Back rooms

Laundry before:

Jess skillfully re-texturized the wall & painted. No trim painting yet, but Nina rocked out the tinted primer. Also, no drier because my pal at Best Buy forgot to ring it up. That was a pleasant surprise on delivery day.

Hallway

Here's the hallway before...I think it's obvious why the carpet had to go:

Carpet up, walls primed, trim mostly painted:

The lovely people who originally painted this decided to use a thick paint over old lead paint without priming. Luckily, Jess has an unnatural obsession with scraping.

Thank God for Dec White!

There were 5 doorways to scrape :(

But they turned out good!

The landing, before:

Jess hard at work! We thought ripping up the carpet would take maybe an hour or so. Yeah right. Getting out the 968 staples from the carpet & removing the "death strips" (bottom right) was horrible. I got some great blisters on my hand. This is also a shot of the stripped banister, which was voted one of the worst, messiest & fumey jobs of all:

The grand staircase with a not-so-grand color & carpet:

Has to look worse before it looks better! Trying to keep it close to what it originally was 129 years ago minus the dirt & scuffs.

My pride & joy (before & during)...

Pantries

I give lots of credit to my parents, Jess & Nicole for priming & painting the cracks & crevices of the pantries.

Before:

Almost done...

Kitchen

Here is how the kitchen looked the day I bought the house:

The border came down easily. There was lots of chipping paint and decent-sized cracks & holes in the wall, so it was a big spackle job! I got it painted just in time for the new stove, but still waiting for the right trim color.