Updates around our House

We just passed our 5 month mark that we've been in our new house. When I originally made the post about our new home I said that there were a few things we would be changing. Well I haven’t shown any of those updates yet so I thought I’d share with you guys how the house is coming along. There’s going to be a lot of Before and After pictures so just giving you the heads up now.

So far many of the changes we have made have been minor. Things that you probably wouldn't even notice unless we pointed them out. We have changed out all of our light fixtures (except one cause its over the stairs) in out hallways and bedrooms. We picked up the new fixtures for very cheap at the Smiths Marketplace as well as at Lowes and they just look so much nicer then the old ones.

Hallway Before:


Hallway After:


Next to Each Other:


And me being the little handy man that I am LOL:


And here are the pictures of the bedroom fixtures.

Before:


After:


Another small project we've been working on is our door handles. When we bought the house it had the cheap and ugly gold door knobs and hinges. We changed out our front door and rear door right away so we could have new locks on the house. We changed them to a much classier set of handles then the basic Gold that were there before. We also started switching out the door knobs in the house as well to the better and classier looking design and silver color. I just need to go get the silver hinges and our downstairs doors will all be switched over.

Front Door:


Back Door:


Kitchen Pantry Before:


Kitchen Pantry After:


Knobs side by side:


By far the largest project we have done so far though is our Bedroom painting. We bought a few sample colors a couple months ago and painted some squares on the walls. We decided which we liked best and picked up the rest of the paint and last week we started on the project. Because of how dark the walls were it required us to do 2 coats of primer before the actual paint. I never realized how big of a pain painting can be. But I guess its worth it in the end when you see it finished. We aren’t done with the bedroom yet but we are almost there. We just need another day when Kiera and I are off work together.

Bedroom Before:


Bedroom After:


And some random pictures while in the process:












We also got blinds to put in all our upstairs windows since none of them had them before:


In our Garage we installed an automatic opener so Kiera could park her car inside and not have to get out to open and close and lock the garage every time she wanted to pull in there. I also got some shelve and hooks to organize everything somewhat better:




There hasn't been a whole lot going on outside the house in our yard other then regular mowing, edging, and watering. We had a few broken sprinklers when we moved in so Tyler came by a couple months ago and showed me how to fix or replace broken sprinklers. So now all of them are working good and our front yard is looking great. We are going to be ripping out the little area in front of our house where the pond currently is. It all looks like crap so we are going to dig it all out and put a flower bed there. Kiera already bought her bulbs for it. Now I just need to stop being lazy and get it ready lol. I just need to get with Tyler again to set a date but we talked about finishing our back yard at the end of the month. He just needs to come over to till the ground up and then we will dig the sprinkler trenches, put the sprinkling system in, and throw seed down for the lawn. I will also be building 2 garden boxes to have a small garden behind our garage.

Our patio is almost complete as well. We bought a Patio set from my work to go along with our grill so now all we need to do is finish the back yard and we will be set:


So that’s pretty much where we are at now. Almost all the little changes we had planned are complete and now just the large ones remain. We still plan to finish painting our room, Doing a complete makeover to our Bathrooms with new Paint, Tile, Light Fixtures, and Counter Tops. We will also continuing the wood look Prego flooring that currently in our Family room into the Kitchen and doing a lot of touch up painting. I would also like to paint our hall ways to match the Bedroom and Bathrooms better as well as the new carpet to come further down the road. All this in addition to the yard project which will hopefully be done before our Vacation in October. Anyways we will update this again when we add more stuff. Thanks for reading.