Now and Then
Besides being one of the best movies ever made, this is the perfect title for this post. Here we go! Long-awaited pictures of our new house! Gotta say, the new digs feel perfectly normal now - it is only when I look back at these pictures that I remember how extensive the work we did was. It's amazing how quickly you forget! I wonder if this is the same mechanism that makes women 'forget' how horrible child-birth can be so as convince them to have more children.
Remember when it looked like this when you walked in (with a little less cardboard and a little more wainscotting - but I didn't take a picture of it from here before destructo was in full swing)?
Now it looks like THIS when you walk in the front door!
Remember when the living room looked like this?
Now it looks like this:
Remember when the dining room looked like this?
Or this?
Now it looks like this:
When you looked downstairs from the landing, it used to look like this (with a lot less cardboard and a lot more wainscotting) - Look at all those doorways!:
Now it looks like this!
Looking from the dining room to the kitchen used to mean looking at this (not including Jake and his sibs ;):
Now it looks like this:
Standing at the window in the kitchen used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
Old kitchen:
Previous view from the kitchen to the dining room:
Current view from the kitchen to the dining room.
The back porch (I don't really have a before picture of this one, unfortunately). New floors still to come.
Standing in the back sunroom, looking at the front door.
Without further ado, PICTURES!
Remember when it looked like this when you walked in (with a little less cardboard and a little more wainscotting - but I didn't take a picture of it from here before destructo was in full swing)?
Now it looks like THIS when you walk in the front door!
Remember when the living room looked like this?
Now it looks like this:
Remember when the dining room looked like this?
Or this?
Now it looks like this:
When you looked downstairs from the landing, it used to look like this (with a lot less cardboard and a lot more wainscotting) - Look at all those doorways!:
Now it looks like this!
Looking from the dining room to the kitchen used to mean looking at this (not including Jake and his sibs ;):
Now it looks like this:
Standing at the window in the kitchen used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
New Kitchen!
Old Kitchen
New Kitchen!
Current view from the kitchen to the dining room.
Looking towards the front of the house from the patio door:
The back porch (I don't really have a before picture of this one, unfortunately). New floors still to come.
Now when you walk in the back door (the one we use most often), this is what you see.
There is still a lot of finishing to do - some wainscotting to go in the parlour (I didn't show you that because it has a lot of ways to go yet), trim everywhere, a few thresholds and new floor in the back sunroom (cork!), but in terms of functionality, the house is 100% back and it feels SO GOOD. We've hosted a bunch of people already and the house performs admirably.
So enjoy! So many pictures! Come visit!
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