The market is really hot here in TC, so when the market analysis returned to our home, it was much higher than we expected. The first confirmation that we had to sell. This went on when our house sold quickly. The second confirmation. Things quickly fell into place.
The first house we looked at was a ransom on acres of land. Can you say PROJECT DREAM? After going through it, we (even Chris than I) realized that it was more than we could accept right now. Realistically, shepherding a new church, working full-time, being a mother of up to 3 children, coaching two football teams, and also doing interior design work made our cup runneth ova. Sometimes too much. So we scratched a HUGE project like this on our list. (Insert here ice cream and Hallmark movies.)
This process quickly turned into a journey to health for our family. We had to agree that, although we needed MANY and MANY projects, we needed to be wise and lose some weight. We wanted to live with our children, traveling and making memories. My eldest son, Justus, who was only 10 years old, and (gulp), will go to college in just 8 years. (I know this forever. Shut up.) So we changed our search for what “we” wanted, and searched for something that would benefit our family and bring health to our already busy schedules. And so we changed our search and found our new / old house. Third confirmation.
This house has been on the market for about a year. Chris was sold before I was. This "sort-fix-top". Definitely livable, but it can use some TLC here and there to make it our style. It works great with what we wanted to find, because we can live in it while we fix it in phrases. We can handle it (hopefully)! When we went through this, we both knew that this was our new home. District is established. The trees are mature. Neighbors are so good. And our backyard is approaching the junior schoolyard. We are finally at home.
Phase 1 started on the 2nd day when you have the keys. There is no time!
Here is what it will include:
Refinish / re-stain wooden floors
Interior paint
Painting
Reno whole kitchen (kitchens, counters, sink, faucets, appliances, backsplash, custom hood, open shelving ...)
Replace the chandeliers on the main level
Exterior paint
Punch through the wall of the stairs and open the passage
To date, the floors have been completed, the interior is being painted, the main level is being finished, chandeliers are ordered, and the kitchen has started the demonstration process. Did I mention that we have been in the house for 3 weeks already? Yes ... Fortunately, we have reduced the floors and interior paint. Did not regret it for a second. My husband and I and a contractor friend will finish the rest. Our timeline is to finish the kitchen by the end of August, paint the house in the first week of September, and then break through the wall sometime this fall. Someone wants to help !!!!! HAHAHAHHAHHAHA! No, really ...
I didn’t want to suppress you with all the reno projects, so I’ll just start with the outside and kitchen areas. Am I not good?
Let it begin with mustard and brown appearance.
The house has excellent peaks and low-key appeal EXCEPT for color. Like everything else in my house, the house will soon be dark white (including decoration) with a dark gray shutter and the effect of a German brushstroke on a brick. Chris will make large blinds, because the current ones are too small for the windows.
I seriously can not. WAIT. FOR. THIS. There is such a world when you drive up to your house, and it is soothing, and you just want to run inside and comfortably with your family. Yes ... it does not work that from this present color of paint.
Now for the kitchen. Lemme will explain a little first. The kitchen is tiny. Our last kitchen was twice that size. Thus, it required careful thought and vision to reschedule this space. Adjacent to the kitchen is a dining room, and then a family room.
The floors are beautiful (and real) hardwood, but not our style. And the color of the paint is taupee-peach. Not our style either. Since the space is small and it is broken with windows and doors, it needed to be refreshed. I chose dark white for the whole interior. Do not laugh at me. There is such a thing. Technically, this is called Aesthetic White Sherwin Williams. I wanted to be wrong, being too white, and not too pink, yellow or type. And I like how it happened!
One of the first things we did after the floors was made, and the interior was painted to switch the layout of the house. Family room should not stay in the family room. The dining area should not remain in the eating area. When you entered the house on the right, there was a formal dining room, and on the left was a formal living room. Well, people around these parts, people like us, don't use anything formal. Therefore, we quickly decided that the “dining room” would become a piano / office room. And the “formal living room” will become our family room. (More about those rooms that come later.) This allowed us to use the kitchen, kitchen and family room as a new kitchen and kitchen. And I don't know if I shared it or not ... but he has a fireplace. I always dreamed of a fireplace in the kitchen. The dream of the city.
For the kitchen, we pulled out the upper cabinets, and open shelves will go in their place. The custom hood will go out of range, the counters will be white quartz, the island panel will be knocked down to the height of the rack and will last another 3 inches. Master's house will go to the island too. The backsplash is a white subway plate with a dark solution. Open shelves will continue on the wall above the microwave, where the original food was once. This helps the kitchen to feel more and continue beyond the space for which it was intended. The fireplace will receive the same German stroke as the brick on the outside.
White on white on white. I know that some of you want to shoot me right now, but I'm also trying to make "good" decisions with the material for our sectional mats, and so on. Do not get white incision y. Now you can breathe.
Well, if you did this in this post, I have to give you a reward. I barely made it.
Thank you for going with me! I may need a shoulder to lean in the near future!
Until the next room "before and during" ...
Love, Audra
