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 :)

House Transformation Part 1

Ok....so I cleaned the house all day, and only managed to get half done!!!  Uuuggghh....the downfall of a bigger house.

So as promised here is the first reveal. 

I thought we'd start at the back door...

So this was the view as you came in through the back door.  Long hallway with two closets on the left and a shelf at the end.  There is also patio doors on the left before the closets.  Stairs at the end head up to the second floor and door on the right leads to the kitchen.

From the other end of the hall by the stairs looking to the back door.

I was soooo excited about all the storage...definately need doors though.

Weird shelf at the end of the hall beside the closets. (and some garbage, and a busted window screen...awesome!!)

Took down all the panelling and and found this lovely yellow drywall with a million holes in it.

Busted out the shelf at the end of the hall.  After a lot of deliberation, decided to put the laundry in this area.

...demo, demo, demo.... now time to re-build.

Busted out one of the closets and famed in a doorway to seperate the laundry area.  I was kinda bummed about losing storage space, but at the same time happy that I didn't have to lug all the laundry down to the basement all the time.
By the way, notice the piece of scrap wallpaper tacked to the doorframe???

Bahahahahah....seriously, who did we have working on this place with us?!?!?!

Doorway framed in and drywalled.  Mudding and taping and patching has begun....and seemed to go on forever!!

Where the closet used to be...and where the laundry will be.
And then, apparently I was too busy to take pictures for awhile cause suddenly it's almost done!

 Still needs a door on the closet and a door to the laundry...and of course some trim!

Laundry (don't mind the mess ... it's a well used room)

And finally, it's finished...

So that's the entry, back hall and laundry.  Do you love it so far??  I know I sure do.

Stay tuned for the next reveal.....