before pictures

Ok, here are the before pictures of the kitchen/dining area:

If you notice, you can get a little sneak peek into the color by looking at the wall near the sliding door. Almost done so will post finished pictures later this evening. Going shopping for some greenery to put in the windows.

Looks and feels like rain here.... little on the chilly side (had to put a sweater on) only 58 right now (8am) only going up to 72 today.

dining area make over day 2

thought we were going to be done today... painting went well. Be not afraid of color!! Was at first, but I'm really beginning to like it. Started putting on wainscot, but had to run to Home Depot for a few things we thought we had, so finishing up in the morning. Will post pictures tomorrow.

dining area make over

Started the make over of the dining area of the kitchen. Putting wainscot on 2 of the walls, did and staining of the wood today, painting tomorrow and then Friday putting wood planks up. Will post pics of the before and after.
Looks like rain here today, little windy and overcast but in the low 80's.

bathroom remodel

Our first major remodeling job started out as just as simple paint job and then I asked George can we change the mirror? of course that lead to changing the light and then since the cabinet above the toilet (which was there) was a dark wood and the mirror I picked was a dark wood I just had to do something with the bottom cabinet, (painted it with gel stain). Finally, the medicine cabinet didn't look right so had to change that to wood and also paint to match,

before:

color of wall

plain glass mirror with large bulb lightbar with medicine cabinet on left

light maple wood sink cabinet

after:

new mirrors, medicine cabinet and lightbar

paint color

and to top it off, I talked George into installing a dimmer switch for the lightbar.

Our backyard oasis

So just a few pics to show you the different areas of the yard.





I made the beach towels with hoodies so they slip on to the back of the chair.. cool huh? Next I need to make cushions for the backs of the chairs at the table. The table and chairs were left by the previous owners without the backs.

picture of cactus

ok here is the picture of the prickly pear cactus in our backyard, and every bloom isn't opened yet!

Other cactus in bloom

well, the other cactus in the backyard has bloomed. will post picture later today.