A room for the baby!!

Well, after a lot of hard work, Declans room is done! We were at a point where his being in our room was not a good solution and with Dave sleeping in there during the day and Declan no longer fitting into his cradle, life was not so good :) So we have worked and gotten the room finished. ( I apologize about the photos. The lighting was really bad and I was too tired to adjust my camera or to play with them on photoshop).

So first we had to get the wonderful Brady Bunch wall paper off the walls. This is what I found behind the wallpaper, lots and lots of dirt. (they also wallpapered up and over the crown molding???)

Then we had to clean the rads out. It is not too easy to see, but the left side has been cleaned, the right has not. Yummm - 50 years of dust and dirt!

Finally!!! Done, painted and ready for a little boy to move in.

The end with all the boxes stacked up has a door that covers them. I have yet to finish painting it yet.

A room for Declan - part 2

End of the room, looking from the doorway. (there

is now a full size rocker where the little one is and it is over by the crib)

Close up of the toys and books etc..

Crib area. The stuff on the wall was mine when I was little, the colours match perfectly! (and yes, the baby has a better stereo than us)

The Kitchen

While we were in Thunder Bay my parents came by and took out the awful corner cabinet in the kitchen (which I knew they were doing) but they also painted!! It was great to come home to such a nice kitchen.

The corner that used to be ugly cabients!!

Looking towards the front hall and basement

What, doesn't everyone have bath toys in the kitchen? (no Declan does not bath in our sink, that would mean I would have to actually do the dishes!)

The door is an awful half red because we are trying out different colours on it. However with the bad lighting all you can see is the red. You can also see here where we need to paint the rest of the drawers in front of the sink.

The bathroom

So I was dreading the bathroom while I was in Thunder Bay. I came home to discover Dave had surprised me by painting it! It doesn't look like much and we are nowhere near finished but here are the paint pictures. (the tub area is just all white).

(again, I apologise for the crummy pictures).

living room - done again

We did a bit of rearranging. Hopefully this arangment will work. Again, I apologise for the crummy pictures.

our "tv" viewing area

What you see as you enter the living room

The front hall

We did a bit of rearranging. Hopefully this arangment will work. Again, I apologise for the crummy pictures.

A finished room!! (well... mostly finished)

We decided that we needed one room "done". I'll try to post better pictures later.

Basement

all those little black spots - yeah they are mouse droppings. Click on the picture if you don't believe me!

The basement was/is a mess. We are pretty much leaving it until we can really redo it, but due to the cat and the amount of mouse dropping, it had to be cleaned. It took me three sweepings, pulling up the tiles and then another sweep and two vacumns to be remotely clean. I wore a mask and I am still wheezy from it (a good week later).

Hard at work

My parents have pretty much done our entire house, withough them we wouldn't have been able to move in when we did. A few pictures of everyone hard at work. (hmm, declan seems to be doing the most work!)

Bathroom

Oh the bathroom, how I hate thee!! The bathroom is still a disaster, we have figured out how to tide it over until the spring when it will become our first major project. For your enjoyment here is the joys of the bathroom.

Declan's thoughts on the house

Really mom? I'm not too sure about this colour!


Declan enthralled with Baby Einstein, patiently waiting for us to finish up.

Tired after a long day of demanding attention

At the apartment in with all the boxes

Bored of his playmat.

The Dining Room in progress

The dining room has been left at this stage despite the mint green trim, it will be cream someday. (I think the green looks a lot better in real life, some may disagree though!)

The living room in process

Slowly working our way around the room The colour took four coats to get done.
Almost there

Our helpers hard at work.

IT"S OURS!!!!

Yup, we got the house! As of December 1st we will own the house. I will be posting pictures as we clean and repaint and later on as we redo things.

Pictures of the House

Some pictures of the house. It is hard to see the full extent of the dirt in this place. It looks as if it has not been lived in for several years rather than several weeks. We are waiting on a house inspection (A 3 hour walk through with us on Tues) and confirmation from the rest of Bruce's family on teh price and terms of the offer. Just for reference, there is a Kitchen, Living room and Dining Room on the main floor. Off the Kitchen is the door to the deck which needs to be torn down. Off the Living and Dining room is the sunroom. The first level basment has a wood paneld room, the laundry room and the garage. The second basement is the concrete ones. Upstairs is the bathroom and the three bedrooms.

Basement

This is the original basement - in that they haven't changed it since they bought the house. If we get the house we would pretty much ignore this space for a long time!