Living Room After

The living room after, I would have liked to show you a picture of the view, but its so beautiful you would burn your eyes (lol). No, really just a hard shot to get with all the sun. Anyways, take a look, and again I always welcome your comments

Living Room Before

Living Room Before:

Welcome to the living room. So in this room, once again we first had to remove some wallpaper, so notice the beautiful "duck" boarder, I know what you're thinking..."wow, that must have been hard to get rid of, since its so beautiful" (again, recognize the sarcasm). Well, we bit the bullet and took it down. Then I painted the beams and redid the walls with a brighter cream color. New curtains, and a few new pieces of furniture and TaDa!!.... I'm still on the fence as to paint the brick, its not really nice brick and the room still feel dark to me - any thoughts?

Dining Room After

Here are some pictures of our new dining room. As I stated earlier, all wallpaper was removed, wall removed and paint applied. Enjoy

Some of the collections on my very long mantel:

In this view, you can see my new chandelier, the stairs lead up to the master bedroom. I plan on replacing the cabinet against the wall with hopefully a hutch type piece, I would really like to show off some of the (sick amount) of dishes I have:
View from other side of room, the fireplace will be redone with some type of stone, still in the thought process:
This is my amazing view from my dining room, you also can see out this window from the kitchen, In the "before" photos you can see there use to be a tree (don't worry it was a bad tree) that we removed, giving us this spectacular view:

Dining Room Before

Hi all, and Happy Mothers Day to all my friends and relatives that are mothers, I hope you enjoy your day.

This post is the dining room redo, I decided to post all the befores in one piece and the afters in another that way I can share more pictures with you. So as you can see this room needed ALOT of help, well unless you are a huge fan of black floral and stripe wallpaper. As you can see from the look of shock on my husbands face, probably thinking "Im not gonna be the one to rip all this #$%^*$ paper down". Well, he wasn't, I was... and that my friends, was not one of my most enjoyable moments. So under that beautiful sea of paper was, yes, wait for it....more paper..... So I ripped and ripped and ripped, then I painted and painted and painted. My husband did in fact repair the cracked ceiling (thank God I didnt have to do that). Also, the picture you view with the closet - that wall is GONE!!!! That was the best thing we have done so far to this house, now you can see the lake from the new kitchen (yes, I know I will show you those pictures soon). So take a look at the befores, maybe with some sunglasses....

The Sitting Room

This is the little sitting room off our kitchen. The room was originally the dining area, but since we have a large dining room right off the kitchen I did not see the need for two eating areas. The first two pictures are the room before. these shots show both sides of the room, although I am only going to show you one side, as the other side is my husbands office area, and its really not much to look at.

Sitting Room before:

Sitting Room after:

The Vestibule

So this is my Vestibule, yes vestibule, not really sure if its a legitimate vestibule, but don't you just love saying that word? Come on now, say it a couple times and you too will want your own vestibule. So this tiny entry way into our home was untouched for a very long time. Covered with layers of flat brown paint, with no personality, it was begging for a face lift. So I added to those layers of paint by adding my own few layers of bright white paint. The door has been replace with a more efficient but still nice looking one. I added plantation blinds to the windows for a little privacy when we want to leave the door open, but also to give the big blank windows some architectural design. And finally, the decoration...

Vestibule before:

Vestibule after:

Bedroom Sitting Area

Hi all, so I finally purchased a new camera and can continue to show you the progress on the house.

This next room I am showing you is the little sitting area right outside my bedroom. I originally planned on removing the daybed and making the whole area a makeup table, BUT when I went to take out the daybed I found that there was no finished flooring underneath. So, I worked with it, and I can honestly say I am glad I kept it, its just this cute little cozy area, and I still was able to work in the makeup table, that yes, I actually do use on a daily basis (well, sometimes I don't wear makeup, but don't tell anyone).

Sitting area before:

Sitting area after:

Docks

The docks are in, the docks are in!!!! So this past winter we decided to purchase some new docks, the cool kind, you know those ones that you NEVER have to take out of the water, and trust me, if you ever had to do that you'd know what a treat these are. So the marina was not able to deliver them today, so my husband and our neighbor decided to go pick them up themselves.

So here they are towing the docks from the marina.....

He looks comfy hu?
Finally at the house....

Tidbits

Hi, well its officially begun, I saw my first boat out on the lake yesterday (but OMG they musta been freezing). This just gets us even more excited so we also can get out on the water.

I want to apologize for not putting up more pictures, but I am having issues taking photos with my cell phone, so alas I will have to purchase a camera (not really sad, did you sense the sarcasm?) So today I decided to give you a few tidbit pictures from around the house, some of the things I really love, you will see them again once I show you the rooms - always feel free to tell me what you think, I welcome your comments.

My mermaid buoy - yup shes a buoy, how cool is this? I found her at an antique shop in Concord, you should have seen me in the store, alittle embarrassing I was so excited. She is hanging in our bar - wait to you see this room, so cool.

Girl statue, I love this, she was a birthday gift awhile ago and I had her in my last house. She proudly sits on my patio area with a lovely view of the lake.

Dining room chandelier, nuff said? I LOVE this.....

Budha statue, this also was in my last house, in my daughters room, now has a beautiful spot in our sun room.
This one is kinda hard to explain, but I just had to have it, if you know me, you get it. Also in the bar area - can you tell the bar is gonna be fun??? LOL

Kitchen Preview

Hi all! I am usually not a person who shares until I am totally through with my project (I know boo me), BUT I am so completely and utterly excited about my new kitchen that I had to share with you the progress so far. This is the kitchen that I always dreamed of, which for some may mean state of the art appliances, custom cabinetry and all sorts of bells and whistles. But for me, its a feeling, its how a room makes my heart sing, that I want to spend time in it, that I want to share it with my family and my friends. So enjoy the "preview" and I promise there will be much more to come....

Master Bedroom

Ok, so the first room I am going to share with you is the master bedroom. This room, so far has been the easiest to tackle, all it primarily needed was decorating. Although plans for the future include to put some dormer windows on the back so that we can see the lake from the bed (ok, how great would THAT be to wake up to?). The process for this room was to paint all the walls, trim and closet doors, hang a new light fixture and decorate, decorate, decorate. So first you will see the before pictures of how we viewed the house, then our reno - Enjoy!!!

Master Bedroom Before:

Master Bedroom After: