Dining Room has now become the study

After spending a lot of time decorating what we initially set up as the dining room, we decided to change it into a study come pub.  

We still need to put up some trim and finish the floor, but I must admit, that apart from the den/office it is one the most used rooms of the house now!  Based on that I think it was a good decision.  I love it in there...here are a couple of pictures of the new study/pub.

Apologies for Christmas decos but it be the time of year :)  

We turned the back room into the dining room.  Charlie was using this room as a bedroom until about 6 months ago (which afforded him no privacy), since he moved into the old blue room (which is now gray) we have not really had a plan for the back room.  It is the only door into the back yard so we have to keep it relatively open.

The choice to make it the dining room has been one of our best.  

Here are some pictures...

Update on pool

So, we got the pool open for the summer and actually have grass by the pool instead of weeds now.  For those of you that have followed this blog, you are well aware of what the pool and back yard looked like when we purchased the property and when we arrived in October 2014.  

I thought you would appreciate the after pictures....still needs some work but the difference is shocking for sure.  I want to put some flowers and big leafed plants down the fence line by the pool and we want to add some cool lighting so that swimming at night might be fun.

Kevin worked really hard on tilling up most of the area, charlie put down the seed, and for the most part I have the job of watering everyday to help the new grass take root and to get established.

Here are the before pictures just so that you can compare :)

Front Hall

There will be future updates about the front hall mainly because we want to replace the door and also replace all the bead board eventually and of course finish the floors.  But for now we wanted to at least give everything a fresh coat of paint and make sure that it is a welcoming place for our guests.

Before...dirty and nasty!

The trim work had been painted with a weird paint/stain that was a dark reddish brown color.

Floors not done yet, but I love the bright fresh look of the hallway now.

And view towards the door!

Living Room

This is the one room in the house that has no tv, no radio, and no computer.  I even don't really like having cellphones in there.  It is quiet and a place for talking, reading and appreciating life.

We have painted the walls, pulled up the nasty carpet, and plan to either replace the chandelier or at least add some beads to it make it look more interesting!  We also plan to replace all the tiles on the fire place which also goes into the office/family room next door.

My mirror made it safely onto the wall and I love how it looks with the high ceilings!  Once again it was quite entertaining watching Charlie and Kevin putting it up.

Roof

When we purchased the house, we knew that there was two holes in the roof.  One in the main roof over the blue room and one in the dining room roof which was part of the kitchen/dining room addition.

The hole on the main roof was not too bad and just needed some new shingles to be put on there.  The challenge was getting up there to fix with no scaffolding.

Here are the pictures from the roof on the dining room getting fixed.  Apologies if some are duplicated.