Hot Rod Remodel!

Some of you may know that Chris bought "Hot Rod" Hundley's old house. It was the ultimate bachelor pad. I have never seen a house so specific to a single guy. When we got married and I moved in, Chris was kind enough to agree to some updates. So the Monday after we got home from our honeymoon we decided it would be a great idea to start a remodel. We originally were just going to do the master bathroom but as you will see below, we went overboard. Unfortunately I didn't get any before any demo so you won't get the full effect. 

This is to be a crappy bifold door into the master bedroom. We closed it off and made a pantry. It was the best idea, this kitchen has no storage. 

Sigh...So nice. 

These are the old washer/dryer on the very lovely and very stained light grey carpet. 

Old laundry area

New laundry are. (don't mind the bra hanging, thought i would show you what we really live like)

this is the view from the kitchen into the dining room. There was a weird glass space light hanging here. 

A few little things out of place but you get the idea. 

My mom's dog is pretty much in the rest of the pictures because he wouldn't move and was very curious. 

This is the beginning of the master bathroom. it used to just be a weird shallow tub in the middle of the bedroom, not in the bathroom.

The shower.

ahhh. a heated bench in the shower is awesome. no more heating up the seat before you sit. 

vanity, his and her sinks, we haven't quite decided who's is who's yet but we like it so far. 

Some accent baskets for toiletries. From KUDU of course. 

This is the entrance to the bedroomit used to be a foggy sliding glass door, like one you would see in a bathroom. That little wall on the right used to be the other door into the kitchen, which is now the pantry.

Here's that finished view, notice the dog. We had some custom closets and storage built in. So nice to have so much storage. I was watching Law & Order, one of my favorites. 

That little half-circle on the floor, outlined in white was the old bathroom. It was so tiny and only had a sink and toilet and one of those magnetic mirrors. HUGE improvement!!

The dog bone is not new nor will it ever not be in the middle of the floor somewhere in this house. 

We still need to hang a lot of our art and finish decorating. 

This lovely gray carpet made the house so cold. At this point we had already scraped off the gray FELT wallpaper. Oh it was lovely. That foosball table was the only furniture in the front room for a long time, too long. 

The front room with a little of everything shoved in there. We kept that mirror for now but I think there is a really cool red-brick wall behind it and if so we will expose it and finish it. That will be awesome. 

Here is the front room now. SO much better than living in that mess of construction. 

No more bachelor pad here, we finally have a home. 

There was a really dark tile on the floor but this is the new stuff. the old door was read with a giant oval and a ugly red, glass screen door. 

The new entry. We still need to get some art on the walls here too.

This was a hideous purple built in love seat....now i love purple, it's my favorite but this was heinous!! So we built in a nice desk which we still need to organize. 

This room was basically empty so we turned it into the gym. It is sort of a loft area with a steam room in that bathroom, we thought it was perfect. 

Here is the bar area during construction. it was mostly  white and really cold so we organized and painted it. 

Much warmer and cleaner. Those are chairs we inherited from Hot Rod. I'm sure you can image what the rest of the house looked like with those chairs being the only thing worth saving. 

We are finally getting some of our art up and loving how cosy this place is getting. I honestly never thought we would make it cosy but it really is now. 

Well that is our house. Chris and I had so much fun picking all of this stuff out. We have completely different tastes so it was pretty interesting and there were lots of compromises, but we are really happy with the results.