recycled homesteading : Starting to look like a home...

This is the bathroom off of the gameroom. When we bought the shower unit it had doors. On the way home from the auction those doors broke. Little did we know that finding replacement doors would cost around $800. So, we have been looking online for some sort of replacement out of recycled materials. We came across a picture of one stationary exterior door used with a shower curtain. We are still figuring out how to make that work out correctly but we are leaning towards something like that.

The hallway going up to the master bedroom is painted. It is the same blue/grey that the library is. The windows were tricky to trim on that radius wall.

The main bathroom got a set of lockers added to it because we needed some sort of storage in there. We got them from Chris' Dad when he moved. They were in his garage before this. We cleaned them up and sprayed them with a flat black paint.

This is Hannah's room which is in the North bin. She wanted chair rail. We have to go pick up her bedroom set from my Grandma's house. She will inherit a bedroom set that she has admired since she was little.

This is Abi's room. It is the other half of the same grain bin. She inherited the bedroom set that came from my great Grandmother. There is another dresser that goes with it but I am currently using it so it will be moved at a later date.

We went to an auction last weekend and got these knobs for the kitchen cabinets. There was a small bucket of them that we paid $10 for an there was enough for the cabinets. They are old glass knobs.

We went to another auction this past weekend and bought a truckload of old barn wood for $25. Chris used it to enclose the island in the kitchen. The tin that was added came from a building that was being torn down in Appleton City, MO. The building had been the old newspaper building I believe. We have some other tin from the same building but we haven't decided where or if we are going to use it yet. The backside of the island is open. So the total for this island was about $60. We bought the table at an online auction for $35 and then the cost of the barn wood. The tin was free.