LAUNDRY/PANTRY - before/during/after

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The pantry was a narrow space bewteen the kitchen and the living room.



One of our main concerns was the pipe in the pantry that was half buried in the concrete foundation.  The pipe was located in the middle of our new kitchen design.



Our old laundry room was a disorganized waste of space.

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The taller wall cabinets were the unfinished stock cabinets from Lowes that I painted.  The countertop and smaller cabinet were saved from the original kitchen.



I bought the pull out shelves from an online company.  There is now plenty of room for our storage.



The other side of the pantry/laundry room.  The shelves aboce the washer and dryer are from the old pantry.  The hotwater closet is made from reclaimed wood.



LIVING ROOM - the process

We began actual construction October 10, and we finished 6 weeks later (the week before Thanksgiving).  The major changes to the living room were:

• scraping the popcorn texture off the ceiling
• make the entry to the kitchen wider
• create a pass through to the kitchen
• rock the wall for the new placement of the wood burning stove
• fix the non-working electrical plugs and switches
• paint ceiling and walls

 

This is how we lived in our living space for 6 weeks.



LIVING ROOM - before and after



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FRONT PORCH

I redid the entry way to our front door. We had a tree in the front yard that had died a couple of year earlier, and a flower box in front of our door that never got used. The brick flower box was always in the way when coming in and out the front door.

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Robert removed the dead tree and replaced the screen door. Jacob made an address for me from his laser cutter.

I painted the front door brick red, and remortered the brick to leave a smaller planter. The entry feels so much more welcoming now.

SANDBOX

This summer I decided to make a sandbox around the large mulberry tree in the backyard. Not much grass will grow under the tree because of the shade and the dogs. I still need to find some sort of material for the dirt part of my yard.

Of course, a sandbox is no fun without children. Hudson and the great niece and nephews broke it in when they came to visit at Thanksgiving.

Braydon - "This is the coolest sandbox ever!"

Later that day - "The sandbox is cool, but this tree is WAY cooler!"

What can I say, Braydon. I can not compete with Mother Nature.

THE EXTRA BEDROOMS

In a post I made back on 3-22-2010, I showed the guest bedroom make over. Here is a before and after shot as a reminder.



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I never followed up on the office/3rd bedroom that we have. I still have not finished this bedroom because I am not sure what color to paint the walls.

Here is the office BEFORE I switched out the beds. (You can see the shelving material stored on the floor.)

Here is how it currently looks. I added a pop-up trundle I found on craigslist so the kids would have more places to sleep when they all come for a visit.

I did frame the kid's artwork. If you look closely, you can see some color samples painted on a board on the floor behind the weights. I was thinking of painting the room some shade of gray, but I haven't completely decided what to do.