Let's Eat. With Many Others.

Alrighty. Almost done with the updates. 

Here is our dining room when we first got the keys. 

Here it is after a TON of help with wallpaper removal & floor tile removal :) 

Here it is as our temporary living room. 

(member? Our bedroom is in the actual living room :) 

Soooo here it is as the start of our formal Dining room. 

Its in desperate need of a funky rug, some metal chairs, some HUGE art, but again, those things aren't really on the priority list :) But still .. we can update :) 

We have a formal Living Room?

Okay. Let me road map the way this has gone down.
While the upstairs was in serious destruction, our bedroom was in our (supposed to be) Living room.
And therefore, our living room went in our (supposed to be) Dining room.

Now that our upstairs is cleaned, sprayfoamed, and ready for walls, we've moved our bedroom upstairs for a little motivation to get things done.
Sooo... Here is our Living room Before we even touched it.
 
eeew.
We took off all of the wallpaper/flooring (thanks to a full day and a big family! )

    
Had the plaster repaired, and started putting down the flooring,

                       It was really starting to look like we were ready to move in .

I know. its the crappiest picture ever, but I never thought to take a picture of it as a bedroom :) 

                          
Sooooooo after a lonnggggggg year, the upstairs eventually got the sprayfoam we've always dreamed of, and the demo was completely cleaned up. (I'll eventually show you the hilarity that is our bedroom)
And here is our formal living room. Its an inherited couch that I'm kind of in love with. But we've decided to keep it in the basement for my eventual dreams of reupholstering it. (I know. it'll never happen, but It's justified :)   Anyhoo. The furniture is also just temporary, as we are building a new set. (I'll get to that too.)

Dining Nook? Ya, we roll like that.

So, our dining nook was probably my least favourite room in the house.
It was sooo fugly.
4 layers of flooring.
wierd half wallpaper hanging off the wall.
Plaster was in pretty bad shape.
Soooo Here is what I mean.
BEFORE!

                                                      This is the original state.

View of the front door after wallpaper removed/waiting for plaster repair

 

Apparently back in the day they used to paint beautiful hardwoods ugly colors. Thanks, guys. 'Preciate it. 

Doesn't matter much now, as we have gigantic dogs who would destroy it anyways, so we bought some indestructible laminate flooring for now, untill we can refinish & enjoy them years and years down the road.

Annnnnd AFTER!

These pictures were on clearance for ten bucks at winners. and the lamps were on sale! $45 for both! Steal.

Old frames painted white, with old chairs and kijiji find slipcovers.

Our old table from the old house looks incredibly teeny in this room.....

Tada! Just need a light fixture.. but thats VERY low on the priority list :) 

It's been awhile...

It's been awhile! We took the blog down for awhile to focus on other things like... Getting married!
(you can see pictures on my picasa album Here on my WebAlbum :) ) Things are starting to really settle in. We have our bedroom upstairs, and walls are set to go up in a few weeks. Exciting!

The main floor is just about finished. We still have to paint the trim, and we have to pick a lot of accessories and art.. (not overly high on our priority list) but it's really coming along! Let's start with the kitchen since that's where I've last left things.
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Here is where we started...

                                                         And here is where we are now.

Unfortunately I couldn't find a backsplash that I like.. (due to my serious distaste for tile) but paintable wallpaper will have to do for now. It looks good enough for me!

Onto the other side of the room.
   Here is our dining nook. (Opposite our kitchen.) It was fairly dreadful. The  plaster needed a ton of repair, there was about 4 layers of flooring *thank you thank you thank you Johnny* and about a kajillion nails *thankyou thankyou again Johnny*

Oh. Emm. Gee.

So a few boys came over to smash up some walls, in return for some beer and burgers ( what a sweet deal it is, thank god boys like smashing things. Cause this would have taken weeks and weeks to do. )  And this took them ONE DAY. Unbelievable. I wasn't really prepared for what I saw when the dust settled, It looks amazing!

This is the view from the old bathroom ( with the pink tub.. ) this was the pink bedroom and the blue bedroom. Its now going to be the main bath, and the master ensuite.

Remember this? 

Well, it looks like this now. 

This is what the upstairs bath, and teeny unusable room looked like : 

 





Welp, now they are a hallway. And I'm in love. Because at the end of this hallway, is a hidden staircase. We will most likely restore that when the kitchen is redone. Because right now,  it leads to a wall of cabinets. :)

This is the purple room with the gross floor. 

                         This is the new purple room with the gross floor and now also the gross pink tub.

I don't think words can really express my giddiness that comes with that tub leaving my house. 

I took an extra picture of the tub in the pile of garbage. Because it made me happy. 

This was the upstairs hallway. Its now just extra space in the 2 bedrooms in this side of the house. 

And it looks like this now. 

We are now all moved into the main floor. Kyle oh so kindly got the laundry room going for me, so I'll be able to get organized and post some pictures of the main floor so far ... needs some cosmetic work at this point, but its really come a long way!

Plaster is F&%$ing heavy.

Sooo. Last night was not fun. Our plaster repair friend, Ryan, told us that pretty much our entire hallway has reached its lifespan, and we will have to get rid of it.

Here is the hallway before..

       

Here's after Kyle got the fun part of ripping out the plaster....

See how much it crumbled? I guess he was right!!! 

                                     

          Then i got to take out all my aggression on the lath. Which was kinda fun. The cleanup? Not fun.
Butttt here's where we are at at this point. Just gotta cut the lath that leads to the next room, and then we are ready for drywall!

  

Kitchen Update : Cabinets are up!

After quite a few hours, and sadly... 3 people.. our cabinets are up and running! The hardware looks amazing. The cabinets look brand new. I have to take some new pictures, as these were taken from Kyle's phone, but it'll do for now.
Heres the kitchen before...

Hardware = ugly. (or missing)

Cabinets = ugly. (or missing)

 Here is the kitchen after the painted cabinets and new hardware went up... its really coming along. I  love how much the space has brightened up. We still have to put up the subway tile backsplash, as well as a countertop we can hopefully both agree on :) But here it is so far!