Before and After

When we purchased our house last summer we knew it would be a lot of work to make it into what we had envisioned for ourselves and our taste and to also restore it back to its old original likeness (the house was built in 1901 and is a typical old Victorian home.
Because we moved here under a huge amount of stress, had a 6 month old baby, and then shortly after that I got pregnant again, we did not do a good job of taking before and after pictures. But, I did take some nasty before pictures of our kitchen when it was gutted. I thought I would finally post some of them as several friends and some blog stalkers have requested them (sorry, I'm only 6 months late).
Jared and I love redoing a house and now since this is our 3rd to do, we feel like we are pretty darn good at it. We designed the kitchen ourselves and its my favorite room in the house....maybe because I spend some much dang time in there or maybe its because thats where everyone eventually gathers to talk and play.

Happy Friday and Happy Halloween!

Before

This is looking into the kitchen from the dining room. It was real hard to have to paint over such a beautiful mural of fruit in a basket with wine....I mean really? Where do people come up with this stuff?

After



I know, just two pictures, but I'll post more of the house later.