Before and After: Part one (of many)

We bought a three bedroom, one bath house in Oct. 2008. Michael went full-time into remodeling, gutting the bathroom, constructing a hallway and gutting the kitchen to name a few projects. He moved around all kinds of plumbing, did electrical work and escaped seven months of labor with only one injury (a drilling accident with a finger). He did ALL this with little to no experience. We spent an hour at Barnes and Noble one day on the Plaza and from those books we bought he completely transformed our house!







It is now a two bedroom, one and a half (the half is still in process) bath home. We still have a lot of work to do - most of it being minor work. The last big project we have is to paint the guest room and we will have officially painted every room in this house! Here are a few after pictures (though the house is still not decorated). This was definitely a learning experience. And while we both learned a lot from remodeling, we also learned that we will NEVER live in a house while we do this much renovation.

Look what we've done

So we (mainly me; me as in Kristen) have decided to create a blog. With Michael and me having family all over the place and everyone not being able to visit all the time, we thought this might be a fun way to update family and friends.

I'm confident this will not be updated daily so don't check in that often. Our goal is to post about once a week - as long as there is something worth while to post about! Count on plenty of house updates in the beginning since we're still in the process of finishing up remodeling and starting to FINALLY decorate. Other than that, expect posts about whatever exciting and interesting things are happening with us.

-Love, Kristen and Mike