So, I am going to post some before pictures of our home before we listed it. And let me just say that I should be way to embarrassed to even post these of my home and I am little embarrassed but not enough to not share them. Now, that being said, they are way dirty and cluttered. We just had so much going on at the time, we honestly had not had the chance to pick up and organize anything. We REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DID NOT live like this. These pictures are showcasing something that is totally out of the normal. I couldn't have chosen a worse day to take pictures of the whole house. But I had hurry and get them taken because Danny was getting ready to take things off the walls and sale stuff. The point is, this is what our house looked like, if you can look past all the clutter. Seriously, I can't believe how bad we let it get!!
These are pretty much all the before shots:
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| The front door leading straight into the dining room. Loved our red door! |
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Dining room is open to our kitchen with a breakfast bar. You can get a brief glimpse of what our cupboards looked like after the rustoluem cabinet transformation kit.
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| AFTER |
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| Not the best lighting of our family room. But we loved our large family room |
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| The main bath had just been updated and redecorated. I added a bath picture of each of the kids. The turquoise is Audrey and the yellow one is Colton |
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| Our colorful accessories. The orange one is Nate and Josh is in the green. |
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| This was Dan's trophy wall. There was a rifle above the picture but it had already come down |
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| The "toy" room or rather the cluttered room. |
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| This was once the salon, but now Josh and Colton's room. They had lots of space, it was bigger than the master bedroom |
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| Dan and I's bedroom. He had just recently painted the room 6 months ago from a dark brown to this bright turquoise color. I liked the color. |
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| Our bright colorful master bath. |
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| Nate, Nate, Nate! He's kind of a hoarder. His room was a really neat room when it was clean and organized. |
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| Audrey had just gotten new pain. We did a gray glitter way and the other 3 walls in a light lilac color. It was very girly. |
Now, that I've shared some really embarrassing, cluttery pictures of my house I can share a few pictures of some after shots. I didn't end up getting very many of them because the realtor took them. But here are a few. We think it cleans up really nicely!
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| Fresh, neutral paint. I loved the dark beam in my kitchen. |
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| Nate's room we turned into a small media room |
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| A Very basic bathroom |
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| Our view of the backyard from the deck. |
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| Looking at the back of the house. |
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| The front of the house |
We have loved this house for the 7 years that we had it. It was perfect for our growing family. It was really hard having to neutralize everything and erase all our personal touches to it. It just made it a house and not a home. I wish I had some more after pictures to show you but I just didn't get many taken. It really did clean up well. And that being said, sometimes you have to make a bigger mess before you can get a mess cleaned up. Does that make sense?
