There aren't going to be any pictures in this blog, and I apologize. Life has been busy, and we're still putting the finishing touches on rooms we've started. In the hall we have: baseboards, and 3 door casings. In the newly coined dining room (no longer Buddy's "man cave/den"....that was moved to one of the spare bedrooms) we have: baseboards, crown moulding, door casings and some touch up painting. Whew. We're moving right along though.
Now, we've decided in the middle of all of this to start planning for our kitchen. We didn't win that kitchen makeover, which we're ok with since you have to install the cabinets and counters yourself....and the fact that our style of cabinets are actually coming back in style, amazing,huh? We found that out via some of Buddy's customers who are in the cabinet business. So, that being said, here are our plans for the kitchen:
1. We're priming and painting our cabinets a dark brown,almost black color.
2. We're getting new hardware, if we can find some that aren't an arm and a leg to buy. Plus, they need to be lowered since this vertically challenged woman can't reach half of the cabinet handles :)
3. Our outside walls in this house are poured concrete, and the people who lived here first had the BRIGHT idea to attach wallpaper straight to the concrete and it would be a pain to remove. So, instead of painting on top (which you would still see the seams)we decided to put up some textured wallpaper and paint that (color by Sherwin-Williams is Oyster Bay). There is wainscoting on the bottom separated by a thin chair rail, and that will be painted white. We will also need to replace the crown/trim by the ceiling since they did such a stand up job on it...not.
4. Countertops, which will be easy :)
We're waiting to paint our bedroom, bathroom and two bedrooms for now. I will keep you updated as we go, and I promise to post pictures soon! XOXO.
