Before and After - Our own house

Hello Y'all !!   (sorry, but I had to type the southern accent, ;-) )

Here are a couple pictures of how the rooms on the house looked before and after. You must remember that we purchased the house back in April 2013 (actually, God provided for...)

We painted the whole house, and kudos to my gorgeous wife +sheryl frank for the outstanding job she did (mostly all of it while I was at work). Her vision and choice of colors resulted in an awesome combination.

Please be aware that by any means we are knowledgeable on any of the things we did. Specially me, I am a hardware computer guy and Sheryl is a Chef. So doing all this hard work was extenuating and the same time very rewarding, knowing 

This is how the front deck looked like...

I had to remove the old boards and replaced with new ones.

The old boards were so rotted that I couldn't used them even if I flipped over.

Living room with a look into the kitchen

and this is how it looks now.

here is closer look to the baker's rack and if you pay closer look to where the pots are hanging, I've ended up McGyvering something with a grill grate

a picture of the one of the kitchen's corner.

This is how it looks now... we reaaaaaallllyyyy love the color the kitchen has now, this picture doesn't make justice at all.

Kids bedroom.

On one of the corners, Cailtyn's bed with her pink wall

and on the opposite it is Noah's bed with the light blue, the name color on the middle is something funky that I can't pronounce ...

Living room with our fireplace.

How it looks now.

A closer look at the fireplace. Looking forward to use it this winter ... 

Let us know what do you think, suggestions, etc

Our Garden was growing like craaazzzzyy!!!

Our Garden this year is a test  and so far we passed with flying colors on the banana peppers.

and the tomato plants were growing like crazy without any fertilizer at all, not even miracle grow... just plant top soil and compost...

The yellow teardrop tomatoes plants were growing amazingly big.

The sweet banana peppers are doing great... so far we were able to harvest enough to can 36 mason jars pint size!!! 

But then we had 3 weeks with rain every single day and no sunshine, so, our tomatoes, zucchini and squash plants pretty much suffered big time to the point of some drowning and loosing a lot of the fruits. The little sun sugar cherries tomatoes are still going, since there are "indeterminate" type of plant. but all the Heirloom are not doing good... 

I'll be posting more picts. 

a few next projects that would take place in the upcoming weeks….

After talking with my gorgeous wife and her desires to have a few furniture requests, something that I can tackle and try to build.
for the 1st project, I have been thinking to make a mix of  these 2 post from Ana White ( http://ana-white.com/)

Sheryl would like to have 2 things that I can “easily” build, a coat hanger and a shoe storage. So…, I ended up mixing them in my head after seeing pictures of the end products. 




and stained in a espresso color.

For the 2nd project, a storage bench that I can place in the kitchen.  Something similar to this post from Mimi at Blue Roof Cabin.




I am planning on making this bench a little bit different, since I am planning to make it separated on the corner, so the table leg would fit in the event that we need to move the table against the wall. Our table is rectangular with square metal legs. 
I’ve not decided on the color yet, since this project is still on my head…

Any input or suggestions?