We've Moved !!

WARNING! This is gonna be a LOOOOONG blog. I have LOTS of pics to share!

Well its finally official! After almost 10 years in our other house, we have moved! We are all moved into the new house and almost all unpacked! We have still have a few stacks of boxes in the garage to finish unpacking. We definately 

had our work cut out for us in this new house.For starters it was a rental and the last tenants left it a bloody mess, so we had to clean up the mess they left, and then when the house was built it was a model so theres 20 different styles goin on that dont mesh well together! But thats not the biggest task so far...the

house WAS wallpaper from floor to ceiling in every room! and in one room there was a wallpaper border on top of wallpaper! I have never seen so much wallpaper in my life! They even wallpapered the light switches and outlet covers, AND the vents!! Not only was there wallpaper everywhere...in a couple rooms it was the original wallpaper from when the house was built(1970s?!) because the wallpaper was placed on top of the sheet rock wich made it really hard to get off! We have totally redone (taking wallpaper off and painting) the back living room, the dining room, and the bedrooms. We have to finish the front living room and start the bathrooms. We need new flooring in every room, and would like to remodel the kitchen...ahh yes, we have big plans for this house! But one project at a time...right?! I hate the color blue, and the whole house has blue in it! Well, mainly downstairs, the wallpaper and carpeting and some wood work is/was blue, and the carpet in the upstairs hallway...but as i said...one project at a time!  

So where did we move you ask?! We moved a whole 11 houses down the on the same street!! Thats right, we stayed in t

he same city, same neighborhood, and even on the same street!! That wasnt the plan, but it just worked out that way!! I think the square footage of the new house is actually bigger than the old, but the rooms are set up different, so our furniture dont fit the same! So we plan on selling our furniture so we can get some that fits comfortably in the new house!

 

Well heres a few pics of the work thats been done so far...  

The back living room...before, during & after! 

Heres the dining room chandelier. The hubby and i couldnt stand it, thought it was as ugly as ugly gets, so we changed it!  

Now for our room...this was another tedious job of removing wallpaper, the one wall was wallpaper over drywall with no paint over it...so when the wallpaper came off, it would peel the paper off the dry wall. ugh! Take note of the vent thats on the wall in the top pic, thats one that was wallpapered! Dont you like how only a portion of this room was wallpapered?!  

 

Natalies Room...Before & After...hard to tell by the after pics, they kept coming out dark no matter what i did! Any way, her walls are lavender and her trim is pink...i need to get some pics of the total finished product, but am still working on the finishing touches!  

This is what was left for us in her room! 

This is her closet...crappy shelving and hanging bar, a grand total of 3 different wallpapers (some is already taken off)!

 

The family that lived here before,had decided to redecorate this room...but didnt bother taking the wallpaper off, he just mudded the whole room! right over the wallpaper! so we had no choice but to paint over it...hope it doesnt cause problems later.  

And finally, the finished product!

I totally forgot to get a pic of the inside of her closet! Ill post some later when i post pics of the total finished product!

The fan blades were brown, they just happened to be white on the other side, so we flipped them!  

 

Aside from the wallpaper, heres the worst room in the house...wich is robs (my bro-n-law).

Before...

After...

Big difference huh?!

So, for as much work thats been done to the house, theres 10x more to do! But i guess thats what happens when you have a house, never ending projects!

**PS...i do realize that i should have lightened the pics, but i didnt realize it til i was looking at them on here, and since we just restored my computer, i dont have any editing software on here just yet...so you all will have to look at my dark pictures and like them!!!!

Thanks for reading...hope you dont want your time back =)