Following in my family's footsteps

So I have recently been inspired by my Aunt Kathleen. My hubby and I have (slowly) been working on some home improvement projects to our home in Traverse City. So.... I have decided to share some before and after pictures. Keep in mind however that our budget for such renovations is quite limited at this point in time but we are doing what we can. Plus my Aunt Kass is much more experienced with this sort of thing...much more fancy. =) Finally, a post about something other than baby Scott. Funny how much life has changed. Anyways, here we go....

This is a before picture of the downstairs large bedroom. The walls were really beat up. Scott living here as a bachelor, the house got very little decorating. Also, because our house is on the river with there being a high water table, we do not have a basement so the circuit breaker box was in the master. Lovely!

This here is the "in-progress" picture. You can see my lovely husband decided to lend a helping hand to my project. Obviously we could not do much about the circuit breaker pannel and its location so as an attempt to make it look less-horrible, we painted it the same color as the walls to mask it a bit.

Here is my kinda-finished project. We are going to paint the trim and doors white once the weather decides to cooperate. I like how the natural wood trim looks with the color but we kind of have a theme going throughout the house, plus the white blinds don't look so great with the wood trim. Also, I want to refinish some of the furniture we are using in there. But this is a HUGE improvement. So that was my weekend.