Before and after, reno edition

    The house renovations are as complete as they can be at this point. We're still waiting on two windows for the kitchen, the windows that came were not right -- they didn't open -- so we have one in (Funny story they'd begun installing, and when I got home from class I said that looked nice but how does it open? Sean, one of the crew said "I wondered why you wanted a window that didn't open.") Needless to say, that's the only hold-up. Jerry and I spent the last two weeks cleaning and putting the house back together, the crew was here last Friday for touchups and adjustments and anything left will be finished when they come back with the windows. We're really pleased with how it turned out, we've gone from dark weirdness to logic and light, like the current presidential race.

    So here are the before and after of the kitchen, the patio, and my bathroom. The before is mostly taken from Realtor.com when the home was listed in 2018. The top one shows how the light was sucked out of the room and the bump-out counter we could never quite figure out. Note the two types of flooring, the two types of backsplash, the black concrete counters (yes, originally I did find them unique), and the different types of lighting. 

    The star tile starts at the front door and runs through the kitchen and reading room. We feel almost grown up. And the old deck is gone, replaced with a smaller footprint patio, no more groundhog raccoon hotel.