House Remodel - Kitchen

My second installment about our house remodel - the Kitchen

Before Pictures: See the horrible red cabinets! Not sure if you can tell in the pictures, but the walls were a sponged yellow color.  Not even a good faux painting!  Hideous!  Some of these pictures are actually AFTER we did the floors, guess I didn't think about taking real Before pictures.

 

Remodeling Pictures:  One weekend we decided to scrape up the linoleum in the kitchen.  Once we started, we couldn't stop.  It was the longest, most disgusting, and most painful process.   

After Pictures: We used the same color for the walls and cabinets and changed the hardware.  This weekend, we are changing the ceiling fan over the dining nook to a "new" light (from my mother's house).  I still have some decorating to do - I just can't bring myself to hang anything on the walls or choose any colors

House Remodel - Hall Bathroom

My first of a series of entries of our house remodel.  This is the hall bathroom in our 1960's ranch style home.  We live in a lovely quiet older neighborhood.  I love the neighborhood - just wish that we had a nice, big, open floor plan and updated home.  Sometimes I think we should just knock this house down and start building.  But since we are on a very limited budget, we were only able to do a touch-ups/updating in the house.

Before - as you can see the bathroom tiles were 3 different shades of orange. 

During  - We hired Red Stick Refinishing to refinish the tiles.  It took a few days to complete the process, but it was well worth it and SOOOO much cheaper than Re-bath or the time it would have taken for us to tear down the tile. We learned in the back bathroom remodel that the bathroom tiles have 2-3 inch cement bed on top of an iron mesh in the walls.  I can't remember the exact process, but I know James (Red Stick Refinishing Owner) used some sort of chemical to etch all of the tiles, then spray painted all of the tiles. 

After - walls painted, new vanity, new mirror, new fixtures, new hardware, new light, and painted tiles