Before & Afters

I've been promising these to several people for quite a while and there are LOTS of pictures so let's just get started. Here is our new house. We love it so much and don't care if we never move again. To many it's just your average home, but to us it's a real dream come true. A lot of sweat and blood went into this house...mostly by Andrew, but I did some painting and made some decisions so let's just say "WE" did this :) Here is the front of the house as we found it. Notice that you can't even SEE half of the house and there are two completely different garages. We saw potential!

Here is the front after. Just like a trip to the hair salon; a trim and color can do wonders!
The old entry. Notice carpeted walk-way, orange paint, non-existent base boards and early 90's light fixture.
We tiled the entry, framed the windows, new base boards and light fixtures...no more orange paint. Bye-bye orange...you are NOT missed.

The front door used to be an icky light beige color...Andrew chose this midnight blue on his own. He is one brave man and he's super lucky I loved it! Shows more of the framed windows...I love that part! I don't know if you can see the tumbled-stone design on the floor by the door. New light fixture...old one resembled that of the before pic above.

Before kitchen. Not bad at all actually. Notice laminate countertops and direction/size of island. Also ugly, old tile :)

New hardware on cabinets and granite. The granite is actually a green color, but this picture makes it look black. Sorry. We turned the island and added a breakfast bar. That was MY genius idea. I pat myself on the back regularly. There is a big open space in the kitchen now, room for several people to be in there at once. I love gathering in the kitchen.

Before master bedroom. Notice carpeted bathroom. ICK. Also notice nice brass features and cute little toddler in the corner.

New paint job and base boards. No cute toddler in this picture, but she spends plenty of time in our room...I promise.

Not a great after pic, but we changed the lights, added tile and SPRAY PAINTED the shower black. Yep, that's right. It's great too. That's how we do things in AZ.

Second upstairs bath. Notice shower walls and yucky tile. Also AWESOME padded toilet seat complete with caution tape.

Andrew tiled this shower himself. It's travertine and granite. New fixtures and bye-bye padded toilet seat.

Andrew tiled the downstairs shower too with white slate and a cool glass mosaic, but I don't have a finished picture of that yet. I'll work on it...I promise :)