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Katorina: The Top Right Picture Is How My House Looked When I bought it Back in 2001.
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Katorina: Move in pictures; Lizzy leads the tour.
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Katorina: First shots of my new house's kitchen.
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Katorina: Here are the little trees who thought they could!
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Katorina: Gargantuan roots that were hidden until I started my massive unearthing project
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Katorina: The mounds had come to a pleasing configuration, and we started covering the dirt with the thickest plastic Home Depot had.
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Katorina: Pinky Flavored Gravel is delivered and spread.
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Katorina: More crabgrass, and a water main to work around.
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Katorina: With mounds in place, next came thick, cloth-like material, finally; granite gravel!
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Katorina: This is the front yard. If it hadn't been for crabgrass, I wouln't have had any "grass" at all!
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Katorina: Here are two of the workers that helped me to improve the front walk way
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Katorina: Front porch where I had the sidewalk augmented and rounded.
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Katorina: Front of the house.
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Katorina: Front of the house when complete.
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Katorina: I sponge painted the front door with red and magenta paint.
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Katorina: This is a photo of the front yard, a year or so after the project was completed
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Katorina: I moved tons of soil as I experimented with differently shapped mounds
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Katorina: The long hallway before and after, patching, staining and painting
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Katorina: These Two Photos Show the Mini ramps I created to go from the Concrete up to the Tile
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Katorina: Here are two of the ramps I built to transition from concrete to tile.
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Katorina: I used acrylic paints to create designs around the rocks and other objects
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Katorina: All the tack holes from carpet installation and old cracks from house settling needed to be patched.
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Katorina: Lizzy inspecting the newly stained concrete floors
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Katorina: I used a blue green and rust color for the cement floors.
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Katorina: Bathroom #1, hmmm salmon pink tiles, what colors to go with that?
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Katorina: Bathroom #1, before and after paint.
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Katorina: Bathroom #2's patch job. You know how it is, you start by removing "just the loose pieces" of plaster, next thing you know, half the wall is scabbed up!
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Katorina: View from the Orange Room through the bathroom, into the kitchen.
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Katorina: Renaldo and I took out a wall between two bedrooms, creating one BIG bedroom.
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Katorina: Here is the bookcase that we made to fill in where the door to the first bedroom was.