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Monday, May 28, 2012

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to those men and women who give us the opportunity to be free! Because freedom is not free,it is paid for by the many sacrifices of those men, women and their families who give up everything for the rest of us. With gratitude and a thankful heart!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Snapshot of cabinets and hint of things to come

Well here we are in May and we are moving along (not as quickly as I would have hoped) but things are coming together. Here are some photos to show you our progress.

The kitchen cabinets are primed in this photo, waiting for their paint and countertops.

The soapstone countertops on two sections of the kitchen

The farmhouse sink, I have dreamed about.

Laundry room countertop and cabinets

The polished nickel cup pulls for the drawers and matchbook latches for the upper cabinets in the kitchen. We are looking forward to spending a lot of time in this space and sharing it with all those people we love.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Knock, Knock ?

It has been way too long since I have posted a blog. We are getting closer daily and can't wait to move in. The cabinets are going in and the trim is in most of the house. We are hopefully getting into the last 4-6 weeks of renovations.

Here are the recently installed kitchen cabinets. Please look at the beautiful ceiling, it was quite an event to get it installed.

This is the island that will house the dishwasher and icemaker.

These are the built ins in the master study

Master bath cabinets, can't wait to see them painted out and the counter top installed.

Our daughters bathroom cabinet and a peak at her tiled floor.

Enjoying our journey!

Friday, February 24, 2012

You Light up my Life

We are starting to see all our choices coming to reality. We are moving along nicely and hope to be in by the last of April. The walls are in and sanded down to a flat, soft finish, the floors are waiting to be roughed up and stained. Almost all the tile is complete, there are plenty of paint samples up on the walls. The trim is going in and and up it almost every room. But I wanted to follow up with a project started ages ago or it seems that way to me.

We started with this box hanging outside over the entrance to the Utility room. I wanted to save as we have demo'd so much that I was wondering if we would have any charm left. So my sweet husband (who is such a Renaissance man) removed it from over the door and handed it to me.
I jumped on the opportunity to strip it and see what lay beneath. See this post: Now you see it, now you don't As you can see from that post it was not pretty at all even after three coats of stripper and wire brush. So up it went on the shelf in the garage until my sweet husband got a new toy.... A DREMEL, it was like Christmas morning only better, probably because I did not have to go to bed at 2:00 am after helping Santa put out the toys! He just went to store and purchased it himself! And it truly has a million and one uses.

Here is where we started: coated with at least ten layers of paint.

After three to four applications of stripper and wire brushings. Still rough, but thrilled to see it was once the house numbers and a light for the Utility entrance.

After I removed the glass carefully, this is what was inside rusted metal and old wiring. (which we are all more than familiar with)

Here is the glass by itself with house numbers on it and lots of caulk and paint all around the edges.

Here is the miracle of the Dremel... (man I love that thing and my sweet husband)!!! You can see some of the rust holes but it almost looks brand new and ready for ( dare I say it...) a new coat of paint.

Here is the top and mounting bracket after the Dremel treatment and before paint.

This is glass cleaned and ready for new house numbers. The numbers behind the glass are copies of the original ones that will be painted on the glass before it is installed in the light.

This photo shows the new coat of paint on the lantern to match the new hardware that will be installed on the new Utility door.

Once again the bracket and mounting hardware with a new coat of matching paint.

And last but not least the old light socket and new socket with wonderful up to date wiring.
Enjoying the process and can not wait to show you all the updates.
Happy Friday.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

A Look Back

Here is where we began in the living room. The lovely built in, the plastic chandelier,super low ceilings, thin hardwood floors. The challenges were adding up but with demo, vision, great people, and plans we embarked on this journey.

Here is the living after demo and beginning of framing. The ceiling is raised, built in removed and the floors were on their way out.

This is after framing, HVAC installation, lights,insulation,sheetrock, taping,bedding,the beginning of floating the walls. At this stage the floors have been removed and a new subfloor has been put down in spots where the old one was rotten and weak.

The Living room looks almost done, (well considering we looked at framing for a very long time)
Here the walls are ready for paint, trim, casings,crown molding and the floor is ready for new wood. And as luck would have it....

New wood delivered and ready to be put in place.
Can not wait to see how it looks with a new wood floor and not having to worry about falling through rotten subfloor. They started yesterday and I am headed there today to get some photos to post.

Happy Saturday everyone!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Halfway to Home, we have sheetrock!

Hope all of you had wonderful holidays and are enjoying the New Year!!!!

We are making major progress in the sheetrock department. The house is almost complete with sheetrock along with the taping and bedding process. Interior paint colors are on the drawing board. We are almost finished with the sheetrock, there are two rooms to finish putting in the sheetrock then taping and bedding. Here are a few shots of some of the completed rooms.

Here is looking into the master study, from the door of the bedroom! I like how you can see sunshine streaming into both rooms.

I took this shot inside the study you can see a portion of the new windows and a view of the pool in one of the windows to the left.

This is the view of the living room looking back toward to the dining room and kitchen. You can see how much better the vaulted ceiling looks. It makes the room feel so much bigger, we only vaulted the living room, dining room, and kitchen. (you will see the kitchen one below)

This the small bay in the kitchen,it looks out onto what will be the screened in porch and our backyard. You can see the pool in the distance, That also is a work in progress. I will post about ALL the hard work my sweet hubby has done later.

This is the appliance side of the kitchen. The ceiling is glorious and makes me smile! Under that beautiful window (which is original)will be my farm sink. I have always had an idea of what our kitchen would look like but when I found the blog: for the love of a house I knew I found my ultimate inspiration. Please visit the blog, Joan has been so gracious in posting about her home. I could not help but be challenged to try some of her ideas and implement them into our home. Floors are next on the agenda, the wood should be delivered soon ( it has to acclimate) tile is waiting in the wings. So glad we are headed into a full work week.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Glory to God in the Highest!

Merry Christmas, hope this year ends with all of you feeling blessed and loved.