Our new home - before and after

Last week essentially everything in the house, except some blinds we have been waiting for for over four months, was finally finished. Although our camera died, a friend was willing to offer theirs so we could get current pictures of our new home. But as we emptied the last of the boxes we found our old digital camera and were able to use it to get the "after" pictures to compare to the "before" pictures we took two years ago. Our new camera is in Illinois on its way via the "expatriate back door route" and will be here after Thanksgiving ready for our trip to Thailand. After having things in boxes for almost two years, it has been a little like Christmas and it feels good to have all the boxes gone. Here are our before and after pictures. Besides the painting, we had all the doors and cabinets stripped and restained, new granite counters installed in the kitchen and bathrooms (as well as some beautiful copper sinks), and full walls of floor-to-ceiling shelves built in the den and the music room. When Walt's sister Marg and her husband Dan were here, they said that pictures don't really do the house justice. So when are you coming to visit?