Welcome Home!

That's exactly how I feel every time I use our front door now, so incredibly WELCOME! Not only is the exterior looking fantastic, but the inside is really starting to shape up as well. As I said before, B's really been working his behind off. But before I give you a peak at what he's been doing, let's take a look back and what it looked like the last time I posted about the interior...

Yup, last time I shared we still had quite a ways to go before our front entry was warm, cozy, welcoming and well, uh, useable again! B was determined to get the room mostly ready for our gatherings this past weekend, so there were a lot of nights like this...

Believe me, all of those late nights and hard work have seriously paid off! Not only can we use our front entrance regularly again and hang our coats in a proper closet, but the room is actually WARM! As I mentioned in the original post outlining our renovation, this room once felt like a freezer in the middle of winter. Before we'd leave in the morning, we'd have to slip through the ratty curtain that separated it from the rest of the house to grab our coats and bring them inside to warm them up. There was also the issue that if the curtain was even slightly open you could feel a draft coming in. We may as well have left our front door open for all the good that curtain did!

But enough about what it was like before... here's what we're greeted with when we come home now...

Yup, there's still some painting to be done, trim to be added, closet doors to be installed, and window treatments to be addressed, but we are already so THRILLED! Can you see the floor? I should've got a picture of just the floor... but let me tell you... It's TILE! I know, it looks like wood. All we really know is that it's some rare Italian tile that we bought at this tile place we frequent (right near Olympia for those of you in Toronto), and got it for a pretty good price considering we had a store credit from the leftover bathroom floor tile we brought back! We are seriously in LOVE with it! I'll have to give you some close ups soon. 

So, that's how we're looking right now, with more to come soon! It's hard to believe the transformation it's made to the whole home in the end! There's been a few other smaller projects going on that I'll share soon... but the coming days will be busy getting ready for the holidays, so no promises of posts! If I'm not back in the next few days... Merry Christmas (and don't forget to enter my Inniskillin giveaway... contest closes tonight and winner will be announced tomorrow... so you'll at least hear from me then!)