New coat of paint!

FINALLY last spring we got our house repainted. Eric and I thought we were going to tackle the project ourselves, but when we found a GREAT deal, we had to take it! I think it turned out pretty good considering I had no experience with picking exterior colors. If you look closely, you can even see little Charro...I guess he wanted to be in the picture!

Picnic table

I finally have a table on the back porch! My parents gave me their old picnic table so I repainted it to give it a fresh look. It does the trick!

A little more updated, but not complete

It seems I have misplaced some of the pictures of our completed rooms, but here are the few I did find. These are of the living room before Eric actually moved in. I think I had just gotten the furniture set up.


This is the 2nd extra bedroom. The furniture and bedding is what I had in college. Maybe someday I'll get to change it, but for now it will have to do.

I'm pretty sure these were the only rooms that were completed before the wedding. That must be why I found these 3 and none of the others. I will keep looking...or just take new ones!

Floors Galore!!

The dining room was the first project. It was painted while the shag carpet was still down. Then quickly afterwards the shag carpet was REMOVED!!! Here is the pic that shows the "green room" as I call it.



While I was busy painting the dining room/green room, Eric was busy priming the living room. Luckily he finished priming before the new carpet was put in, but the actual paint had yet to be applied.



We decided to add tile in front of the back door and in front of the fireplace. So far it has been a great decision!



The kitchen tile and our bottle of wine to celebrate the new floors!



The guest bathroom after tile.



The master bath after tile and before grout.

All the bedrooms were carpeted as well, but the pictures just really aren't very exciting so I saved you the time. Now let's get started on some more painting and stuff!

Here is the rest of the house

Let's start with the lovely master bedroom and its wall 'o mirrors...

Yes, that's right! The entire wall was covered with mirror tiles. Neat! NOT!

And here is the master bathroom with lovely shag carpet.

Here is the front bedroom...not much to look at.

Guest bathroom between the two bedrooms. Again, notice the shag carpet in the bathroom. Sick!

And finally the second bedroom...again not much to look at.

Here is the hallway between the two bedrooms and bathroom

Here is the kitchen looking towards the dining room.

And last but not least here are a few living room pics....not much too look at, huh?

Ok, now that I've shown you a few before pics I'll start posting some of the updated pics!

Well this is it! We purchased this house back in March 2008. Eric and I were planning a June 28, 2008 wedding at the time. Eric wasn't really sure he wanted to buy a house just yet, but I was too eager to do so. I found this house with the help from an old friend who just happens to be a realtor. The price was just too darn good to pass up so Eric and I went for it. Needless to say there are many, many, many things that need updating in this house. The first to go were most of the floor coverings. I'm sorry, but I'm just not a big fan of greenish yellow shag carpet. Lol!




This picture isn't the best, but there it is! Isn't it lovely? And the worst part about the shag carpet is that it was in all 3 bedrooms, both bathrooms and this dining room area, as well. Somebody sure did love this stuff back in the day. So before I could move in, we had wood, tile and carpet put in. I was planning on moving into the house by the end of May and Eric would be moving in after we got married in June. Which worked out great because it gave me plenty of time to start painting. I will post some more "before" pics so you can see how much work was ahead of us when we bought this house. Here is a before pic of the kitchen and the living room.

Bedrooms and bathrooms coming soon....