Kitchen/Living/Dining Transformation

I really disliked the way they separated the rooms with paint, there really wasn't a good place to break up the paint, so I decided to go ahead and make the colors in this room uniform. I chose a creamy tan. Here are the pictures of the main area painted!


The kitchen before!


The kitchen after!



Living room before


And After!


After we painted, we needed to rip up the carpets which were saturated with pet urine. We decided to put in laminate, with the kids because it's about as resistant as we could get against them! This picture is what the room looked like after we ripped the carpet up. Bare cement floors!



As Adam, Abum (Adam Q, my sister in law's boyfriend) and I were laying the floors. And in case you were wondering, YES, I help! In fact I laid all the flooring in the master by myself. But I'll get to that later!




The next pictures are when the floor was ALMOST done (in fact it's not quite done as of today, there is one piece left and I can't seem to get my tush moving to finish it!). We were moving in at this time, so please excuse the mess!


I did other things, in other orders--but the family room and kitchen are complete now! So, here are the finished products of both!


And a sneak peak into my pretty cabinet, because it's pretty!! :D

The Befores!

OK! So here are the before pictures I promised and I'll make sure to reference back to them so you can see the changes made! This was right after we got the keys.

Here are some before pictures of the living room. The color they had painted was some weird fleshy color in here. And then the carpet... don't get me started!

This is the dining area and you can see part of the living room and one of three colors they had in this general kitchen/living/hallway area. The hallway is a horrible green, you'll see shortly!

This is the kitchen. If there are two colors I HATE when decorating, it's maroon and forrest green. Apparently they thought it a good idea to combine the two! BLECH! Their backsplash was wallpaper trim. Adorable.
A view of the living room from the front door.

Here is the hallway. It was like pea green. Horrible.

This next room is what will become Brooklyn's room.

And here is Cayden's room!

The kids/main bathroom and the only room in the house I didn't change the paint color!
Our mini master!

"Master" bath, more like mini bath! :)


But the shower is worth noting!


The next posts will show you the work we've been doing! And there is LOTS! :D

It's a long time gone!

So, it's pretty obvious that it's been a few months since my last post. Right after we closed escrow on our new house, my sister got very sick and passed away. That chaos along with trying to get things moved in created an extremely hectic time. On top of that, we didn't choose to install internet at our new house until my next semester of school started (it's here!).

To sum things up, I've got a lot of catching up to do! So please bear with me while I try to do this as organized as I possibly can!