The Bedrooms (minus one) and Bathrooms

THIS is a very privileged preview. Here you see the parts of the house that are not so pretty yet. But you wanted updates, so please don't judge!

The Guest Room:

Before

Currently (it still has a long way to go!)

New door hardware

DONE!
- Remove nasty linoleum
- Sand down wood floors
- Varnish the floors
- Paint closet door
- New hardware on door
- Window treatments

To Do:
- Re-sand, stain, and re-varnish the wood floors
- PAINT (get the last of that awful peach out of here!)
- Spruce up closet door
- New light fixture
- Various decor (hang artwork, paint desk and cabinet, new headboards, still need comforter for one of the beds, etc.)

The Front Bathroom:

Before

During

Currently (again, not a lot of progress...)

DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Install new flooring

To Do:
- New light fixture
- Tile the floors (the floor needs to be redone)
- New mirror/frame the mirror
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Paint vanity
- New water fixtures
- Paint grout in the shower

Master Bedroom:

Before

Currently

The Anthropologie knobs that inspired the color scheme

Curtains

Hand-me-down headboard spray painted aqua blue

Horrendous closet doors! Boo!

DONE!
- Grind and stain concrete
- Seal and wax concrete
- New light fixture
- Paint bedroom door and install new hardware
- Window treatments

To Do:
- Polyurethane concrete
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Install new closet doors

Master Bathroom:

Before

Before

Currently

DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Install linoleum
- Install baseboards
- Paint vanity
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Updated curtain rod and accessories

To Do:
- New light fixture
- New mirror
- New water fixtures
- Add corner shelves
- Install new exhaust fan
- Clean up tile in shower and on counter
- Paint grout

The Kitchen and Dining Area

The Kitchen and Dining Room:
(This is the best part!)

Before

Before

Before

Removing tile

I love this picture so much because you can see the disgust and disappointment on David's face as he peeled off the 3rd layer of flooring in the kitchen only to find.... a fourth layer of flooring.

Get that tile coutertop out of here!!

And the wall, while you're at it!

Clock wall in the dining room

Close up of the new floor in the kitchen

Close up of the countertops

We added a bookshelf in the kitchen to create a snack bar

DONE!
- Remove FOUR LAYERS of flooring
- Remove archway
- Install linoleum
- Install baseboards
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Add more cabinetry
- Paint cabinets
- Remove old countertop (all 9 square feet of it)
- Build and install new countertops
- Paint door
- Update door and cabinet hardware
- Paint pantry doors
- Grind down and stain concrete (in dining room)
- Seal concrete
- Install transition between wood and concrete

To Do:
- New light fixtures/ install a light fixture in the dining room
- Install a sink transition
- New faucet
- Ceiling tiles?
- Re-do countertop to adjust the size of the bar area
- Fill-in pock marks in concrete and touch up the stain
- Polyurethane concrete floors

Question: Ceiling tiles in the kitchen: Yay or nay? In case you're wondering, we would remove the beam.

The Family Room (Our living room)

The Family Room:

Before

During: We ripped up the carpet

Tearing down the wood panels.... notice all the black glue marks. How lovely!

Recruiting Mom and Dad Heywood to replace pieces of drywall

And my mother-in-law, who is amazing at everything she does, is also amazing at texturing walls by hand. That crap is tricky! I can still tell which areas she plastered versus the ones I did... haha.

Currently (Sorry for the terrible lighting)

A) This piano is gorgeous (Craigslist for $100!!), but still needs to be tuned and cleaned up. B) Can you just take a moment to appreciate the fact that this is the third DIFFERENT guitar pictured throughout the house? You might be a Heywood if... you have a guitar in every room of your house.

Yes, Vader has two beds. He and Polly fight over them.

These bad boys still need some work...

It's very hard to tell from the picture, but this is the stained concrete. It is light blue with a darker blue marbled in it... You'll just have to come see it in person to truly appreciate it. :)

DONE!
- Remove carpet
- Take down wood panels
- Scrape down glue marks
- Plaster over drywall
- Grind and stain the concrete
- Seal and wax concrete
- Install baseboards
- Frame sliding glass door
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
-Window treatments

To Do:
- New light fixture
- Polyurethane concrete
- Frost the glass on the sliding glass door
- Update outlets and outlet covers
- Fix gaps between outlets and walls (and some of the outlets protrude out of the wall)



Hallway and Laundry Closet:

Before

Before

Before

After

DONE!
- Paint hallway ceiling, walls, and trim
- Paint closet doors
- Grind and stain concrete
- Seal and wax concrete

To Do:
-  New light fixtures
- Adjust shelving/ cabinetry in laundry area
- Paint the laundry closet
- Hang mirror or other art
- Fill pock marks, touch up stain, and polyurethane floors

Question: Do you have any opinions or suggestions about the half wall and pillars? Should they be painted a different color? Should we remove them and fill in the wall? Or turn it into some kind of book shelf or something?