Unfortunately, I don't have as many before and after pics as I wished I had but here are a few that show some of the changes we did the last time we were down.
Here is a before (this brick doesn't look SO bad, but trust me, it was hideous in real life!):
We whitewashed it and now it looks like this:
SO MUCH better!!!
Here is the little garden area after we planted a few things (we didn't want to get too crazy because all of this is coming out when they re-do the deck):
And here is the garden after - that one plant totally took over!
Unfortunately, that is all of the after pics I have. But I have one of one of the bathrooms while it was in progress. Mom ripped out the wall paper and stucco-ed and then we painted the whole room and added all new fixtures! Looks SO good! Wish I had an after shot! I'll get one when I'm down next time!
Also wish I had an after shot of this bathroom because we really changed this a lot as well. I'll add that when we go back in a few weeks!