In our 7 Year Itch, it has taken a long time to get around to “finishing” rooms. And then change jumps up and forces restructuring, rethinking, and replanning.
Our girls’ room will be changing again in the next few months, so I am already starting to plan for the changes and get excited about what it will look like. But before it changes, I thought I would share with you our girls’ first shared bedroom.
We “finished” our living room remodel toward the end of last year. But as with most projects, there is always something more to be done. We are quite possibly the slowest decision-makers I know – especially when it comes to spending money and choosing things for our home. But our patience usually pays off by getting exactly what we want, when we need it, and at a great price. That happened this week for us with the baskets in our living room. We designed our living room shelving unit to hold some larger baskets at the bottom without knowing what baskets we would purchase to go there. And the search was long and arduous until my husband came home with two baskets he found on clearance at Target – and now we finally have our living room organization complete!
FINALLY! I am finally ready to reveal our laundry room makeover. You have been getting glimpses of it through some of the posts I have been doing since the beginning of the year, but now I have some amazing pictures (thanks to my friend Erica) to show you just how big the difference is!
When we first moved in to our house about 8 years ago, we were blessed to have an “indoor” laundry room. At our first house the laundry was in the un-drywalled garage. It just felt dirty even if the laundry was clean. A few months before we moved, we had purchased our front loaders for the laundry. The indoor laundry room was completely empty except for the washer and dryer. So, my husband had his cabinet-makers make some cabinets to maximize the storage options in the room. They added uppers and a countertop over the washer/dryer and created a large cabinet on the perpendicular wall with lots of hidden and exposed storage options. And we painted the walls a cool teal/blue. I fashioned some curtains to cover the washer/dryer when I didn’t want them to be exposed. And that was our laundry room for quite a while.
It has been ages since we did an update on our remodel in our home. Partly because life was just too busy, but partly because our remodel has turned into a season of patience building for me. As I have said before, since my husband is a builder, we have to fit in where we can with the subs. This means that we have great discounts on the work and materials! But it also means we have to wait until they can fit our remodel into their schedules. I know that every one says that remodeling always take longer than you think they will, but this has really taken MUCH longer than I would have liked!
ANY-who…
This is what our living room looked like at this time last year. We had already given our plans for the remodel to our cabinet-maker, and we were in the midst of waiting for them to schedule the install of the cabinets. It was a LONG wait!