Never Ending Home Improvement...

We always manage to under estimate the time and cost of house projects... maybe its wishful thinking? Or denial? Either way it seems that we finish a project just to start another one. Of course, we did all the fun stuff at first when we where excited to make the house our own... now we're left with the boring stuff - painting, changing outlets, swapping out floorboards. Its fun to look back at where we started though! Since I cleaned today I was able to take some more "After" shots... haha! 

The Kitchen came with old appliances and HORRIBLE wall paper. We were lucky to find that the wallpaper was so old that it was actually really easy to peel off, it just came off in big chunks with no scraping required. However, underneath there was this thick pink glue residue that we were stuck looking at until we managed to paint over it:

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I really don't have a good "before" picture of this part of the house, but when we first moved in there was an iron railing (like one that is meant to go on an outside porch) separating the den from the kitchen. Our realtor gave us the idea of building a half wall with a bar top instead, so we did!

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Then there was the Pink Bathroom. I'm almost embarrassed to say I didn't hate the pink all that much... I don't know whats wrong with me! We started doing some research on how to update a pink bathroom with out stripping it of all it's vintage glory. I found this little website and was inspired: http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/

We still have some work to do - find the perfect paint color, update the doors/window covering and get a new shower curtain - but all in all I'm pretty happy with how it is looking so far:

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The Guest bedroom had wall paper that was as equally bad as what was in the kitchen, we tore it down right away so we wouldn't have to look at it any longer!

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Lastly, my piano. This wasn't necessarily done for our new house, but i just love it too much not to post it!!! We got it for $50 from a church that just needed someone to haul it away, it was in pretty bad shape on the outside but amazingly pretty well in tune. I browsed Pinterest for ideas and decided to paint it rather than try to re-stain.

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We're holding off on any more inside projects for the time being now, since the weather is nice we can now work outside. Our summer projects are repairing/restaining the deck and building a fire pit & bench out of cinder blocks! Oh and of course building our nursery :) Yay!