Living Room - Before and After
We’ve been living in our little ranch now for about 7 years (wow, the time has flown by!). When we first moved into this place as newlyweds, it was a complete dump lol. I mean, EVERYTHING needed to be updated/ripped out/redone. Most of it we’ve either done ourselves or with the assistance of family. It’s been an exhausting 7 years to say the least ha! But now that things have settled in a little, I thought I might try to dig out some of the old pictures from when we first moved in and show you a little before and after. I still have so many things I’d like to change about this house and decor I’d like to update, but alas, if only time and money were unlimited.
Here are some pictures of what it looked like when we moved in. You can see everything was a lovely shade of pink and there was wall to wall carpeting. The hardwood underneath the carpet ended up being in great condition, it just needed to get refinished and re-stained a darker color. We ripped out the bottom half of the windows you can see in the picture here and just drywalled over that spot, the windows were non-functional anyway because siding had been put over it.
If you’re following me on Instagram (@thishealingmama) you might have seen via my stories feed, that we’re in the middle of refinishing our basement. Our house is quite small and while it’s worked great for us the past 6 years, now that Dash is getting older we’re starting to run out of space (and bathrooms!). So we’re creating a large living space downstairs with a hallway and a half bath, you guys I can’t wait until it’s done! Any day now they’ll be finishing up. I’ll post more pictures and my decorating progress on here soon. (thank you Uncle Dave!)
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