Before & After - the Playroom

The playroom used to be a workout room - complete with gross, stinky, moldy all-weather carpet. Here's a few pics that I snapped during our home inspection -

The Laundry Room - Before and After

You may think that beginning my house tour posts in the laundry room is a bit strange.  But there's a method to my madness!  The laundry room was actually the first room to get a makeover - and it began the day after we moved in!  Here's what we were working with:

 

Our house - the layout

I've debated the route I'm going to take in terms of the path of my posts.  I considered doing one long post filled with the "before" pics of our house, and then smaller posts detailing each room and the projects that went into them, but in the end, I've decided to do room by room before and afters, with additional posts or tutorials where there were several projects that went into a room.  But to start, I think it would be helpful to give you an overall summary of our house and its layout.

I think the architectural style of our home is considered Southern Colonial Revival or something, owing mostly to the big white pillars out front.