We still need to do the backsplash and add the crown moulding and toe kick to the cabinetry but…. We have countertops now! We haven’t installed my little coffee area countertop yet because we have to build out the wall a little bit still. Goodbye old plywood! The counters we chose are from the brand Cambria and the color is Torquay. We love them! Here are a few iPhone pics, for good measure I added a few “befores”

BEFORE

AFTER

Most likely this will be the type of backsplash we are doing, Benja has his heart set on it… And he wants to do dark grout… What do you think??

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO,
Brittany

I might be the worst blogger on the planet. I never post. Like, ever. I know. I’m sorry. But here I am now. POSTING!

I decided to go ahead and share some progress pics with you, and the kitchen pics seemed like the simplest thing to share at the moment. (I have to collect pictures of other rooms from a few different sources.) By no means is this the finished product and I am apprehensive about even sharing these. I my mind I want to share these gorgeous “Better Homes and Gardens” esque photos… however, this is real life and sometimes real life is messy. Kinda like these pics. One day (in what seems like the very distant future) I will show completed before and afters. For now, progress pics is what we shall call them. I hope you enjoy them for what they are. I will share more pics soon. I promise! Without further ado….

The pictures above are what the house looked like before we touched anything. There is a wall separating the kitchen from the dining room that we took down, making the kitchen/dining area one huge, open space.

This was after the wall was torn down and we were in the process of fixing the electric etc. before we installed the
new kitchen.

Above is the kitchen right before we installed the cabinets and temporary countertops.

You can see in the ceiling where the old wall used to be that closed off the kitchen from the dining area

This pic was taken while standing in the front doorway.

This is standing in the laundry room looking straight at the bar.

A picture of the floors

The farm sink that I had to fight to get, and the SUPER nice and SILENT dishwasher that we kept from
original kitchen

The bar!

And last but not least the kitty drawer with Tubby handles 😄😻

So as you can see we are no where near finished. We have temporary plywood countertops because the quartz we wanted was back ordered for a while and now we are just sort trying to save up for our next round of renovations. We still have to add the crown to the cabinets, the toe kick, the backsplash on the walls, pendant lights, A STOVE/OVEN (which should be on it’s way soon)… I could list a million things. But here we are. I love it and we have come a loooong way since October. Can’t wait to share more with you, and thanks for sticking around 😊

XOXO, Brittany

It’s been nearly a month since my last post! Ouch. But listen, we have been getting work done! I know you want to see before and after photos as much as I want to live in a finished house! I am not ready to “reveal” any rooms yet but I will say that we have one bathroom 95% finished and one bedroom 100% finished! Exciting stuff. Although now that the bedroom is finished my favorite thing to do is lay in the bed and pretend like the rest of the house will finish itself. haha.. anyways, I figured I’d share a few random pics I have been snapping around the house and over the past few weeks. Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving!

Speaking of Thanksgiving…

(paint hands =D or maybe grout?)

And a few from around the house

And the most famous question we get asked about the house, “are you keeping that chandelier?”

YES.

XOXO,

Brittany

This weekend my wonderful hubs decided to go tear down walls while
I was working. I only got a few before pictures on my camera so I had to pull these off of the MLS listing. I will be posting some in progress pics later this week, and in a few weeks, I may even have a few final pics of a couple rooms! This weekend we bought floor tiles, a toilet and tub for the guest bathroom. We also picked out the floor tiles for the common areas (kitchen, dining, and living room). They are tiles that look like wood! Super durable, and they look great! I really love this new(er) option for flooring. This week the new ACs are also going in! So here are the BEAUTIFUL before pics 😄

This is looking at the house from the front door. Ben already knocked down the wall you see to the right, making the dining room and kitchen open concept.

Again this is if you are standing at the front door and you turn your head to the right. That’s a fireplace down there! The long wall on the left of this picture is the wall he knocked down.

The fireplace!

This is standing in the kitchen looking towards the front door. This is the wall that is gone now. Bye bye ugly cabinets!

This is the prize beauty of the house. Imagine the beams up top painted white. This is going to be converted into a luxurious master! The french doors on the right go out to the pool!

This silly little room is being all torn apart, the wall on the right backs up to the room in the previous picture. Said wall is going bye bye. So is the closet back there. The little room you see right in front is a bathroom that we are making bigger and turning into the cabana bathroom. It will be accessible from the outside and inside. Mostly for use when you are dripping wet from the pool! This room will be convereted into the living room, with the wall gone it is much bigger than this. Also, behind the person taking this picture there are a bunch of french doors that go out to the pool.

Closer look at the cabana bath

This is the guest bathroom that Benja already demolished. I picked out floor tile and paint color for this room this weekend. I get to choose everything for this bathroom as far as decor goes and Ben is choosing everything for the cabana bath. (and then we will fight tooth and nail over the master bath decor. haha)

This is the old master bedroom

There are two other bedrooms that I dont have pics of. The haven’t been demo’d yet so I will take pics before that happens.

Here is the pool after a good cleaning!

Our very first burgers on our new grill!

Have a great week!!

XOXO, Brittany

It was a long day. Sometimes long days call for spa nights. At home.

This little girl found a comfy place to relax while I soaked my feet in the BEST smelling bath salts ever! She even told me I look beautiful in my mask. 😉 Happy Monday, friends!