Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Updates

Hello world! We've finally returned from 2 months of sheer chaos. We're talking vacations out the wazoo, baby showers, baby births, 1st birthday parties, regular birthday parties... you name it, and we've done it the last 2 months. We've even managed to get A FEW of the items on our renovation list crossed off. Don't get me wrong, there are still SO MANY things left to do, but we've made some progress.

Let's start with the kitchen area. Our current kitchen has a really cute breakfast nook built into it. When we first purchased our house, we used it as a sitting area. Then came our daughter and a play room. She quickly collected an obscene amount of toys, and the nook became the dining room, while the dining room became the playroom. With this whole house selling and building thing that is currently underway, we knew we needed to convert the dining room back to the dining room and the nook back to the play room. Here is the nook as the dining room.


And here it is converted into our girls' playroom. Our oldest has pretty much reigned control in here, while our youngest has all of her toys currently in the living room, but you get the idea. We're really happy with the way it all turned out


From the nook, we naturally move into the kitchen. Here are the before and after photos of the kitchen.






Again... we're really happy with the way it all turned out. I miss my rusty color tremendously, but there is something about a fresh new light color that makes it look larger and most importantly... clean! Well, minus the dishes that are piled in the sink.







While we've: repainted the sides of the cabinets, painted the walls, added window treatments, repainted the baseboards, replaced the faucet, and removed and repaired the hooks in the nook... we still need to: repair the floor, make a final decision on whether or not we'll replace the dishwasher to match, replace the lighting, repaint the ceiling where if you remember there was a leak from our upstairs bathroom, and repair the silverware drawer.
We're also nearly complete in the dining room... pictures to come!