Week 10: Color Color Color!

Week 10 sure sounds like a long time. I can't believe 10 weeks have already gone by since starting this new adventure. It seems like just yesterday we were getting the keys, I think my sanity would beg to differ, but it sure has been a fun yet challenging ride so far. This week was another tough one, nothing that Matt and I couldn't handle, just some seed bumps to get over. We had to re tile the master shower door because it wasn't right, the knotty pine room got painted the wrong color (even with what I thought was a full proof plan), we discovered we are going to have to purchase new base boards for majority of the first floor, you know random things like that. So the week started off on a high dropped low about mid week then rose back to the top again. 

This week the tiling job finished, painting continued, lighting &electrics continued and trim work started. The third and final dumpster was picked up so now we can use our garage as staging and work area to get stuff cleared out of the house to start getting it cleaned up. Matt and I spent our Friday night organizing the garage, some Friday night huh? But honestly there is nothing more rewarding, day in and day out of giving this project our all and starting to see end projects,  its priceless. 

I am not sure what I am more excited about, the fact the we have color on our walls or that that the kitchen and knotty pine room has a finished floor. It is amazing to walk in the door on to a beautiful brand new, evenly height floor. The tile is amazing and the colors in it go perfectly with the paint colors. I couldn't be more happy with the finished product. Actually now that I am physically typing the best part of this week and is less writing and more pictures. It has finally gotten to the point where the pics do all if the talking. Things are really coming along! 

Kitchen/Knotty Pine Room:The floors are finally finished in here woohoo! The large tiles really open up the space and help the 2 rooms flow together.  I chose to paint the same color in these rooms and continue it through out the first floor to keep with the open floor plan. The kitchen cabinets go from floor to ceiling so there really aren't much of kitchen walls so I kept it all the same. The color is Pavilion Beige from Sherwin Williams and I love it because it has a nice mix of grey and brown to pull together the original hard wood floors with our more modern kitchen cabinets. Which get installed on the 26th! 

 Kitchen looking from the hallway entry: New floors, wall paint and lighting

 Kitchen looking from the hallway entry: New floors, wall paint and lighting

Pine Room looking into Dining: New floors, wall paint and lighting 

 

  Dining Room: This room hasn't much changed since the original demo but my goal here was to have a more formal eat in kitchen since I don't have a formal dining room. My navy blue accent wall really dresses up the space and gives a nice visual boundary. The color is Naval from Sherwin Williams. I did lose my beloved ceiling medallion but plan to add in 2 corner cabinets to store and display lots of our beautiful wedding presents and china. 

 Dining looking into Pine Room: Excuse the mess :)

 

 Navy Blue Dining wall

 

Living Room: This room got the same paint as the kitchen, Pavilion Beige. All has stayed the same here since the demo.

Entry/Hallway: The trim work started here to put up the finished counter, molding and wainscoting. The half wall is being painted a creamy white, Sherwin Williams Westhighland White to off set from the Pavilion Beige hallways. I wanted it to be a statement piece since we didn't do any fancy wrought iron rails. I also painted the staircase wall and down the stairs in Sherwin Williams Functional Gray, this color will continue through out the basement when we get to finishing that.

 Front door looking onto Staircase

 Hallway looking down the Staircase. I have seen on Pinterest to simply use non finished picture frames as a Wainscoting substitute so we will see how that turns out

 Front door looking onto Staircase and Kitchen

Hall Bath: The bead board is installed and now the trimmers are adding the floor baseboards and then will get a fresh coat of Extra White paint. The walls in here are Sherwin Williams Cupola Yellow. It is a soft gold tone that will compliment the Oil rubbed Bronze finishes and dark Walnut vanity. Yellow is also complimentary to the Navy Blue accent colors in the kitchen and dining area. I will be using gold's, oranges and corals in the Living and Knotty Pine so it should tie all nicely together.

 Hall Bath

 Hall Bath: Shower Fixtures

 Hall Bath

Bedroom 1: Paint in here is SW Sea Salt. I love this color because it looks different in every shad of light. Depending on how the light hits it looks gray, blue and soft green tones. You can pair just about any finish of furniture whether it is white or mahogany and it could go from a shabby chic beachy to a glam feel with a stainless steel mirror look. The new closet door was hung and the baseboards, door and window casing are going back up those being painted Extra White.

 Bedroom 1 looking out windows to the front yard

 Bedroom 1 looking onto new Closet

Master: Now this room has really gotten the full makeover and we are loving it. The color I chose in here is SW Olympus White, although it doesn't seem so white to me. It has a soft blue undertone which will give a relaxing feel to it. Our furniture is a dark finish with grayish marble tops pairing with white lines creating a nice little oasis to go to after all this hard work we are putting into our new home.

 Master window looking out to back yard

 Master looking from Bathroom to window looking the side of house

 

Master Bath: This got the full remodel as well and went with the same paint as the bedroom, Olympus White. I went with all chrome finishes in here to dress it up a bit. Chrome does show finger prints more than any other type of finish but since it is just Matt and I using this I am not as concerned with it. The door/threshold of the shower had to get a couple re-tiles to match up right with the new drywall but the third time was a charm. Next up a frame less glass door.

 

 New Tile work in Master Shower

 Master Shower looking out window to the back yard

 

 

So as you can see it really is starting to look like an actual house. The painting continues and when that is wrapped up we can finish the hard wood floors. And did I mention that are cabinets get installed next week?!? Those were a big ticket item so Matt and I are really excited to see these in the flesh.