Evolution of a House Part One

I thought I would do a series of posts on the evolution of our house. We bought our house 10 years ago. She was a bank repossession in need of some major love. She had great bones and fabulous potential. She had her original bathroom and kitchen when we bought her, complete with original tile. As the pictures will confirm that. Mostly we painted and watered and moved in. For 5 years we lived with a lot of things. My hubby is not a DIYer which is okay because I still love him, faults and all. We can't all be perfect. As he once told me "I'd rather work the overtime and hire someone else to do the job." Deal! So we saved. I'm sharing the bathroom first because that's the first room we had redone. This is our main bathroom. We combined the shower and tub, turned the old shower  into a storage closet, added new tile and painted. I like to look at old photos to remind myself how far we've come since we bought this place. Especially if I ever feel discouraged about all the work that still needs to be done.

Before

  

 Floor Plan of our House

 During

 Oh my, were we really showering above all that rot? We didn't fall through?? Amazing.

 After

Ralph Lauren paint - some kind of blue. I wasn't blogging in 2005 and didn't even know about it. So I didn't keep paint colors or anything. The white is Valspar Swiss coffee. I only know that because it's a white I still like to use. 

 Son taking picture for his mom.

There are some new changes coming to this room. So I promise to post new pictures. Hope you enjoy this post. I have several more that I want to do about the changes over the last 10 years.

Cloches Again

I was shopping with my daughter while she was home one weekend and came across these lovely, little cloches at Big Lots. Not sure if they have these outside of California. It's a discount store, I suppose you would call it. Anywhooo, I knew I had to have the only two the store had. Brought them home, visited the thrift store for the rest of the components and so here they are. Still not sure what I'm going to put in it yet. Of course my new piece, the hutch, prompted a complete fluffing.

 This old North Wind chair freaks everybody out. It's a family piece so we keep it. Doesn't bother me. Yes I got stuck with the fish when the kids left. We felt they wouldn't have made the 5 hour trip north.

This is a Thanksgiving card my best friend made and gave me several years ago. It was a piece of fabric. I thought it was so cute so I framed it to use with my fall decorating. Which I still haven't done and probably won't. Sigh.... so many projects so little time.
Hope everyone has a great and fabulous weekend.

Fall Revisited

I've been in a re-decorate mood lately but can't seem to find enough humph to do it. I decided not to decorate for fall this year because there is so much I have to get done before a whole lot of out of town family come to visit. Thank goodness for the guest house. We'll be overflowing here. I told my hubby if I get to fall decorating, I get to it if not they'll still eat dinner without fall decorations. No one will probably notice anyway except my kids. So with all that said I thought I would share a few past fall decorating pictures. It's definitely, finally feeling like fall around here. Except this afternoon. I think we hit at least 86. Sigh... that's living in southern California for ya. Without further ado here we go. I'll try to include the year.

These are from 2008

These are from 2009

It's fun to look back and see what has changed. I find myself saying things like "oh my goodness, I don't even have this piece anymore" or " I forgot I even had that" or "Oh that's right, we did have the such and such there". Yes you're right in 2008 I went from having a pine dresser in one spot to having the buffet I have now. You never know what will get added or subtracted next. That's all in the fun of decorating, right?
Have a great weekend everyone!

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Jo over at Secret Garden Cottage is having a giveaway. Her blog is gorgeous, so if you're not familiar with her blog, go check it out. She has lovely photography and a beautiful home. Have a great week my friends. Cleaning out the sewing/craft/office room this week. Hubby finally installed my shelves. Can we say organized at last!