We painted the kitchen this week. Doing so was prompted when we purchased our new kitchen table. Here are some photos of how the kitchen looks now.

The past few weeks we have been ripping up the last remnants of the deep, deep green (that’s right, its not Forest Green, its deeper than that) carpeting that was in the upstairs hallway and the stairs. The first few photos below are what the stairs and hallway used to look like. The last few photos show what it looks like now. Underneath the carpet is nice hardwood floors that are in really good condition. We are going to have them sanded and poly’d sometime over the next few weeks which will really look pretty nice. Then I can put the baseboards on the hall walls and that will be done. Also need to paint the fine ornate “should be outside but its inside” handrailing.

Here are some before and afters of the kitchen. In the kitchen, we removed the wallpaper, painted the walls, and bought new appliances to replace the circa 1980’s ones that came with the house. We also removed the sponge painting, replaced the doors, cleaned the cabinets, and removed the big “Ikea-type” cabinet on the right hand wall of the kitchen.

We are in the process of painting the upstairs hallway so we thought it would be interesting to share a before and after of the upstairs hallway. In the newer photo of the hallway, the walls are just primed. We are hoping to get the walls painted over the next week or so.

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.

These are before and after photos of Ian’s room. We put in new closet doors and closet shelves, and obviously gave it a nice coat of blue paint. We ripped up the “beautiful” deep green (no, not Forest Green…it was deeper than that) carpet to reveal hardwood floors. Someone who lived there before wrote on the wood floors with permanant marker, so that made for some good reading. We had the floors sanded and that took care of the writing. :-) We do need to put some things on the walls, but we will get to that in time.

These are before and after photos of Rebecca’s room. As with Ian’s room, we ripped up the deep green carpeting to reveal hardwood floors. The flooring near the outside wall was a bit damaged but we can roll with it. It appears that the window has a little leak in it of some sort and that is something we definitely need to give some attention to. We put in new closet doors and shelves. Rebecca’s room is one of my favorite rooms in the house and she really enjoys playing in her new room.

I created an alternate blog focused on documenting the progress and changes that will take place in our new house as we forge towards updating it from the “days of disco”. The URL is: http://www.sgclark.com/house (You can also link to it from the About page) and it will eventually include before and after photos of the different rooms we are renovating. I am sure I will also put other house related photos and updates here, but I figured I would not bore people visiting these pages with the minutia of renovating a house.