Its been a while since I last posted on here. We moved from our tiny one bedroom 500 sq. ft apartment to a 1,000 2 bedroom basement apartment!! BUT we did have to do about 2 months worth of repair BEFORE we could even move in! There was mold EVERYWHERE!!! We had to rip out sheet rock and whatever had mold on it that we couldnt rip out, I washed with bleach and slapped on about 2 coats of paint! Seriously! It was GROSS!!! The pictures dont even show all the repairs and work we had to do just to make it liveable!!! We put sheet rock on the ceiling in 2 places where it was missing, layed tile down, fixed 2 water leaks, ripped out the sheet rock in one of our pantries and replaces it and the shelves, painted 3 coats of paint on ALL walls, washed all of the walls with bleach, washed the radiators with bleach and then spray painted them with 2-3 coats....they were an ickie pink color, threw out LOADS of garbage stuff that was down here, sealed over a couple dozen cracks, ripped out the WHOLE front door...you couldnt even OPEN the door cuz it was put in bad and some friend of his brothers broke it....so we put in a whole new door, sanded the closet doors and washed them too to get rid of the mold, replaced the base boards, put a cover over the poop door...dont ask!, fixed the windows, cleaned it after all this dusty and dirty repair work, lined ALL of the shelves with a VERY cute palm tree lining...I COULDNT put food or dishes on ANY of the shelves without them!!! and tried to rid this place of the GAZILLION spiders that infested here!!!
So here are the before and after shots.....let me know what you think!
In this pic, if you look at the pantry next to the stove, the mold went from the bottom second shelf to the floor...GROSS!
This is the livingroom/dining room, room...note the MOLD on the bottom right side of the picture on the trim and the ugly paint....it also took me about 2 hours JUST to mop the floor! ewwie!
Note the missing tiles, the table with a table cloth leaning up against the broken door AND again...MOLD near the bottom left of the picture in a closet...we had to rip out ALL of the sheet rock in the closet...there was a water leak...actually there STILL is one. And at the top of the picture there is this square thing....well its like that cuz of pipes but they just put CONSTRUCTION paper to cover it up so you dont see it....instead of being smart and using SHEET ROCK like you are supposed to!!!
This is the baby's room. Notice the UGLY pink radiator color! We painted the walls yellow, the radiator white and SCRUBBED the floors til they were the color they were supposed to be...WHITE!
This room was pretty much the worst to do! We threw out the old stuff that was in here. We painted the walls, and polished the dresser, fixed the windows and the curtains. This room had the MOST mold and spiders!!!! Even the CLOSET had mold!
Our SUPER DUPER small bathroom. But hey, it has a BIG shower!! =) Lucky the only problem with the bathroom, other than trying to figure out how to get in and not knock the toilet paper roll on the floor, was a little bit of mold and a leak under the sink. There is EXACTLY 9 inches between the sink counter top to the toilet paper roll you have to squeeze between to get in! Use the bathroom before you come over! =)
So here is the new.......
Our kitchen looking out to the living room and dining room.
This is the babys room...we have pretty much EVERYTHING for a baby...I am not joking! There is a crib, changing table, jumperoo, high chair, bouncy chair, bassinet, car seat and bathtub back there somewhere. Also, there is a rocker glider with ottoman, dresser and cubbies that are not pictured. Yes.....I am nuts! Hey! I just like being prepared!
The other wall in the babys room...I have boxes and BAGS of clothes...we are SET for the first YEAR....boy or girl!
We were in the midst of packing for Utah when this pic was taken.
I spent about 4-5 HOURS organizing this closet!!! I just have WAY too much stuff...even the laundry baskets were full of clothes!! Plus the dresser is full of clothes too.
Our messy bed....sorry! The tacky black rug will be gone soon but we need it, so oh well. We still have naked walls everywhere too. Its cute right??!! I gave up my bigger bathroom for a bigger kitchen but smaller bathroom. Now if only I could get rid of the spiders......
3 comments:
yay for cleanliness! I wouldn't have done it, lol. but it looks great!
thanks!!! it pretty much drives me CRAZY keeping it clean. Bryant could care less about cleaning it and keeping it as organized as I do!!
Cute place. I am glad it is bigger. It just sucks you had to do all that renovating to it before hand, but you have done well making it look like a home.
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