Front of house. Haven't done anything to it since buying except mowing the lawn and weeding, but we're planning on painting a dark blue grey.
New house paint - Blackberry Fields.
New silver-colored mailbox and silver house numbers. The house numbers are solar powered. Now we're just waiting for the motion sensor front light.
Jay & Addy
Demolition!
Edith (Adrienne's Mom) and Adrienne tearing down the dog house.
Love demolition!
Original bathroom vanity.
Original bathtub / shower.
Terry (Adrienne's Dad) working on the plumbing in the bathroom vanity area.
Plumbing in tub / shower area before new unit installed.
New bathroom tile.
Jason and Terry laid the tile in the bathroom.
Terry standing next to his handy work.
New shower unit with in-shower light.
Painting new bathroom.
Shelf on top of shower to hold our extra towels, face cloths and our stereo we bought specifically for the bathroom - it's great having tunes in the shower!
Shelf on top of shower.
Bathroom with new window - almost finished, just need a full mirror.
New bathroom vanity.
Stereo on top of shower.
Towels on top of shower.
New toilet in new bathroom.
New toilet. Dual flush - you know what I mean ;)
Back upstairs bedroom after a bit of work -patching holes and pulling up carpet.
New carpet in upstairs back bedroom
Upstairs back bedroom.
Master bedroom after a bit of work - removing wallpaper and pulling up carpet.
Master bedroom.
Jason "sleeping" in master bedroom.
Hallway between back bedroom and master bedroom.
Hallway towards bedrooms and bathroom.
New hallway to bathroom / bedrooms.
Upstairs closet in main hallway.
Original living room.
Original living room / entrance.
Living room with paint and lots of supplies.
More paint and supplies in living room.
New kitchen and set-up living room.
New living room.
New wall between living room and entrance. Now Rob won't fall over the edge and sue us.
New living room wall.
Original front entrance.
New front entrance. Abby loves it!!
New front entrance as seen from basement.
New door and side window at front entrance.
Dee and Greg, our fabulous helpers!
Original front entrance to basement.
New front entrance to basement.
Original basement hallway from family room to bedrooms.
New basement hallway from family room to bedrooms. And Abby.
Original hallway from front basement bedroom to back bedroom.
New hallway from front basement bedroom to back bedroom.
Original basement closet.
Original downstairs bathroom (nothing has been done to this room yet other than new window).
Basement bathroom, now used as storage room until we build our garage in summer 2008.
Original back basement bedroom.
New back basement bedroom. Still messy, but painted, new carpet and new window.
Original front basement bedroom.
New carpet in front basement bedroom.
Painting the ceilings (see the difference on the edges - the new white paint on the yellow ceiling - ick.)
Al (Jason's Dad) and Eleanor (Jason's Mom) working on the new carpet in the front basement bedroom.
New front basement bedroom - again, new paint, new carpet and new window, but still a bit of a storage room until new garage gets put in. We're planning on purging soon, as well.
Original laundry room (scary!).
New laundry room with new washer, dryer, window and floor paint. Much less scary!
Original family room.
New family room, no baseboard or wood paneling yet, though.
Original family room bar.
New family room bar, built around Jason's aquarium, with bar area behind.
Family room bar, behind aquarium. Fridge was originally white, but Jason painted it black - it worked really well!
Jason digging up some basement cement to fix a leaky pipe.
Adrienne pretending to fix a leaky pipe.
Original kitchen.
Original dining room.
Original kitchen as we're working on pulling up the floor.
Taking the kitchen walls down to the studs.
Removing a kitchen closet.
Kitchen down to the studs, but with a hole cut out (far left) and made into a breakfast bar.
Terry working on the electrical and brand new dishwasher hookups in the kitchen.
Kitchen before new floor and paint.
New kitchen with breakfast nook wall cut-out, no counter yet.
New kitchen.
New floor (matches the bathroom floor) laid by Jason, Greg, Dee and Adrienne.
New kitchen with countertop.
New kitchen with countertop (useable!!)
New kitchen with new fridge.
New kitchen / dining room.
New dining room. Sliding doors still need moulding.
Back entrance into kitchen - my fave new door - blinds enclosed in the glass... so cool!
Back entrance to kitchen.
Backyard, where the garage is planned to go.
Back of house.
SE side of house.
Original view of back of house with old dog house.
New backyard. Lots of mowing.
Backyard.
View of downtown from back deck.
View of downtown.
Basement leak.
Leak culprit - crack in foundation.
Crack in foundation.
Hole dug down to footings showing foundation leak.
Foundation crack starts up high, above ground, and goes down below ground.
Foundation crack.
Crack in foundation. Shows where the past owners tried to patch it.
Empty hole
Storm on its way - ready to give us the rain storm of the year - record rain fall, they say. 1,000 litres in our dug out hole in less than 2 hours.
Full hole - over 1,000 litres of water just waiting to get into the basement.
Peeing basement wall.
Adrienne sumping out the hole.
Jason pointing out the peeing basement wall.
Adrienne and her wine showing the peeing wall.
