As It Looks Now

These are 2 pics of the house as it is now, yes I did this in The Sims 3. It's not completely to scale, if anything the house is a tiny bit larger than I did it in the game, and there are some details and corners and stuff that I didn't include because I couldn't get them to scale properly. Also, I don't have the staircase in it, because it wouldn't scale properly either, but here's a rough idea of how the house looks now. You can click on each picture to make it larger.

When we're done, we hope to have 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (which we already have, but the one upstairs will be moved completely and larger as well hopefully!), a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, and a study.

The Scullery Redone.

I don't have really good photos of the scullery because the light wasn't that great, and I was using the iphone instead of a regular digital camera. Ray did a fabulous job plastering and painting, and I chose colors and together we bought a few necessary kitchen accessories. Here are before and after photos. The wall to the right will eventually be torn down to make a larger room, and the kitchen will be in another area of the house altogether, with much more space, but this was a temporary fix.

The First Post.

Ray and I are at the house for the weekend, Rita and I are cleaning out bedrooms and Ray has a hell of a job on his hands, plastering walls in the scullery before he paints. It looks horrible in there, but they've stripped down 50 years of wallpaper and dirt. We're learning that a bit of putty probably isn't going to do the job, but mind you this IS our first home improvement project EVAH and we have a lot to learn! We really need to just redo the entire walls with plasterboard, but we're not wanting to spend a lot of money on the scullery since we're going to tear out the big wall between that room and the downstairs bedroom within the next few months. So for now, it just gets a paint job, even if it is going to turn out ugly. But there's ugly, and there's not as ugly, so it's a step in the right direction.

Here are some photos of outside, the surrounding neighborhood, and the scullery while Ray is working on it. The house is going to be twice the size it is now when we're finished.