I just found these pictures in my email, they are the pictures of our house from the listing. I'll comment below them and tell you what we've changed and then take pictures sometime soon so you can see the difference too.
The front of our house! We're on the corner so we face Southeast.
The upper window is the master bedroom, the lower right is my craft room, lower left is the laundry/bathroom.
-The changes are minimal, the red curbing bricks that are for no reason in front of the porch have been moved, our own chairs and table sit on the porch-much cuter. Next spring the door will get a fresh coat of paint and the kick plate will get one too!
This view is roughly standing from the front door. The door that you see is the coat closet.
-A fresh coat of paint in here went a long way. The color in this picture is a peachy/flesh tone... blech. The carpet in here was replaced a week before we made the offer, this is the carpet we took throughout the entire house. They had put it in this room the stairs going downstairs (stopped at bottom) and up the stairs and in the hallway upstairs.
Standing in the dining room corner by the stairs looking back into the living room.
Standing in the living room by the coat closet looking straight ahead into the dining room. To your right is the half staircase going upstairs, and you can see part of the half staircase going downstairs.
-The flesh color is gone and that wall wrapped around the kitchen is a pale blue. The green wall is the neutral that we took throughout the entire house.
Standing in the corner by where you go downstairs looking into the kitchen.
-The doorknob you can see before the fridge is the pantry, that wall is our neutral to the fridge, as it turns by the fridge the wall is blue. The biggest change we made in here is the kitchen cabinets. I had forgotten how terrible the kitchen looked until seeing this picture. We painted them white and it made the BIGGEST difference. We also spray painted the fridge black to match the appliances. Appliance spray paint works! $12 was well worth it and cost much less than a new fridge to make them match!
Looking from the pantry door towards the dining room/basement. It is so so nice to be able to see down where she is playing from the kitchen!
When you go up the half set of stairs you hit this room first on your left (well really the master door is before this on your right, but I'm going clockwise). This room is E's room. It got a fresh coat of white paint on walls and the ceiling. The big wall that the bed is mostly on is now pink, and we put in an IKEA chandelier for her, her "princess light".
This is the next room on the left, it is now a guest room. Just a plain off white color with a bed in the room. :)
The next room (at about 3 o'clock on an actual clock). "Emery's bathroom" as she calls it. This is the only tub we have. We've taken the mirrored vanity down (and made $30) and put up a mirror that I bought at a yardsale for $10, it was a HUGE change! Painting the vanity is still on our list of things to do. :)
This is the view of the master from our bathroom, the room was painted an off white ("antique white") and the wall with the pictures on it is blue and that is where our bed is. My mom and I made a window seat and this room is still coming together slowly.
Master bath-the corner shower doesn't bug me as much as I thought it would, I actually don't have a problem with it. Painting this vanity is also on the to do list still.
Master closet, it is still a walk in, and decent sized, but our last one was the size of a bedroom so it is down-sizing for us. :)
Family room downstairs, this room was painted the neutral (autumn haze) and got new carpet-the carpet in the living room we took throughout the rest of the house.
This is off of the family room, and is now my craft room. It got new carpet was all, but it made a huge difference. This room has great lighting which is fabulous for crafting. My quilting machine BARELY fit. Like a few papers between it and the wall on each side.
The downstairs bathroom/laundry-this still needs to be painted. Eventually we'd like to put a shower in this room so the guests don't have to go all the way upstairs to shower because our main guest room is in the basement.
From this view to your right is another half set of stairs that goes into the basement. (so these stairs run under the stairs that go upstairs to the bedrooms) When you get to the bottom to your left is a big storage room, the hall then bends to the right and there is a door on your right and one straight ahead.
Downstairs in the basement, this is now our guest room. (the door if you were to go straight through the bend in the hall) We painted the ceiling white (it was baby blue with clouds) and the walls the neutral we used in the majority of the house. This room actually had carpet in it and had been finished semi recently. It is very similar to the carpet in the rest of the house but is slightly longer.
The door to the right. The basement didn't have carpet on the stairs or in this room (it is just laid down) so we finished it off by putting carpet in. We took the carpet from the family room and set it down in the storage room which made a big difference in there as well. This room is the exercise room. It can't technically be used as a sleeping room because you can't get out of the window currently. The window well is dug out, but then the kitchen windows (behind the table) are bay shaped and hang over the dig out as it currently is, so you'd have to be about 4" to get out. Sometime next spring we'll dig it out just so that it is done and another access out. It works perfectly as an exercise room though as it is on the smaller side.
The door with the black thing on the bottom goes to the kitchen, the door on the right goes into the garage. Where you can see the trash can Jared and his dad have built a shed which has already proved to be worth the money as we can both park in the garage and it makes a big difference in Jared's mornings.
I'll get some better pictures of the backyard as well as updated ones so you can see the difference soon!
Enjoy the Journey.
