remodeling progress.

moved the exercise equipment from the little bedroom to the bigger one.

moved the bookcases into the corner and added the desk.

made curtains .love how it ties it all together.

We have been hard at work on our remodeling project. We've been working on the rooms a wall at a time . after dinner we work for a couple of hours each night. makes for a long slow messy process ,but we are loving how each room is turning out.

finished the little room . that was easier ,just painted did not put the beadboard up in that room. Moved the daybed into that room ,turned the organ by the closets and then brought in the piano from the living room. We just wanted to get it out of the way and protect it from the dust in the living room and discovered it makes a really nice little music room. We just may leave it this way.  We'll see.

moved organ against this wall.

pictures are not up on the wall yet ,until we are done 

this is looking from the doorway. piano is opposite of the organ.

this past couple of weeks we have been moved to the entrance way hall and the dining room.
started on the rest of the room yesterday ,moving furniture out of the way and started taking down the wallpaper. Will continue to keep you posted as we work on this.

dining room

entrance way

bead board and trim

new walls/beadboard wallpaper

living room 

after 25 yrs in this house I am  really wanting a change . I would love to paint the walls, however being vinyl wallpaper it is not easily done. so we are starting small in the back bedroom which is our den/office/craft room and guest room.  the walls in the living rooms look like this. starting to feel really dark so we are thinking of doing this with it.
     so far we have two walls done and should be able to finish the other two this week. then new carpet before we start trying to put it all back.

     Should we keep going or stop while we are ahead...

"New cupboards"

coming along /new stove

desk after with new shutter doors from habitat store.

desk before

this spring I found myself with some extra time on my hands . When I came home from Utah after helping my parents for awhile I had taken a leave from work and when I got back found they were doing fine without me. (sigh) so needed things to keep me busy. I had been looking at kitchens looking for ideas to update our kitchen. My husband just wanted to take out the cupboards and gut the kitchen (someday at great expense in other words never gonna happen) . In looking around blog land I had stumbled upon Southern Hospitality beadboard party http://southernhospitalityblog.com/beadboard-wallpaper-party/ and I was in love. after  looking at the many linkups Iwent here to A country lady who had same wallpaper on her walls and cupboards as we did, and she just covered them up. SWEET. I can do that...just had to convince my husband. he agreed to let me experiment on the laundry room doors and if we liked it we could move on. Well it worked and it looks great and least to us. feels so fresh and clean. we painted the knobs  now hopefully it holds up. Someday maybe we will paint the kitchen walls but for now we are just enjoying the new look.
sorry the pictures are not in order but hopefully you get the idea of it.
 

doors before

doors after

progressing