The kitchen {part 1}

Here we are at the kitchen.  We decided to go ahead and post part one now, because in a couple of weeks we are going to embark on part two.  Not because we want to, this time we have to.  While working in the living room we discovered that someone had laid our ductwork right on the dirt so the floor has to be pulled up to fix that.  But there are a few things going to change so here is all the info on it up until this point.

The "when we moved in" picture.

I mean really, how cute is this kitchen? 

 Not glamorous by any means but it was loaded with character.

One of us about cried when we couldn't make the little cottage window work and they had to be removed.

Hint: Me, the wife.

Here is where it all began.

Taking apart the cabinets.

Not sure if they are original, but they look 1950's at least.

The side wall....

If that counter top would have been another color, it would have stayed.

We installed the French doors to the sunroom {the mister got them for free--score!} where the two large windows in the kitchen were, you can see one of them beside the table in the before pic up top.

The dark wood on the wall is where the one bathroom in the house door was.

  When we made it just a master bath we closed that up. 

All of the bottom cabinets we kept. 

the hardware on them were too cool to trash.

Once we got all the cabinets down and the floor sanded and stained we started putting everything back together.

HERE is the bead board we used behind all the open shelves.

They do not carry the white anymore, but you can always paint these.

Here are the long wall shelves. 

The width of the shelves are about 12 inches.

You can find the wooden brackets HERE

Here she is when she was first finished.

We found the BEST lights on clearance.  It was bronze, but we spray painted it chrome.

They still carry them HERE

We never intended to have all open shelves.  We were going to put the 2 glass cabinets on the long wall and shelves separating them.......UNTIL we had them all up and they were two different sizes. HAH!  We put one down in the basement but the other still hangs over to the side.  It does not get photographed, cause well, look inside.

Every thing is painted the same color.  Olympic DELICATE WHITE.

Its such a pretty color.

We get ask about the white painted section of the floor a lot.

That part of the kitchen used to be a porch.  At some time they built it on out so the woods are way different.

  This was our solution to that problem.

Our floors are the original red oak the house was built with.  Here they are stained PICKED OAK by Sherwin Williams.  

I for the life of me can not remember anything about the faucet or the sink to link back to.

  Here are a few pictures we got before we put the stairs here....

{open sign can be found HERE}

                          

Our little coffee station is one of our favorite spots.  We can get fit all the tags in on Instagram, so here goes.

The only one not pictured is our newest "killing it" mug. 

It came from Old Navy along with the Pink Milk and Sugar mug.

Here are the rest.

Anthropologie:

All the A mugs

the blue and teal legged tea cups

TJMAXX:

Keep Calm

Mustache

Tea

CHUG

Good things are going to happen

Coffee

Copper Mule

Best Day Ever

Milk and Sugar décor

Walmart:

Don't forget to be awesome

Amazon:

Silver metal cup and saucer

And the start of part 2.

Thank you so much for stopping by! 

If we have forgotten anything you would like to know about please let us know.

  

The downstairs bedroom

First off.....Wow, thank you SO much for taking the time out of your day to stop by our little corner of the internet world.  Whether it be instagram or here on this we are so humbled and thankful you are here.

I hate even calling this a "blog", because it will not be taken care of like it should, but will mostly serve as a resource page for things around the house.

So here goes.

We decided to start with the downstairs bedroom because the few pictures we have of the renovations are on the big computer, not my phone. 



When we moved in.....

it wasn't bad at all and we didn't start out to do all the work we did, but when you find the original plank walls underneath layers and layers of stuff, you roll with it. 

A few progress shots...... We basically took down the boards one by one, sanded them, insulated then put them back up.  We left the rafters exposed on the ceiling so that made it feel a little taller.

Side note: the second picture down you will see white at the bottom of the wall......that is the paneling that was in the first picture.  that is how we nailed the planks back on the walls.

 

 

 

 

Here she is today.....She may be a little small, but could not be happier how she turned out. 

 

 

 

 

 

Details:

Paint color on walls and ceiling: COLOR PLACE off the shelf plain white.  NO mixing required

Floor: the old original red oak.  Sanded and stained with PICKLED OAK
 
Light Fixture:  LOWES {on clearance}, they still have them, but have found cheaper at HOME DEPOT

Bedding: Lands End on clearance about 3 years ago.
{the ruffled quilt you see in some instagram pictures-Walmart}