Ta-freakin-da!!

Oh, yeah! This weekend we kicked butt and took names. It helped sooooooo much that the older 3 kiddos went to my parents. They got to have summer fun (swimming, eating fudge, learning about homemade ice cream, watching movies, etc) while Joe and I busted our behinds to make the most of the free time.

We got our stairs done! We got our bathroom door done! We got the front deck done! (no stairs yet) We got the shelves in the bathroom closet done! We got the towel bar hanging done! Weeeeeeee!!!!!

Look at our pretty bathroom door!! It is a cranberry color and covered with a red sparkly paint :) It was the door that was in the house, which was a cool door so we just wanted to rehab it. I posted a "before" photo just for comparison sake.

Here are our bathroom shelves! Now we don't have 3 giant boxes in the bathroom. We were finally able to unpack. I will probably sew some sort of curtain for this closet, but that can be a winter project.

Here are our freshly painted stairs. They are colorful!

 This is what they looked like when we bought the house:

This is what they have looked like for awhile now. We had removed the carpet, the lead paint was encapsulated, and the rail had to be fixed so the spindles were closer together for safety. I am so glad they are finally done!

Joe removed the huge posts and now you can actually see our front door. The deck has been redone and we will do stairs once we get a good base built for them.... which will likely turn into us doing the entire walkway to the street.

What the house looked like before:

 This was the front deck. The wood was just rotten and weak.

We still have LOTS of work to do, but we are getting there :) It is amazing what can happen to a house with a contractor, two handy (and pretty hard working) people, and about $35,000. Yeah, we feel broke right now. Broke, but in a home that is in much better condition than it was 2 1/2 months ago!