Dining/Living Room Finished

DINING ROOM - BEFORE

...again, why didn't I take pictures of every single thing? In one of the corners of the dining room, there was this hanging lamp thing that was probably 40 years old. It was rusted, broken, and had been "rigged" to work with what looked like a cell phone charger...I was almost scared to touch it.
...unbeknownst to us, there were 2 carpets that lie here. Also, roman blinds so poorly taken care of and in bad shape that when I tried to roll them up, they crumbled in my hand where I touched them, paneling and old yellow paint.

LIVING/DINING DURING RENOVATIONS

...after finding the second carpet and the jewel below that, we stared at this well put on carpet padding for a short while. It was a huge challenge to us and many, many, many hours were spent on hands and knees scraping off inch by inch.

..everytime I saw another foot of this beautiful hard floor, I got real excited. We had planned on laying all new floors, and in the end I was glad we didn't need to. Once we got this floor sanded, it was in perfect shape. Not a single thing wrong with it. Couldn't believe it. I think it's my favorite part of the house.

...primered and ready for paint. At this point, we had gotten almost all the blue stuff off the floor. The last bit that you can kinda see in this photo was the most difficult spot. It seemed to be 3x as hard as the rest because it was a high traffic area.

..primered, except the off white dirty looking windows.

DINING/LIVING ROOM AFTER

...fresh paint ceiling to trim, all new electrical outlets - that was a nightmare! Completly refinished hard floors - my guess is that these were installed in either the 30's or 40's. They were not original to the building of the house. The original floors weren't finished wood, it was wood that was put down and then painted over (as I understand they did that in the old days). We had that in the second bedroom which is why we had to put new flooring in there.

...ahh, the wood burning stove ordeal. I didn't want this thing back in. I wanted it gone. It takes up way too much space in an already small house, and renters don't use wood burning stoves. They use the electric heat. After much debate, I lost. So we put it back in and made it as pretty as we could.

...rest of the living room. Also, this part of the house gets south sun, so when the sun is out, the house is really alive. It's awesome!

...this room got a new ceiling fan as well as the usual - paint from ceiling to trim, floors, new electrical - again, what a nightmare!