Dining Room, Hall, and NEW CARPET!!! :)

Well, I've finally gotten around to writing an actual blog with house pics. Our dining room and hall are both done after getting baseboards, and crown moulding put up. Buddy has a friend who loaned us a nail gun which was not only fun, but cut our work in half. The only thing we really have left in the hall is to buy some new doors (and one for our bedroom). We had our new carpet for the bedrooms installed yesterday, and it's so wonderful not walking on old, yucky carpet....and nevermind the old people smell is gone :) We will slowly start painting the 3 bedrooms and our bathroom....but our next big project is the kitchen. We're getting our textured wallpaper in this week, which we decided to do that since our ouside walls are concrete, and the wallpaper up now is applied directly to the concrete (hard to remove). There is no way to cover it with paint, and there are holes where they used plastic anchors to hang pictures in there....the wallpaper will cover all of that and it's pretty :) We're painting our cabinets, installing new hardware and a backsplash, and to save money on countertops, we're doing something neat to ours. I won't tell you what it is, you will just have to wait for pics. Now, onto the newest rooms done.



This was our dining room after we had sheetrock installed over the paneling:


This was once we got our first coat of paint on, before we put down wood floors:


The start of us installing our own flooring in the hall and dining room:


Crown is installed,just needs paint:


Buddy using the nail gun to install door casings:


Baseboards:


Door casings minus paint in some areas:


Finished product (want an accent table underneath the pics):


Left side by coat closet:


Painted the inside of doorway for cool transition from hall into dining room:


Just a refresher of what the hall looked like. That hole is where the coal burning fireplace was before they upgraded it. Ugly,huh?


The hall after sheetrock was installed, we painted and put in wood floors, baseboards:


One of our guest rooms before (old carpet):


After with new carpet. We just need to paint it:


Another view with Buddy's tv and game systems aka his "man area":



Will post pics of our bedroom once it's done, but the carpet is the same in all of the bedrooms. Hope you enjoyed, and we are proof that it doesn't take a huge sum of money to update your home, nor is it difficult to do it yourself. Just look for the best price, and have fun making your home into something not only nice, but something you can be proud of for doing it yourself.