I need to take more photos of some of the revisions, but hopefully you can get a good feel for what's been done so far.
My mom has taken some pictures as well. I haven't sorted them, but you can see them here.
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All three bedrooms upstairs were this nasty brownish-yellow color. The paint was cracked and peeling. My room had this gross fake wood panelling on one wall. I swear they used at least 1000 nails to mount it. When I removed one of the nails, a huge chunk of the wall fell out. that's shown below. As is the big patch job I did to fix it. Matt's bedroom isn't pictured, but it looks a lot better, too!
Also notice the yellow tile. It wasn't laid correctly, and was easily removed. I was peeling them off like pancakes on a greased griddle. Now the carpeting is a light neutral sage color. It looks kinda beige in these pictures.
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look at the pretty blue and pink tile. Isn't it lovely? Wouldn't you cover douglas fir floors with this? This room looked so incredibly tiny and grotesque before I painted it and put new carpeting in.
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Yay! My brother-in-law and I painted the room, and we stripped the hardware of the builtin, and then polished them. The room looks great. Except for the floors. Hopefully I'll redo the floors, so they look like the floor in the living room. ( photo of floor shows the difference). Other things take priority, though. the picture of chintz and Mary shows the foyer between the living room and dining room, but I really only added it because its so cute.
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I need to take more pictures of this room. Mary replaced the ugly curtains. I have new covers for the couches, a wooden cd-rack next to the tv, and a picture on the wall. Looks remarkably better. Notice the new rug, which my mother purchased in Saudi Arabia. The last picture (which shows the covers and a portion of the picture) also contains Bill in his natural position.
I can't believe I still haven't updated this section. My father helped me fix the walls and paint this room.Plus, I just recently got new couches!
(My mother has a lot of photos of us working on this page... I am just too lazy to sort/rename them. click away.
The porch (that's Chintz!) is going to have wisteria and bougainvillaea hanging on it eventually. That nasty shack is the back of my neighbor's house. It contains all of her grandmother's moldy crap. DEE-LICIOUS. There's also a shot of a window for my kitchen that I'm going to replace. Mary is showing off the japanese maple that we planted on her birthday, December 22. Its an oshio beni, and will eventually be 15 feet high, with leaves that are orange in the spring, bronze in the summer, and scarlet red in the autumn. You can see the tree with leaves a little further down. I have more photos of the backyard on a separate page.
I just finished working on the front yard. First I rototilled, then I added two cubic yards of American Soil's "clodbreaker", tilled again, covered it, and put down two yards of 1/4" fir bark.
Mary has been doing a ton of work. I've been really lagging on putting photos up. Here's one:
so many things need to be fixed before I can start working on the basement. The place is scary. The guy who was living down here did all the renovations himself, and it looks like it. We have a dart board and an old stereo in one room now, so its starting to look a little bit more hospitable. A friend of mine is moving in this summer, and he has agreed to help me fix it up.
(stairs to basement, attic, etc)
