Here is the closet in the new foyer area that Joe built!!! It took ALOT of mud to make a closet. One would never know how just how much, until one does it. ha! It is primed and ready to be painted. We have a motivating factor to get alot of this done quickly...we are hosting a SuperBowl party at our house on sunday!! ahhh! No, it will be fine...
A quick view towards our front door, with the closet. We are very excited to put on the bi-fold doors and use it!
Oh yes, this is the other side of the room, where joe acutally built a half wall next to the concrete block, added insulation, and then finished it with bead-board paneling. It looks so much better!
After an evening of painting, we have a semi-finished wall! We chose to paint with the same color as in the dining room. I hope to punch some color in there with a few pictures or accessories as we have time. Its all coming together!
And the most recent... I took this picture about an hour ago. Joe and our friend Gabe are installing the ceramic tile in the foyer. Whew! Now this is a project. But once they got going and had a system, things went smoothly. I can't wait to see the end project. We found this tile on clearance at Menards for 89 cents a square foot. One more step in making these projects affordable! :) Now the only catch with the tile is that we have to stay off of it for 48 hours...hmm, that means we get to enter and exit our house from the second story sliding doors. This should be fun. I hope our deck holds up under all the traffic. Well, I suppose we have a piece of plywood over the really rotted-out parts. haha. What an adventure...
Here is the closet in the new foyer area that Joe built!!! It took ALOT of mud to make a closet. One would never know how just how much, until one does it. ha! It is primed and ready to be painted. We have a motivating factor to get alot of this done quickly...we are hosting a SuperBowl party at our house on sunday!! ahhh! No, it will be fine...
A quick view towards our front door, with the closet. We are very excited to put on the bi-fold doors and use it! 
Oh yes, this is the other side of the room, where joe acutally built a half wall next to the concrete block, added insulation, and then finished it with bead-board paneling. It looks so much better!
After an evening of painting, we have a semi-finished wall! We chose to paint with the same color as in the dining room. I hope to punch some color in there with a few pictures or accessories as we have time. Its all coming together!
And the most recent... I took this picture about an hour ago. Joe and our friend Gabe are installing the ceramic tile in the foyer. Whew! Now this is a project. But once they got going and had a system, things went smoothly. I can't wait to see the end project. We found this tile on clearance at Menards for 89 cents a square foot. One more step in making these projects affordable! :) Now the only catch with the tile is that we have to stay off of it for 48 hours...hmm, that means we get to enter and exit our house from the second story sliding doors. This should be fun. I hope our deck holds up under all the traffic. Well, I suppose we have a piece of plywood over the really rotted-out parts. haha. What an adventure...
