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| I was all of six months here haha |
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| Cabinets delivered 7/24, right on schedule! |
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| The drywall wasn't quite done so they hung out in the horse trailer for a minute haha. |
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| Tearing into those cabinet boxes like a rabid raccoon haha. |
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| Sunrise off the porch one morning! |
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| Drywall finisher also painted the ceiling and primed all the walls. |
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| Someone on FB asked about the floorplan and I couldn't remember if I ever shared it. We did make some minor changes, but this is the basic layout. It's not big, but it's a very functional space for the two of us! |
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| I picked gray paint, with slight blue undert inones. This should have tipped us off that it wasn't going to turn out quite like I had planned hahahaha. |
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| DH got a power roller. He thought it was the bee's knees. We rolled the entire house in a weekend (to be fair, we did have to touch up quite a few spots, because we were painting without lights lol) |
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| We had a minor paint catastrophe. And then in my panic of trying to find something to mop it up with I ran THROUGH the screen door on the slider.... lol. Thankfully it was the damaged one and we already had a new one to fix it so no harm no foul. |
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| The same weekend we painted, we moved all the cabinets inside. |
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| Laying the hearth for the wood stove. We looked at the premade ones and they were all pretty ugly (and $$$!). So we created our own pattern with various sizes of leaving blocks. |
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| Grout is messy. |
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| Finished |
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| Sealed! |
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| Painting the floor of the mudroom. The plan (for now) is to just leave the concrete floor - since it's wear the dogs will be confined whole we're at work, easy cleanup is my main concern. |
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| Bye teal overspray from painting the front door. |
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| Fancy tile saw to cut the kitchen backsplash and the marble for the hearth surround. |
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| First coat last Saturday. |
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| Second coat Sunday morning. |
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| Upper cabinets in the spare room before we got started. |
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| Getting this one up on it's base was easier than we thought! |
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| Installing this.... was not. It was VERY HARD haha. |
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| Thankfully once the first one was in the rest flowed pretty smooth. |
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| Well until we got to the cabinet over the microwave where the outlet was in the wrong place... lol. |
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| Getting a little slaphappy by this point. To demonstrate the size of the cabinet, I climbed into it. |
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| All done -- voila! (the uppers, anyway haha). This was Sunday. |
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| My BFF was in from Phoenix so we put her to work lol. |
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| I made her paint trim too. I'm a mean friend 😂 |
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| The backer for the woodstove surround |
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| I painted trim for the mudroom |
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| Laid in place |
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| It'll be hidden by the washer and dryer anyway so it's not relevant that I didn't do a great job with the stain lol. |
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| Ready for marble! |
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| Installing base cabinets |
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| Base cabinets all installed Monday! |
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| Marble surround midmorning yesterday |
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| The electrician installed half the lights yesterday - here's the master bath. |
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| Entry light |
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| Mudroom door |
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| Back porch 🥰 |
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| Light switches!!! |
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| This pantry is comically large. I'm going to need to keep a stool in the kitchen to reach things. |
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| Set the woodstove up there (although I still need to seal the stone and clearly we have more finish work to connect the stove lol). But I'm happy with how it turned out! |
