Our House Befores

I’m so excited to share “Before’s” of our new house today.

Not excited because they’re so gorgeous and exciting, but because it’s going to be such a transformation in my head!

Forgive all of our stuff that is STILL in the pictures.  We’re getting a shed, but until we do, we still have a decent amount of stuff in the house.  Hopefully, I’ll get more before shots of some of this once the stuff is moved.  But we had to get started even though we didn’t have a shed yet.

I’m going to do a little describing of what these pictures are, but these will pop up again and again as we have in-progress and after shots.

Remember the Before Floorplan I posted last week?

I think re-visualizing that will help you understand where these pictures are as I show them.

So, when you walk in the front door, here’s the view.

Very closed off with a tiny door right now (remember, that whole wall will be removed!).  Here are a few more shots of that front room.

 

The view of the front door:

Love that they stapled foam around the doors for “insulation.”  Kind of cracks me up.

Then, if you go through that room, you enter the living room.

The laundry room is a closet that has been built to jut out into the living room.  We’re ripping that out.

That closet will be removed to give more space to the living room.

Here’s the other side of the room:

The new kitchen will be behind that wall, so the whole wall will be gone!

Here’s the tiny current kitchen.  It actually feels bigger in the photo than in person.

And our current tiny eating area.

This whole back of the house (current kitchen and dining) will be the dining.

Here’s the sideroom (that is currently a “master bedroom” and will be our kitchen”).

And the wall that will be removed and will look into the living room:

This room was a garage, so it currently steps down, but we’re fixing that!

This room is the only carpeted room in the house.  Lovely, old, dirty carpet 🙁

One end has this closet, which will be removed to create a mudroom.

And onto the guest bath, which is currently the only bathroom in the house.

I actually like the tile!

And last, I want to show you the back of the house.  This will be changing a whole lot once the addition starts.

I really love our backyard…it just needs grass!  Gracie gets so dirty playing back there.

I love the big trees and Gracie sure loves having a fenced in yard.  Her parents just don’t love cleaning her up every time she comes inside.

And the gorgeous back of our house.

The back is pretty rough to me, especially these stairs.

But, the addition is coming right off this area, so it will all go away!

I know it’s pretty rough right now, but that makes me all the more excited!  The afters will look so much better compared to these befores 🙂

It’s funny…when we were looking at houses, the worse it looked, the more excited we got because that meant a huge transformation!

We’ve had several people see the house and say, “Wow, y’all are so brave to live here.”  I’m like, “Really?  Just because it’s ugly?”  I know it needs work and living there while we fix it is definitely an adventure already, but we are sooo excited that the process of making this our home is beginning.

Speaking of that, demolition began over the weekend and the contractor started yesterday.

The kitchen area looks so different than these photos already!  I’ll post updated progress pics tomorrow…