Friday, July 17, 2015

Zane's Room
I dont have any before pictures of this room because the renters were home and in here packing when we came for our inspection and were taking pictures. I love his crib being orange and I am realizing now I don't have his awesome cardboard light fixture that I found at Ikea pictured. It is some sort of longer octagon and its orange and awesome!
We had some leftover beadboard from the bathroom and I felt like zanes room needing an art statement of some kind above his bed so with some scrapbook paper I had on hand and his initial from his previous room I put this up.



Master Bedroom:
Before:
 And After:
Paint and new carpet and a ceiling fan were the only things that were done to this room.

The top of the dresser still needs something up there but haven't figured out what yet.



Before and After

Living Room:
Before..


 And the after...Originally we were going to refinish the original hardwood floor underneath the carpet but we came across this laminate flooring that I loved the color of and it was on clearance!..One of the main things I loved about this house besides the layout and the amount of space and storage, were this huge 12 ft long wall full of window!


 I was so lucky in finding this awesome player piano for FREE on KSL... I was super excited to have actually been fast enough to snag it up. After 2 coats of Anne Sloan Chalk Paint it was even better.
 These chairs were a DI find. You know that really pretty out dated red tweed like fabric...I did my own version of reupholstering without taking the chairs completely apart and they are holding up decently well...for now..I would love to eventually get really nice, none DIY chairs.



Kitchen
The Before...
The previous owners had updated the cabinets to brand new ones from Ikea..and updated the counter tops as well...What I didn't get a picture of was at the end of the counter on the right it continued all the way into the dining area and ended at the wall.. It was a waste of counter and took up to much space in the dining area in my opinion, so the first week in this house we cut it off where the cupboards ended and I have not regretted it once!


After
We painted the cabinets to brighten up the room and removed the blinds. The bottom half of the cupboards are a mix of the left over Anne Sloan paint and our wall color (Perfect Taupe by Behr) I didnt want the cabinets to be the same shade as the piano in the next room. The top half we painted our trim color (White Truffle by Behr).
We also removed the beautiful florescent lights on the ceiling and found 2 matching chandeliers at the Restore and spray painted and removed the glass lamp shades to update them a little bit. And 6 months later we added the backsplash we found at Costco for a stinkin good deal. And instead of tiling in here like our original plan, we tore out the linoleum and continued the laminate in here so the rooms flowed together and made them seem a little more open.




 Hallway And Bathroom
Before

 After
There is still some things I would like to do in the bathroom and hallway, but same goes for every room really. We added peel and stick tile over the linoleum and grouted it. I LOVE this stuff.. I would have loved to have tiled but for this not being our forever house I wanted to update it without going overboard. We bought a bigger vanity off of KSL to fill in a 5 inch gap that was left between the original vanity and the wall ( I dont have a picture of this, but things constantly fell down and it was obnoxious!). The toilet paper holder was on the opposite wall of the toilet so we removed that and put up beadboard and new trim and towel hooks to cover the hole and to make better use of this blank wall. The hallway just got a half strength paint so it wouldnt look too dark being as narrow as it is and laminate flooring. Eventually we will add new trim and an updated light fixture.



Addilyns Room
This is the only before picture I have. Jeff couldnt take any more pictures of this room because there were too much BYU signs every where:)

After
 Still have no idea what to do with this corner...so it will just stay empty.





Salon:
Before:
We called this the dungeon when we bought the house. Its pretty clear why.
 We were lucky enough to clear out all those 5 gallon buckets of weevil infested beans and rice. Also the shelves and the junk were left for us as well. My absolute favorite part of this room was the giant spill of molasses.
 After:
Drywall still needs to be put up on two of the walls to help kill off the dungeon look. One half of the room had drywall up because it was finished off with the basement and since this was used for a cold storage room there wasn't a need for drywall on the other walls. We painted over the cement for a temporary look and adding the laminate floor really helped this room from looking super creepy! Tons of work is left in this room but its doing the job okay for now.


 Another salon chair needs to be bought since I brought my original one into the bathroom so I could wash people out. Its on the list, but the list just keeps growing of other things that need to be bought, like all matching door handles with locks!
 To get this entertainment center down the sharp curve of our stairs we had to cut it in half and put l brackets to put it back together. We now use this to store all the holiday decor instead of a tv and it fits perfectly in this little cut out of the room.
There you have it! This is our home updated and still in progress but we have loved working on it and making it our own. During the project I sometimes hate the work but it is so worth it once its done!
Storage Hallway and Downstairs Bathroom:
Eventually I would like to add in a shower and take out the guest room closet that is directly behind this door and wall and change out the floor .

 After:
We only did little updates in here and need to do more, light fixtures and a framed mirror are on the list! This is also where I wash out my clients as my chair can lean back and I have a connector nozzle tube thing that I just put on the faucet before anyone comes over.
 Painting the cabinets and carpeting over the linoleum floor in this little hallway made a huge difference. We also took off the door to this hallway to help open it up.

 Jeffs Office:
Before:
After:
This room just got a fresh coat of paint and carpet. Jeff requested his office to be his Ute room as well so we painted his desk red, and eventually the nightstand will get painted red as well.