The Mess at My House

We bought this house in 1986, when our children were still in grade school. It has been a lovely home, and I love the open floor plan, but it is deffinatly a design of the 60s. Concequently it has needed some up-dating to bring it out of that time period. Right now we are scraping the ceilings, something that has needed to be done for a long time. That look is so ugly, I wonder who ever decided it was a good idea. It's hard to believe that this house is that old, but it has been a real job bringing it up to date. Doing it slowly though, it's becoming out dated before its done. The kitchen which we re-did in the 90s is really nice, but it's outdated already.

This is the dining room ceiling, it's between the main living room and the kitchen.

This is our living room, with the fireplace all torn up to fix an uneven part. Something that we hadn't previously noticed before the painter pointed it out. The whole thing is turning into a big ordeal. This corner is going to look really different because previously it was covered with dark paneling.

We had hoped that the rock went all the way up, but didn't really think it did. That would have been a nice surprise to find behind this drywall. The drywall is just going to be repaired and painted.

Looking toward the T.V. We wanted to remove the lowered ceiling too, but that would have been a lot more work, and the main reason we had put off this whole scraping project for so long.