Painting at new house

So it's now July 22, 2009 and we are down at the new house cleaning and painting all the rooms that the neighbor has emptied out for us, everything is now piled into the living room that they need to move, so we will be working on the bedrooms and bathrooms and getting some outside things touched up with fresh paint as well today :)

yup, won't be long and we will get to clean and paint in here too

but for now, you can see the "before" and "after of the lower level bathroom

and yes, someday we will definitely be replacing some countertops and sink/tub, but for now we can deal with the vintage 1965 stuff LOL

"before"

"after"

nothing like some a window treatment, new flooring and paint can make a big difference!!

It's getting there a little at a time, by the time we move our stuff in we can at least know it's been cleaned and painted and revamped :)

hand rail scraped/sanded and repainted, should last a few years now ~ and do you see the weeping cherry tree above, oh yes, that needs to come out, because I am putting in my fish pond a little higher up from where it is, I want to see it out the front big window :)

Garage door scraped off and getting a new paint job

 

ha ha, and remember I said the washer and dryer would not be in my kitchen? . . .

it was the first thing that got ripped out!!

was ever so happy to NOT see that in the kitchen!

and how about the lower level bedroom, which will be my office/computer room? Remember that spacey looking wall lamp?

"before"

and after ~ yes, that spacey looking wall lamp is still there, decided to keep it for my artwork I will be doing when I get my work table moved down here ~ repainted, scrubbed the wonderful hardwood floors, put up new  roman shades and have some of my office furniture moved in

 am loving the color I am getting on the walls in my office!! as you can see, one wall is still white, haven't gotten that far, and need to touch up around the ceiling yet
and LOVE my new roman shades, can't wait to get everything in here and all set up!

then what was the "piano" room is turning into our bedroom on the main level and even though I liked the color it was, well it may look pretty in the picture, but it needed major touch ups everywhere, so decided to paint it fresh and neutral

"before"

and in progress, the piano and bed are waiting to be moved, so we just had to paint around it, shoved them into the center of the room so we could begin neutral paint and get the roman shades up :)

woo hooie, it's getting there ~ next will be the upstairs kidders bedroom cleaning and painting!!

are we having fun yet? . . .