Our Before and After

The last six weeks or so have been spent working on the house and getting it ready for the market. We've done a lot of work ourselves, but we hired out the big stuff...like drywall, kitchen, and bathrooms. 

I tried to remember to take before and after shots in all the rooms, and I got a few progress pictures too.

It's lovely now. But mostly I'm just glad it's done. Living through even a minor kitchen remodel is not fun, and when there are bathrooms being remodeled at the same time, it's even less fun. But we made it. Now we just have to keep the house clean and pray for someone to come and buy it!

Light Fixtures

I think I was in trouble for taking his
picture...

And it works!

Ugly old thing

Much better!

No words for this one...

So much better!

The Master Bath

BEFORE

and AFTER. Ah.

The Powder Room

BEFORE - Broken ugly tiles

AFTER

The Kitchen

BEFORE - with original laminate counters

I HATED this cooktop. It did not get clean...ever.

The beautiful vinyl floors. Bleck.

AFTER - With granite counters, tile backsplash, a new cooktop, sink and tile floors. Yay!

AFTER

Listing tomorrow! Woohoo!!

CAT people

There was never any doubt in my mind that Stephen was a cat person. And way back when, he was glad to find that I'm a cat person too. We don't hate dogs or anything, but for us, cats are just, well, the cat's meow (c'mon, you know I had to say it). 

For the last fifteen years of our marriage (yes, it's fifteen years this week - hooray!), we've been cat people. And now, as it turns out, we're becoming CAT people. 

Yeah, CAT people.

Last month, after a long interviewing process, Stephen was offered a job with the Legal Division of Caterpillar. He accepted, and we're in the middle of prepping for a move to Peoria, IL, where Caterpillar's headquarters is located...and where the term "CAT people" means something different than it means to the rest of the world.

Coming from a family of John Deere loyalists and even John Deere employees, the change from green to yellow might feel rather foreign at first. But I suppose I'll come around. 

After all, I really do love cats.