Our Fixer Upper: Before and "After", Part 1

The perfectionist in me hesitates to post too many photos because there are so many more things that I think "need" to be done first.  (Katie Burrus, I have a feeling you can relate and that's why you have yet to send me new house pics.  Ahem...)  But, I know we've made a lot of progress since we moved in three weeks ago and I do want to share a few rooms' before/afters.

First off, the master bedroom.  Before we moved in, we pulled out a huge floor-to-ceiling cabinet, ripped up the old carpet, took the popcorn and track lighting off the ceiling, added recessed lighting, new carpet, and freshened everything with crisp new white paint.  We still need to replace the foggy window glass, hang the TV, add art, fix the missing trim, reupholster furniture, etc.  I'm also accepting all ideas on what to do with the brick throughout the whole house.  Painting the brick or stuccoing the brick or whatever will be a huge project for another day since we will probably need to do all of the interior and exterior at the same time.

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Next, the guest room/Rick and my offices.  During the construction phase, the carpet came out and new hardwoods went in, popcorn and track lighting came off the ceilings (plural! The poor painters had two ceilings to deal with in this one room), retro brown wallpaper came down, built-in cabinets came out, recessed lighting went in, we put glass in the loft (there wasn't any- hello dangerous!), and new paint was applied everywhere.

I think this room is my favorite so far.  My dear friend Carson helped me pull together the finishing touches and knocked it out of the park.  Rick's office is upstairs in the loft and mine is underneath.  Any guest is welcome to come cozy up in this room, too!  We can all be one happy family! :)

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And lastly, the stairway.  The stairs were covered in carpet and during the construction whirlwind, we made a last-minute decision to go ahead and do hardwoods on the stairs.  What a difference it made.  Now, we just need the glassmaker to come in and install our glass so the stairwell isn't so open and dangerous.  It's on order and should be here any day!

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 "Mom, take a picture of us, too!"  Well, okay.  You guys are troopers and so fun to be around these days!

More rooms to come in another post.  I won't bore you all at once.  (I'll let it be a slow burn...)

This remodel has been such a fun project and creative outlet.  Watch out, I'm going to want to flip something else when this is all done.  This is such a treat to do.

-Bethany