I'm feeling inspired by Farmfresh today
We too are renovating our farmhouse here at Lupin Farm and in the last month or so we've been picking out hardwood flooring, contacting restoration companies (looks like we're going with Eastern Restoration for the brickwork and window/door at the front of the house).
For reference these are the before shots of the house..
Front of the house
Kitchen, the stove was coated in probably about 4 inches of grease and one day actually blew up in my mums face! Yikes! The cupboards are greasy and we, as a collective family, HATE oak, the floor is gross, and the sink cabinet is moldy. The fridge is old and doesn't work properly and needs to go. Under the stairs there is a nook, we are taking the cabinets out of it and putting in a marble worktop in there and shelves, putting a door on it, and calling it our cold storage/pantry area
Its a great spot too.
Living Room (looks way better than it actually IS, under that ceiling tile ceiling is solid wood tongue and groove ceiling that is painted in hospital green paint *barf* and that laminate floor was coming up, didn't even meet the walls!! The window was put in without a header, just the old brick one, and is pretty much falling out LOL).
"Office", this area will be included into the bathroom (which I dare not shock you with right now, you all may actually have heart attacks and die upon seeing it) to give us space for a 2 person glass shower, dressing area, and double vanity.
Extension, this is my parents room... it was actually built 20-25 years ago by the owners before the Bulgarians as a living room that could be turned into a master bedroom when the husband got older, and my parents use it as a master as my dad has a gammy leg and can't get up the stairs and anyway he's 6'7" which I can tell you doesn't agree with a 1 1/2 storey house! Those floors are solid Maple, they're getting refinished to match upstairs, all we're doing in there is replacing that awful 90s propane insert with a victorian styled one and some painting really.
Laundry room is off the extension and has a door to the small side deck and laundry line, it just needs new flooring, appliances, cupboards and some paint really.
Kevin's room, this room looks small but its actually 14ft by 20ft, its the original master bedroom and it has a huge double closet.
My room. This room is 14x11 but its very irregular... You'll see what I mean when you see some of the inprogress photos LOL.
The sewing room, also used as a guest room when needed. This room is the smallest, I think its 9x11 or 9x14... one of those. Both the rooms on my side of the house have 2 smaller windows. Both also have enormous closets and the only part of these rooms that is original really is the floors and the ceilings which are plaster (in the sewing room only half the ceiling is plaster, other half was replaced with drywall in the 90s). This is an awful photo of it lol but its the only picture I have of this room.
I don't have a photo of the upstairs bathroom, but it had a tiny dwarf shower (my mum is 5'5 and she couldn't even stand upright in it or turn around in it) that didn't work because the Bulgarian family that lived here never once put softener salts in the water softener lol we hit the pipes with a hammer by accident and it started working when we were taking it out hahahaha. Also had a tiny vanity that was a mere 6 inches from the opening to the shower, and a toilet that leaked like no tomorrow. It smelt like a farmers buttcrack in this house, the floors were covered upstairs in plywood and "wood floor stick down tiles" lol and as you can see, the paint colours left a lot to be desired.
Next is inprogress photos...
But they'll only be 1x6" rough cut because there won't be horses turned out into it and anyway.. most people I've noticed are using the 1x6" because as we allll know, even a 2x6 won't stop a horse 
