Painting the middle room

Here are just a few before and after pictures of the middle room. I don’t know what else to call it, because it is in the exact middle of the house! You can get to every room from it besides the master bedroom.

Before priming:

I stayed up until 1:30 Thursday night finishing all the texture painting (where we replaced old paneling with new drywall, and texture paint to match the plaster in the rest of the room) and priming so I could start painting Friday.

 

This green color (Behr’s Boston Fern) is originally what we bought for the bathroom, but we ended up switching the two after we decided that the tan color matched the bathroom tile better. This is after the first coat and before cutting in.

What is looks like after two coats, but still wet. I recruited Zack and my mom to help me out while Craig and my dad were working on the wiring in the kitchen.

    

The door frames are primed, but still need two coats of white trim paint. I think it turned out really pretty. And if you notice the color of the living room in the background, you’ll see that these two rooms are Christmas colors! How perfect! I CANNOT WAIT until I can decorate for Christmas this year!

Sadly, we have decided not to keep the brick wall exposed. The bricks just aren’t in that good of shape and it was going to be a pain for the wiring and also for screwing the cabinets into. We will be keeping the arched doorway, but we will be covering the bricks. They crumble to the touch so it is just better to do that. However, we are planning on putting in saloon doors! Hopefully we can find some that fit!

I hope we have more to post next week, but I’m not promising a lot of change! Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!

What used to be a kitchen…

I don’t feel like typing a lot of explanation for these pictures, and the pretty much speak for themselves, so I’m just going to post a bunch of pictures from yesterday’s kitchen demolition!

Before pics (mainly of the cabinets):

Now the demolition:

 

WOW huh? We found many layers of paneling and wallpaper, a few old window frames, a pretty neat looking old exterior wall from before the kitchen was added, and a transom (no glass though, bummer) above the back door leading to the laundry/mud room. I kind of want to keep the brick wall and keep the transom and find an antique piece of glass or new glass to fill it, but we’ll see!

Hopefully we will have more pictures to share by the end of this week. And NO the middle room has not been painted yet. This week! Hopefully! :)

Latest Updates…

  Dad came over last week and installed the ceiling fans. Living room ceiling fan. We went with dark colored blades to match the wood floors.

We put the same white fan in both the master and spare bedrooms.

Craig holding up where the bathroom mirror will be. 

The bathroom after Craig put in the toilet paper holder, towel rack, and hook.

Closet before Craig and Randy built the shelves for it.  

Pictures of the shelves, probably need 1-2 more coats of paint and they’ll be done. We are putting a 2” trim piece in front of each shelf. On top of the closet will be one big shelf. We are getting cabinet doors made to match the interior doors. Small houses need lots of storage space!

After the mirror was hung.

Temporary sleeping quarters. All of the interior doors when they were being painted.

In the spare bedroom.

In the master bedroom, Craig’s closet on the right.

Closet in the spare bedroom (still needs knobs to open). And here is my closet, it runs the length of that wall. Pretty excited about that! Now I just need to figure out how I want my shelves.In the living room, door goes into our bedroom.  Our goal is for the middle room not to look like this by the end of this week (Sunday)! I hope it doesn’t. There is a lot of work to do in here though. Sand, texture paint the new drywall to match the existing walls, prime walls and ceiling, paint walls and ceiling, prime and paint the trim work and door frames…. ok well maybe that all won’t get done this week but it is a good goal to shoot for!   

I have to say thanks to all of our friends and family who continue to help us on our huge project! Randy, Derrick, Zac and Leslie all came over on Saturday to help put in the doors and do other projects. We couldn’t do it without you guys!