before and after....

I've been told to post some before and after pictures of our house. Trust me, we are SO far from being done, but it is kind of fun to see how far we've come from the first time we walked through this place. 

I was seriously terrified of this house when I first walked through it...

Three layers of wallpaper on every square inch of every wall.

Stinky, nasty carpet that had obviously been lived on by lots of animals.

The bathroom was SICK! I couldn't imagine it functioning.

It was a short-sale home, and the previous owner left SO much junk everywhere...like lots of alcohol in the kitchen cabinets, bags of clothes, weird furniture, a lazy-boy chair with dead mice in it, etc.

We realized when we got the house that we had lots of work to do. I definitely wasn't in the position to do as much as I wanted to, being so pregnant, so our families stepped in. We couldn't have done all this work without the help of our families. They all helped multiple times a week...we owe them big time.

The living room:

We immediately loved all of the windows, molding, and the fireplace. We could definitely see lots of potential. Jared pulled back the nasty carpet and found beautiful hardwood floors...lucky!

Living room after!

The dining area that is right next to the living room...

The SCARY bathroom. This was almost a deal breaker for me. We did love the arch  above the bathtub though.

It was hard knowing what to do in such a little space, but it worked out!

Here is the bathroom after:

Jared did a great job on the tile arch...

Jared made new cabinet doors in the bathroom...

Here is the breakfast nook right off of the kitchen before:

We are far from being done in this room, but I love all of the windows and light...

Scary fireplace, but we could see potential. We also LOVE the stained glass...

And after:

The little girl's room before...dark purple trim, painted wallpaper (that we had to peel off), and glow-in-the-dark paint everywhere...

The very pink, girly after:

New carpet, paint, and wainscoting.

The kitchen is small, and was pretty scary before:

We're still working on it, but here's the after: (new cabinets, countertops, appliances, tile, paint....etc.)

See how nasty the wallpaper was before? It was definitely the most monotonous part of this whole process, it took FOREVER getting it all off. 

We hated how closed off the kitchen was from the living room, so we took out part of the wall to open it up a bit. Before:

We also added a countertop that wrapped around and a hutch...After: 

The master bedroom had tons of wallpaper, and this mysterious window that they had covered in mirrors.

The window led to a random little room at the front of the house that we didn't like, so Jared knocked out the window and opened up a big doorway into that front room, making it our office/sitting room/nursery, right off of the master. We love it! It adds lots of light, too.

Our laundry room was the previous owner's office, and they did laundry in the scary basement. It was the perfect little room for laundry, so Jared re-routed the plumbing up to this little room right off of the kitchen:

In the 4 1/2 years that we've been married, we've never had a washer and dryer. This could possibly be my favorite room in the house. Sometimes I just go in here, sit and stare at my beautiful machines. :) 

Here is the after...(first picture is weird lighting, the walls are really yellow)

(we need to hang up the red shelf....) Jared built the table out of an old church door...

There's the house for now! We will have to post more pictures when the rest of it gets done. 

We love our cozy little house!