I thought I'd change it up a little here and do a home improvement post. I love getting to peek virtually and otherwise (I really love when our awesome neighbors let us in their house after they've had new stuff done!) into other's houses. I love to see what people do with their spaces. So this is a post about what we've been doing with some of our spaces.

 

We are remodelling our house. That statement is basically the understatement of the millenium. We started the project in 2007 shortly after we moved in. And by "we" I mean, Kevin, aka the guy who can build and/or fix ANYthing. About the closest I have come to helping with this project is to bring the poor guy a cold drink every now and then.

The remodelling project is really several projects rolled into one. They all sort of feed off of one another. Like flesh-eating zombies feed off the dead. The projects became necessary because 1. we pretty much bought a house that we outgrew before the last box had been unpacked and 2. Kevin has a need to make things better.

 

We have or are in the process of adding an office for Kevin (cause the dude literally has no space that's his other than a drawer in the kitchen. It's gigantic (his new office, not the kitchen drawer) and has some sweet brickwork and some beautiful arched niches and a barrell ceiling. Unfortunately his extremely sucky company just laid him off, so hopefully he'll have a brand-spanking-new job to do soon, hopefully right around the time the new office space is finished.

 

In addition to the new office, we (Kev) added a room onto our master bedroom. This room is the bedroom for our littlest guy. He's happy to know he's right next to his biggest fans and we like having him close by. Someday when he outgrows this space (it would be a little awkward to have a 16 year old version of him having to walk thru our room to get to his!), he can share with his older brother or we can play musical rooms if an older sister or two move out.

 

This new room is like an architectural masterpiece. It started out as less than nothing. As in it used to be our backyard - dirt and rocks. Kevin had a vision in his head how he wanted it to look and he somehow transformed it into exactly that. I'm serious - there's really nothing he can't do.

 

 

Here's an old photo of the backyard. The very corner of the house is where the baby's room is now.

 

Here's the inside of the baby's room. There are more shelves down the middle of the two closets now. They all have their own lighting and there's Kevin putting the finishing touches on some of the woodwork.

 

 

Here's looking into the new room, after the new carpet was installed.

 

 

There are now glass panneled french doors in that opening.

 

In addition to the two new rooms, Kevin also completely reframed our master bedroom ceiling so that we now have a tray ceiling, special lighting and speakers hidden inside the tray ceiling. While the little guys bedroom has a suede painting technique (makes a great photo backdrop too!), our celing has an antique leather technique. Very nice and visually interesting. Like I said he has a need to make everything around him better.

 

 

Next I'll post about my awesome scrapbook/craft oasis he transformed from an ordinary coat closet, our covered patio and  before and in-progress photos of our new master bath, another huge transformation! 

 

Have you done any work in your house you'd like to share? Even if you haven't expanded or remodeled, I'd love to see where you live! I hope to see someone else blog about their space!