Sold!

It’s been too long. So long that we sold our house, started building a new one, moved out of our house, and moved into my in-laws. Woah. Thinking back to how exhausting that all was is exhausting me right now.

Shortly after the new year we decided to put our home up for sale by owner in hopes to move closer to the city where Josh and I both work now. It sold fast and we were left with no place to go as our new home won’t be completed until the fall. Luckily Josh’s parents are graciously allowing us and our cat to join them in the meantime while most of our earthly belongings sit in storage. Many people had an initial reaction of, “WHAT!? YOU PUT SO MUCH WORK INTO THAT HOME!!” We did and we loved it. But we were ready to let her go and happy that the new owners loved what we did to the home.

We are excited to chronicle the building process here on our blog and then all of the projects we’ll tackle to take our builder-grade home to the next level! Will you join us?

It all started to come together….

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It was time to start piecing the kitchen together! Stephen’s job was the floor. He and his dad did an incredible job, but now the pressure was on me! I…

Our New Kitchen

First of all, thank you to everyone who has diligently followed our kitchen remodel journey. We appreciate the feedback, tips, suggestions, and overall response we’ve had.

Fair warning: if you’ve followed the whole journey you may have seen a bunch of these pics but bear with us. The reveal is coming. But let’s take a step back and see how far we’ve come.

When we first visited the house, before it was actually ours, the kitchen looked a bit like this:

Then we inhabited it. Changed out a chandelier or two and a couple of can lights for pendant lights and ended up with this:

Did this new setup work for us? Sure. But it always felt temporary. I mean, we didn’t have a ton of storage space, organization was an after-thought, and things just felt old. So we began tearing it apart.

And even more tearing apart

Then we began to rebuild. To make the space our own.

We chose beautiful LG Hi-Macs countertops with an integrated single basin sink.

We laid the new floor over the course of a week and decided to run it into the entry way as well.

Then, as we mentioned in our last post, it was time for all most of the finishing touches: Backsplash, trim, crown, etc:

And sooooo when you put all of these pictures into a pot, heat it up, stir it all together, and let it sit for 4-5 months you get (drumroll and all that jazz):

My favorite part ^^^^ #coffeeaddict

Sure we still have a few things to wrap up like actually connecting the electrical for the range hood and putting a couple missing drawer pulls on but other than that I think we’re just about finished.

And what would a post like this be without a little side-by-side before and after action:

While the process wasn’t near as quick or smooth as we had hoped it was about as tiresome as we figured. We’re just glad to have it (mostly behind us). What do you think? Any future suggestions? We still have decor to deal with now. Oh and new curtains we’re thinking something to match that table runner with a little bit of yellow and a touch of gray. Any recommendations?