House photos

So here's a few photo's of the most recent changes with old or ancient before-photos. I didn't realise how difficult it'd be to find a before-photo of the hallway...! Then again... How often do you take a photo there?! :D I managed to find two, from early 2007, to show some of the horrible structured (structural? Nasty! :)) patch work wallpaper we had before. :[ It was blue/white melange topped of with a blue and white floral border...yuk! :P

When we took down our sauna we were left with a lot of good wood paneling from it and I'd had a vision of our hallway upstairs being a bit "old style" with, what apparently is called, a dado (thanks to google translate+wiktionary+wikipedia!) so we went all high fashioned ;) and recycled the wood from the sauna! :) Instead of a cornice/dado rail (?) we're going to put up a picture ledge. For photos, paintings and other bric-a-brac... ;) I thought it'd be a bit different... :D But still nice...?? :D

The dado has gotten a first coat of white and above the colour is blue tone, in Swedish it'd be called duvblå - translated to "pigeon blue" :D :/ that doesn't sound right but...! The blue has a grey tint to it and is gorgeous! :D

What's left to do is to sand down the skirting board, doors (except front door) and door frames and paint them white and then sand the floor and paint it light grey in a high gloss paint. :D We'll see when/if the floor gets done or if we'll leave it 'til we do something with the rest of the flooring upstairs.



In daylight and at night time...



The kiddies bedroom "just" got redecorated with a new bunk bed and new shelves. The dresser now has space to be in their bedroom rather than just outside, in the mess of a soon-to-be-playroom. :) Found an old not even before-photo but an what-it-was-like-way-back-when-photo...
Stephen's done an amazing job...! I mostly just agree with his building ideas and give input on placements of windows/walls/doors and say what colour I want things to be... Living in a house, at least this one, would not be an option if he wasn't the handy-man fix-it-guy that he is! :)