Our Updated House Tour

 We moved into The Lodge in the end of April, which means we're coming up on our 6 month milestone.  Recently, I was checking over The List and the House Tour to review our progress so far (to try to catch a second wind), and even though we've checked over 75 items of The List in under 6 months, our House Tour wasn't really doing us any justice.  So I took a little time to take some more photos and arrange the tour in a way you can more easily see the before and after, including some good photos that should help explain the layout of our Master Bedroom and Bath better.  Check it out!

What- you're still here?  I told you to head over to the tour... All right, that's cool.  Whatever you want to do.  Since you're still here, I guess I can show you a few of my favorite before and afters:

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After

I actually hadn't realized what a difference the new wood floors, and the addition of the wood risers (verses the wrapped carpet and chicken wire) had made to the house until I updated these photos.  We were worried that loosing the floating stairs would make the space feel closed off, but I think it looks much more high end and beautiful now.  The Hubs is mostly done with this project from hell, but he lost a little steam in the trimming out and poly department.  At least it's safe now and no children can fall to their death...

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After

 This one is one of my favorites because we didn't actually do a lot of projects to this kitchen to make it look nicer.  Changing out the tile countertops for granite and putting in the new glass backsplash really helped.  Not to mention my switcheroo on the hanging cabinet over the peninsula- it makes the room look so much bigger.  Looking at these photos now I definitely want to add window treatments of some sort.  The room is so open, it's almost hard for your eye to find a place to land. 

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Have I mentioned how much I love my new Laundry?  Oh I have?  Dozens of times?  Geesh- sorr-y!

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I've still got a little ways to go on this Playroom, but right now I just want to enjoy how bright and cheerful it is.

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 The Guest Room is pretty cheerful these days too....

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After

I realized that my previous photos of Ry's room were pretty terrible (it's a really hard room to photograph with the super high ceiling and windows on opposite walls.)  Hopefully these photos do a little better job illustrating how it looks.  We could definitely use a rug in here, but I'm waiting to find the perfect one. 

But don't stop here, there's a bunch more photos on the House Tour of the projects we've tackled so far.  There's also a lot of the gross and sometime disgusting rooms that are still left.  But you know the drill, one project yada yada yada.....