A few good weekends and we've ripped out carpet, painted a few rooms and made a HUGE mess upstairs. The carpet had to go in most places and we pulled up pink, green and brown shag to find beautiful hardwood floors under all of them! They need a tiny bit of work but they really are in such good shape.

Pink bedroom/guestroom:



Green Room/mud room:
The paint looks green in these pictures but it's definitely more gray.

Front room:

Everyone is pitching in!

Our hardwood is here! It's dark. Really. Dark. We wanted dark. But it's dark. Dark.

The baby's room floor was a labor of love. The old carpet pad and disintegrated in spots and was stuck to the wood. After a few hours of backbreaking scraping, we got most of it up. It needs the most work, but shouldn't be too bad.

Because of the pitch of the roof we hoped we would be able to raise the ceilings a bit in the master bedroom. John is pretty tall and the ceilings in the upstairs are pretty low. The people that built the house were all under about 5' 7".

It started with a little bit of mess...

...and I came back a few hours later to this. It's only about 1/10th of the ceiling done too.

2 Months Later

All of the previous pictures were from the first time we walked through the house. 2 months and some signed paperwork later, it's ours and it has been cleared out! (almost)


Master Bedroom:

Baby's Room:
You can't really tell but the carpet in the lower right hand corner of the picture had been covered by a bed the whole time the it had been there and it was a good 2 inches higher in that spot. Some seriously shag carpet.

Front Room:

Dining Room:
Poll! Who thinks the glass on that built in cabinet should stay? The cabinet definitely stays, but the glass? Yay or nay?

Kitchen:

Master again:

Jake's room:
Super cool.

This checkerboard beauty floor is in the basement. We are going to try and clean it up and see how it looks. There are a few tiles missing but I don't even know where you look for stuff like that to replace them!

Ch ch chaaaaanges....

I feel like we should be on our very own episode of  'This Old House' as we renovate this 1947 beauty we just bought. For the time being, this blog will just kind of follow our progress as we get it ready for us to move into (hopefully sometime mid-October!)

I surprisingly don't have any pictures from the outside. Weird. Let's start with the befores!

Front Room:

Dining Room:

For future purposes this will be referred to as the pink room/guest room:

Green room/mud room:

Baby's(!) room:

Master Bedroom:

Jake's room:

Kitchen:

They left us this awesome train set! It is built into a closet in the upstairs where it will stay for the time being. Eventually this will be part of a bathroom, but for now, it stays!