More Before and Afters

In January I started updating our house.  It started with new flooring in three different areas, but what good is new flooring without a fresh coat of paint.  Oh, and the paint looks so good in this room, I should really paint these other rooms...tear down the wallpaper, switch out light fixtures, buy new throw pillow, new bookcase, have the carpets cleaned..!!!!  Have I exhausted my budget yet?  Here are the before and afters.

This is the flooring in the front entry and the red door.  We had a vinyl floor put in that looks like wood but is more durable for this high traffic area.  I painted the front door black.  I love the new effect. 

This is the old flooring in the downstairs bathroom, the old paint color and the old toilet seat.  Also, not pictured is a peg board behind the wall that I removed.

This is the new floor, walls painted white, white toilet seat cover,  and red decor as an accent.

Blaaah!!  I hated this yucky, smelly wood under the sink and the filthy rug.  Good riddance.  

Master bath old flooring.

Hall bathroom wallpaper.  I started tearing this down only to find another layer of wallpaper.  When I tore that layer off I found that it had been glued to the sheetrock!!  I had to pay a friend to come in and texture the wall.  It was quite a project with a ton of prep for me, but so worth the effort.  I love this bathroom now!!

The new black door.

The new bookcase that replaced the old one that had bowing shelves.  I got this one for half off so I was pretty excited about it.

I touched up all of the kitchen cabinets.  They were getting pretty ugly.

The basement fireplace before being painted.  This alone brightened up the downstairs sooo much.

These are the old beams that I removed.  You can see this room really needed to be painted!!  That light fixture is new, it replaced some old track lights that I hated.

This is in the middle of the project when I had removed the beams, all by myself I might add.

Ahh, peaceful, clean, beautiful.

The whole left side of the basement room.

This is the right side of the room with the ugly beams and again a new light fixture that replaced  some track lights.

The full right side of the basement room.  This room feels so big now.

The front of the house with the red door.  I decided to paint the shutters to match the door.  

It was a lot of fun to do all of these projects.  I love my house so much more now.