Our family's journey of turning our house into our home
I get blinded in my kitchen every day in the afternoon. I’ve been toying with many ideas how to cover the window. The past owners had black blinds, that isn’t my thing so they came down and were put in the trash pretty much right away. I have always had a bit of a…
Paint is fast becoming my best friend. When we bought the house we noticed there was something missing in the kitchen. In fact there was cabinetry wrapped around a space that was intended for something, but that something wasn’t there anymore. A refrigerator. My kids liked playing in the space and with the wood that…
I am really kicking myself, like really really. The basement bathroom was a sight to behold and mostly due to the color of the walls. They. Were. Bright. Blue. No joke, they took 3 coats of primer and 2 more coats of color to finally stop seeing the blue. I took the paint can image…
I am not the most patient of people (brief pause for laughter from my family), so looking back I wish I would have taken the time to take a lot more photos of the house before we started changing things. The light in the stairwell for instance, it was a weird shape and the gold…
Our realtor might have been hesitant to show is this house. We had told him we wanted “move -in ready.” Another friend of mine told me she wouldn’t have bought this house based on the many many projects that needed to be done in this house. However, when we described the location of our house our…
White cabinets are on trend currently and eventually we will be getting the cabinetry painted and most likely it will be white. But my eye really gravitates toward having two tones in a kitchen. Whether it is one tone on top cabinet and a different on the bottom or it’s the island that is the…
Wednesday night Tim came home when I was upstairs tucking the kids in. When I came down I asked him if he noticed anything different. He immediately pointed out the island but he said was trying to figure out if I did anything else. Nope, nothing else, at least yet. I had a blank canvas…
When we moved into the house we had to lay a new floor. To do that we moved the island out of the way, when the island was moved the wood laminate veneer chipped pretty bad. I wasn’t too upset about it, I was up for a new project. I guess a whole new house…