Our beautiful new bathroom!

Kurt and I took advantage of the empty nest we had for a little while and completely renovated the hall bathroom. We ripped out everything except the bathtub and the tile around it. It took a lot of time and hard work, but it was so worth it!!

The before- a dated, functional, but not pretty bathroom.

The gutted bathroom- pulling up the old linoleum and scraping off all the glue was quite a chore
Kurt putting down the first of the tile. He got pretty sick of doing all the tilework, but he had a great assistant!!

The finished bathroom- a big change!

The new vanity and mirror

Next I want to redo our bathroom and replace all the hall tile, but I think I'd better wait awhile before I bring it up- right now the mere sight of tile makes Kurt run screaming the other way!

My new front yard!

The front yard was looking sad with overgrown bushes and dead or nearly dead rose bushes. It was time to take some action! So we pulled out all the old bushes and had all the old brick planters and concrete walk torn out. We had beautiful stamped concrete put in and even added a new porch. I have had fun picking out lots of pretty plants and some new trees that will grow up and give us much needed shade. Now all we have to do is put up our new house numbers and add some new rock and the front yard will be all done! I'm not sure our missionaries will recognize our house when they come home next year!!

Our new entryway with an added small porch and a beautiful new front door

The new stamped, curved walkway and concrete planters with all my new colorful plants. The planter on the left was expanded by about a foot to make our new porch and give me lots of room for my pretty flowers.