Wednesday, December 21, 2011

House Update

For those of you who don't know, we decided to renovate and add square footage onto our home.  We have been thinking about it for a while so after lots of research and examining our options, we ended up pulling the trigger.  We had a few setbacks with having to apply for a variance from the city based on the way our house is set on the property - apparently the city codes have changed a bit since 1926!  Imagine that :)


We moved out of our home in June and moved in with Zac's parents (aka Honey and Poppy).  We moved everything except for clothes into a storage unit.  We are so thankful we could stay with family and we had a wonderful 5 months with lots of family bonding.  LA got lots of special attention espeically from Poppy.  She pretty much took over his world once he got home from work: "poppy, change clothes," "poppy, play on the bed," "poppy, play outside."  Some of these phrases sound a little (or a lot) bossy! They ended up in their own world:)  what precious sweet memories!


Here are the before and after pictures of the house.  






Living room: view from the front door (before)
(after)


living room view into the dining room (before)
(after)


view from the kitchen doorway into the dining room (before)
(after)


View from the dining room towards the kitchen (before)
(after)


View into the study (now labeled the family room) before
(after)


View of study towards the hallway (before)
(after)




View from the hallway into the kitchen (before)
(after)




View of the original 1926 butler's panty and original telephone in the kitchen (before)
(after)


Kitchen sink (before)
(after)


stove/fridge/pantry area (before)
(after)


View from dining room into kitchen (before)
(after)


Looking into the only full bath (now titled the downstairs full bath) before
(after)




Full bath toilet area (before)
(after)


sink area (before)
(after)


I'm not going to post the 2 downstairs bedrooms because they are still in the transition phase.

Going upstairs now:

The master bedroom



Master bathroom



Master closet

Study (aka man cave)





Laundry room

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