Our Home Renovation | Let The Remodeling Begin!

It has been a process my friends!

We moved into my husband's childhood home 3 1/2 years ago.

My in-laws "built" this home in 1976.

Another thing to add...they built this home without any thought of having a child.

Mic came along unexpectedly 😉 2 years later.

Fast forward to late 2015 when we moved in...things weren't much different than they were when they built the home in 1976.

Obviously, most things in the house were usable...just out of date.

The big kicker was that the home was heated primarily from a wood burning stove located in the family room.

There were electric baseboards in most the rooms, but they didn't all work.

Heating a home with wood every winter when you work outside of the home isn't the easiest thing to do.

Thankfully, my in-laws helped out quite a bit and would throw some wood on the fire during the day so we wouldn't arrive home to an ice cold house.

But that only works for so long.

The biggest change we are making to the house is adding a furnace and central air.

Yeah, it didn't have AC either :/

Since that is pretty extensive we opted to move out of the house during the whole remodeling/rebuilding process.

A process that due to being stuck in permit departments for WAY TOO LONG had us painfully waiting to get started.

But we have started!!!

Today I am going to share some before pictures of the house.

They aren't the best considering we knew that most of the walls and such would be knocked down.

So things aren't clean, kept up, etc. since we aren't living there.

Entry/Foyer

The opening leads into our current family room, and the door on the right leads down to the basement.

The double doors lead into the dining room/sitting room.

Hallway from the garage entry door looking at the basement door.

Behind the blue doors in the laundry room is the laundry shoot from the upstairs.

A pipe burst during the extreme cold temps and caused the ceiling damage in this room.

The first floor bathroom.

We didn't use this shower at all.

The dining room/sitting room that leads up to the kitchen and family room.

I was a day late when I took pictures, so this was the kitchen after all the cabinets and such had been removed.

Don't mind all the junk in the picture below.
This is the family room.

From the family room/kitchen area there are steps that take you upstairs to this "room".

This was an extra TV/playroom for X.

We stored most of X's toys in the little room shown below.

The doors had already been removed from this room and the stairs.

This is an extra room that we used as Mic's office space.

This was Mic's childhood bedroom turned X's room.

The closet was added to the room once Mic was born 😉

This is the master/main bathroom for all of us :/
This was never an issue for Mic and his parents since they were all on different schedules.
Since our family gets ready at the same time each morning it didn't work very well for us.
Thankfully, we are able to add another full bathroom upstairs just for X/guests :)

From the bathroom, you can enter the master bedroom.

The door leads out to the small balcony above the garage.

The hallway entrance for the master bedroom and the built-in dressers.

The sitting room within the master that leads to the master closet.

 And there it is!

And here is what it looked like just a couple of weeks ago...

Pretty much everything but the family room/fireplace space is being rebuilt.
I mentioned it above, but again the main reason for this is because we are adding a furnace and central air, so duct work has to be run through the entire house!

That's all for today!
I'll post updates as we see changes :)

Thanks for following along!

XOXO ~ Vanessa