Project Johnson Home

Last year it was the basement, and this year, it was the rest of the house. So, once we made the decision to go ahead and get new flooring, we started prepping the house. This meant, having a garage sale to get rid of as much stuff as we could, taking everything off the walls, moving furniture out of the way 5 million different times, buying necessary tools and paint to prepare the entire inside of our house for a makeover. This is what it looked like before:

It was BLUE! When we first moved in, EVERYTHING was blue. Even the door frames. For most people, it's not really noticeable, but for those of you who know me well, you KNOW about those door frames, the ceiling, the walls, the carpet, even the KITCHEN and dining room had blue carpet.

Who does that?

So next, it was off to painting. What a project that was. We had to paint door frames, chair rail, baseboards, etc. It was a lot of work. Nate and I would stay up past midnight painting, then I would get up at 5am or earlier to get as much done as I could before the monkeys woke up. No Bueno!

Then, the night before the kitchen flooring was laid, we had to rip out the carpet. This consisted of the following areas:

Kitchen, Dining Room, Laundry room, 3 bathrooms and the entry way to the basement.

check out the arms! Such a stud of a husband he is.

Then it was moving appliances into the livingroom.

This was just the beginning. We had a fridge, a stove, washer and dryer, toilet, diningroom table and chairs, living room furniture all in the livingroom. Poor Hailey and Addy, they had a small square of carpet to play on.

Once the kitchen floor was complete, we had to start moving all the furniture again to the diningroom to prepare for carpet. Once the furniture was moved to Hailey's room and to the diningroom, it was pull out time. Nate and Ben (our awesome brother in law) pulled out all the carpet and padding.

this is the livingroom with no flooring

this is standing in the livingroom, looking at the stairs and front door.

and this is Nate screwing down loose boards in the office entry

this is our bedroom with no floor. the girls were waiting to go to bed and had to wear shoes the whole time because of all the nail boards everywhere.

this is looking into Hailey's room where we put everything while they carpeted everywhere else

and this is the diningroom where we kept all the downstairs furniture

and this is our brother in law Ben. Such a trooper. He hung out with me ALL day waiting to help me move furniture around for the carpet guys. He got really bored.

and this is our bedroom after Ben and I moved it all in from Hailey's room

Yeah, most of this junk is all Nate's Ebay stuff. I was a little bitter at having to move it so much. It was a LOT of stuff.

and now for the finale!

Here are the after pictures!

this is the livingroom

our bedroom

my cute yellow laundry room

entry to the office

top of the stairs (and the new light sconces that I hung and wired myself)

nobody got electricuted and they work! :-)

Hailey's room (we didn't paint her room, it's still the original paint, but the carpet is new)

dining room

kitchen and Addy

and the last 'after' picture I have is of the entryway

D.O.N.E

I can't believe I don't have to get up at 5am to paint anymore. Instead, I can get up and go to the gym.. well, we'll see. :-)