Aaron and I bought this house in June of 2009. We LOVE it here! The property is gorgeous, just minutes walking distance to the beach, where we spend a lot of time! Aaron has an awesome bbq pit, and I have a beautiful sitting garden with two huge, old lilac trees that smell amazing!! There are moose in the yard all the time, and rabbits everywhere! The nature, the privacy, the acreage...It is exactly what we were dreaming of for years, and finally found in this place!
The house
...the house needed a lot of work! We began tearing into things as soon as we bought it. Old and gross doesn't begin to describe it. Dark wood paneling throughout. Yucky ceiling tiles. Orange formica in the kitchen. The list of atrocious attributes goes on and on...The bathroom job
...We tore the whole bathroom out immediately. But...life soon got too busy through the winter for project bathroom to be finished. We have now been living in this house with an unfinished bathroom (meaning NO shower!) for 9 months! yikes! Having to schedule in shower opportunities for that long was reeeeaaaaally hard. SOOO... its spring time and I am now devoting my full time and attention to the home remodel job! And I am proud to announce that yesterday I took my first shower in our new house!!! It was unbelievable!!! So here are a few before and after pictures to wow and shock you :DBEFORE
AFTER
What we did:
We tore out the closet of the bedroom to the left, so as to create more room in the bathroom. I then put in a pocket door where the closet had been. I antiqued the door, and I really love how it turned out! I used the old vanity-just painted and antiqued it! I love how it turned out, also, and it saved a ton of money to not have to buy a new one. We made the countertop, its concrete with shells Aaron and I picked up of the beaches in New Zealand. The trim around the countertop is reclaimed from the closet we'd torn out. The floors: These are pine tongue and groove 2x6s. I torched each board before laying them down, thats what makes the dark grain lines! The rock river is something I really like incorporating in my floors. We love beach combing for rocks and driftwood! All the rocks in the house were hand picked right off our local beach! We took out the old cast iron tub and I framed in this walk in, double headed shower unit. Love it!! There is still some finish work to do with the trim and finishing the outside of the shower...so far so good!
