We've been moved in for about a month now and things are slowly coming together the way we want them to be. We've sort of decided in our month of reno's that I stick to the details like painting and Chris sticks to the handy man stuff like installing and that has worked out well. We've finished two bedrooms upstairs and the bathroom downstairs, fixed up a corner in the family room and repainted, I painted many doors and trim and Chris put new handles and knobs on doors, new light fixtures on the ceilings and new closet organizers in two closets. I think we're on a good pace for getting it all done by Christmas but we shall see. Things have been pretty busy doing stuff with the house but we've also had some time to enjoy it with having friends over to watch Riders games and to just hang out. Having a ping pong table and the Wii definitely draws people to our house too but that's alright with us. I haven't been getting too much work these days, I guess people aren't getting very sick anymore but I've been using my time to fix the house up so that's working out okay. Although I would like to have some more work just to keep me on my toes with teaching. Chris is busy these days coaching the Grade 9 boys basketball team but is really enjoying the group of guys that he has to work with. He also put up our first set of Christmas lights the other day, let's just say they're Rider green, gotta bring a little bit of SK to BC. Not much else is new around here, pretty much our house consumes our life at this point but hopefully by Christmas we'll be able to relax a little more and just enjoy all the hard work we put into it. Now for some pictures, the first is the last wedding I did this year, it was on Chris' birthday but I didn't have to do the reception so we were still able to have a party in the evening. They turned out well and the fall colours definitely made some of the pictures even better. Then what you've all be waiting for... the before and after shots of some of our finished rooms. You'll have to wait and see for more to come.
William and Jessica: October 17, 2009
Our stuff all packed up and ready to move
The first thing Chris was concerned with, setting up the TVTHE BEDROOM
The bedroom before, a nice pinkish tone
The painting is finished
New queen bed is set up
So much more room to sleep!
Another view
Facing the bathroom and closet
Closet before, this nice yellow tinge was the original colour of all the walls in the house
Setting up the new organizer
The finished product, this colour will be the colour of our hallway tooTHE OFFICE
Before: Mint green and white walls, with a lovely floral wallpaper border on the top (which I ripped down before the picture)
Handyman at work putting in new door handles
Dad putting up the new chair rail, which used to be in our bedroom
Room is ready to be moved into 
Our new desk and drawers
Bookshelf and new closet
Another lookTHE BATHROOM
Before: Nice blue tiles and pink paint over flowered wallpaper
Tiles are ripped off, time to mud the walls
Plumbing time
Freshly painted walls, the same colour our living/dining room will be
New light fixture and tap
Refinished cupboard doors with new handlesSo there you have it, all the work we've done so far. Well, we've also finished our family room but I'm waiting for some prints to come in so I can hang them up so pictures will have to wait on that room. But we're pretty happy with the results of what we've done so far, now just three more parts of the house to go!
