Showing posts with label Living Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living Room. Show all posts

Monday, September 9, 2013

Wick-House Before & After

These before and afters are crazy!  Can you tell a single guy lived here before us : )  Enjoy . . .

Living Room
Other than painting, we really didn’t do much to this room.  We did add a doorway into the kitchen. 

before
after




 Kitchen
The kitchen ended up being on of my favorite spaces in our home. We went with marble counter tops and white subway tile backsplash.  If you’re on the fence about marble, do it!  It stains, gets rings from wets glasses, you can’t put hot pans on it, the list goes on!  But it is the most beautiful countertop option out there!  I like to think of each ring and ding as our mark and history on the house.  We added a wall of cabinets which served as our pantry (since there was not one before).  These cabinets are probably one of the most functional ways to build a pantry!  I miss them already.  The wall between the den and kitchen was taken down and rebuilt as a bar top, opening the den up into the kitchen.

before

after

 


Den
This is where we added square footage onto the house.  It was only about a 10 ft x 13 ft add on, but made a world of difference.  Since the washer/dryer were originally in the kitchen, we add a small closet in the den to house these.  

before
after


Dining Room
The previous dining room had french doors out onto the deck.  Those were relocated to the den.  This room also had the only doorway into the kitchen, which was moved into the living room.  The flow into and out of this room was way off!  Then a coat of paint and a new pendant light finished it off.  
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after  




Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Collecting a Mantel


Since we moved into our home 2 years ago I have never finished collecting pieces for out mantel.  It's quite a sad little mantel anyways.  There is not much too it, not much depth to it.  I finally hung my mirror after a year and a half.  It's just one of those things in the house that I can't decide on how I want it to look.

I love the mirror above it, and typically never hang a mirror horizontal.  A few weeks ago I arranged the flowers for a friends wedding shower.   side note: I think I missed my calling in life.  I had way too much fun doing it!  And not to brag, but I think they turned our beautiful!  They were a combination of tulips, roses, dahlias and eucalyptus. Most of the flowers were from our local grocery store too, cheap and pretty!    And lucky for me I brought most of them home from the party and used them on the mantel.  For about a week my mantel was complete . . . and then they died.  I guess my solution will be to always have beautiful fresh arrangements up there! HA!