Clearly, another "What have I done" moment

Today, a took a few photos of our dining room because I didn't remember ever taking any since we installed new windows in there earlier this year. I had taken some of the french doors, but not the windows, oddly enough. (Click here to see a photo page I put together shortly after that install...)

I decided to find a couple of "before" pictures to compare to my current "during/in progress" pictures. Honestly, after looking and comparing the photos, I'm a little sad. Not because I regret putting in the french doors and new windows (there's so much more light in the kitchen now, the pictures *don't* do the room justice) but because everything looked so nice and neat and orderly and clean in the "before" pics. There was no dust. The linoleum floor, albeit old and beaten up, was shiny and spotless. There were no clusters of paint cans in one corner and power tools in another...The walls were painted! *sigh*

Well, there's no going back now. Someday this house will be whole (and clean!) again! Ok, now for the "befores" followed by the "durings":