“Remodel”

Alright, well, technically we didn’t really “remodel”. Just got some projects done that have been on our to-do list for several years. I have had multiple emails AND phone calls asking for pictures, so here they are! Shut up already!

Our interior doors before:

And the doors after:

 

 

My sister Julie did all the doors. She also painted all the trim, and did a couple accent walls in the house. In our bedroom, we went from dark blue to dark red. I don’t have a final picture of this one, as I don’t have the curtains back up yet.

Dalton asked her to put paint under her eyes, so she did! She’s a sucker for my kid’s requests!
 

In the dining room, we stuck with the same color, but went from flat paint to satin paint. We painted that wall before we had kids, and now we realize that it sucks trying to clean food off a flat paint wall!!

We also got new windows. Which I love!! They are double hung, so we can open then from top AND bottom, and they tilt in for easy cleaning. I love being able to open then from the top. Now the cats can’t push the screens out and escape!!

The old windows:

The destruction:

And the new windows:

And we got new floors! We’ve been talking about putting in wood floors for YEARS. We never had the money. And then we wanted to wait until Dalton was older. And then we didn’t have the money. And then we wanted to wait until Jackson was older. And so on and so forth. We finally just did it!!

Here’s the old carpet. You can’t tell really in the pics, but there were big dark stains EVERYWHERE and it smelled. And when your carpet looks like crap, the rest of the house can be great, but the whole house will look like crap just because of the carpet.

The wood was stacked in our dining room for three days before installation!

The destruction!!

Installation took five days! The dogs and cats were kenneled in our garage, the boys and I hung out with different friends through the process, and in the evenings, we ate dinner in our bedroom! HA! Because the living room and dining room furniture was all stack up in one room.

 

When we started moving stuff back in, Jackson was overjoyed to have his toys back! He had to dump them ALL out and play with all of them at the same time. :)

The finished product:

   

Overall, we’re happy with it. It creaks a lot when you walk on it. We purposely got the floating installation, because supposedly it will be easier to make repairs later on down the road.

Between the kids and dogs and the cats, it gets dirty FAST. And since it is so dark, everything shows up. I sweep three times a day! Still getting used to that. Chris said one morning “You know what sucks? Stepping on cat litter bits bare foot on a wood floor.” and then later I responded with “You know what sucks? Stepping on cat litter bits bare foot on a wood floor after you get out of the shower and your feet are wet. It clumps on your foot!”

And it scratches REALLY easily. Even with plastic toys. But we just take a Crayola brown marker (no body likes brown anyway!) and color them in, and you really can’t see them anymore. :)

Overall, we’ve done a lot! We also added more insulation to the attic (we’ll get a tax credit for the insulation and the windows). (Julie helped with the insulation, too). We replaced all the door bottoms/sweeps on the exterior doors (Julie, again), we replaced the kitchen faucet, we put in a vegetable garden. We’ve been SO busy!!