Home improvements!

So Steve is Mr. Handyman...and loves to have things to build or fix or improve. There has been a lot of talk in this house about slowly finishing our basement. But with limited time and money, this could be a 5 year process. We've lived in this house a little over 3 years and have done numerous home improvements. We built our 2 car garage, completely tore up the backyard (dug up all the grass, tore down the shed and fence, had the trees trimmed due to an ice storm) and reseeded it. Got new gutters, painted the house, resealed the windows, put a shower in the basement, built shelves in the basement for a storage room. Besides the garage, most of this was general home maintenance. But then we HAD to remodel the bathroom! The bathroom was the one reason I didn't want to buy this house. It was tiny, old and had no storage. Here is what the bathroom looked like when we moved in.
Yep, that's it. Nothing else to show. Pretty sad huh? Here is a picture of the new bathroom, this was right before it was complete.

and the new shower! We expanded the bathroom 3 feet. We took some space away from our front living room, but we never use that room anyway, so it was completely worth it!!

Here is the front living room before the bathroom remodel.

and afterwards....We repainted the living room, hallway and dining room and Steve refinished all the wood floors! We retrimmed and got all new doors! It was almost like a brand new house!

So there were only a couple rooms left that haven't had an upgrade.....but soon after all this we finished Presley room...and then a couple months ago we got new carpet in the living room and master bedroom, which we repainted and retrimmed also. So the basement is feeling a little neglected with all of these home improvements! Steve has a lot of ideas, I'm surprised he hasn't drawn a sketch of the layout of his man-room. He loves to dream big but like I said before, due to the lack of time and money, he might be dreaming for a while!