Slowly but surely

We're slowly making progress!  Here's what's been going on the last month or so.

  One of our neighbors (whose no doubt sick of all the debris in our front yard) called the city to cite us for not having a building permit.  High five, new neighbor! We're stoked to live by you ;)  No, we were mad at first, but it's a good thing in the long run.

   We FINALLY passed all the lame inspections for electrical, plumbing, gas, insulation... etc.  All the stuff that is behind the scenes - that you can't really tell it's making a difference.  Ammon started sheet-rocking and out little abode is finally coming together! It's so exciting to see all the things we've been talking about for months become a reality :D  These pictures were taken a week or so ago, so Ammon is almost to the point where he can start texturing the walls! Then we can paint! mmm paint!

the new entryway into our master bedroom's closet

our new walk-in shower!! This bathroom is by far the biggest transformation in the house

baby's future room :) oh, and my office - we'll see how that goes haha!

guest bathroom

guest bathroom - where the door used to be

Newly shaped entryway!  The fireplace isn't centered in the wall, but it's centered in the room - weird I know.  We've spent many hours talking about it and getting nowhere :)

kitchen completely scraped down :)

new - bigger hallway leading to the guest room

View of the front door from the back wall. 

We're so excited to finally be making some visible progress!!  We're still trying to find some flooring for the bathrooms - tile is ridiculous! And none of it is that good looking :)  However - we owe an arm and leg to Habitat for Humanity's ReStore.  We've saved SO much money there.  For example, Ammon decided he wanted to make all the corners in our house round (I didn't even know people did that - I'm not very observant).  So, we went to Home Depot to see how much rounded "bull-nose" corners were.  For one stick that's like 8 feet is was $7 a piece!!!  So, we checked ReStore, and luckily they had bull-nose corners in that day - for $1 per 12 foot piece!! We saved almost 80%!!! If you've never been to ReStore - get your butt down there right now! They are awesome! They don't always have everything in stock, but if you find what you're looking for, you'll save TONS of money!

Anyways! Hopefully I can update again in a week or two with painted walls!! Hooray!

progress!

Ammon has been hard at work on our humble little abode :) Before you read this - take a look at the before pictures from the previous post.... it's pretty crazy :)

extending the master bath into future baby's room

the bittersweet demolition of the brick fireplace

my hubs ripping out some Sheetrock in the guest bathroom

Kitchen - sans cabinets and wallpaper :) I can't wait to tackle this!

View of the guest bath from the guest room - we're extending this bathroom a foot and a half into the guest room - getting rid of the door leading into the guest room, and extending the wall by the toilet a foot into the hallways (which we're also making wider).

My dream mirrors. I can't wait to redo them... but I have about 30 ideas! HELP!

View from guest bath into hallway

all the fun stuff we found in the recess between the master bathroom and the baby's room... critters everywhere! It was NAST!

FINALLY ripping out the master bath and all it's grossness.. it was the BEST FEELING EVER!!!

We're slowly making some progress! I can't wait til the new construction is done... then things should move fairly quickly - hopefully! Cross your fingers and toes! :D

Before pictures

Hello there!  We've started working on our house!  Ammon is hard at work replacing the leaky roof - and for some reason the weather decided to rain for the first time ALL summer right when he started tearing it off - go figure, right? :D Meanwhile - our awesome family has helped us scrape off the popcorn ceiling (which seems to be holding ALL the smoker smell, so our house smells NASTY with the popcorn all over the floor), ripping up the carpet and pad, tearing out ALL the baseboards and tack board from the carpet, and smashing out the counter tops.  It already looks like a totally different house without the grass-like carpet and wallpaper :D  We've also started tearing out the fireplace.  I'm a little sad about it - I love the brick.  But I think we have come to a compromise where I get to keep the brick, and Ammon gets his wooden mantle and such.  I can't wait to show it to you!  I've been taking picture along the way - but for today, I'm going to show you a before pictures - better ones than the last batch I posted :D

future dining area - door to the backyard

old carpet and older carpet pad :D

Living room

Living Room

Fireplace / Front door and entryway.

Hallway - cute wallpaper (future dining area)

entryway... real cute :D

Closet where our VERY outdated a/c unit is housed.

Babies room - oh p.s. we're PREGNANT!! :D

hallway to bedrooms

guest room

guest bathroom - everyone loves carpeted bathrooms :D

very cute popcorn ceiling

guest bathroom tub

stripping wall paper... it was, oh, so fun! and smelly!

master bath vanity.

underneath the carpet.... I almost puked all over it. the smell was UNREAL!!!

Master bath shower - gross huh?

master bath potty... have you ever seen one so close to the ground?

master bathroom - I've got big plans for the awesome mirror!!

babies room - we're extending the master bed and bath into this room a little bit - so it will look really different when we're done!

Hallway closet - I want to turn it into my office!

So it will look something like THIS!!! I know you're jealous ;)

Master bedroom... it needs LOTS of work ;)

Master bed into the master bath

closed!

We finally closed on our house! It was a long four months - but we have keys and our sleeves rolled up :) I feel like we're such big kids now!  We'll be tackling the leaky roof and popcorn ceilings first, and since neither of those are very cute or crafty - it will probably be a hot minute until I can post the some of the more exciting stuff :D  thank you for all of your comments! It makes us feel so special :D

Gray Never Looked So Good :)

Hello Friends!!  We're SOOO close to finally closing on our house :)  I swear this is the longest house closing in the history of all house-dom! So, we're trying to start on some projects that we can do before owning the house - enter: living room side tables!!  Thanks to my super awesome friend, Ciera (she is actually Ammon's cousin's wife), for giving us these amazing tables!!  It took us a hot minute to figure out what we were going to do with them - since our entire house is black and gray, we couldn't figure out how to paint them.  We're not even sure what our new couch is going to look like, so we had a tiny table emergency :) So, here's the before shot

first we sanded them down.

then we primed them with Kilz primer  - and by the way, I don't pretend that my brain is crafty, if you know me at all, you'll know that I'm probably the least creative person on the planet :) I got this idea and directions from my friend Brooke at all things thrifty! She's probably the greatest ever :) Along with Mandi at vintage revivals.  They're my girl crushes :)

Then, we painted them satin Granite Gray

In case you didn't see the can through all the cuteness - my little brother Haden  :)

Then, after we'd painted them - I glazed them black! And I'm in love :)  - this picture shows the front table glazed, and the back table not glazed.

more after pictures :D

What do you think? Love them? Hate them?  I love them - A LOT!  I can't wait to see them in our living room :D