If you're new to this blog, welcome to our home! We started Welcome Sunshine Home in May 2010 and it's been a fun hobby for Jake and me to share outside of our full-time office jobs. If you're a faithful reader, I hope you don't mind me gushing about our house. Again.
In August 2005, Jake and I bought this 1892 colonial in southern Maine. Our home has five good sized bedrooms, great closet and storage spaces, lovely moldings, and ONE bathroom.
Sigh Gotta love the charm of older homes, right ? :) When we purchased it, every single square foot was screaming for TLC after surviving many years of rental abuse and neglect (chain smokers + absentee landlord = lots of damage). We've used up gallons and gallons of paint, repaired broken windows, done painstaking wallpaper removal, removed nasty carpeting, overhauled the kitchen, updated the bathroom, and on and on and on. So many projects that I can't even remember them. All done before we became bloggers so we didn't think to capture 'before' shots of the house's
pitiful original condition.
Ok, let's move on to my three favorite house projects of 2010...
Before
After
Former guest room BEFORE (crummy cell phone photo from 2007)
New guest room AFTER (different room in our house)
My absolute favorite! Inexpensive, functional, and pretty. Thank you, Jake! :)
Before
awkward third floor half wall
After
Wicked! You can't see me but I'm behind the camera doing a happy dance.
Honorable Mentions
I hope you enjoyed seeing this peek into our home. :) Now, I'm off to see what everyone else picked!
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because there isn't a place to push or throw the snow. Jake spent a few hours throughout the day shoveling in the wind and cold. While he was outside, he and a neighbor that was shoveling helped someone else push their car out of a snowbank at an intersection near our houses. Fun, fun, fun!
