Foursquare Exterior Big Porch Redo...

This is my second post sharing the journey we have had remodeling our 1916 American Foursquare home in New York.  We absolutely fell in love with the large front porch on our home.  The size was great but the blue rug was not so pretty.  We decided to redo the floor and found that 2x4's were holding up the porch!

 The columns needed work too and you can see the lovely blue carpet here...

So the demolition began...

Our Living Room Journey...

Well, this is my first attempt at blogging.  Here it goes!  We live in a small, rural community of older homes in Western New York.  Our home is a 1916 American foursquare.  I would like to share some of our experiences (exhausting, frustrating, joyous, and rewarding) renovating our home since we moved there in October 2003.  The most recent renovation we completed was the living room.

This is what the living room looked like when we bought the home (sorry for the photo quality...it was 2003 and our camera wasn't digital then!).

So, the first job we tackled in 2004 was removing the border, painting over the pink (which was painted over wallpaper), and painted the white fireplace.  This is what it looked like for awhile: