Extreme Home MakeOver...An Internal Update

Downstairs looking at the old 'wall of windows'

Standing in the old bedroom downstairs looking into bathroom

The house is changing every day.  It probably doesn't look like this anymore, but it looked like this a week ago.  Now, there is plumbing lines and duct-work snaking through the house.  Things are continuing to progress.

This picture shows the east wall that used to house the infamous 'wall of windows'.  I think we are going to like the new look!

Our bedroom

Jut in the laundry room

Boys' bedroom

E's potential room

There used to be a wall where the flooring disappears on the floor.  I am standing on the new staircase.  I am anxious to see how we are going to arrange this space.  It seems smaller than I had pictured in my mind.  I don't think our aircraft carrier of a couch is going to be a great fit in this house either.  Why we thought that sectional was a good idea is beyond me.  It fits the old saying, "Be careful what you wish for."  It hasn't fit well in any of our houses yet.  Maybe I'll get to buy some new furniture someday!

Our new bedroom upstairs.  The entire upstairs is completely redone.  The whole thing was cut off and rebuilt.  Our bedroom seems huge. I'm not quite sure what we will do with all the space but I know that we will like it.  We just decided to add a window in the north wall and make a little nook into a 'craft' area for me instead of another closet.  I think I will enjoy the 'me' space.  Funny thing about the design...the walk-in closet is about double the size of the bathroom.  We may regret that later....or we may not.  We are just excited to have a bathroom attached to our room again.  PH spoiled us.
Here's the laundry room and the kids' bathroom behind it.  Not much to say about that.  I'm excited for it to be on the second floor and so I won't be constantly hauling clothing up or down the stairs.  I will miss the convenience of first floor laundry when muddy clothes come inside but I think the day-to-day stuff will be wonderful to never have to drag downstairs.  I'm really excited to not always have piles of laundry stacked up on the couch...In the new house, it will pile up somewhere upstairs, I am sure.  But, it won't be in the living room!!

The boys will share a room when we move.  This will probably be their room.  With all the closet space, my dad thinks it needs to be E's room eventually, but the significantly bigger room, so for now, the boys will probably be found here.

Of course, we haven't decided officially on many things.  People ask what the old parlor will be used for...and we really don't know yet.  It will probably be a toy room of some sort.

There is an extra bedroom upstairs that won't be used yet as a bedroom.  Will it be an office or a toy room?  We have yet to decide.  We have space.  I'm excited to have space.  The house we are living right now has space, but it is not well managed space.  We have no large areas to have groups.  Fitting 12 people around a table to eat is almost impossible.  The new house should easily make all these dreams a reality.  Things are taking shape.  We are really going to move.  Life is good.  God is good.