Sunday, October 17, 2010

Tour my house.....finally. Part I

I know, I know, its taken me about a decade to show you the house that we moved into back in December 09, but I didn't want to share until we were done renovations which we just finished a couple months ago.

I thought I would share one room at a time. You have already seen my master bedroom, and the nursery is still in progress and the office, well, its a disaster, so the rooms that I will be sharing, in order, are:

1. Family room/dining room
2. Kitchen
3. downstairs bath
4. Master bath
5. Other little areas like the front entry, etc.

Now, I will preface this with the admission that I am forgetful and didn't take before pics of most rooms. Or I took them but they were of the in between stages.

Furthermore, don't be expecting much. We have an older, little, humble 1200 sq ft house in the ghetto - not a brand new beauty. And I have done the entire house on an EXTREMELY tight budget - like seriously, most people spend on floors what we spent on our entire house. I have just been thrifty - tonnes of DIY projects, sales, kijiji, thrift stores, big boxed stores, and even auctions.

Anyway, without further ado, I give you our family/dining room BEFORE we started decorating/renos, but after we had moved in and I had done some picture hanging and switched out the light in the dining room:





YAWN!

So, I painted (yes I actually did paint - I don't do color on walls so I changed from a beige to an off-white), decorated, and we laid hardwood floors for the AFTER:
















So there you have it - my family/dining room.

Hope you enjoyed part one of the tour! Stay tuned for Part II - the kitchen.

Leah xoxo

3 comments:

  1. love your picture wall! very pretty room. I want to come over and see it in person sometime, and catch up!

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  2. your style is adorable. Well done, even though I thought the before was so nice too! :) also, props to being thrifty. I think that is the unique parts to people's homes when they have made little projects etc. Looking forward to the rest of the pics.

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  3. aww Leah everything looks beautiful!! Don't you just love experimenting and redoing little things. I am so into that and Matt just sort of shakes his head like "Really another project!" But I love it and it seems like even the smallest change can make such a difference. Good job-can't wait to see more!

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