House Tour

I'd like to take you on a little house tour!  Mr. T purchased our duplex for a song and then, along with several generous family members and friends, proceeded to gut the entire place and fix it up.  He did one side, then started renting it out while he worked on the side we now live in.  Not being one to drag out home projects, we had it just about where we wanted it a few months after we were married.  Below is a slew of pictures, including, pictures of pictures because I'm cool like that. 

So, when we were dating, the living room looked like this.  Talk about your fixer upper!  

The Christmas tree was added by some friends as a joke to liven the place up.  All the sheet rock was off the walls and it was stripped down to the block.  After about a zillion hours of work, it now looks like this:

Here's the original dining room.

Mr. T removed part of the wall and opened it up quite a bit.

Next, the kitchen.  He used the old stove as his workbench.  It used to be filled with saw dust before we spruced it up.

Wa-la!

24 inches of counter space.  No problem!

Mr. T also cut out part of the wall here to open the kitchen up a little, as well as part of the wall on the stairs.  We added the spindles later to keep Tidytot safe.

Door to the basement is through the kitchen.  And, helpful hint, hanging stuff on the walls is key to making everything fit in a small space.

Basement/Guest Room/Laundry Room/Storage Space/Garage

On the other side of that hanging sheet is our storage space.

Oh laundry, you are so relentless.

Our bedroom.  This is my least favorite room in the house, decor wise.  I don't know why.  It never looks right.  I should just get over myself.

Here's part of Tidytot's room.  She has both a bed (generously donated to us) and a mini-crib.  It's a tight squeeze, but it works.

The outside of the house, when purchased:

Now, more or less:

The back yard, long ago:

Now, after-oh-so much work;  check out our garden.  We're like real adults!

That's it.  Once a labor of love, now a cozy home!