Last summer when we first moved into our house I showed you these pictures of our family room:

One view of the family room.

And another view of the same room.

We (I) got tired of the dark paneling so we (I) decided that Rich should redo the room.

First Rich took all of the old paneling down:

After all of the old paneling was down Rich and my dad replaced all of our electric type stuff and added some more outlets.

Then Rich and my dad put a bunch of insulation in since it was a bit chilly in our family room during this winter.

Then they wrapped the walls in plastic.  I’m not sure exactly why they did that but I’m sure it was an important step.

Then the new drywall went up.

Rich painted- the color is kind of a light tan.  I think it’s called cappuccino something or other.  It turned out looking lighter than we thought it was going to, but we like it anyways.

And now for the new, updated family room….

There’s an end table in the corner between the couch and the love seat and I need to find a lamp to put on there.

Another view.

Another view… we (I) plan to replace this entertainment center with something much smaller.

And one last view.

As you probably know we moved and bought a new house back in July and have made some changes to it since we bought it.  I haven’t posted about any of the changes since I posted pictures of the house back in August.  I’ve decided to post pictures of the different changes we make.

In December we got tired of looking at our downstairs bathroom.  This is how it looked when we moved in:

Have you ever seen wallpaper like this?

It actually made me feel dizzy!

One day I came home from work and found this surprise:

Rich took all the wallpaper off and patched up the walls.  He also ripped out the carpet.

This is how the bathroom looks now.

And another view.

You can’t really see any of the decorations that are in the bathroom, but it is decorated to look Adirondack.  I still need to get a curtain for the window and a few more odds and ends.  But I think it’s a big improvement!

There are a few of you who keep asking to see pictures of our new house, so I am finally getting around to posting some for you.  I am also including a few before pictures of some of the rooms we made changes in.  We have only been here for a few weeks so there are still a lot of things left to be done.

This picture of Hailey shows our house in the background.  I feel a little funny about posting a picture of the front of our house for the whole world wide web to see, so this is just a peek.  If you want to see a picture where you can really see the front, send me an email and I’ll send you a picture.

This is the entry.

The living room- with Hailey bouncing through the room.

The kitchen.

More kitchen.

This is the dining room before.

This is the dining room after my dad and Rich took the carpet out and sanded and finished the hardwood floor.

This is our bedroom before.

And this is our bedroom after Rich and my dad did the hardwood floors in here too.  We haven’t hung up anything yet in our room.

Hailey’s bedroom (The dresser all the way on the left will not be staying there.  It’s just there until we get around to moving it to its new location.)

Hailey’s playroom

This is a hallway downstairs- it leads to a bathroom and the garage.

This is Brooke’s room before- I didn’t get a very good picture of it- but it had blue carpet and wood paneling.

This is Brooke’s room after she painted it and Rich did the floors.

This is the family room.

So there you have it.  There’s a few more rooms- bathrooms, laundry room and Rich’s work area that I didn’t include pictures of.  But, for the most part you have just had the official tour of our new house.