When we started designing our kitchen, we knew that we wanted white cabinets. Our kitchen for years has had light-colored wood, stainless steel appliances, and beige-ish tile floors. I couldn't wait to get rid of those cabinets - or the recessed lighting that was everywhere! You can see what our kitchen looked like in this blog post. One of my favorite things about the new kitchen (even though it isn't yet installed) is the island. We decided to do all white cabinets in the kitchen, aside from …
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Home Renovation Update: Month 3
When I last updated on our home renovation, the new addition was framed, the electrical and plumbing were done, and the doors and siding were on. What I didn't share is that's when I started to get homesick. It's a weird feeling, living between two homes, neither of which are ours. Every time I drive up our street I get excited to go home, even if it's just for an hour. We have now been out of our house since June 4, so a total of 2 months and 2 weeks. While the renovation feels like it …
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Home Renovation Update
Our renovation is moving at lightning speed now! For a while it felt like things were crawling along... It was about a month from breaking ground to finishing up the foundation, but once the new foundation was inspected and got the okay from the city, things were really off and moving! Once they started to frame the new addition, things really got going. While we still have a looong way to go until we're done, now is when a lot of our decision-making has to happen. This will be a water …
Mudroom Inspiration
One of the things I'm most excited for about our massive home renovation? The mudroom. I've saved this image from The Lily Pad Cottage as inspiration! It might sound a little silly to some, but we haven't had a mudroom! Our house has (er... had) two entrances: The front door and the side door. The front door enters into a very small entry, but there isn't a closet or anything immediately there. The side door used to enter right into the kitchen, and there wasn't any closet there, …
Big News… We’re Renovating!
Today I have some really, really exciting news to share... we're doing a major home renovation! It's a project we have been talking about for years, but we hadn't put anything into motion. Well, that all changed over the winter when we decided to either seriously talk about this renovation or move. It's not that our house is super tiny right now, but we know that it's not going to get any easier to do a major renovation as our family grows and E gets older. We live in a small Cape Cod …
