4 years on, before and afters (part 2)

I recently posted some photos of the progress that we have made to the outside of our house

four years down the track. (you can read it here)

Whilst we don't lay claim to being renovators and had no real master plan,

it's still surprised me how much we have actually done to the inside of the house,
so I thought that I'd capture some of it here.

Let's start with the hub of a house - the kitchen.

Here's the before shot. Nothing too terrible...well, ok, maybe the tiles?

before

And here's the kitchen this morning.

I completely fell in love with the little deck area just the other side of the french doors off the kitchen.
It's referred to as 'favourite place'.
 The other best thing about the kitchen is the spot where I stood to take the photo above.
If I spin around you'll see why!

kitchen wall removal to open up the space and let in the light.

We took down the walls that formed a narrow corridor and separated it from the rest of the living area.

 Now that made a difference.

All of a sudden the dark kitchen became a bright space that connected to the rest of the house.

The kitchen was upgraded pretty soon after we moved in.

There are still a few things to do, like take the pendant lights of their boxes and put them up!

We're getting there...

Then a few months ago we decided to tackle the bathrooms.

 (a few posts about the bathroom reno  here)




upstairs bathroom before





After





guest room before



guest room after





guest room after

Pretty plain and simple, but works very well.

The only other reasonably big change has been the fireplace that I have posted about here

the before, part way there and fireplace as it is now

 The rest of the house has just been given a bit of a paint make over.

The walls in the bedrooms were two tone 80's/90's style - they were a bit of peach and lime green, some blue and yellow... I suppose it was fashionable a few decades ago?

It's all shades of white, white and white now, with a couple of subtle colour splashes here and there.
Sibs's playroom has one wall that is the loudest shade of fushia pink you can imagine.
If one day it looks tidy enough to take a photo I'll share...but no-one hold their breath on that one!

So very much a case of slowly does it in this house!

Living and learning, learning and living.