Fixer Upper- Week Six

I had to laugh a little when I wrote that title.  Chip and Joanna would whip out a fixer upper in, at the most, a month’s time.  We are going to go WELL beyond that.  🙂  That’s what happens when your crew is just a handful of people working on it part-time.

This week the focus was mainly on the bathroom.  I’ll refresh your memory about what it looked like before-

Bathroom Vanity

Bathroom Shower

Shower Before

We took everything out of it (no more carpet, yea!) and did a little plumbing to move the shower head up.  That way tall people can shower too!  We also are working on plumbing for a new vanity with…double sinks!  I’m sure whomever will live here next will appreciate having two sinks, even if for now, there is only one bathroom.  I shopped Menards, Home Depot and Lowe’s for a new vanity and kept coming back to the first one I fell in love with…at Menards!

Here’s a picture of it in the store, just as a single sink.

Vanity from Menards

This beautiful piece has a black granite top and it looks amazing!  Here it is sitting in the kitchen waiting to be installed!

Double Sink Vanity, Covered In Dust

I also had to choose flooring for the bathroom.  (And really fun things like a toilet.  Um, one that keeps itself clean, thanks!)  If it were MY house, I would have done tile.  But since we don’t know the future of this home and I may have to clean it, we went with a sheet of laminate.  It looks like it has grout only I won’t have to try to scrub it.  The bonus, it was a remnant.

Here’s the flooring.  It is darker in real life (it resembles slate) and will look great with the vanity-

New Bathroom Floor

And if anyone does purchase the home, tile would be an easy upgrade.  (That they can clean themselves.)

I also painted the room Joanna’s favorite, SW Silver Strand.  It is a neutral with green tones. I loath painting in semi-gloss but for a bathroom, it is just a must.  If you want to argue, you can visit my bathroom that four kids use.  Trust me, semi-gloss.

Here’s the paint job-

Silver Strand Paint

Okay, that’s really hard to see.  I’ll take a better picture once we have a light in there.

Here’s the tub going in.  I tried to pick the biggest tub (who wants a tiny tub?) that looked easiest to clean.  I will not be getting shower doors and will go old school with a shower curtain.  Because you can throw them out when they are nasty.  #hateshowerdoors

Shower Gone

New Shower Going In

New Tub

So the bathroom is slowly coming together…  We still have TONS of plumbing to do.  It’ll be an exciting day to actually be able to flush the toilet!

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Fixer Upper- Week Five

Progress has been slow lately as all of our kids’ activities have been picking up.  That’s right.  Upon this writing we have:

Four kids

Two houses

One dog

One Fixer Upper truck

Two kids in soccer

One in dance

One in baseball

And one soccer coach

Two kids in piano/guitar

One full-time job that earns money

One full-time job that does not

Two part-time jobs that earn money

Oh, and we have a life

That totals a ton of insanity.  How do we do it?  Not very well.  But we’re managing.  So there are times when work comes to a halt.

Today I’ll show you some after pictures of my paint job.  And know that we have been making a ton of purchases for the new home.  As the designer, that means tons of decisions made by me.  I really enjoy this part.  And I totally feel for those of you who have built new homes.  Without having some experience at this, it would be really difficult to make such decisions!

Here is the master bedroom all painted up.  This was BM Owl Gray.  It has blue/green undertones.

Before-

Master Before

Master Bedroom

Here is the second bedroom.  I painted this one the beloved BM Revere Pewter.

Before-

Second Bedroom

Second Bedroom After

(Sorry that picture is a little fuzzy.)

Here’s the hallway, done in BM Classic Gray like the living room and kitchen.

Before-

Hallway

Hallway After

(Geez.  That one’s blurry too.  I’ll get some better picts!)

Living Room before-

Living Room

Living Room After

I was still trimming when I took this shot.  Clearly it’s going to look a little better without all of the tools in it.  🙂

Now on to the kitchen.  In the kitchen I have a little surprise.  Remember when we opened up the wall between the kitchen and living room?  We did a little something special with that opening.

Kitchen before-

“Dining” Room

And after-

Kitchen Dining Area

Do you like that opening?  I had an idea on framing that opening with some beams.  They are from the outdoor section at your local home improvement store.  These are made of cedar, as you do not want treated lumber in your interior.  And I stained them Minwax Jacobean Stain.  For some reason I did not take any pictures of that process.  I must have been in a hurry!

Beams With Supports 

Here’s from the entry before-

From Entry Before

After-

From Entry

Here’s a close up-

Close Up

I may be biased but I think they turned out lovely.  It draws your attention to that space and makes it beautiful instead of boring.

More surprises to come!

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Fixer Upper- Week Four

This week some fun things began to happen.  As the designer of this place, I had to make my paint color choices!

I’ve been through my mount of paint swatches 100 times and spent some time on Pinterest looking at different rooms and paint colors.  (If you’d like to follow my Pinterest sounding board, it’s called Fixer Upper under me- Style from the Sticks.)  I wanted to do the whole and house in shades of grey. Cue 50 Shades snarky comment.

Here are the colors I picked.  Sometimes they are hard to read on a computer screen. BTW, I’m in love with Benjamin Moore paint colors.  I don’t know why but I love them SO much more than Sherwin Williams or anywhere else.  They’re so much more livable. Just my opinion.

Swatches

Classic Gray- This is a Ben Moore paint that I liked because it is a true grey without too many undertones and it is very light.  This is the paint I chose for the entry, living room, kitchen and hallway.  I wanted to make the space there feel more open, larger and like one big room.  And this neutral will go with many different colors.

Silver Strand- This is one of Joanna Gaines’ favorite colors so I had to try it out somewhere. I chose to make this the bathroom color because it has a bunch of green in it and I didn’t want anything else to have that much color.  It’s from Sherwin Williams.

Decorator’s White- This BM paint will be my trim color.  It’s a very bright white but has a cool undertone that I’m hoping will pop the white accents.

Gray Owl- Another BM.  This grey has a slightly green/blue undertone.  It is the master bedroom color.

Revere Pewter- From BM.  You’ll see this color show up again and again on Pinterest.  It’s a muddy grey which makes it very desirable.  If any of you locals want to see it in person, it’s the grey color on the city library walls.  I picked this for the second bedroom to make the northeast room more cozy and warm.

So that’s the palette!  I hope to get some finished pictures up soon!

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