Home Improvement

Simon and Tom went to work on the "Off Centered Gingerbread Thing" above our doorway...

Our neighbor Terry came out to help as well. A work day isn't complete until Terry helps, or provides a bigger and better tool.

I took this shot up on a ladder to show how close to the edge Tom was working. I'd be too scared to be that close and facing backwards, but he didn't seem to care or notice.

Finished!

Mission: Completed

Before: An outdated, ugly, leaky bathroom complete with mold and smells!

Simon and Tom ripped out the wall, fixed the leak and took care of the mold.

They then got to work tiling....

Paparrazo getting up close and personal.

We liked this shot.... Notice anything unusual?

At one point Tom came out of the work room completely clean... minutes later Simon came out.... not sure if they were working on the same project or just have different work styles.

Phoebe even came over to help

After:

It's temporarily uglier... but stay posted!

What our house looked like with the excess decorative roof line that served no purpose...

So we had some work done to even the trim out and it will look temporarily ugly until the much awaited painting of the house!

We're in the process of choosing the house paint color.. so we have put the samples on the front of the house.. this way it will inspire us to paint soon so the house doesn't look like it is army camouflage.

It's Coming Along

Before....

After...

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Onto our next project.... These will be the before pictures!

The Money Pit

We have often look at each other adoringly and lovingly into each others eyes and ask

"what did we get ourselves into?"

Lots of appliances... none of which worked! One of the main problems with fixing up a home is disposing of all the materials... it costs almost as much as the fixing up!

The pile of 1960's tile which just had to go!

Tom basically has 2 full time jobs....one that everyone knows about, and a second one working at our house.  We couldn't have done this without him!

The Princess Room which had been all pink and purple..

The Fixer Upper

One week we were looking for a home...

The next week we decided to wait...

A day later...

We put an offer on THE biggest fixer upper in Orange County.

Unfortunately, the fire pit had to go.

We had 1960's tile all through the house which we got rid of.. then this strange piece of carpet placed in the middle of the living room?