Back in January we shared the photos of the old bathrooms. Here is how the kids bathroom turned out, minus a mirror that we need to order for over the sinks.

Again, back in January we shared photos of how the bathrooms looked when we purchased the house along with photos of them ripped down to the 2×4′s. Well, we are happy to report that, with the exception of installing a mirror in the kids bathroom, they are pretty much done. In the old bathrooms, the green sponge painted bathroom is what is now the red bathroom.

Here are some before and after photos of the master bedroom. As you can see in the before photos, there was some very attractive stenciling on the walls along with some nice greenery in the room. We essentially ripped out the old closets and the louvered doors leading into the “dressing area” and replaced that with a walk in closet and a new door to the bathroom. We used pocket doors for both the bathroom and the closet to optimize the amount of usable space. We obviously need to put some things on the walls of our bedroom. But this is what its looking like these days.

This is the old tub. A beautiful powder blue.

The first photo is looking from the kids bathroom into the master bathroom. The second photo is looking from the master bath through the wall to the kids bathroom.

This is how the master bathroom looked when we purchased the house. Look at that shower…yummy!! And all that sponge painting…somebody pinch me!!

This is how the kids bathroom looked when we purchased the house. Gotta love the powder blue floor and wall tiles.

Over the Christmas and New Year’s weeks, we were able to get our bathrooms wired with new lights and plug fixtures. Our electrician did an amazing job installing recessed lights in the ceiling and GFI outlets. Once we get the walls and tiles installed, they will be looking good!!

Apart from that, I continued in my quest to rid the house of wallpaper and made significant progress towards that goal. I completed the kitchen and abut 98% of the laundry room. The next task is the downstairs half bathroom which is very small and should not take too long.

The first of what I am sure will be numerous “gotchas” surfaced when I discovered that the geniuses who lived there previously painted over wallpaper on the 2nd floor of the main hallway. The challenge is that this wall is located at the base of the stairs on the 1st floor and extends all the way to the 2nd floor ceiling. Removing this wallpaper will not be fun. Oh, the joy.

Today, in our first full day of home ownership, we spent the morning at a local hardware supplier in Jamesberg, and at Lowes picking up supplies and miscellaneous stuff. We purchased what we thought were solar powered lights for the front walkway at Lowes, however when we returned home, we found out that they need to be plugged in, which sort of defeats the purpose of having them be solar.

Once we returned to the house, Steve spent the majority of the afternoon taking wallpaper borders off the walls of Rebecca and Ian’s rooms. The wallpaper in Rebecca’s room came off the walls fairly easily, however the wallpaper in Ian’s room has proven quite a challenge.

To close out the day, we had a prospective painter give us an estimate for him to paint a few rooms. Then, another contractor stopped by to give us an estimate on the vanity for the kids’ bathroom and to re-do the whole bathroom. Overall, a pretty productive first day!!