Beginning of the Process

This is my version of a panoramic photo of the house. It may be surprising that we chose this house from the way the outside looks, but we see it's potential. One day all the exterior will be one color with beautiful landscaping, a new roof and windows, and pops of color.

This is what I call our entry room. It will someday be the dining room. It opens up into the living room, kitchen, and our hallway. The arch leads into the living room.

These windows will be replaced eventually. The old delapidated ceiling fan must go.

This is the view of the front door.

The entry room from the living room. The door by the front door will be our coat closet. I want to line it with cedar and have a bench and coat hanger to the left of the closet.

This is a view of the kitchen, the pantry door, and the back door. I'm going to have a wall of pantries, not just that one door.

Our back door and kitchen sink. Notice the door knobs that there are two of instead of having a handle. Will be getting a new back door and windows as well.

The opening into the living room will be closed up and have our refrigerator put in it. All of the cabinets and walls come down for us to design from scratch.

Another view of the kitchen.

This is one side of the utility room/future laundry room. This side will have the front loading washer and dryer.

The future laundry room standing and looking the other direction. I want to keep that wall-mount ironing board, but don't know how the rest of the lay out will go.

This is the hallway, it leads to 3 bedrooms, a linen closet and a bathroom.

Our lovely yellow guest bath, with it's yellow sink, tub, and layers of wallpaper.

The yellow tub on the left and the sink would be across from it with the toilet behind me.

Our future one car garage. Until we turn it into one, its used as storage and a work room for all the things we're building.

That door goes out to the front of the house. It's in about the same place the garage door would be.

Our it's-seen-better-days linen closet.

Living room, looking into the kitchen and entry room.

Living room, built in book case and beautiful big window. The blue door goes into the garage.

Old rounded wood planks, that I'm not really a big fan of. They look like they should be in someone's cottage in the mountains. Not in our house.

The rounded brick place on the floor used to have a pot-bellied stove. This room was once the carport and the door on the back wall goes into the laundry room.

The room we refer to as the third bedroom.

You see the window when you walk in the door so the bed will go under it someday.

The window is kind of high up but a good 70" wide.

Our 3rd bedroom, looking from the corner back to the door.

This is our 2nd bedroom. Its closet bumps up to the master bedroom.

Note the really gross carpet. I had to pull and scrape that up with a little razor blade. It took forever.

View of the 2nd bedroom when you first walk through the door.

Note: I don't have any true beginning shots of the master bedroom because the windows were boarded up and there was no light in the ceiling. I will post pictures that are more of a during stage.