Tuesday, August 17

Our House!

Finally. It's been 2 months since we closed on our house and I have pictures of the things we accomplished on the main level. I call it "Tier One Complete". When we started to talk about what we were going to do to the house we had to come up with a tier system. We couldn't get it all done right away and had to decide what was necessary, tier one.

Here are the before and after photos of what we've accomplished on the main level.

Kitchen

Before:

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After!
New countertop. New stove. New backsplash. New sink. New cabinet hardware.
Newly painted cabinets. Inside and out.

After!
Yes, we went orange. :) We wanted to go bold in our color choices for the house. I think we accomplished our goal. Like my Ikea dishtowel curtains? I love em!

After!
The backsplash project was tedious. We quickly realized the value of a good caulk adhesive.
But I love the results.


After!
More Ikea dishtowel curtains. I'm proud, can you tell?

After!
Close up of the new cabinet hardware. This was a tough choice. We agonized over this choice for weeks, longer than the choice to buy a house! We had 25 doors and 5 drawers to buy for and you could easily spend $6 a piece if you weren't careful of what style you fell in love with. So it was tough to keep to our budget of $3 a piece. The hinges were originally black/gold. I hated them but hated the thought of buying new ones even more so I was determined to find pulls/knobs to both match the black/gold hinges and stainless steel/silver kitchen. Thankfully Mark came up with the idea to spray paint our old hinges. I was skeptical at first but he talked me into it and it turned out wonderfully!

Dinning Room

Before:

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After!

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I'm a little unsure how I feel about the light blue color on the left wall. I'm wondering how it would look in the brown color.

After!
See, I said we wanted to go bold with the color.

Living Room

Before:

Before:

After!
Brook standing in her diaper watching TV?
As Pioneer Woman would say, I'm just keeping it real. ;)

After!
Samantha solved our question as to what to put over our mantel. It has always bugged her that I never had a clock in my living room, so she gave us one! A super cute one! You can't really see it in this picture but the brown is a vinyl wall decal of branches and a bird with numbers around the outside. Then there is a clock mechanism that you place over it.

After!
We have my old computer desk sitting right behind the couch as a sofa table. We'll do some baskets under there to store Brooke's toys.


After!
As you can see by the naked shelves, I still have some decorating to do. My box of picture frames hasn't been uncovered yet. This blue color is the same as the large wall in the dinning room that I'm not sure about. I do like it in the living room, it make me feel like I'm inside one of those old blue canning jars. But I'm not sure it fits in the dinning room.

What do you think?

What's on Tier Two and Three?
Laminate flooring in the kitchen and dinning room, bar height table and chairs for the kitchen and new vanity and floor in the bathroom.

Hopefully coming soon, pictures of the upstairs complete. We still haven't finished Tier One projects up there...

1 comment:

  1. I love it! Great job Samantha with the clock. That's a favorite of mine in the living room. My absolute favorite project, though, is what you did in the kitchen. The white cabinets with that amazing back splash looks so great together. Way to go, Emily and Mark! Clearly you have both been working hard to make your house a home.

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