this week i want to showcase how talented my husband is. one of his favorite hobbies is to purchase old homes and renovate it himself.  he learned it from his talented dad who built his first home by reading a book when he was just in his early 20’s. yes you read that right, by reading a book on how to build a house! talk about a genius, right? and the house still stands strong today and someone else lives in it now. so jay helped his dad build their 3 houses in Hawaii when he was growing up so he can do pretty much anything; plumbing, electrical, you name it, he can do it.

so this is our house #1.  we used to live in this townehome until last fall and as you’ll see from the pictures it was really outdated.  to see a more detailed video of the before see here.

the backyard before:

 the kitchen before:

i helped a little too haha. but i was 4 months prego so i couldn’t help out much.

the after:

the wall by the entry door was shortened a lot so it’s more open

and look how little miss A was with her two teeth on top and bottom!

she was excited for the renovation too.

and jay’s friends/cousins/family came to help in the process too.  thanks guy!

we’ve now moved into another house because jay was getting the renovation itch again but my dad retired recently so my parents moved back to their house here from Korea(YAY!!!) a few weeks ago and jay graciously offered to renovate their whole house before he gets to ours. so i’ll have to post pictures of my parents’ home too when they’re all done!

the backyard before:

the after:

the fireplace before:

the after:

then he broke down the huge wall upstairs

and built a new wall/doorway facing the other way

so the bedroom would be connected to the bathroom(which it wasn’t before)

the bathroom before(after we painted the stripes):

the after:

(and the closet you see with the clothes hanging used to be the hallway.

but now it’s being used as the walk-in closet.)

i wish i could find more pictures of the before/after of this house,
especially the bathroom on the main floor, bummer.
but as you can see, he is amazing.  i’m so proud of him!