Renovation While On Vacation

The perfect time for a pregnant woman with a 2 year old child to renovate her home is while she is on vacation.  The list of improvements we did on this house while the family was on vacation is huge.  Well, some of it was the week before they went away, but is was all done around the same time.  The only unfortunate thing is that I do not have "before" pictures of any of this work.  You'll have to take my word for it that we did some drastic cosmetic improvements.

First we tiled the space under their living room mantle

Then we built a planter for them to grow bamboo to naturally screen out their neighbors

Then we did the interior work.  We replaced their 3rd floor baseboards, painted the ceiling and walls, and painted the doors with chalkboard paint

The most important thing for this family was their front door.  They supplied a special oil paint that shines ever so well.

In all, this was a great project.  When they returned, I got an email that said, "The third floor looks great!  Thanks. We're pretty surprised that you got everything done on time.  The baseboards look great (in addition to everything else).