Before Pics - Great Room

So we are gearing up for our flooring installation this weekend throughout the hallway and the great room (which encompasses the family room and dining room). Right now we have a combination of carpet and laminate flooring, and I can't wait to have it all match our recently redone master bedroom and Hannah's room (which you can read about here). So here are the before shots:

This is shot standing in the kitchen looking into the great room....

Again standing in the kitchen looking at the pantry door and down the hallway to the bedrooms

Our fireplace (and Hannah's toy bin....)

The china cabinet I am not looking forward to emptying

The hallway leading to the bedrooms, why they carpeted it I'll never know, as the first door on the left hand side in the main floor bathroom.... then the linen closet....

BYE BYE CARPET.....

Standing at the window looking at the front door....

Standing at the fireplace looking at the dining area....

Dining area again...

Dining area again leading out to our deck and patio (Lucky suntanning)

Standing at the fireplace looking towards the kitchen (can't wait to Rustoleum those cabinets next weekend)

So, those are my before pics, check back Monday for the afters, I am soo thrilled for this renovation. It's going to look amazing.

So our plans for this weekend are as following:

• Tonight my mom is coming to watch Hannah (and Eric is working afternoons) so I will be painting all the quarter round in the garage
• Tonight I will also be emptying the china cabinet
• Tonight I will also be emptying the pantry, which the before pic is super-scary and I'm not sure I'm ready to share it... you saw my other closets.... but on the upside, we are looking into getting a better organized system for in there as well (to be installed hopefully Sunday)
• Saturday morning, Mike and Ash are coming over to help remove the flooring and the furniture
• Eric starts the flooring and hopefully completes it all on Saturday
• Sunday install quarter round and go to Home Depot to get shelving for the pantry

So that's my weekend in a nutshell, it's going to look a lot like last weekend in here, disastrous, but it is soo worth it!! Hope everyone has a great weekend and check back Monday for the After pics!!

Amy

Whirlwind Weekend

WOW!! What a whirlwind weekend. Man oh man, does it feel good to sit down and write this post!! My living room resembles it's pre-friday self (still needs to be vacuumed and has a few misplaced items but I can breathy in here). But I am very proud to say WE DID IT!!! We unfurnished, uncarpeted, layed flooring, installed three closet organizing systems, refurnished not one, but two bedrooms this weekend. You saw the before pics, to see just how disastrous those closets were and I cannot be prouder of the results. The floors look amazing, and my hubby did an amazing job. I am proud to say I decluttered the master closet (featured here in all it's chaotic glory), and got rid of 5 green garbage bags of clothing (well donated them to Canadian Diabetes Association). And put two entire bins of Hannah's clothes that she has outgrown into storage totes to be stored in our basement. So, once I have had the chance to dust and vacuum the bedroom (hopefully in a few hours then you will be able to feast your eyes on some pretty amazing after pics. Seeing how good the floors look has made us super excited to see how the floors are going to look in our living room (to be installed in just two short weekends).

Hannah was a trooper this weekend, she exclaimed that our living room was "messy", and I would say that was a HUGE understatement.... and once the floors were done she told her daddy (aka the installer), "that's nice"..... you can't get a better compliment then the two year old critic laying on the floor rubbing it with her hands and telling you "that's nice". So cute. However, I don't think I will ever take on a reno without help coming in to watch her, as it was horrible trying to keep track of her and help my hubby. So thankfully my mom will be down the next few weekends to keep track of her....

So Check back later for the after pics, I hope to get them up tonight!! For now I'll be crossing things off my spring reno list - found here!!

P.S. - Congrat's to Alison for winning on our Handmade by Emmie Mae's pieces of jewelry!! (Check here to see how she did it...)

Saturday Morning Scene

Well my Saturday morning scene definitely isn't sweet or serene this week. It's a big mess, but my Monday morning will (better...lol) be much nicer. So here it is:

Master bedroom furniture and closet contents in our great room!! What a great big mess!!

Another angle....

Last shot of the carpet!! Bye Bye!!

So as you have probably read here and here, we are re-doing our master bedroom floor and closet this weekend with a gorgeous expresso walnut wood floor, so that's what our Saturday morning looked like. Disastrous!!

So head on over to here and check out what other people's Saturday morning is looking like. Hope everyone's having a great weekend!!

Amy