1 Year Ago.....

1 year ago, we moved to a land far far away. It was like a whole new country compared to where we had been. We bought our first house and Nate worked very hard to make it a beautiful place for us to live. Our little house was filled with "pepto bismal" pink and cheap wood paneling. There were 3 main areas that we worked on (which is basically the whole house).
The back room was 1 big room and we built a wall and made it into a 3rd bedroom and mud room.

This note was left for us in Sharpie on the wood panelling. Lovely huh?
This is the bedroom. Its small but perfect for kids.

This is a mud room and the back door. Nate had to crawl under the house and put down a moisture barrier. It was a tight squeeze.
The final product in the bedroom.

Final product in the mud room.

Here is that pink I was talking about. I still have nightmares over it. This is the living room.

It took three coats of paint, but it is gone.

Ben helped Nate out a ton (that is him caulking the base board).
This is what it looks like now. We are going to put a large painting up on the wall in the next month or so and then it will be done.

This is the only before picture I took of the bathroom. I'm sad that I don't have any shots of the lovely lavender tiles. They were UUUGGGGLLLYYYY. Nate re tiled and it looks so good. Thank you to the Davis family for letting us shower at your house while this project was going on.
This is what the bathroom looks like today.
This is the original 1950's wood. Nate sanded, stained and polyurethaned the landing on the 2nd floor.

The upstairs bedrooms just got a fresh coat of paint and new carpet.

The only outside work we have done is we dug a drainage ditch to help keep the rain water away from our house. Maybe next summer we can tackle some outside projects.
I have a love-hate relationship for home improvement. It's fun to look at something and think tha you made it look better. But I hate living in a construction zone. I think we avareaged 5 trips to Lowes a day during our project times. Nate's classic line was, "How did it get so far off." I think he liked to measure once and cut twice.