Goodbye 1960's

Do you remember this picture?

I want to draw your attention to the awful, geometric, 3 dimensional, 1960's, red and white trimmed window...found at the front of our house, right next to the front door.  Bart and I have hated that thing since we moved in.

We decided to pull the window out, brick around the old window and install a new window-since we liked the light that it let into the entryway.

Since Bart wasn't feeling adventurous, we decided to hire a mason-his name was Gary and I would recommend him if you ever have any masonry work that needs to be done.

This was actually a fairly easy project, meaning that it didn't have any snags or set backs and came in under budget.  Here again is a picture of the "before",

and now the AFTER!

One room is finished.

From the ceilings to the floors, the casing, base moulding, trim work, and the new electrical plugs as well as the closet and blinds for the window. We have completely remodeled this room.  The icing on the cake though, has to be the Antonina Vella Rimini wallpaper that my mom and I hung this last weekend. I love it! I think it completes that room and has added an extra bit of visual interest.

My mom brought down all of her wallpapering supplies...brushes, paste, glue, rollers-all sorts of things I didn't even know existed.

We measured and cut, pasted and pieced pieces together to try to get the best fit.  We did such a good job and didn't mess anything up, that I still have plenty of wallpaper left.

I had a great time learning how to wallpaper and I like it so much I might try my luck at more wallpapering...if Bart will let me. :) This was well worth the $156.

Visitors

We had visitors come see our house! By visitors, I mean that my parents, an aunt, uncle, cousin and Matt and Joanna were willing to drive 45 minutes from SLC to see our house.

My uncle Reid, aunt Cathy and cousin Christy were down in SLC for a couple day (they are from Kennewick, WA) and were willing to come see the house progress with my parents.  The kitchen is coming along.  Bart tiled the kitchen floor, put up the walnut veneer on the sides of the cabinets and got the laundry closet painted-which hopefully means that we won' need to move the washer and dryer again!!!! My uncle Reid is a plumber, so he a Bart looked over the plumbing and the new tub in the downstairs bathroom and then I went to the BYU bookstore and got a free dinner with my parents :) Thanks again M &D.

18x18 ceramic tile from Contempo called White Sail

Walnut veneer from Macbeard in SLC, sprayed with 4 coats of semigloss lacquer

The Laundry closet painted in Revere Pewter

We decided to hire out the drywall and mudding for the downstairs apartment. Bart truly hates mudding and neither of our back's can handle drywalling the ceiling, so this really has been the best money we have spent. It's great to see the basement being transformed.

The day after my family came down, Matt and Joanna (Bart's sister) stopped by. They were nice enough to let me show them the entire house-room by room. Matt and Joanna are in the process of remodeling their house in Sandy, so they know how we feel-the pain and the admiration.  When Joanna was looking at the kitchen she turned and said, "Wow your kitchen looks even better than the pictures on your blog and the kitchen before looked even worse than the pictures showed". That was the nicest thing that she could have said!