Last week, I placed the finishing touches on my house, finally! I installed the pergo laminate flooring that I bought over a year ago for my living room.

I originally thought that it was only going to take about a month to finish everything. WRONG. It has been 1 year and 8 months that I have had keys to my house.

Quick run down of all the things that I have done to my house:

• Removed a cabinate in kitchen, making the dining room and kitchen connect now
• Replaced all florescent lights with recessed lights in the kitchen
• Added pendent lights to the kitchen
• Added over head lighting to the dining room, master bed room, and office
• Added recessed lighting to the living doom (dimmable)
• Primed and painted every interior wall in the house
• Ran coax cable to every room through the walls
• Replaced every light switch and wall socket
• Replaced all the plumbing fixtures (toilets, sinks, faucets, shower heads, garbage disposal)
• Replaced the kitchen window with a huge 72 x 48 x 18 garden window
• Replaced all the crappy pink and green tile in my house with high quality, stylish ceramic tile
• Replaced the kitchen counter tops and wet bar with black granite
• Replaced the fireplace tile with black granite
• Added a black granite back splash to the kitchen
• Replaced every single door knob and door hinge with brushed nickel equivalents
• Replaced every door in the house with new 6
• panel molded doors
• New thresh hold on the front door
• New refrigerator, stove, dishwasher (all stainless steel)
• Refaced all of my cabinets in cherry wood.
• Installed about 1000 sq feet of laminate wood flooring in my living room, office and master bedroom
• Removed the acoustic popcorn ceiling in the master bedroom, living room, and dining room
• Painted all the stair railing and banisters
• New door jambs downstairs
• Replaces sliding closet doors in the bedrooms
• Replaced shower and tub doors
• New custom vanities in all 3 bathrooms
• Replaced the door bell
• Replaced the thermostat
• New baseboards through out the house
• Replaced the water heater

Im sure that I am missing more things that I have done/replaced. Basically what it boils down to is the fact that I took my house down to the studs and rebuilt it from the inside out. I dont think there is anything that I havent replaced/updated/fixed in the entire house since I bought it.

Its my first house, and I feel really attached to it. Its cost me a lot of money and time to get it to this point, but I have had a great time doing it. I think that its increased the value of the place a lot. I know that it looks worlds better then it did when I moved into it. Ive also gotten a lot of sweet power tools along the way.