I haven't posted photos in a while because whenever I think I should take a photo I think, "no, I'll wait until that bit is finished," or, "I'll wait until we've cleaned that up." But enough is enough. Here are some photos -- sorta befores and sorta afters (*I mean, the befores are not really of the house as I found it [except for one] and the afters are of the house right now, which is 90% done, but not done done.).
BEFORE: Remember this? This is when we were framing the walls for the kitchen and the ceiling for the main room. Man, framing was good times. That was ages ago.
AFTER: Here is a photo taken from the same spot. The kitchen cabinets are in, the track lights are in (the pendants over the island are not in yet), and many things are "finished". The blue color on the upper cabs is just a protective film -- all the upper cabinets are high-gloss white once the film is removed (which it has been on some of the cabs). The range hood is installed, but the rest of the appliances are still to come. Also the countertops. So yeah, it's not done yet.
BEFORE: This was right before we got the spray-foam insulation. I am standing at the front door and pointing the camera toward the dining room and kitchen.
AFTER: This photos is basically taken from the same vantage point.
AFTER: I don't have a before from this angle, but this is the new kitchen and the hallway leading to the master bedroom and the other upstairs bedroom (there are two bedrooms downstairs that I'll share with you at another time....). You can see the electrical boxes in the ceiling for the pendants that will go over the island in this photo (for those of you paying very very close attention).
BEFORE: This was a third room in the upstairs when I bought the house. It had no closet, so it couldn't officially be called a bedroom. But it was upstairs and next to another bedroom so I of course turned it into...
AFTER: ...a bathroom. The window in this photo is the same window in the photo above, but the door to the new master bathroom now connects to the master bedroom (and not the hallway, from which the last photo was taken). This photo just shows the window (replaced, as all the windows were, with a high-efficiency, double-paned, low E, argon filled, blah bitty blah... window), the new sconces, the new vanity cabinet (that doesn't yet have a countertop or the two sinks), and the glass tile floor and "baseboard/shower pan thing". Look at the next photo and you'll see what I mean about the "shower pan thing".
AFTER: This is the master bathroom shower (missing shower head and grout). Notice the glass tile "waterfall" that connects to the "shower pan thing" that continues around the entire room of the master bath. The main tile of the shower is a "green" slate (they say it's green, but it's really a lot of colors in addition to green).
AFTER: Another shot of the master shower. The toilet will go behind the wall that has the window in it. The "sill" of the window was designed to be extra wide so that it could be a shelf for shampoos and such in the shower. There will be a glass door for the shower eventually...
AFTER: I have no before photos of the second upstairs bath (the guest bath), but here is a photo of the tile we did for the tub surround. It's Italian, so you know it's hot.
