Flashback Friday

This week's flashback is our upstairs Living Room. Here is the fireplace BEFORE (look how little Brianna was!):

David sanded and re-stained the mantle, and we painted the bookshelves...

And here is the fireplace AFTER:

And some cute little kids playing IN the bookshelf ;-)

Here is the wall and the door going out to the backyard - BEFORE:

I don't have a picture of the door and wall before we painted it red, but you can kind of see it in the picture above with the fireplace. Here it is after we painted it red in the Fall of 2005:

And then in the Fall of 2009, David replaced our sliding door - this new one has blinds INSIDE the window - I LOVE it! This door faces West, so when the sun sets, it's nice to be able to keep out the glare. Plus this door is SO much easier to open and we finally have a screen again. I just have to be careful because sometimes even Trysten can get it open!

And here are the stairs BEFORE - the ballisters (sp?) were a major safety hazard - wide enough for a kid to fit through!

So David ripped them out and put in new ones, sanded down the pole...

...and re-stained it all. Here it is AFTER:

Thanks for joining me on another Flashback! If you missed my past House Project posts and want to see what else we have done, just click on the following links:

Upstairs Bathrooms

Bedroom 1

Kitchen/Dining Room

Thanks for looking!