We started our home make-over with the kitchen... there are plenty of rooms in this house that need some TLC, but the kitchen was at the top of my list. It's located at the back of the house, where it's completely shaded by trees. The dark cabinets weren't doing it any favors and it was so dreary and dark.
We had a pretty simple to do list... to start. ;)
Original DIY list:
Paint cabinets white
New curtains over sink
Art for walls
And the more blogs I looked at, the bigger my list got (probably to my husband's dismay).
DIY list (with a little update):
Paint cabinets white
New curtains over sink
Art for walls
Rugs for floors
New stove
New refrigerator
New counter tops
Annnnd then I added a new dishwasher to the list too. Oops! (Sorry, Joey)
We randomly decided to pop over to Home Depot and grabbed some primer to get started.
And when we decide to get into something, we jump in head first apparently!
Next post: The spray paint incident.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
I had this great idea...
Why did I make this blog?
Well, I really love finding blogs made by people like me (ie: not rich) who make over their homes using thrifted items, DIY crafts, and elbow grease vs contractors. I have found some amazing blogs over the past few months, but I'm always disappointed when it boasts to be a completely "normal people" blog and then the first thing I see is how they spend 15k on a new kitchen.
We're starting to fix up our new home. We bought it in June of this year and structurally it's perfect. Updated? Not so much. Our kitchen looked like it was straight out of 1984... which it probably was, seeing as how that's the year this house was built. We love every aspect of this house- the charming outside, the extra space, just everything. But we knew going into this that we would have to invest ourselves into making this house ours.
We've slowly started fixing things up... we would have started sooner but we had a new baby girl in mid-August so redoing things while 8-9 months pregnant wasn't such a great idea. And then it was damn near impossible with a newborn. She's finally settling into a bit of a schedule and we're finding the time to get into it!
It's a slow process. So far we've bought furniture for our front living room (clearanced floor models, thankyouverymuch!), new appliances for the kitchen (an absolute necessity), and working on painting here and there. My goal is to have the kitchen, family room, living room, and downstairs bathroom done by Thanksgiving. We shall see how that goes...
Well, I really love finding blogs made by people like me (ie: not rich) who make over their homes using thrifted items, DIY crafts, and elbow grease vs contractors. I have found some amazing blogs over the past few months, but I'm always disappointed when it boasts to be a completely "normal people" blog and then the first thing I see is how they spend 15k on a new kitchen.
We're starting to fix up our new home. We bought it in June of this year and structurally it's perfect. Updated? Not so much. Our kitchen looked like it was straight out of 1984... which it probably was, seeing as how that's the year this house was built. We love every aspect of this house- the charming outside, the extra space, just everything. But we knew going into this that we would have to invest ourselves into making this house ours.
We've slowly started fixing things up... we would have started sooner but we had a new baby girl in mid-August so redoing things while 8-9 months pregnant wasn't such a great idea. And then it was damn near impossible with a newborn. She's finally settling into a bit of a schedule and we're finding the time to get into it!
It's a slow process. So far we've bought furniture for our front living room (clearanced floor models, thankyouverymuch!), new appliances for the kitchen (an absolute necessity), and working on painting here and there. My goal is to have the kitchen, family room, living room, and downstairs bathroom done by Thanksgiving. We shall see how that goes...
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