Improvements

One of the things we have talked about since we got married and started dreaming of owning our own house is being able to do whatever we want to it. Paint, tear down walls, re-paint, whatever we feel like doing. Or not doing.

We've been in our house for 3 months now and in the last couple weeks we've started doing some things to the house. It started with a little paint. The trim through most of the house is dark 1970's wood, we've been talking about painting it white since we looked at the house the first time.
When I started painting the trim in the living room we were amazed at what a huge difference it made, it totally brightened up the room. I just wish I'd taken some before pictures!

When Andy saw how awesome that looked he decided to work on the hall, so we painted the hallway and a couple doors last Saturday. Which made another huge difference! The hallway has always been SO dark, and the white trim has brightened it way up, I can't wait to paint the other doors.

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THEN...this week my Dad came over to do some tile work for us. There was just some old linoleum in the entry and the hall bathroom, so we wanted those areas to be updated a little with tile, and we also decided at the last minute to have the walls around the bathtub tiled, I'm so so glad we decided to do that!
In the bathroom we still need to paint the trim and the door, but we did get the trim in the entry and along the stairs painted.

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{entry before (sort of, I forgot to take a picture before the old flooring was pulled out)}

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We love it all and can't wait to get a few more projects done in the next couple months!

So...we pretty much love owning a house and getting to decide what to do with it!

Another small project I did last week was paint the big mirror in the dining room. It was a gold color I didn't care for, so I painted it red. I've wanted to paint it for years, and now that I have I LOVE it! It just looks perfect in there.