These videos were taken back in April. Everything still looks the same except for the window treatments have been given away to an old Southern lady who requested them. Apparently she had toured the house when she had considered buying it and fell in love with the hideous baby pink curtains and sheer drapes with bug poop all over them. She said she was into "shabby chic" stuff. My mom put it best when she said, "Well, how about shabby shabby?" :)

1st Floor

2nd Floor

Outbuilding

Don't Laugh

Okay, so with all of my computer savvy-ness I found the program "Paint" for probably the 1st time since 4th grade to show you our new layout. The whole idea came about when we started looking into renovating the green kitchen with new cabinets, appliances, the whole works. The existing kitchen is fairly small to begin with and closed off in the back corner of the house. It has high ceilings like the rest of the house, but even that changes at the back of the kitchen with regular height ceilings. The thought was that if we were going to completely renovate a kitchen and have it still be the size of an apartment size kitchen, it still wouldn't be ideal no matter how much time and money we put into it. So that's why Adam's Aunt Sharon suggested "The Big Upset"(previous blog post) and get exactly what we want with a bigger kitchen and all!

This is the BEFORE layout of the 1st floor of the house

This is what we hope for it to look like AFTER. We plan to knock down some walls to allow an open living area. Even though we will probably have to lose the double sided fireplace for this to happen, there is another fireplace in the new sitting room I didn't mention. Another great perk of this is the dining room's view will look out on this!

The Big Upset

Thanks to Adam's Aunt Sharon's fresh perspective (seriously, thanks) we are doing a little flip-flopping in the house.

The master bedroom on the left side of the house will now become the kitchen...

and the kitchen will become the master bathroom and walk-in closet...

And the dining room will occupy the old utility room. (Who doesn't want to snuggle up to a bag of garbage while eating their pot roast?)

As for the rest of the house, the master bedroom will take the place of the old dining room, the living room will become the sitting room and the sitting room will become the living room. Whew! Detes to come...