It is FINISHED!!

Our house in finally DONE.  Completely DONE.  Of course there are always going to be things we could improve, but we are DONE!!  It has taken a lot of work and time, but hopefully when we sell the house it will be worth it.  Kenney has really done so much work; I am amazed.  I never knew he could do half the things he did.  We have decided YouTube actually has a useful purpose.  We saved thousands of dollars doing things ourselves rather than hiring it out.  I can honestly say that I am proud of our house.  I had many MANY doubts in the beginning, but I think it looks pretty awesome!

This is one of the back bedrooms.  All of the windows and doors were painted red and white.  We aren't quite sure if they were just really excited to try out new colors or what, but the paint was new and the room was a complete mess.  We decided to paint after the ceiling was in place!  Half of this wall was super thin and half was solid wood.  We had to reinforce the wall on the other side.

Sorry about the boxes.  This is the other side of that same room.

The unfinished ceiling and lovely blue stripe they had going in the room with red doors and windows.

Another corner of the same room.  We framed over all of this mess and painted to make it look much nicer.

 AFTER

This is one of my favorite paint colors in all of the house.  Those red windows just had to go!

We discovered in this room how much we hated doors.  It was awful installing doors!

BEFORE

 

This used to be a kitchen when the houses were separated.  We had to remove the rest of the kitchen and sheet-rock the entire room.

The doorway here went into the previous bedroom, and this wall was super thin.  Kenney framed the wall and closed the doorway.

This beautiful fabric wallpaper was in random sections throughout this room.  The horrible ugly window was supposed to be replaced, but there is a long story behind that so we just had to take it out completely.

We tried to save the beadboard and paint over it, but we couldn't.  Kenney had to tear it all down and reinforce the rafters in the roof.  Needless to say, he officially hates insulation!

This shows how thin some of the wall were.  We are still amazed they were still standing.  The house is much more solid now!

 AFTER

The kitchen is no longer!  This room is completely new.  The walls, carpet, ceiling, fan, windows, etc. 

That door was a pain too.  Kenney actually built the door frame himself!  He chiseled the wood to make the hinges fit and everything.  I was amazed.  The door opens perfectly and hangs level.  What more could you ask for?

This room is huge!  I still have nightmares of painting it.  Kyler loves to run in this room because there is so much space.

 BEFORE

We were told by one of our friends that this was the scary room.  It was pretty horrible.  The floor was pretty much nonexistent. 

Basically everything in this room was falling apart.

The wood around the windows was rotten, and we have no idea how all of the glass panes were still in place.  The wood underneath the windows was beautiful, but we were not able to keep it visible.

These are the pipes from the kitchen that used to be on the other side of the wall.  They were just exposed and hanging out everywhere.

There was pretty much not a ceiling to speak of, and wires were dangling everywhere.

 AFTER

Look there is a floor and a ceiling and walls!!  What a difference those things make!

We really didn't put a whole lot of effort into this room; we just wanted to make sure it was sealed and useable.  I painted everything white because I was so tired to two different colors!

I don't know if you can really tell, but in the middle where it sticks out a little is where the pipes are.  We didn't want to take them out in case someone wanted to put a kitchen in again or make a bigger laundry room, but at least it is much cleaner now.