Before and After - Barn Apartment

The Barn Apartment is getting the first "Before and After" treatment because it's the first project that we finished. It's a small studio apartment located right off of the barn aisle in the B barn (No, I don't have a stutter. It's actually called the B barn). I'm pretty sure it's every horse girls' (Or guy; I can only go on my own experiences here) dream to open your front door and have your horse right across the aisle! Non-horse people: Not so much. Non-horse people don't understand that we actually LIKE the smell of horses! Anyway, I'm getting off topic. Here are some before pics:

Here is the living room/bedroom area. Left to us full of junk. To date, we've hauled over 100 yards of junk/garbage off the property. There's a half-wall type thing in the middle of the room to give privacy to what would be the bedroom area. The problems with that were: 1. It would only fit a twin size bed and we weren't planning on moving in a 7 year old. 2. There was no window on that side, so the "bedroom" was more like a dark, depressing cave.

Here's the living room in process:

And here is the after pic. We left the frame of the wall up for now. We also added a window to that side of the room to make it less cave-y.

Next up is the kitchen area. Here, again, is some junk:

We didn't change much to the kitchen other than painting, cleaning it up and getting a new oven. But here's the after:

The biggest project in the barn apartment was the bathroom. You could step right through the floor due to a prior leak that led to rotting. Most of the floor needed replacing. Here's the bathroom in process:

And now the after. New floor, updated vanity, and a fixed shower.

And lastly, a new bathroom door. It even fits with the barn theme!

After all this, it looks amazing! Our tenant moved in at the beginning of June and she loves it! I can take almost NO credit for any of it though. The only thing I did in the entire apartment was to vacuum and steam clean the carpet. All of the credit goes to Kerry and Phillip who worked their butts off! Also to our only outsourced labor, Kerry's brother-in-law Hans, who added the window.

More to come! We're still spending almost every weekend there trying to get it cleaned up. I'm exhausted just typing about it.