David's House 186/365

David got the wall in his master bedroom refinished today and it looks great.








He also has a hole in the wall









Kitchen cabinets

184/365 David's House and other stuff

David is making progress on his house. He tore down the wood paneling in the master bedroom and has his office painted.










Awwwwww



Matt and Squirrel had some lap time tonight.





Flowers I bought for my mom





Dinner

Fun in Miami (150/365)

A busy and fun day in Miami began with a quick tour of the progress in my brother's new house. You might remember what it looked like a few weeks ago: http://sarapphotography.blogspot.com/2010/04/115365-renovating-davids-house.html

Well Ashley spent this week painting and it looks a LOT better.

Just to remind you - here is what the front room looked like before:

Now here's the repainted room! He still has to do the trim - probably in a simple white. The red carpet will come up and underneath is gorgeous terrazzo.









Then there was the room he has decided will be his office. It was covered in wall paper that was PAINSTAKINGLY removed by every member of the family!

Here's what it looked like with the wall paper down

There are these kinda cool closets in there

Here's what it looks like now. It's received a coat of primer and David is now choosing wall colors.





Finally the guest room. Previously it was a BRILLIANT shade of green.

Ashley choose the paint color for that room and it is now a BRIGHT shade of purple called Baroness

Baroness

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Later on we were back at the house hanging out with one of my favorite people - Anna Rosas. I noticed my parents' neighbor posted some yummy pictures of a mango daiquiri he had made on facebook and I made a comment about people across the street with empty tummies. Well about 30 minutes later to our complete surprise the door bell rang and there was our neighbor carrying this box!!!!!!!!!!!!!



So surprising and so yummy! My family has the BEST neighbors ever!



We spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying those drinks, the pool and the beautiful yard my family has. How pretty are their bougainvilleas?



My dad was working hard on repainting the back patio and we tried to stay out of his way



As the sun began to set....



 I snapped a few pictures of my lovely friend Anna (stay tuned for those) and then my mom took a few of us. Here are some edited versions


I added a sun flare to this one





This is Anna telling me to put my hand on my hip cause it makes you look better





And we finished the day with a delicious meal grilled by my brother

115/365 Renovating David's house

My brother bought his first house. The couple he purchased it from lived there for more than 30 years. They loved the house, but were unable to fix it up towards the end. He's been working really hard to fix it up.

One of the the oddities about it was that every room was carpeted. EVERY room. Including the bathrooms and kitchen!

Here's David pulling up the carpet in the kitchen.



Imagine our surprise when we found that underneath that carpet was another carpet!!!!!!! So he yanked that one up too.



Underneath that are two layers of linoleum - one on top of the other. Those will wait for another day.

Fortunately  underneath the carpet in two of the bedrooms is terrazzo. We pulled up a little big and it is simply gorgeous!





He's also fortunate to have wood cabinets in the kitchen. The hardware may need updating, but the wood has potential. Here are some paint samples.



Our other goal for the day was checking out some paint samples.

Here's my mom putting some on.





David picked out five that he liked. We painted them in the living room and one of the bedrooms that will become the office.