As requested (and requested again and then requested once more for good measure…) here are the pictures of the renovation. There are still shelves that need to be hung. There are still artwork decisions to be made. But the most important thing is that my house is once again mine to live in as I choose. My child can nap when he needs to (without having to endure power tools and the loud grumbling of construction workers who shouldn’t have told his mother that she was free to be back in the house because things were going to be pretty quiet a week before things actually got quiet). I can nest with wild abandon. Things are as they should be, hallelujah and praise be.
Before:
Looking towards where the half-wall is now:
View from the entryway:
Where the pantry doors are now:
From inside the old ‘bonus’ room:
From the old ‘bonus’ room looking out into the kitchen:
During:
The view from what is now the back of the pantry looking out into the dining/kitchen area:
The view from inside the ‘bonus’ room:
Door to the garage and the backside of the new pantry:
Chair mold and door to garage:
Pantry!
After:
View from kitchen:
View from entryway:
Pantry:
Pantry (the organization makes me unreasonably happy)!
View from the old ‘bonus’ room (hereafter known as the ‘new space’ until we can think of a better name) looking into the kitchen:
Looking into the new space from the dining area:
Dining area, new room, and part of pantry:
And now, boys and girls, the renovation story on our house is complete until we have two children who both sleep through the night.
The End.
