April 10, 2008

Before and After

I have no skin left on my knuckles.  I’m completely exhausted.  All I do is think about how I can restage, rework and get an offer by Monday when our contingency is up on our new house contract. So, do the changes that we’ve made make a difference?

Kitchen floor before.  We had a 16 year old floor that had faded and was stained in some areas:

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Kitchen floor after.  We put in a new tile floor (peel and stick) in about five hours:

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Living room before, which was completely set up to watch the TV on the opposite wall:

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Living room after, which is now staged to focus attention on the marble gas fireplace.

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Big I’s room before, where a big full size loft bed blocked the window and made the room appear small:

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Big I’s room after replacing her loft bed with a twin sized day bed:

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So, think I can have my own show now or what?

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Posted by on April 10, 2008 in On the Move | 9 Comments

Comments

9 Comments on Before and After

  1. Miss Chris on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 11:57 am

    2. Very nice transformations! You must have watched a lot of HGTV. I watch it a lot and have gotten some great ideas. It also gets my husband motivated to make improvements!

  2. Papa Bradstein on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 4:17 pm

    3. I don’t know if you can have your own show, but you can have the keys to our place if you’ll come and do that for us.
    I mean borrow the keys, of course, not have permanently…’cause then how would we enjoy our new beautiful place?

  3. dougis on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 4:39 pm

    4. Looks good,
    I especially like the clearing of the mantle and moving the mirror there. Adds a lot of dimension.
    Here is hoping you get an offer this weekend.

  4. GoMommy on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 5:21 pm

    5. Very nice! All the hard work paid off. Wishing you the best, I know how stressful buying and selling a house can be!

  5. Combatgal on Thu, 10th Apr 2008 5:42 pm

    6. Gorgeous kitchen/cabinets!! Off topic: I fast forwarded through Teri Hatcher’s (?) rendition of the song you used for your music video on American Idol last night. (Good sentence structure is sooo overrated). It just can’t compare to yours, that’s why. I was just about to ask if you were going to do another one when you hurt your knee 🙁

  6. Lisa on Fri, 11th Apr 2008 8:41 am

    7. Looks great! Watch out Frank, Doug, Hildie, etc. There’s a new decorator in town named BBM!!!

  7. Read The Words Beta Testing on Sat, 12th Apr 2008 1:09 am

    8. Awesome! You can definitely go for Oprah now hehe!
    Are you interested in participating in a Beta Testing for a free blog post reader?
    Readers can listen to your post anytime anywhere once you embed a reader on your blog.

  8. Karl on Sat, 12th Apr 2008 11:31 am

    9. Very nice, clearly you’re watching lots of that HGTV.

  9. Marguerite on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 7:22 pm

    10. Most excellent!! Want to come out here and do my apartment???

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