Kitchen in House

The first set of 3 photos shows the kitchen right after we had painted it. The second set of 3 photos shows some changes made to kitchen. Matt had a wonderul idea to change up the look of the kitchen to add a backsplash to the back wall. Looks Great!

After painting Eating Room, next came the Kitchen. I wanted it to be bright, so it would wake me up in the mornings when I'm supposed to be cooking Matt breakfast! haha!

By the way, my parents surprised me and but in a whole new sink counter and cabinets on the opposite wall from sink. (See pics.) I love my countertop, matches paint perfectly! I don't have pics on this computer of the old counter cabinets, but believe me they needed revamping!

Dining/Eating Room in House

The Wood Posts you see is real cedar that my Daddy made just for the house long time ago!

I'm really trying to catch everyone up on the house, so I might be posting several times in one day. That way, I'll be ready to post about Graduation, Wedding & Honeymoon!!!

Next thing we did to the house was paint the Eating/Dining Room and Kitchen! Oh, the JOYS of Painting! Just ask Matt! He said when we go to build our own house, we will definately hire someone to paint! Which, I will have to brag on him a bunch b/c I think he did a fabulous job! See for yourself!

Next Changes with House

The Process of adding a new porch. The house already had a porch on it, however, it needing redoing. (Probably could have delt with it, but hey, while we were remodeling everything else why not do the porch too!)

Got the lattice and steps up with posts and a roof. The posts are my favorite! They remind me of the home now!

So, last time I showed you the beginning stages of remodeling our first house! Well, moving on now, I will add more pictures and discuss what's going on. However, you do know these pictures were taken at the start of us doing this long process. Now, we are way past all of these, I just wanted to catch everyone up on things!

First Stages of Remodeling Our First Home!

Left side of the house. The gray part was where the brick chimney once was until my Daddy took it down all by himself.
Front of house. This was after the original porch had been take off. The wood on the porch was still good so of course my Daddy kept that. Matt is here studying the house.
Right side of the house.

This is the brick Daddy actually saved from the Chimney because this was the good, old brick with no holes! And later he had the idea of making steps inside the den with these actual bricks! I will post pics of the steps later!

Ok, I think its time I start all over again on our house! You need to follow the process from beginning to end! Matt & I will be renting out the house in front of my house now and right next to Mr. John's Place (this will help on cooking!). We both like the idea of renting only from my parents, if it were someone else we probably would have not done it.

So of course, the house is like 100 years old and I think everyone that has ever lived in New Hope has lived in this house or so that's what everyone tells me! Anyways, it needs some work or in other words: "it needs some work for me to live in it!" Well, what at first was going to just be a painting job and throw a few rugs here and there turned out to be totally something different!

I am going to try to post something different each day about the house from the day we started remodeling up to the day we move in so you will be caught up on what's going on in our lives!

Flooring Finished!

Today, I know two people that are very relieved of something that they have finally accomplished! Matt & my Daddy! The two of them by themselves layed all the new flooring down in our house for the past week! I must brag on them because they did an excellent job and I couldn't have done better myself! (In fact, I couldn't have done it at all!)



We also saved alot of money by letting them figure out how to do it themselves. I was so proud of them for taking the time out of their busy schedule to do something for me! I will add the before and after pics of the flooring as soon as I get them off of my camera!