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Love all your changes. Especially the trim in the DR and the bathroom tile. Also your stairs are so beautiful.

Looks like you've been working hard! I found clearing the work area afterward of all tools debris etc. is just as much work! Enjoy your new home - it looks like a brand new house.

Thanks Carol, yes I feel like all I ever do is sweep and pick up various and sundry nails, screws, tools, etc... Makes me appreciate how everything needs a home.

That is my new rule of the house,
'everything has a home, find it!'

Wow, those are some beautiful improvements. Congratulations on a job well done.

Can tell how much work you have done! It is sooo pretty. Doesn't it make you feel good all over??

Love the way you did the tile in your bathroom. Can you tell me the name of the tile? We are going to remodel a bathroom and I am looking for something like you have.

I worked for 10 months on our house and made some drastic changes. Became obsessed by it all. Now have to get up the energy (and money) to forge ahead with the rest of it.

DL

Love the stairs, especially the finials. Nice rain chain, too! :)

DL The tile is from Lowes, it is American Olean Strathmore 12x12 tiles. I bought the onyx tiles at a tile place in sheets and than we just cut them to 2 tiles deep for the surround, using liners from Lowes.

DH says the bath is too nice and now the kids won't want to leave! It is the bath they use. I put a jacuzzi tub in there as well, cause I wanted to use it! We love how it turned out. We did do the door a little different though as it was it would have opened against the tub, so we did an outside pocket door.

Have fun.

Laura

Love what you did, especially the bathroom and the staircase. Beautiful!

very nice--well done!

Great job! I love the staircase changes.
Diane

Fantastic changes -- what great transformations!

All of your hard work has really paid off!

Well done!! :)

Jan

What wonderful accomplishments. I love the pocket door the most.

I love your plate collection displayed along the wall!
Have you seen msrose's post "I thought I had found the perfect dishes"? See the link below. You may be able to help out.

Here is a link that might be useful: I thought I had found the perfect dishes

It's like a whole new house!
Love that acorn finial, a nice touch. You have so many interesting things; what is the story behind the cane, and where did the butter churn end up?

I like all your changes but the stairs really stand out for me. They look fantastic! Very gracious and elegant.

Nice work!

Joanna

littledog, the cane was my DH's grandfather's. It is sitting on top of a case that was his grandmother's accordian! The butter churn is still waiting for its special home! Haven't figured out where to put it yet.

Thanks all,

Laura

WOW! You did a wonderful job. The new stairs are awesome and I love the outside pocket door. I never knew such a thing existed. DH could use one of thes for his not so tidy office.

Where did you get that beautiful outside pocket door? Was it difficult to install?

The door is a regular interior door. The hardware we got from johnsonhardware.com, see link below. It is real easy to install, the hardware just attaches to the top of a regular door. Then we just added molding to the track to dress it up.

We also used similar hardware for my office/sewing room.

This hardware we got from barndoorhardware.com. It was a lot more pricey than the other hardware, but since you can see these doors from downstairs I wanted something that makes a statment.

Works out great.

Here is a link that might be useful: johnson