There's No Place Like Home

It has been 5 years since we moved to Canton, bought our first house, and started the transformation, room by room.  Don't get me wrong this old house had potential but it needed some updating in the areas of wallpaper, carpet, the ceramic Green toilet, and sink in the bathroom.  I look around at all the hard work and think look how far we have come.  But I still seem to find projects to work on.  It never seems to get old to find a project within the house that I want to work on.  This is the longest I have lived in one place since living at home thru high school and ever that was not very long.  From the time I was born and thru high school I had at least 8 different places I called home.  In the fall of 1999 I left for College, those 4 years consisted of living in different rooms, living with the family I nannied for, and bunking up with friends for the summer, literally from place to place.  When Troy and I got married in 2003 we lived in Wheeling, Illinois for 8 months, then moved to Sterling, Kansas for 2 years and then in 2006 we moved to Canton, Ohio.  To celebrate for living in one place for 5 consecutive years I wanted to share all of our hard work over the years and the transformation of the place we call home.

Beware of the very 60's home decor :)

THE KITCHEN: BEFORE

The beautiful wallpaper

The progress of the wallpaper being scrapped off,

the amazing green floors, ugly brown cabinets, and

the long heater on the floor which interesting

enough is right by the floor vent....interesting.

One day I decided to start pulling up there floor thing there was hardwood under it and thinking it would be easy.  WRONG.  There were 2 layers of floor that were dark green and dark blue.  Lovingly my hubby and his brothers got shovels and took over the job and pulled up the floor.  There was hardwood under the flooring but only for part of the room because of addition that had been done.  The back part of the room, the addition, where we thought about putting in hardwood to match was not going to happen.  We had several people tell us the plywood flooring that was putting was not up to code it was way to thin.  That they would have to lay day a sub floor over all and then put in floors.  Well for get that we will just do something different because the wood would never match the rest of the house

THE KITCHEN: AFTER

not perfect but we like it

THE DINNING ROOM / 1/2 BATH: BEFORE

Here you can see the awesome wallpaper in the dinning room and the bathroom.  If you look hard you can see the awesome green toilet, sink, and the same green floor from the kitchen, yum.

Wait!  Did I mention the shag green carpet : )
THE DINNING ROOM/1/2 BATH: AFTER

Yeap under all that carpet were hardwood floors, don't you love that!

LIVING ROOM: BEFORE

Sadly I do not have one but just picture the shag green carpet and the wallpaper surprisingly was just plain cream color no flowers.  I am not sure what the point of it was but wallpaper was so in.
LIVING ROOM: AFTER

all done

Top 5 Places I love to shop in Canton for Great Deals:

1)Marc's in North Canton - I find tones of Target stuff there

2)Habitat for Humanity ReStore -  Great stuff, you might have one close by

3)Hartville Market - amazing crazy suff

4)Target - I love search the sale racks

5)The Birds Nest - this one is new, basically the lady that opened this place use to be in real estate and has lots of connects with people that purchase furniture to sell homes and she sells it at much less of the prices, or very very gently used from some very rich person who actually never used the table in the front hall.  That kind of thing and last time I was in there my mom made friends with the owner.  So I know more then I needed but the lady said by the end of the day Saturday she has sold most of her store.