Dream House Alphabet: G

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">G is for: GUT JOB</span><br />Okay, the word gut is kinda icky....and so are the 'before' pics I'm about to show you.<br /><br />To quote the brilliant Sarah Richardson:<br /><b>"Ever dream of buying a house, gutting it, and rebuilding so it's perfectly you?"</b><br />Why Yes Sarah...<i>yes I do</i>.<br />As an aspiring designer, I can't imagine buying a house that has already been updated and renovated by someone else, because well, let's face it... tearing out those new granite counter tops the previous owner installed seems like a waste, but what I really want is some Carrera marble...You know what I'm saying?<br />Instead, give me something that looks like this:<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgoQvpORHgxoSY9-xH46vnWLcnq1LE45O0ukmy7dcN1KlBZeCG2QeMEdj2SMtd87eIyigv3iCdAbPkhxm9cc7Dot_thtVwyVk_CNW8QDrcV1QCg9YowiK8zgnzGCsIw964O_Nw11XGSDB/s1600/Elana's+kitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgoQvpORHgxoSY9-xH46vnWLcnq1LE45O0ukmy7dcN1KlBZeCG2QeMEdj2SMtd87eIyigv3iCdAbPkhxm9cc7Dot_thtVwyVk_CNW8QDrcV1QCg9YowiK8zgnzGCsIw964O_Nw11XGSDB/s1600/Elana's+kitchen.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hgtv.ca/BLOG/archive/2008/11/04/shoestring-makeover-elana-s-kitchen-with-before-and-after-pics.aspx">Elana's Kitchen Before via Style Sheet</a></td></tr></tbody></table> No guilt tearing that baby out, believe me.<br />So, where does that leave me exactly? Buying an old rundown piece of  <strike>crap</strike> work, that's where.<br /><br />Elana Safronsky, a blogger at HGTV's <a href="http://www.hgtv.ca/blog/" style="color: #8e7cc3;">Style Sheet</a>, is taking her mess of a house and gutting it to transform it into a little dream! She takes it from gut it to love it!<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyrSiBo6O5_qr_TzEeSk96cMCWD2TcPbdmj5n5gXrVGymeUNckzFMgq4ATutuhVccQmqVy18jL8PCMHYLEvJ3BqurPseXUDfNb8KMOQ1YTr_gJBN6qAZeBcfTeT3Eb5nliiUZjGQvp_2RS/s1600/gut+it+love+it+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyrSiBo6O5_qr_TzEeSk96cMCWD2TcPbdmj5n5gXrVGymeUNckzFMgq4ATutuhVccQmqVy18jL8PCMHYLEvJ3BqurPseXUDfNb8KMOQ1YTr_gJBN6qAZeBcfTeT3Eb5nliiUZjGQvp_2RS/s640/gut+it+love+it+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hgtv.ca/blog/archive/2009/02/25/shoestring-makeover-a-baby-room.aspx">Elana's Baby Room Makeover via Style Sheet</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEdI0BhsgdcocQQ_k84MbhA1zLSjg9NGmI2w9AKWbesakcb6cVTSKWiB8LJgpgjWnXnYvaMVa6oabW-8JxpMZsGBRiSID3saAwVU5I2El1Q_MLZCyVqMBQhJdRCi8C67KThE_kFJ6TY7M/s1600/gut+it+love+it+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEdI0BhsgdcocQQ_k84MbhA1zLSjg9NGmI2w9AKWbesakcb6cVTSKWiB8LJgpgjWnXnYvaMVa6oabW-8JxpMZsGBRiSID3saAwVU5I2El1Q_MLZCyVqMBQhJdRCi8C67KThE_kFJ6TY7M/s640/gut+it+love+it+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hgtv.ca/BLOG/archive/2009/03/13/shoestring-makeover-a-clean-slate-foyer.aspx">Elana's Foyer Markover via Style Sheet</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Now there's a girl that gets me! Thank goodness for those 'Afters' or this would be one ugly post!<br />Basically, I just want a home that's perfectly me, and I think I need a fixer-upper to get it.<br />Do you guys think I'm nuts, or do you understand? This is MY dream house we are talking about after all.<br /><a href="http://s1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/?action=view&current=Tiffany-27.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh609/tiffanyleighinteriordesign/Tiffany-27.jpg" /></a></div>

Dream House Alphabet: G

G is for: GUT JOB Okay, the word gut is kinda icky....and so are the 'before' pics I'm about to show you. To quote the brilliant...

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