From Gross to Great!

Here are the before and afters of the completed guest bathroom!
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After:

A Finished Kitchen :-)

The Master Bedroom & Bathroom...

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AFTER

Moving!!

Yippee! I moved in this weekend. (Thanks to a lot of help.)
There is still work do be done on the house. It is by no means perfect, but it looks like a different house compared to how it looked 6 weeks ago.
I'll try to put up pictures from each room over the next few days so you can see the semi-finished product.

After 6 weeks of renovations, countless trips to Lowe's and Home Depot I thought I would share with you a few of the things I have learned and some of the quirky moments I have been a part of:
*If you are working on a house or completing numerous projects you may find that your standards for public appearance begin to drop drastically. I have gone to stores dressed in painted, tattered clothes, no make-up, hair unwashed. One day I walked around Lowe's for an hour with a big piece of vinyl floor tile stuck to my butt.
*Sometimes it's just easier to throw the brush away. I buy cheap paint brushes, and sometimes at the end of a long day, when you know you need to wash the brushes... it's just easier to throw it away.
*Most delievery men, construction workers and contractors work in a completely different hemisphere of time. In my world I have staff meeting at 8:15. I teach Bible study at 8:00. I have a discipleship group at 11:30. In delivery man, construction worker, contractor world they will come sometime between when the sun rises and the sun sets. Exact times are irrelevant. (My plan is to bake brownies and hand deliver to every company that has shown up on time - so far I will be making 2 batches of brownies.)
*The man who came to sweep the chimney was actually wearing a top hat.
*The chipmunk I chased out of the house actually had an unhappy ending. He died on the back patio the next day. I promise I didn't do anything to him. I think he got into all of the bug spray I put under the kitchen cabinets.
*If you are trying to eat all the groceries in your cabinet before you move you should not eat hamburger helper without the hamburger. It's not very good when it has no meat to "help". (However, it was not as bad as the time I was in college and put tuna in hamburger helper! Yuck!)