The reveal

As most of you know, we moved in October.  The new place needed a lot of work, from setting up horse pens for Beamer and the girls, to a complete overhaul in the house.
We had a friend come in and put new paint on the ceilings, I painted the walls, and Ted did a lot of work trimming out the doors and windows, installing shelves and cupboards (bathroom and mud room), custom fitting the existing vanity by making it shorter to fit the space better, and putting a new top, sink and taps on it. He also re-plumbed the bathroom and turned the tub around so that the plumbing was against the wall instead of in the middle of the floor. In the kitchen he installed a new overhead microwave and stainless steel sinks and taps. He custom built a storage solution under the stairs with a pullout that holds all those wonderful things that need storing inside but are unsightly (like paint cans, vacuum cleaner etc.)
Our landlord (my brother-in-law) installed laminate flooring  and tile to cover the painted OSB board that served as flooring before.
I still have to paint upstairs so I'll leave that for a future reveal, but here are some before and after photos of all that we have done so far.
Kitchen: before....

 After

We need to fix that kitchen window this summer so that it can open, and get new cupboard doors as those ones are getting pretty shabby.

We were fortunate to have this sink given to us, and those flowered tiles are ones that I had made up with some of my photos.
I didn't take before pics of the bathroom, but here is what it looks like now.

The tub is painted a dark blue with a bronze coloured ball in the claws.

The other side of the bathroom- its a big bathroom! 

The wooden cabinet which hides the hotwater tank and plumbing was built by Ted. That's my mom's washboard on it and the little teddy-bear coveralls originally belonged to Ted's dad.

The living room, before:

 and after:

The wall colour is the palest grey, because the furniture and floors are dark I wanted a lighter colour for contrast.

Looking at the living room from the mud room:

All those trim boards on the baseboards, windows and doors are Ted's handiwork.

My office which doubles as a dressing room used to have dark blue knockdown on the bottom half of the wall. Ted built me the bookshelf. 😄

The mud room houses the wood stove and all 4 dogs.

Ted built this gate to keep the critters at bay. It is repurposed deck railing, and we added the boards with our brand on them because Thea could walk right through that 6 inch opening. Come spring we will take it out and give it fresh paint. Haven't quite decided to go with white or black.
Those theater seats came out of a closed down theater in Claresholm- they are very comfy and close to the stove for a nice place to sit on a cold day.

This is the coat rack Ted made that is in the corner by the door. He made the horseshoe/railroad spike one, and the other forged piece we bought from my friend Janice. We attached them to a couple of boards we found in the barn that were milled on this property.
So there you have it- home sweet home!