Pictures Just For Christi

We are in the middle of major renovating here at our house. Every room in our entire house needs to be redone, a rather daunting task since there is 22+ rooms plus 7 bathrooms.

Some rooms need to have the ugly wallpaper stripped off, all the trim removed and stripped, carpeting torn up and the floor refinished. Those are the easy rooms that don't require much work, comparatively speaking.

Right now we are finishing up our mudroom/laundryroom and have begun work in our family room and old laundryroom.



Here is a picture looking into the familyroom from the old laundry room. The change in flooring shows where a wall used to be that we removed. We removed ceiling and the weird dropped ceiling that covered that bringing the ceiling height up to 10ft. It is a nice large room with french doors that lead out into the backyard.



This photo shows the other side of the room. And the walls were all painted that lovely Pepto-Bismol shade of pink. The green shag carpeting that was also in this room was one of the first things that we tore up when we moved into the house.



This photo is from the perspective of standing in the familyroom looking back out into the old laundryroom. The entrance to our new mudroom/laundryroom is on the left hand side of the old laundryroom as you look at the photo. Those are our old washer (aka the smallest washing machine in the world) and it's equally small dryer sidekick. Once we get rid of them the wall behind them will be knocked out expanding our kitchen into a more user friendly layout and make room for a breakfast nook. And please take note of the lovely shade of neon yellow the room is painted in.

Our original plans were to add on a new breakfast room off the kitchen, but I can't seem to find the money tree anywhere out in my yard. All the rain has made those darn weeds grow so much you can't find anything, including one of my 7yr olds Tevas.

This room had a horrible drop ceiling with industrial fluorescent lighting. Blech. We had to tear it all out in order to have all the bathroom plumbing in the house redone. It was a huge expense that sort of sprung on us. So we frequently go out there and look up and admire all the copper piping. I even point it out to guests in our home.

I want to say, "Look up there! My house might be furnished in college dorm cast-offs....but I have new copper pipes! And I bet they cost more than the Ethan Allen table you just bought, and those adorable Pottery barn accessories. And they are SO much more functional too."

But I don't say anything because I don't want them to feel bad.