn's pink paradise!!!

Next tour....Devon and Rya's bedrooms.
And hopefully it will not take as long to get the next one up.  Exams are almost done, so I won't have that excuse for long :)