Extreme Home Makeover

I feel like I am not in my house. I must be someplace else. My house doesn't have smooth, freshly painted walls. It has beat up, old walls that weren't painted well. My house doesn't have nice, simple, clean floors. It has old green carpet that smells like things I won't even mention, and disgusting linoleum that never seems clean. My house doesn't have a beautifully sponge painted blue bathroom with a new toilet and sink. It has an old, cracked toilet seat that you sit on while staring at this country wallpaper that I would have never chosen for myself. But WAIT! This IS my house! Yippee! I get to LIVE here! We are no longer the Disgustingtons!

Yes, we are finally done. Well, I say that knowing that we will never be TOTALLY done, as there are ALWAYS little things we can work on. But we are FINISHED with the big projects and all the chaos and mayhem that went with them. The endless trips to Lowe's. The waking up and working all day, being hot and sweaty and not taking a shower until bedtime. The eating takeout food on the go. DONE. By the way, a cute picture of Alex helping his dad hang our new ceiling fan . . .
So, I was thinking it would be fun to do a little before and after. I still have pictures from when we came to look at this house 3 years ago. Now, mind you, we had redecorated everything once before, but had just done a quick job of things. But I KNOW you want to see what the house looked like for its previous owners. Of course, they had very different tastes than we do. So, you will see the old picture of each room, followed by the new picture.






So that is the transformation of our first floor! Hope you like it! We are thrilled but exhausted. There are only about 35 more things on our list that we want to get to, SOMEDAY . . .

And that's what's up on Boomerang Drive this week!

-- Holly