Remodel Before and After

Dining Room Before

Here are a few pictures of some of the remodeling we had done over Christmas...while we were gone. I was most nervous about the paint color, which I picked out after only holding a bunch of paint chips up to our walls. Today we finally got to see the results. And so do you! The paint color, I must admit, did not turn out the way I wanted. It's not terrible, but it's not as dark as I wanted and the walls have a definite pink tinge to them. The color didn't look very pink on the little chip, but on the walls...it's really pink. I'm kind of sad about it, but I think we just have to live with it now. Scott is trying to cheer me up by telling me it's not that bad...but I know he sees pink too. I'm starting to think it looked better before...but trying not to focus on that. :(
Here is the formal dining room before we changed the flooring. The furniture is from the previous owner...not there now of course. These are the pictures from the realtor website, so I hope I don't get in trouble. We own the house now and are not profiting from them, so I hope it's ok.

Dining Room After

We changed the carpet in there to hardwood floors since we plan to do all our dinners in there. Also you can see the walls, once a yellow creamy color are now a a more beigey brown (er, pinkish brown?).

Kitchen Before

The floor was linoleum and Scott really wanted to make it all hardwood in there to match the dining and entry way. We also plan to change the countertops and the backsplash, although we didn't get contractors lined up for that before we left for Christmas.

Kitchen After
Hardwood floors and different wall color. I'll be happy when that backsplash tile is gone.

Master Bath Before

Carpet! It didn't look bad, but we just decided to put tile on the floor in there. We also want to change the counter tops, but didn't get that done before we left.

Master Bath After
Tile! I think the tile looked great!

Here is a picture of the newly painted walls against the white tile, so you can kind of see the color. It's neutral, but there is some pink in there. :( Of all the beige colors in the world, why did I have to pick a pinky one!! I'm coming to terms with it. After all, what is pink if not a happy color, right? I'm hoping once we get our furniture in there and stuff on the walls it won't be so noticeable. Lessons learned about paint colors: try it out first. :) Tomorrow movers come with some of our stuff. Exciting!