13 months later....

Then

and now...

Master bed room then...

and now...

Third bedroom then...

and now..

The bed does not stay... the curtains are blue..

The second bedroom then..

we used it as a kitchen for awhile..

and now..

yes, i need to add curtains and and apparently a register cover!  How did we miss that? And maybe some pictures! And none too soon as our first guests arrive the evening of the 27th of October!!

The kitchen before..

and the kitchen after...

The living room before..

don't you love the lawn chair? 

and the living room now...

click on this to make it bigger... Rich made both chairs, the end table between the chairs, the desk and the desk chair... We aren't sure if this will all stay this way, but after 13 months, we wanted it to look like someone lived there... That brown thing on the floor is a rolled up rug...

The dining room before..

the dining room is that room behind the table...  when we bought it there was drywall and plywood on the walls. This is the best before photo i could find...

Dining room after...

we can't add the hanging light until the table is in there...  We have a buffet, table and pie safe to go in there...and we aren't sure where the table will end up..

This weekend was all about getting it done..

I used these to scrap all the paint off of ALL the windows...then cleaned the windows inside and out, mopped the floors, scrubbed the bathrooms and the house is all clean and ready to move into..

This just might become my regular vacuum .. it really sucks up the dust..

Sad to say that the Magnetic Paint I talked about here...  EPIC FAIL.  This area is roughly 3ft x 3ft.  I used almost the whole quart of magnetic paint and it won't hold a magnet.  NOT HAPPY!!  And I will be calling the 800 number on the back of the can... So this weekend I gave up ... I painted over the black with some leftover white...

And painted over the white with the blue... Yes, there is a big black spot in the middle.  Stay tuned..you will see what ends up there...soon...I hope...

Rich worked on these projects....

lots of tools...

to add this to the living room wall...

For this...a 46 inch flat screen...sure wish we had our satellite hooked up..can't wait for Friday..

Three smoke detectors added and two CO2 detectors added.  Not surprisingly we found NO smoke detectors or CO2 detectors in this whole house when we bought it.  And we have a propane water heater..that wasn't vented properly..

We really tried to reuse the track lighting from the kitchen here in the sewing room.  But it soon became apparent that something wasn't working as two of the lights didn't work.  So this morning we ventured into town and bought new track lights...  We also bought the bulbs...we even had the guy help us find the correct bulbs...we don't have the correct bulbs...so we left one light off the track to take to the store and get the correct bulbs...

He also helped a friend of his haul off all the wooden walkway... and he installed a plug in the basement for the freezer...

Nancy