Home Improvements

We bought our first house, and we abosolutley love being home owners. The most exciting part for me, is being able to put work into our house, and start seeing the results we want. We haven't done any dramatic renovations, or anything like that, but we have made a few changes here and there to get our house just how we want it. Here are some of the BEFORE & AFTER photos. Hopefully you can get some fun design ideas, or pass along some suggestions for the future.

New Appliances
--When we moved into our house one of the first things we did was replace all of the black kitchen appliances with matching stainless steel appliances. We also replaced the old washer and dryer with a new set.

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After

Even more recent, with the new floors below..

Dining Room

--Our small "dining room table" just wasn't cutting it, especially because we love having people over. We decided to double our seating, and purchased a large dining room table that can seat up to 8 from Crate & Barrel. Luckily around the same time our table arrived, my Boumpa was in town and installed a new light fixture from Lowes, above the table. Ryan added the finishing touches to the room by haging window curtains and some wall decor.

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Man Cave

--I already posted a seperate blog about Ryan's man cave I redid while he was away for work, but here are a few more pictures.

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Bye Bye Blinds

-- We decided it was time to get rid of the 80's style vertical blinds haning from the sliding glass door that leads out to the screened in porch. I would have loved to replace the sliding door altogether, however we decided to go with a more economical quick fix.

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New Floors

-- I also already posted in a seperate blog about the floors we recently put in throughout the first level of our house. We went through Floor Trader in Indianapolis who did a wonderful job. This upgrade made a huge difference in the look of our house.

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After