Our house is becoming a home!

This has gone from this:

to this:

Our hallway has gone from bland

(I apparently thought the hallway so bland that I didn't take a before picture) 

to beautiful:

Here is my handsome husband installing the casing around our bedroom window.

Here is what the hallway looks like from the living room through the little half wall.

We still need the crown molding in the hallway...

 I decided I was sick of looking at bare walls, so I started decorating.

Plus I wanted to pull out my pretty fall garland.

 Here is the mantle: 

The piano:

(pretty much the same from before except I added a pretty picture of the temple that my sister took)

Now my sweet husband is working on making the beam by the dining room window look like the rest of the beam (the top of the weird half wall thing..)

Here he is measuring how twisted the board is and possibly putting up the shims he had to make.

Here is the beam with the dry wall on it... notice the gaps. That's how off the beam was... wow.

It is also a fairly crappy  dark picture of the window and the pictures by it.

As you can see, our house is becoming a home!

It just feels more cozy with decorations up!