A Love Story

I received some pictures by email the other day from one of my readers. She wanted to share her bathroom renovation pictures with me. I told her I wanted to share these on my blog and she was very excited. I told her I needed some information about her home.

She wrote me back and said the house is 88 years old and it was her husband's for twenty five years before she met him in 1996. They both came from marriages that had ended in divorce many years before. They met on a blind date set up by his daughter. Isn't that romantic? When he bought the home it was in sad shape and he had already done a lot of work on it. They were married in 1999 on this farm. The house sits on thirteen acres.  Every room downstairs had been updated more that once. They loved working on the house together. Then this story gets sad. He passed away on February 26 after being diagnosed with cancer on December 9, 2010. She was devastated. She had told him that she wanted to paint the kitchen and he thought she was nuts because it already looked fine, but she went ahead and painted this past spring. They had also talked about renovating the bathroom this summer so she went ahead with that, too. Her brother is a carpenter so he did the tiling and she did the painting and papering.  All this was done on less than $3000 and it only took three weeks to complete. 

Here are some before and afters with the afters first.

After

Love the wallpaper she chose.

Before

After

Before

After

Great lighting and mirror.

Before

After

Before

The two pipes are the water pipes since this is and older home.

Didn't they do a good job?

Paint, paper, new tile, and lighting sure did make a big difference.

Thanks, Jo, for sharing this with us.

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If any of my readers without blogs want to share a makeover you can email me anytime.
 We love makeovers.

Jo, if your pictures look brighter it is because I did lighten them in photoscape.