So today is the day for the final reveal. The people are gone, the tools are gone, the dust has settled and been vacuumed up. Here’s is a little before and after to see how far this place has come. We’ve gone from darn, dingy and dismal…. ….to this. I’d add more adjectives but I’ll just let you come up with your own! {the open doorway entering the basement} {the built in from IKEA Hemnes} {close up} {places for book, games and pretty stuff to come} {lots of closets} {closets with shelves!} {my new favorite, a barn door} {the laundry room} {double locked door to the utility room} {the play area} I’m so excited to start unpacking, figuring out where everything goes, and having the rest of my house back. The kids actually went downstairs and played there this morning! Did you come up with some adjectives? find No. 29…
Read MoreWhen we moved into this house two years ago we found a laundry sink already installed in the mudroom/laundry room. This wasn’t any old laundry sink. It was not the cement kind I had grown up with. It wasn’t the fiberglass kind that you see everywhere. This laundry sink is porcelain. The legs are cast iron which flare out at the bottom, There is a built-in washboard on the inside front of the sink. The faucet itself is nothing to write home about but I have plans for that. the “before” shot When I first told the plumber working on our home that I was going to be moving the sink downstairs and fitting it with a new faucet he tried twice to convince me to get rid of this sink and just buy a fiberglass one. I won’t even dignify that by writing any more about it. I bought a…
Read MoreSo the flooring is officially going down. I love it. I wasn’t too excited that I was forced to change to another style of flooring but it actually really works well in that space. The difference is incredible. Everything else has been done for a little while, but once the floor went in it all just came together. The board and batten is so much more visible against the warm wood look-a-like. The faint gray blue, Behr Breaker, in the laundry room didn’t show that much before the floor was down. I was wishing that I had done a slightly darker shade. Now that the floor is in the color pops! I’m so glad I stayed with what I had. Flooring is the final piece that brings the whole room together. It can be a low cost floor like the TrafficMaster Allure that I chose, or something else. In my…
Read MoreToday’s giveaway is being offered by Becky from Vinyl Crafts, which specializes in wood signs, vinyl decor and so much more! Becky is offering one lucky winner a $70.00 gift certificate toward anything in her store. There are so many beautiful items to choose from I wouldn’t know where to start! I love this first one, my husband and I have a running joke about this…. Do you have a favorite vacation spot? Nothing like a subtle reminder. This street reminder is a sweet way to chronicle where you have lived. Something for the kiddos… House rules for a toddler, as well as other ages. Big bold artwork for any room in the house. Do you want to know how you can win? 1. Head on over to Vinyl Crafts, do some virtual shopping and come back and let me know which item you’d choose. 2. {Like} facebook.com/vinylcrafts. (Let her know…
Read MoreChoosing which flooring I’d be putting downstairs was the easiest part of our whole renovation project. We had already covered the floor in our former family room level with TrafficMaster Allure in American Walnut and had no problem choosing it again for many reasons. You can take a mop to it, it is vinyl, and it looks real. Having the flooring continue onto the level below makes the entire space seamless. We have been waiting on this flooring for a couple weeks since it is special order. Today we were told they had ordered 24 boxes of Black Walnut by mistake. Not good. Here are my options. Option number one is to wait another three weeks for the new floor to come in. During this three week time period we can continue to run circles around each other on the main living floor. The toys and items my children have been itching…
Read MoreA barn door at that. I’ve let the secret out that I have a barn door obsession. My hope was to have it be the large door that would slide open for access to the storage/utility room. This didn’t happen mainly because there were baseboards for the heat on either side of the door so the door wouldn’t be able to slide left or right. Not to mention that the bigger the doorway, the heavier the door. This left me looking around the room at what other doors I had to get this look. I had one more normal sized door that wasn’t a closet and that was the door to the laundry room. I was hoping to get a look like the door below. A simple door on a black track. I knew the hardware was expensive, but this door would serve as a type of artwork for the…
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Read Morepinterest I have some work and planning ahead of me since I now have a new laundry room. I’ve never had a dedicated laundry room before so I’m slightly excited! That is an understatement. In my first apartment the laundry was in the basement for everyone to use. It did come in handy since it was in the actual building we were in. Plus my husband and I made out first “couple” friends, who we are still close to, by bumping into them doing laundry. Our second apartment was in a three family home. No laundry on site. That meant gathering all the laundry on the weekend and spending Saturday doing a couple loads at the laundromat. It also meant occasionally bringing it to mom and dad’s house. Next we built a house. I put the laundry in a closet in the bathroom upstairs. Within a couple of weeks I…
Read MoreIn my previous home I had a blank wall in my kitchen next to the kitchen table. Using two curtain rods and clip rings I would hang my children’s artwork. I don’t have a clear shot of it so I’ll share some pictures I found online of the same idea. It was a great solution without having to plaster the fridge with artwork. I cleaned it out pretty regularly to not clutter up the space. I know the idea was copied in many other homes! apartment therapy project nursery pinterest pinterest iheartorganizing
Read MoreThat is a good thing, actually a great thing. After this comes the floor, some minor finish work like door knobs, handles, and my personal favorite, the barn door. Little happy dance going on for that one! Then we are done on that floor. Finished, finit, terminado, teliomeno, finito. The board and batten pattern, doors and all the woodwork are painted bright white, while I’ve chosen Brandy Cream by Benjamin Moore for the section of the walls above the board and batten. benjamin moore brandy cream So this is what it looks like today. The floor is not down yet but seeing the paint on the walls really makes it feel like we are almost there! Take a look… The laundry room needs one more coat of paint. I chose Behr’s Breaker which is a very faint gray blue. behr breaker …
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