Demo
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Let’s talk Kitchens
My kitchen demo has begun. I have waited for this moment since we have moved in four years ago. We started by taking out the corner section of the kitchen. We decided to put a pantry in the corner instead of having wasted unusable counter space. This will give me two pantries which I know sounds weird, but I will no longer have to go downstairs to get food out of the storage room to cook dinner with. We have the pantry framed and ready for dry wall. The cabinets are ordered, and we are waiting for them to be delivered. We are completely changing the layout of the…
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Floor D.E.M.O
Finally! After four years we are tearing up the main level. We have done this level in stages, so we have paint and molding done, now we can add the finishing touches and put in the floor. I am excited because the kitchen is next. The cabinets are being built, and I can see the end. Here is the before the demo picture. The floors were wood, but too light and they didn’t run through the whole level. I wanted the same dark wood we used for the upstairs on the whole main level, so we had to tear up the old floor. We were lucky. None of the…
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DIY wreath
We just finished our upstairs hallway and I have been having fun decorating and adding some accessories. I bought this hook originally to hold pictures, but I decided to put it in the hall and hang a wreath on it. I wanted something simple and without a lot of color. I looked all over for a wreath I liked, but I couldn’t find one. School is out and I have some extra time, so I decided to make one instead. I found these fun burlap flowers at JoAnns and I was excited. I am not fond of silk flowers, so these were just right for me. I got a grapevine…
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Mud Room
We are making progress on our main level. This past weekend we worked hard getting the new mud room ready for paint and tile. This room is right off the garage and use to be the laundry/computer desk/mudroom. We have moved our laundry room upstairs, the desk will be in the kitchen, and now I am going to have a for real mud room with cabinet lockers to store all the shoes, backpacks, coats….. Lets just say I am excited for this room! We painted this room the same notre dame gray that I used throughout the main living space of the house. I used the same vintage black and…
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Some more demo
Yep it wouldn’t be home around here without a little demo. Over the Christmas break we spent a day taking out part of a wall. It was a milestone for us…it was on the main level…the last level to finish. I did not think we would ever get to this point. So it has started and I am so very excited to show our little demo project…the start of my vision for the main living space. I really hated how the walls closed in the stairs, and that I couldn’t see the stairs from the front door. We decided to fix that by tearing out a section of the wall…
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Master bedroom reveal
I am so excited to show my finished master bedroom. This was a fun transformation for us. Things came together easily, and I love the change the room gave to my home. Here are the before pictures. This room was a blank canvas. It had cream walls, an awful ceiling fan, and no personality. So we transformed the space. We painted the room the same color as the bathroom, painted the molding of the ceiling a paint color two shades lighter and painted the trim the ultra bright white we used through the whole house. We took down the crown molding and created some lower molding, installing LED lights behind…
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My Ikea hack
So here I am again posting another fun thing from our bedroom. This is my first Ikea hack, and I am excited to share it. When we were first designing our room, we wanted some book shelves to go on either side of our fireplace. I found these at Ikea. They were just standard bookshelves stained a cream color. I knew I needed to paint them since the white clashed so bad with the white in my room. So we went to work painting them….the first time. A beautiful shade of deep gray. Notice, the gray is only on the insides. We did not use any primer or liquid sand…
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Mixing some old with some new
December is over and January is a new month and a new year. December was a whirlwind for me this year, and although I got a lot done in my house, I didn’t get a lot done on my blog. We have been working on our master bedroom the past couple of months. My older post showed my room painted, and the ceiling painted as well. I painted the room Silver sage from Restoration hardware. I love the color, so calming and relaxing. One of the fun new additions I put in the room was a new fireplace. It is a real flame fireplace. It burns a real fire using…
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Half bath
So while we were doing our big master bath project, we decided to finish the half bath downstairs at the same time. This is the room before the demo. All I can say about it is EWWW! I have hated this room since the day we moved in. The paint was brown…I hate the color brown, the floors were wood which the toilet leaked on and made it smell great, and it was where all our guests went to use the restroom. Embarrassing right! So let’s just say, I was more than a little excited to demo this room! We ripped out everything including the floors. The room is small,…
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A little this and that
We are finished with the master bath project finally and have moved onto the master bedroom. Last Saturday Jeff and I looked at each other and said we should paint the room…just go for it, just like that. It only took a couple of hours and we had ourselves a beautifully painted bedroom. I couldn’t believe how quickly we got it done. I guess I was use to the bathroom project, long, messy, and labor intensive. Not at all, this was quick, and fun, and exciting. Here is the bedroom before paint. Just a plain white room with this funky ceiling treatment. We were originally thinking about putting up ceiling…
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Finish Master Bath Pictures
Finally…after almost three months my bathroom is done. I am so happy to have that room finished. This has been one of our hardest re models. I don’t know if it was because it was the start of school, or it was being up rooted and having my things in all different places in the house. I also know that I don’t deal well with messes, and this was a mess for quite a while. Anyway….here is the before… And here is the finished bathroom. I took a lot of different pictures. It is hard to photograph the room because of the orientation. I love how it turned out…very calming…
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How we made our wood counter top
It has been forever since I have started this bathroom re model. About two months to be exact. I think this has been one of our toughest renovations we have ever done. I don’t know why, maybe it was the time of year we started, or living out of the girl’s bathroom was not the funnest. Either way, it is so close to be finished. We are using it…all of it! Yay. Before I started this project, I wanted to find an old dresser or something I could use for the vanity. As we looked, we just found there was nothing out there that would fit or work. I decided…
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Tile
We’ve been working on the back splash and shower tile this past weekend and I couldn’t be more excited about how it is turning out. I am going pretty classic by using white subway tile on the shower, and accenting it with three stripes of fabulous gray concrete accent tile we found. I also found a smaller subway tile for the backslash over the sink. I also spent the first day of school (for my kids) painting my vanity. I chose a charcoal gray color to help ground the room. Painting cabinets and furniture is my favorite thing to do since it is such a fun fast update to any…
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Progress
We are slowly but steadily making progress. This week was the start of school for all of us, and things just got a little crazy. The floor is finally tiled and I love it! I wanted my bathroom to have a vintage feel to it so I decided to go with small black and white hex tiles. Lights are in! I found these school house fixtures on a trip we took to Boise this summer, and I knew I had to have them for my bathroom. I also added some to my closet. This will hang off of a beam we made for the center of the room. I have…
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It’s gray and I love it!
Yay my walls are painted and I love the color! It is a soft gray tone with a touch of blue in it. I spent the day last week painting my wainscoting white, and I love the contrast of the two colors. I love trim, and I love it painted white. Just plain, clean white. The white I always use is ultra white from Behr right off the shelf, in a satin finish. I find for myself that if the white is more of an off white, it tends to look dirty to me. We picked two medicine cabinets in an oil rubbed finish for above our sinks. I am…
