Shopping for counter tops was also a labor of love and quite surprising. The bargain shopper in me wanted to find a good deal, but the reality set in as I realized that the price for stone is the price for stone. Bummer! The same type of granite or marble was roughly the same price…
It’s Not Just a Kitchen
The other day, I was grilling out on the back deck. The contractor working on our kitchen had just left, Kara was sitting in the breakfast room, and the sun was fighting its way through the overcast clouds. All was quiet and a wave of peaceful contentment washed over me. I closed my eyes, took…
Kitchen Remodel – Design Time
The final design was a collaboration of our custom cabinet maker, Oscar, my husband and myself. As I’ve said before, we were not changing the layout at all – only adding to it and tweaking things. We also came away from the quoting/cabinet search process with a lot of ideas. To give you a frame…
Kitchen Remodel – Decision Time – Cabinets
Making design decisions for a vision you have to imagine in your head is way harder than you think it’s going to be. As I said previously, we knew we weren’t really messing with the layout of the kitchen too much, so that helped a lot. The first thing on my wish list where I…
Kitchen Remodel – Inspiration
Last week, we brought you up to speed on how we got to a kitchen remodel now. I thought it might be best before we go into detail on decisions we made to share inspiration for some of those decisions. We both agreed that we wanted a clean, simple, modern design for the kitchen. Being…
Kitchen Remodel – How we got here
We are in the thick of a home and kitchen remodel right now, as in trying to quickly lay floor down in half of our downstairs before cabinets get installed. So I thought it was about time to do a kitchen remodel post or two or four. 🙂 Bear with me because this post may…
D-I-Y Popcorn Ceiling Removal
I LOVE me some popcorn. Great snack for veggin’ out in front of the tv, or in the theater. Give me some good ole’ fasioned kettle corn and I’m done for. But let me tell you about some popcorn that I despise. On my ceiling. Nasty, yucky, LAZY, popcorn ceiling. What is it?If you’ve ever…
DIY Tutorial – Sunburst Posterboard Mirror
I wanted a sunburst style mirror to go above the four poster bed in our guest bedroom. I originally thought I would make one out of wood shims or paint sticks to bring in a wood element, but then I found this poster board mirror and thought it would be perfect. And cheap (this cost…