Tile!

So a quick update with pictures!





The bathroom tiling is almost done! Uncle Dick has done a stellar job and all that is left is caulking in some spaces and clean-up.






The living room is still pretty messy, but the fireplace is painted!




And my husband has done a wonderful job tiling the kitchen counters with .40 cent tiles from Lowes. Not bad for his first tiling job. All he has left is to put the wood trim around the back and them stain and poly.


This place might not look so bad someday.

Moving on up

So we had a busy weekend.
We have to be out of our apartment this Wednesday (has it really been 2 months already?) so we started moving our junk this weekend. Since our floors are still in the works we moved most of it into the 2 bedrooms. So we have a LONG 4th of July weekend ahead of us of unpacking!

Our kitchen is starting to come together! Appliances are in a hooked up…looking lovely and stainless. We choose a neat subway stainless steel stick-on backsplash for over the range. We even got all the cabinet doors and drawers up and in….thought we still need to paint the inside and backs of them. The only things left keeping our kitchen in the ‘50’s is the lights (and the ceiling but that is another time…) and the lime green counter. Since we plan on gutting the kitchen a few years down the road we didn’t want to go overboard and spend a lot on a new counter, but we want it to look nice. We had a stroke of luck and found some great tiles for $.40 a piece at Lowes! A little magic from Uncle Dick and we will have a beautiful tile countertop right on top of our scary green one! Very excited!

Our bathrooms even got some loving this weekend. The guest bath got the vanity put in on top of the beautiful tile floor and the little bathroom got a paint job and just needs a new toilet seat!

Amazing what left over paint will do….

We all start somewhere...

I guess to be able to see the progress we have made, we need to see where we came from.


This is the front of the house....or at least I think it is....kind of hard to see behind all the freaking trees and bushes!


This is the side of the house from the back...it looked just as awful from the front. There is a poorly constructed enclosed patio on the front and glass greenhouse beside that.


The backyard....well the neighbors say it was a pond...the husband would like it to be one...


My beautiful retro kitchen....yuck.


The lovely dining room....the lady who had lived here LOVED Green...with a hint of yellow.


The huge living room! With more green...including pale lime green carpet.


Our master bedroom...aka room with the biggest closet. Sorry for the lame pictures...I am not good at taking pictures of rooms.


Second bedroom...guest bedroom. Love the paneling and mustard carpet.....


Our last bedroom...probably will be an office because it is tiny...not sure if you can see it but there is a window on the side that actually looks into the ghetto laundry room...what a view


Our not so sunny sunroom...with foam beams!


Master bath...well it will be one day...right now it is just sad and small


And then their is the guest bathroom right out of the 70's...it used to be the master bathroom so at least it is a good size.

As you can see we have our work cut out for us