ready for some befores and afters?

some crazy differences....... still a work in progress!!!!!!!!!!!!! but looking a lot better!!!!!!

living room before!!!!!!!

living room - after

half bath before!

half bath after

view into dining room



dining room...... great color!!!



upstairs bath before

bath after

spare bedroom

spare bedroom after

small bedroom before

and after

master bedroom

and after........

christmas 2010 decorations

I LOVEEEEEE christmas!!!! so here are our decorations!!!!!!!!!!!!

brian's surprize gift for me!!! early christmas... best surprise!!

first night in OUR home!!!!!!!!! celebration time!

day two in OUR HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

so yesterday was move day... we hired a company to move our big things... as we settled it to the house and got some christmas decorations up, we realized good or bad, this is our HOME. neither of us have a had a home of our own since we moved out of our parent's. While going back to our parents home will always be comforting, nothing compairs to our own home!!!!


here are some pictures of the work we have been doing!!!

upstairs full bath

living room comming together

my poor pretty car has turned into a work vehicle :(

garage cleaner then it has been in a LONG time!

work zone!!!!!!!! but the fireplace mantel is on!!!!!!!!!!

yet another work zone!!

the floor is installed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and its beautiful!!!!!! tish and doug (brian's parents)  have been with us since wed, in from Nebraska to help with our new floors and trim!!! Noreen and Stephan (Heather's parents) also came over and helped!! a lot of work was done. Brian and Doug did the floors while Tish and Noreen painted a TON of trim and fireplace pieces. Stephen did a bunch of electrical work and helped out on many jobs, we even got to see fireworks when the 40 year old dremmel died!!! Heather's main job was to remove TWO floors of laminate and partical board sub floor. Needless to say, everyone is exhausted, sore, brusied, cut up and tired!!!

 

 

the work zone!!

the floor heather removed!!!

the living room!!!!!!!!!!!! looks SOOOOOOO good

MY FAV ROOM!!! -the dining room..

Watching the football game and refueling after a hard day's work!!!!!

sooooo sore!!! - both of us!!

we were very busy this weekend!!!!!!!!!! luckily we have great family and friends who helped us!!!!!!!! we painted and put new floors in the bathroom! and multiple other odd jobs through out the house!!!
Here are some pictures of the work we did!!!! oh ps.... grouting bathroom floors is a great way to exfoliate your hands, if you need a new technique ;) !!!! Tish and Doug will be here in just a couple days! Cant wait to see them!

oh ... :) andddd the christmas present pile is growing!!!

the carpet is in!!!!!!!!!!!!

today the new carpet was installed!!! here are some pics the rooms are going to look amazing with the new white trim!!!!!!! the carpet is super plush and soft! no shoes in my house ;) !!!

its begining to look a bit like christmas!!!!!!!!!! ( a non-house post)

getting sooooooo excited for christmas over here!!!! two of heather's fav. christmas things are shopping and wrapping gifts and starbucks christmas cups!!!!!!!!!!!! ... a triple peppermint mocha for heather and triple carmel mochiato for brian is the only thing that got us working today!