Long overdue renovations post

I was looking at my blog this past evening and realized that it's been quite some time since I've updated my blog on our renovations progress. We are still very busy and pretty much spend all of our time working on the house. We are anxious to have the first floor completed so we can officially unpack and settle in. Tim and I were talking about how the place is slowly turning into a home. We were looking back on what it was several months ago when we first moved in and can't believe how far we have come.

Here are some kitchen pictures, they aren't the best...but you get the idea. When we first moved in, the kitchen was covered in cockroaches. My lovely husband made me "captain in-charge" of cleaning them up (they all were dead...THANK GOD). I still get the chills thinking about it. Luckily, we don't have a pest issue at all, we just got stuck with the clean-up. Before we even did any real work on the kitchen, we lifted up all the cabinets and cleaned inside, above, and below them just to make sure we got all those nasty creatures out!
Besides the bugs the kitchen had some other interesting qualities that were not very nice. It had somewhat new cabinets, ugly tile on the floor, no fridge, and a water heater sitting exposed in the corner. Over the past few months we have put in hardwood floors, enclosed the water heater, put down trim, painted, got a fridge, put up new lighting, and opened up the entry way into the kitchen. So without further delay...here are some pictures.

Kitchen Before:




Kitchen After: