Terribly sorry for the delay on getting these up – - as some of you may know, we ran a triathlon this weekend! My dad, Alec, our friend Brock & I all completed a “Try a Tri”. We are all “finishers” (that’s what the medals say) – but Brock came 5th.
So, the first thing we tackled (as I have mentioned in previous posts) was the carpet! This is the finished product . . . oh so pretty. In this shot, you can see a bit of the new colour on the walls as well. My brother gave us plenty of tips during the process & one of the most helpful was to paint the stair baseboards before the carpet went in, so that we would just have to touch up & not mess around with the brand new carpet!
Next up, we have another shot from inside the master bedroom – just took it to marvel at the pretty new carpet – you can see all the way to the 2nd bedroom. We took all the closet doors off for painting & to ease the job for the carpet layers (We still have to put those doors back up!!)
This is the new dining room colour — with a bunch of stuff in the middle, and with the dated light fixture — thanks go out to Natasha & Dan for putting the second coat on & trimming it out! Oh, and of course for the pizza. . . yum!
This next one is of Alec, hard at work, painting Scott’s room. Unfortunately, this room doesn’t have an overhead light which would be problematic for painting accuracy. But fortunately, Sue & Fred lent us this super heavy duty light that was a huge benefit for every job! Scott’s room was painted the same colour as the dining room.
The hideous bathroom with some minor changes – the shelving unit is gone & there’s lots of putty in the walls. This room will be painted a light blue & eventually a medicine cabinet w/a mirror will go in place of the current mirror (we’ve purchased it – it just didn’t come with screws. Huge setback.)
Not much has changed in the living room – but a lot of work went into a new coat of paint everywhere. Thanks so much to Sue for helping Alec paint day in and day out!!
And last but not least. . . the new appliances! Thank you so much to my brother who was our plumber and installed the lines to the icemaker & dishwasher. In this shot, the fridge isn’t pushed back all the way. So it looks kinda silly to have such brand spankin’ new appliances with such an old kitchen, but I think we’ll manage juuuuust fine.
And that’s it for the progress shots. . . up next, the after shots!
Our heads are overflowing with ideas for improvements to our first home and trying to make it all work with a small budget.
