Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Fixin' up the house

We've been working hard on our house trying to add a 1/2 bath and more organized space than we originally had. This might be the last of the BIG projects we do to this house (famous last words, eh?) It was fun, but tiring and lots of hard work (trying to get it all done in about 2 weeks before Rudy's parents came out to visit.) But thanks to a plumber/electrician in our ward our house is not leaky, nor on fire. :)


Here are some 'before' shots of the non-existent 1/2 bath and closed in pantry. It used to be one big pantry/laundry room behind both doors.

Tearing a hole in the wall for the new bathroom door. Scary!...yet so much fun :)


All the wires, tubes, lines, etc. that are involved with setting up a 1/2 bath. We didn't really know what we were getting into when we started! (Thank goodness we had Jim, the 'Master Plumber' there!)

Melissa doing a little drywallin'

TA DAAA! (Thanks again to Jim and the Tetterton family for the sink and toilet that they had and GAVE to us!!) SO many generous people we've met!

The finished bath and textured walls (don't know if you can see the texture.)

The good sized pantry we ended up with. It was so nice to build a 1/2 bath and feel like we gained space in the house!

While the house was in madness, we figured, why not just redo the kitchen floor while we're at it?

Daddy's little helper. He couldn't get enough of using Daddy's tools and trying to do what Daddy was doing while we were remodeling.

The finished floor

BEFORE

AFTER

5 comments:

Ginny said...

woohoo for remodels!! but we didn't move any walls or add any major plumbing...so, you win!! looks GREAT!

m_and_m said...

Uh, you guys all win. I'm sooo impressed!

Clayton and Amber said...

Your remodels look great! I am so impressed. I love it! Now you can enjoy...

amber

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Brittany McDonald said...

Well thanks to all of you Gardners having blogs now we need to get one. Hopefully ours will be as successful as yours. Tucker is adorable, your house is beautiful and I am way excited about Rudy's "white coat". I can't wait to see you guys when you get here.