First off- I must apologize for the quality of these pictures. We have lost the battery charger for our digital camera, so all of the pictures were taken on my cell phone and then emailed individually (what a pain in the butt that is!) AND in case cell phone quality pictures weren't rough enough- it was also dark outside when I took these. We got the keys to the house yesterday evening, and Nathan wanted to get started on some demo stuff right away- so I had to take my "before" pictures, BEFORE he started tearing everything apart.
So without further ado, Our New Home- BEFORE our renovations:
I cannot take credit for this picture. This is actually the picture that was with MLS listing for our house. Like I said before, it was dark when we went over, so it was hard for me to take pictures- especially outside! This picture is probably at least 6 months old- but the house looks pretty much the same. Only differences is that the palmy looking plant is gone, it probably died about the same time that the grass did. We'll have to work on getting a lawn back, and picking up all the poop from the neighborhood dogs and cats! And of course, it is now OUR cars that will be parked in the drive way!
We plan on doing something to kind of modernize the appearance of the house at some point, but it's not on the top of our list. So it will look like this for a while.
This is the view as you walk in the front door. Ugh! I just hate the tile! Hopefully we are going to be able to get rid of it and put down some nice looking laminate.
I tried to take a few different angles of each room. This is front room from the corner left of the front door.
Another angle of the front room, with views of the coat closet, front door, and a peek of the kitchen.
Quite possibly my favorite part of the whole house- the fireplace!
Front room, taken from entry to dining area.
Dining area- can't take many angles of this room- not much going on there!
Our cute little kitchen!
The kitchen sink. It doesn't look so bad in this picture- my cell camera hid it's flaws well!
A close up of the cabinets in the kitchen.
The funky lighting in the kitchen. You know that I am all for being unique- but even I thought this was weird! It just doesn't fit the house- it will definitely be going!
The guest bathroom from the doorway. It the first room, down the hall, on the right.
The bath tub- once again, this picture doesn't make it look bad at all- but I promise you it is! It all dinged up and dirty and just yucky!
And here's a shot of the same bathroom from inside the tub! I must admit I was a little nervous to climb in there. There were some dead buggies lying around, and though I don't mind them dead, if I come across one alive, I don't do so well.
Directly across the hall from the bathroom, is the first of the bedrooms. This view is from the door.
And this is in the corner left of the door. This room, I think, is the most disgusting. The carpet is so gross- there are stains in there that I can't even begin to imagine what caused them. Not just stains either, but like dried on crusty stuff, and sticky tar like stuff- and just EW! There is coloring all over the walls too. This is the worst of the rooms, and really it's not all that bad compared to some of the houses we looked at.
This is the hall closet- between bedrooms one and two, and across from the master.
Bedroom two- from the doorway. A lot like bedroom one...
Except for that ever so magnificent artwork in the closet! Yeah....we'll be painting over that.
And even though this bedroom may one day be a nursery, I am getting rid of the baby bugs light switch. It's not quite my decorating style.
And the last of the bedrooms- the master. It's a fairly decent size- it seems small without any furniture in it though. I remember when we first moved into the apartment, I was so mad because I was sure the model they had shown us was bigger and that we would never be able to fit all our furniture in there. Turns out we had way more than enough room. I'm sure that will be the case in here too.
Here is another view, looking from the doorway of the master bathroom. This is the biggest window in the house. It's nice- and it's facing a direction that we shouldn't be blinded by the sun when it comes up in the morning!
And the final view of the master bedroom, from the corner opposite the door (obviously)
The master bath is equally as icky as the one in the hallway.
Except there is a gross shower instead of a gross tub! It's hard tell in this picture, but it's pretty dirty, the drain is all busted up, and the blue swirly tile on the wall is less than beautiful.
Our garage!! Yay for more than one guaranteed parking spot! Besides having a yard for Buster, I think this is the best upgrade from an apartment. It's the worst when we go out somewhere in the car that's not parked in "our spot" and come back to find all the visitor parking near our apartment is filled and we have to walk halfway across the complex to get home. Ah! A garage and a driveway- that's a possible 4 cars that we can have parked right in front of our house without having to make anyone hike to the front door. Sounds like we are going to have to have more dinner and game nights!
This is the only door to the back yard. For now, it is in the garage- but we are eventually going to make it part of the house, complete with doggy door!
The laundry room, which we will hopefully be able to make part of the house too.
This is just an extra storage room in the garage- Nathan is thinking about joining it with the laundry room and making it a walk in pantry.
And last, and yes probably least, the weird door in our garage that goes no where! We are going to yank that out and just make it a wall, like it should be.
2 comments:
Love the fireplace too... so jealous!
I'm so excited! But sad that you aren't leaving the baby Bugs Bunny light switch! = P And I agree that the fireplace is pretty much fabulous!
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