We spent the day at the Island Home yesterday and I thought it would be fun to start a home tour! I am going to kick it off with the Attic Lounge Space.
Dining Room Redo
Today I am sharing our Dining Room Redo. I think the easiest change with the most impact was just switching out the paint color! Here’s a before shot. I always forget to take the before shots and at the last minute I get a quick shot with my phone but I think you can get an idea of how it looked.
Family Room Revamp
Remember when I told my husband if we revamped the kitchen we would have to redo the family room too? Well, we did and it is finished. I feel like we are living in a brand new home now that the Family Room Revamp is complete. Now I am itching to get upstairs and start revamping it as well. My husband is probably still not ready for that conversation!
Designing a White Kitchen with Warmth
Kitchen Details
We are settling into our newly revamped kitchen and I have to say that I just love it! It turned out just the way I pictured it would in my mind. I think we created a white kitchen that still has a lot of warmth. We still need to switch out the chandelier and add pendant lighting. We will get to it at some point but at the moment I am still looking and trying to find what I really want. For now, I wanted to share our journey with you.
Christmas Home Tour 2014
Welcome to our Christmas Home Tour 2014. I think I am finally ready. All the boys are home, the house is decorated, the gifts are wrapped and the cookies are baked. This year we are going to be doing things a little differently. We are heading to Italy after Santa has made his visit.
Painting Kitchen Cabinets White
Finally, the kitchen is done! ( Minus a chandelier, pendant lighting and under cabinet lighting. One I think the electrician needs a break from me (sorry Carl) and two we haven’t found the exact pieces we want.) It really did not take that long from start to finish it just feels that way. We started seriously thinking about redoing the kitchen in late August early September and we finished the week of Thanksgiving. The outcome was exactly what I was hoping for and more!
So check it out!
Kitchen Revamp
I have been working on a project with my husband for the last couple of weeks and I am so excited about our plans. I just hope it turns out like I have pictured it in my head. We have been talking about redoing our kitchen for awhile now and when the freezer went out again among other things we finally decided to move ahead. Since our home has an open floor plan I told my husband if we do the kitchen then we have to do the familyroom. The familyroom is just cosmetic changes though, the major changes will be happening in the kitchen. Then one thing led to another and so here we are still in the planning stages but slowly and steadily moving forward.
Easy DIY Headboard
Previously, I showed you our Board and Batten Headboard for the Island Home that you can see here. Yesterday, my middle son and I made the trek to the Island home to make another headboard. We wanted to do something similar but with fewer steps. It was such a spur of the moment kind of trip and I wasn’t even sure if I was in the mood to start the project. It was pouring down rain, the wind was blowing and it was so foggy.
Our first stop was Home Depot. We decided to frame out the headboard and skip the middle slats like we did in the Board and Batten Headboard. Therefore, we only needed four pieces of wood.
Supplies:
two 1×4’s cut to 5 feet
one 1×4 cut to 76 inches
one 1×2 cut to 76 inches
nail gun
painters tape
wood filler
sanding block
valspar white paint
First, we nailed each five foot 1 x 4 in place. Then we added the 76 inch 1 x4 on top. Easy!!
We added the 1 x 2 on the top to form a ledge. Once we finished nailing the pieces into place, we used wood filler to patch the holes. After it dried, we sanded the filler with the sanding blocks for a smooth finish. We used the Valspar paint that we had left over from a previous project.
This is what the room looked like before we made the headboard. It was such an easy project and it made such an impact on the room
Even though I was not in the mood to go to the Island, I am so glad that we did. I just love, love, love it there… even in the rain, wind and fog!!
Thanks B.K.
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Home Office
We have been working in the basement on and off for a few months and I decided to carve out a space for our blog work. We also set up a little photography studio for my tech guy!
We built a simple desk that suits us and gives us plenty of space for our individual needs. We still need to add some finishing touches but we are getting there.
We made the desk from metal/aluminum sawhorses and four 2 feet by 6 feet planks of wood.
We used joiners to pull the seams together on the four separate planks of wood. Then we attached the sawhorses to the planks with metal screws. I used leftover wood to trim out the front and sides of the desk to give it a more finished look. I did not countersink the screws on the trim pieces which adds a more industrial look to the piece. Once that was complete I finished it off with barn wood grey stain.
We recovered an old bulletin board with burlap, added a few whiteboards and hung our wire rack organizer which was a gift from two of our biggest supporters (Thanks Kim and Sandy!)
Check out our personalized mugs from Santa! He also gave us the Cricut Expression 2. We are still trying to figure our how to use it. I will leave that up to my tech guy to figure it out and explain it to me!
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Christmas in the City
When I was growing up, my mom would put a village under the Christmas Tree every year. I would lay under the tree and wish that I could live in that little village. The village had ice skaters on the pond, carolers singing and children sled riding. It was just magical.
When I got married I wanted to start that same tradition in our home. My husband bought me my first village piece on our 2nd Christmas together as a married couple and has added many pieces since then. For the past two years, he has been doing the village for me with our youngest. He has added the Lionel Train that his dad got for him and his brothers for Christmas when they were little. I hope these are memories my children will share with their future children.
Welcome to our Christmas in the City!
Hope you have enjoyed the visit to our City!
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