Last week, a friend asked if I would please post some pictures of our house as a way to kind of see some more ideas as well as our decorating style and such. So, I am in the midst of trying to put together a House Tour page. While it sounds good in theory, with three little ones, it is sometimes hard to keep a room clean long enough to take pictures. So, it will be quite the process to post a whole house tour at one time.
At the risk of never showing pictures of our house, I thought I would try and do “Flashback Fridays” where I will try and feature each room of our house. I will show pictures of the house when we bought it, and then update you on where we are right now. No room in the house is complete, and probably won’t be for a long time (baby steps), but we have done so much since we bought this 35 year old gem in a great neighborhood, and I thought it might be fun to share the progress we have made so far.
So, for the first Flashback Friday, I am going to feature our kitchen. My favorite room in ANY house. When we first put an offer on this house, the kitchen was honestly the least of our problems. The whole house has some issues. We had to do mold remediation, remove all the carpeting on the upper level and sub-basement, replace the furnace, clean all the ducts, replace all the trim, buy and install new doors for the upstairs, paint almost every room, and tile the upstairs bathroom. While most people like to live in a space for awhile until they decide on paint, flooring, etc. This house REEKED of dog everywhere, and plus with us finding mold we wanted make this house as safe as possible. So anything that could possibly have dog dander or mold spores had to go.
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| Closing day December 2010 |
So, while Brian was doing major demolition and helping put in flooring, I started painting the kitchen. With a little help from the internet, I researched how to paint cabinets from my favorite blog here. I also talked to some people at my second favorite store, Home Depot (the first being Target, duh).
We kept a crazy schedule while we were getting this house ready for us to move in, but honestly it was totally worth it! So,after Brian would work all day, go to the new house with his dad and put in a few hours, then he would come home eat dinner and go to bed. Then, when my kids and husband were in bed, my sister, my niece, mom and I would head over to the house and do some work until I had to be home for my youngest child’s 4 a.m. feeding (she was only 3 months old at the time). We moved in just six weeks after closing.
Here is the kitchen before move in. I bet you are wondering why we would ever paint these awesome avocado two tones cabinets and mustard walls. Can you sense my sarcasm?
Here are some pictures of the cabinets being painted as well as the walls.
So after painting, adding our stainless steel appliances that we brought with us from our previous house, and a few finishing touches. This is our kitchen now.
Brian and I are always trying to improve, so I know this kitchen will probably change a lot in the time we live in this house, but it is miles and miles from where we started.
