Busy, busy, busy

So a little over 2 weeks ago we signed the papers on our new home and it officially became ours!! Since then we have been super busy making the house "ours". This first pic is our new house, yay~~ notice the cute old lamp post out front?!! Unfortunately the previous owners neglected the yard big time this summer, but we'll be fixing that up starting this next spring.This is the view of my front entry way- Tim and I tore out the marble on the floor- it wasn't my taste at all and the tile job was horrible! The old magazine rack on the side was torn out too. It's getting a fresh coat of paitn on the walls and trim and there is a doorway to the right that leads into the living room that we framed in and put a wall in View from the living room-yes those are beautiful french doors!! I'm going to try to strip the paint off of those and then that doorway to the right is the one that we framed in! It just didn't make sense to us to have those french doors, but then another doorway into the living room?? So we decided to frame it in- it took quite a bit of work since the dry wall doesn't match up with the old lathe and plaster very well, but thanks to the help of my wonderful brother in law and dad in law it looks wonderful now! Another view of the living room- if you can see the wall framed in above the window that is a very old school window blinds that slide across the entire length of the wall. We tore that down as well last week and it really opened up the room. This room is getting a fresh coat of paint on walls and trim as well along with new pergo floors!! My beautiful new bay window- gorgeous!! At least it will be once I get done with it, lol! Same old window blind set up above the window that was torn down as well. A view of the dining room right when you walk into the house. Bathroom pic- getting new paint, floors, and toilet. Though the previous owners updated the bathroom before we purchased the home we're doing a little more updating =)Ugh this is another bedroom on the main level. The wallpaper border was NOT fun to remove- neither was that old built in dresser!! When we took out the dresser there were papers from the 1950's behind there! This will be our bedroom- same icky wall paper border and this room was even more of a pain to remove! Both room are getting new paint and carpet as well! View of the back of my house. View of the backyard- yes we have a nice new white vinyl fence, but some pieces aren't up so we need to fix that. The old shed is getting torn down- or rather some of it is falling down- and a new one we bought from Lowe's is going up in it's place. In the future we also plan to put a garage in the backyard.