There has been some major progress made on the new house. We have finished all of the big stuff....entire house painted (walls, trim, doors and cabs), tile installed and carpet installed. Greg is now working on installing the granite in the kitchen as well as the backsplash, hanging lights, plumbing fixtures, new sink vanity in the powder bath and new toilets. Baby steps! Here are just a few before and afters, even thought the afters aren't complete yet....but a major improvement I think.
The kitchen before-this was the baby poop colored walls that I was talking about (there really is no other way to describe it). What you can't see from the picture is that the walls have no texture to them. It's like the previous owners painted over wallpaper or something. Interesting. The "faux finish" is also interesting.
The kitchen as of now...we replaced the crown on the top of the cabs with taller crown, added lite rail (sp?) to the bottoms of the cabs, added panels to the sides of the cabs, routered (I might have just made that word up) a piece to fit the cabs under the sink, removed the appliances, textured the walls and are in the process of adding granite tile counter tops and a black composite granite sink. I ordered stainless appliances which should be here next week...woo hoo!
Living room before. Yuck. Notice the amateur stain job on the floor. Oh, and hi Mom!
Living room currently. We still want to redo around the fireplace and add some wood detail/ new tiles...but that will have to come later. We tiled the floors with a staggered pattern which turned out really neat. We painted the balusters black, and will restain the handrail a darker stain at a later date. The wall color throughout is called Ripe Wheat by Behr and we chose a flat enamel which was rated really well and is supposed to be easy to clean up the occasional crayon drawing, but it is actually a flat paint. The girl at Home Depot about died when I told her how much paint I needed for her to mix. 
Living Room-another view
My laundry room ( : I know, who paints their tiny little laundry room-I DO! I have seen several DIY design blogs with green laundry rooms and I absolutely loved them. I am going to make some kind of cute window treatment, and add a few touches so that maybe doing laundry won't be so bad after all. Hey, a girl can dream right?
A close up of our granite tiles. I would have loved to put in real granite slabs, but it didn't make sense when you compared the prices of the two for this particular home. We are going to lay the tiles so that the grout lines are minimal, so hopefully it will look okay! We found these at Floor & Decor and they were only $1.99 a sq ft. To do our entire kitchen counter top and backsplash was only $600! That is so cheap! More on the backsplash later.
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