PIP challenge: Befores and afters

[amblor]

ssm, I LOVE your fireplace!

wawa, your bathroom transformations are ridiculous! They definitely put our DIY reno to shame hah!

Here is our bathroom gut:

Before: 

After: 

Not shown but we have a white shower curtain with some seer-sucker like detailing. We've also replaced the mirror with a longer one with a thicker frame.

[decoraholic]

Everyone's B&As look amazing!

Wawa, I love your bathrooms, and I hope this doesn't come out weird, but I love that you used some non-gray neutrals. I love gray as much as the next H&Ger, but I miss seeing some warm neutrals too!

I posted my kitchen the other day, but my half bath holds a dear spot for me because it was our first room to be completed. Susie- I always love seeing your living room because we share a paint color

Before:


After:



Our back yard was the first really big transformation.

Before:


After:

[boiler717]

Here's from our old house, our first big D&R project. We built a small landing deck and paver patio. Before we just had small concrete steps off the back and a small concrete patio with tons of mulch.

[stephm0188]

I still need to paint the trim white-white, replace the floor, and put up crown, but it's not so scary now.

[pinkeggs]

wawa, I am completely in love with that stencil! So perfect for a baby's room! I kinda want it in my room... lol

[vanillahip]

Here's a sliver of the mini kitchen makeover I did! New floor, resurfaced the laminate counters, new backsplash, curtains, painted the cabs and new hardware, did it in installments (about 8 months between painting the cabs and finally redoing the counters) but I only spent about $1200!


(Sorry if those are blurry, they're only on my phone!)

[demandypants]

Nice updates ladies! these are the two partial updates we have made so far.
Living room before (sellers furniture)

after paint, no furniture

furniture/different view


Kitchen before (don't be jealous)

and after operation make it tolerable:

[jacquie]

I haven't been online to "play" in such a long time but couldn't pass up participating in this thread I was so proud of the kitchen at our last house!

The house was horrendous when we bought it. The kitchen being the worst. The ceilings were dropped to 7', it was really closed off from the rest of the house, the cabinets were falling apart, etc. It was disgusting.

Before:


What you can't see from this picture is that the kitchen was about 4' shorter in length than the outcome.

After:









Obviously not for everyone but we loved it! I painted the cabinets, we installed the wood floors, rehabbed the "island", tore the west wall down into a half wall to open the space up, etc. Man I loved that kitchen.

[mrsemilys]

Jan 25, 2013 19:32:47 GMT -5 jacquie said:

I haven't been online to "play" in such a long time but couldn't pass up participating in this thread I was so proud of the kitchen at our last house!

The house was horrendous when we bought it. The kitchen being the worst. The ceilings were dropped to 7', it was really closed off from the rest of the house, the cabinets were falling apart, etc. It was disgusting.

Before:


What you can't see from this picture is that the kitchen was about 4' shorter in length than the outcome.

After:









Obviously not for everyone but we loved it! I painted the cabinets, we installed the wood floors, rehabbed the "island", tore the west wall down into a half wall to open the space up, etc. Man I loved that kitchen.


Your kitchen is beautiful and so charming!

[pitterwoo]

jacquie! That's a wonderful transformation. I love the warmth and color so much.

[wawa]

Late to this, but i am LOVING seeing the backyard transformations. It's making me itch to get out there this spring and make our backyard useable.

Which of course isn't going to happen...but it's fun to dream.

Thanks for the compliments - the master we settled on the Halcyon Green (which was the one in the middle. Not quite the super deep Underseas, but still a pretty rich color) And agreed to whoever commented on the non-grey neutrals in the hall bath. I wasn't totally sold at first - that one was mostly MH's design, but it's really grown on me. It just feels so warm in there. Of course...it's also actually really warm in there since the main trunk of the downstairs HVAC runs right under it and it has no exterior walls....but the colors help!

[sunny2012]

These are all so fun to look at!! Jacquie I want to see more of your house; I love how you completely transformed your kitchen!!
I've never done a PIP...hope this works...this is the before/after of my daughter's room

And Kitchen

[sunny2012]

oopps my daughter's room b/a didn't work in the last one

[theintended]

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jacquie I drool every time I see photos of your kitchen. I LOVE it.

[FoxInFiji]

Jan 28, 2013 15:58:23 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

After:





Same view as the "mid" shot:

I've always loved this remodel sbp!  It's a nice mix of being open yet concealed and I love the wallpaper on the back of the shelving. 

[pitterwoo]

Jan 28, 2013 17:31:56 GMT -5 TR said:

pitterwoo - Please to be telling me how you refinished your bathroom vanity.  That's almost exactly what we'd like to do to our bathroom vanities 

I refinished that vanity by stripping down to bare wood and reapplying stain and then poly on top.  It did come out really nicely, but I think the Polyshades that I linked to in your house thread would be perfect for this too if you're going from light to dark.  It's a lot less work.  If you want to know more about refinishing we could start a new thread about it.  There are others here as well who know their stuff.

[ktzmoh]

these are amazing!

I only have a few to share, because - well we haven't really finished anything yet. We ahve a bunch of rooms that are 90% there.

But I have a couple of shares

I refinished this chest of drawers for my daughter's room. It was a hand me down with great bones - so a little makeover was all it needed

before:


and after:


I just finished redoing my fireplace. I had a mason do the brickwork, but everything else was DIY



And here's my fireplace after. I'm working on filling up these shelves and finding stuff for the mantel soon. I may need help soon.

[carifly]

I've never PIP before so hopefully this works!  I have a lot of before and afters, so it is hard to pick one I think the first floor changes I made to my old house are my favorite, though.  I like reminding myself of all the different phases it went through in the time I lived there, especially when I get frustrated how long it takes me to do things now due to financial and time constraints.

Dining area before moving in:

Living/Dining area version 1 (paint and refinished hardwood, but old furniture):

Kitchen/Dining area version 2 (new furniture/post-kitchen reno):

Kitchen/Dining area final version (repainted and staged for sale):

Living area before moving in:

Living area version 1:


Living room final:


Kitchen before moving in:

Kitchen after renovations:

Kitchen repainted:


So sorry for so many pics!  I'm a chronic lurker and am trying to slowly change that.  I saw this thread days ago but couldn't get to a computer to PIP until now.

*crossing fingers the pics show up*

[kellikans]

before:



still in progress:

[InBetweenDays]

The first before/after is our kitchen. We did a complete gut and remodel on the house but this was the most dramatic change. (I should add we didn't do this work ourselves)
Before

After


Then DH and I tackled the basement by ourselves. It had been a separate unit that was disgusting. We tore everything down the studs and started over. We did hire out the eletrical and drywall but did everything else.

basement guest bedroom


after (I was pretty excited about this because the only things we bought new were the bookcase and nightstands.)



basement guest bath before


after

[InBetweenDays]

And to be a AW (and also because I'm so happy with the way the basement came out)

The play room/rec room (before)



After



Before


After (we obvsiously still have some decorating to do and need to add shelves above the "bar"

[wawa]

Very nice inbetween days! I think I've sent MH a picture of your kitchen before. The bar and basement bath are awesome!

[krisandgrace]

Jan 25, 2013 7:26:58 GMT -5 mrsemilys said:

I don't have anything major as we haven't needed to do any reno just decor in this house:

Guest Bedroom Before:



Guest Bedroom After:

I mostly lurk here for ideas but I remember when you posted this, I loved the curtains you used so much I got them for my guest room. I have had more people comment on how much they love them so thanks!

[sratsey]

Great DIY inspiration pictures here.
Hats off to all the beautiful tilework too because as someone who tackled on tile project, I can safely say that I hate it enough to never do it again.
I'm amazed at all the bathrooms and the kind of transformation a little bit of paint and a change of hardware can do.

[mrspez07]

Late to the game:
Most of our stuff is with paint, very little full remodels (I'm saving that for the bathrooms!)

Laundry room (first one is with seller's stuff):


Guest Room (still need to add curtains and maybe something over the headboard), this is also the second green we used, we used a tinted primer with the first green and it was "too" saturated:



Nursery for both my boys (didn't know they would be boys when we decorated though), the color is more true in the 2nd pic: