Just to give you some background on our cozy house, we bought it from Chris’s Grandfather {aka PawPaw in these here parts, lol}.  It was built in the 50’s I think, and Chris’s Great-Grandmother as well as his Aunt have also lived here at various points.

We originally didn’t plan to do the complete overhaul of everything, but you know how that goes.  In home projects, nothing is ever what you expect it to be.  FYI… when I say “we” I really mean my handy hubby Christopher! He spent many, many hours after work and on weekends to get this massive project done.

In the end, we had completely gutted and I mean gutted everything down to THE STUDS!  We even completely redid all the electrical and the plumbing as well as new flooring, dry wall, cabinets and everything in between! Whew! Talk about decision overload.

We signed the papers around March or so and finally moved into our new, fresh place in January of the next year.

Up first in my Happy Birthday House Celebration is the kitchen… the heartbeat of the house, but lemme tell you.  Our place had one veeeery weak and scary heartbeat. 

Seriously.  Check out that wallpaper and linoleum combo we’ve got going on.  You can’t really tell in the pic, but the {hideous} oven is actually butted up against the cabinets for lack of room.  This obviously means putting anything in those cabinets was pretty much pointless.

And after several months of hubby’s hard work…

Tada! 

New floors, new walls, new cabinets, new sink & faucet, and MUCH more!

And now a BIG Happy 4th Birthday to our Kitchen!  It has gone through a few changes and has improved and grown.  :) 

Curtains and cabinet hardware and new decor…

Another view from 2007…. We actually cut that window in.  We lost the cabinet space, but it was worth it.  It gives some flow between the Living Room and Kitchen and also lets me keep an eye on what shenanigans the Wadester is trying to pull. 

And the Kitchen today… It definitely looks more lived in and homey!

Happy 4th Birthday to my Cozy House!