House Tour: Part 2

Good news folks, we are still enjoying a declogged drain! Thank the lord...onto bigger and better things...what you've all been waiting for, part 2 of our house tour! Thanks so much for your comments yesterday, I'm still shocked at what came our of our drain, but very relieved that we're up and running again. Happy Friday to all of you - enjoy the loveliness of the weekend.

Entry - Before:

 

note the lovely glass blocks...

Entry - After:

note the lovely mirror hiding the glass blocks...



Living Room - Before:

 

Living Room after:

Our living room projects: Gallery wall, map, radiator covers (throughout the house). The living room is on "The List" for 2012!

Dining Room - Before: 

Dining Room - After:

Our dining room project: bar cabinet

Kitchen - Before:

(PS - all these photos are from a pre-possession house visit...not our mess)

Kitchen - After:

bahahah - I wish.

We are in the midst of redoing our kitchen and have made some great progress..stay tuned for updates :) - image via pinterest via bhg

Boiler (heat source) - Before:

This picture doesn't do justice to the monstrocity that used to be in our basement - it was an oil boiler, about 2 1/2 feet in diameter and full height...in the middle of our basement

Boiler After:

Our new, wall mounted, high efficiency, gas boiler. Ahhhh. :) (FYI: The Mr. has asked me to post about this since I started this blog. Here it is!)



Porch - Before:

Porch - After:

Our porch projects: porch painting, doormat



That's a wrap! Hope you all enjoyed the inside scoop, we still have a lot of work to do but are happy with how everything looks so far. Once we finish it will just be time to redecorate again :)



Come on in - my first house tour! (Part 1)

Today marks my very first house tour! (Well, Part 1 at least...as I was doing this I realized it would be a looonnnngggg post, so I'm splitting it into upstairs / downstairs.)

I posted about our house and all of the before shots in my very second post (which I like WAY more than my very first post...but I digress...). The post tells you about our long house hunt and what we ended up with. Today's post will take a look at how far we've come from when we moved in - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Master Bedroom - Before:

Master Bedroom - After:

Our Master Bedroom projects: Closet, headboard, bench, lamps, night tables, curtains

 

Guest Bedroom - Before:

Guest Bedroom - After:

Our Guest bedroom projects: side tables

Office - Before:

Office - After:

As you can tell, we have not done a lot with the office...on the to-do list of course!

Bathroom - Before:

Bathroom - After:

We've painted in here to freshen up and replaced the toilet (didn't think you needed a photo of that...)



That marks the end of our house tour for our second floor - check back tomorrow to see our main floor!

The befores....

So now the hard part starts where I actually have to POST something. 

I think I will start at the beginning - my husband and I moved into our house last January - so we are coming up on a year in our house! We had a true Toronto house buying experience - looked for 8 months, made 10 offers, and got our house via a bidding war (by then we were very experienced!).  Needless to say we saw a lot of houses and learned about what we loved, what we hated, and what we could live with. 

Here are some before photos.  Please remember -these are BEFORES and do not reflect our taste!  Case in point: the previous owner's adoration for faux finishes, in the colour scheme of orange, yellow, and green. I'm not sure the photos do it justice.  The furnishings (and mess) belong to the previous owners.

I will post after shots as we go. Since we've been here a year, we have made a LOT of progress but a lot of work has been behind the scenes: electrical (re-wiring the house to get rid of knob and tube that is so common in older homes), converting from oil to gas, getting a new boiler/HVAC system, re-doing the chimney, the list goes on...).

Enough said - I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

Living Room:

Kitchen:

Dining Room:

Stairs (note the *2* different faux finishes on each wall):

Odd little nook where they blocked the hallway on the main floor:

 Bedroom 1:

Bedroom 2:

 Master Bedroom:

Bathroom: