Renovation Pictures #3 - Master Bedroom & Office

The "before" master bedroom was a "L" shaped room with virtually no closets. The "L" had been open and partly used as a den, with a TV and seating area.  But as everyone knows, I need an office and so decided to have a built in office in the area that used to be treated as a den.

Master Bedroom & Office - Before

Looking towards the small den area in the master bedroom which I made into an office. 

There is a small balcony off the former den area.

 

This is the other part of the master bedroom where the bed will go.

 

Master Bedroom & Office - After

 

On entering the master bedroom, you see the bed to the right, and ahead the wall built to partition off the new office.  We put in Hunter Douglas black out pleated blinds, and on top of that Hunter Douglas silhouettes - very nice.  We also built the new closet (on the left) for me as there was very little closet space.  I guess we have a lot more clothes now than people did in the past.

 

The built in office is in a U shape. Works very well.

 

View from my office - looking out the sliding glass doors, small balcony - lots of trees

 

Bedroom part of the room.  With the Hunter Douglas blinds lifted up, we get a fantastic green view.

 

Renovation Pictures #2 - Living Room & Dining Room

Here are before and after pictures from the living room and dining room:

Dining Room and Living Room - Before

Dining Room - we did not keep this chandelier. It is a big space - big enough for the dining room furniture from our home.

Living Room before we reduced the size of the living room on the west side by building a fireplace/tv wall with a storage room accessible from the bedroom behind the fireplace wall.

 

Taken from west side of living room towards dining room.  We put in hardwood flooring and area rugs. 

 

Dining Room & Living Room - After

 

We have a new drum style chandelier

 

This is our existing living room furniture from the house, just all recovered and with new toss cushions

 

This shows the new fireplace/tv wall we built on the west side of the living room.  The new storage room is behind this wall and the master bedroom is beyond the storage room.

Settled into our New Home #1 - Renovations to Front Hall and Kitchen

It has been ten months now since we moved into our new condo home and we are loving it.  Renovations continued into the first two months after we moved in because of backorders for certain things, such as light fixtures, countertops, mirrors, shower glass, but we lived through it. Seemed like we had six sub-contractors there every day in August and September 2014.

As friends and family know, 2014 was a very difficult year for us, and I got behind on so many things including blogging.  But now we are feeling relaxed, have more time and are enjoying our new neighbourhood.

I want to share some before/after renovation pictures.  Here are some:

Front Entry Hall - before

Entrance - what we saw when we opened the front door of the suite

 

and after:

 

Kitchen & Eating Area - before

 

 

Left side of kitchen looking towards the dining room and living room.  We took out the old fridge and opened up that wall so you have a view into the dining room.

 

Left side of the kitchen looking towards the dining room and living room.

Kitchen eating area at the east end of the kitchen.  Small balcony here with sliding doors.

 

 

Kitchen & Eating Area - After

 

Taken from the dining room looking into the kitchen towards the east.  See eating area at the end.

 

Also taken from the dining room looking into the kitchen. We had a TV installed in the eating area - very convenient.

 

 

This is the eating area looking out onto the small balcony.

 

 

This is taken from the eating area, through the kitchen, towards the dining room (you can see the drum chandelier in the dining room)

 

 

More pictures to come in the next blog.