Sorry for the delay...

Here are some after photos of the finished kitchen/dining room. I wish I was back there...it's COLD here!A shot from the hallway
Another shot from the hallway


My inexpensive shoe rack turned wine rack over the fridge.
Our bathroom vanity turned chic cabinet in kitchen

One of my favorite vintage signs over the sink.




Close of of glass tile accents on the island.



My $25.00 harvest table & $11.00 chair covers.

Oh yeah and my OH SO COOL vintage chandelier!


Another one of my favorite vintage signs in the sitting area of the dining room!

Renovation Day 4...

Is beginning to wear on me. Having the entire house in a shambles and 4 people trying to maneuver around all the junk is a challenge. I am trying to keep my chin up and my eye on the goal as we will have a house-full on Thanksgiving week....wait this already is a house-full?????

Today we again had to take a trip to Lowe's, so we decided to skip breakfast and head out during lunch to get our supplies. To my surprise Jerry drove to one of my favorite lunch spots "The Salty Dog", which is right on Sarasota Bay and for the first time this trip I actually saw the OCEAN!

After we saw just a glimpse of what the beach life was like...we went on to Lowe's and back to the house for the day.









Today was full of painting and hanging the rest of the kitchen & dining room wall boards. And we are almost finished....

Between the coats of paint drying I did manage to start a small project in a tiny part in the back of the hall that was a wasted space...so stay tuned for that later.

Renovation Day 2...

Day two started with with breakfast out (since our kitchen is just a shell) and a lengthy trip to Lowe's for supplies.

We purchased supplies and did some research for the finishes for the kitchen.

What we decided on was something called T-111 to cover the walls in our kitchen and dining room. It is a heavy gauge plywood product in 4x8 sheets, usually for exterior siding applications. We chose this for a few reasons, one for the budget (Approx. $27.00 per sheet) and the other for the aesthetics. We put one coat of bright white paint on the rough surface. We thought it would really soak up the paint but after one coat we liked the way it looked with a little of the wood grain showing through and it had a great white washed coastal look to it. We hung it on the horizontally in the kitchen, instead of it's normal vertical and it really looked fantastic!

Since our trip to Lowes took much longer than we anticipated, we only got two sheets hung today.





On our second trip back to Lowes for some backup supplies we picked up the accent color for the hallway & our focal wall in the dining room. It is a Valspar color called Coffee & Cream. It is a driftwood/putty color and it really looks awesome!

BYE BYE PINK!

In our ol' grandma house...this grandma used a ton of wallpaper which we ALL disliked very much. We had neither the patience or the will to strip all of this wallpaper...so we picked and choose the walls that we could just paint over and the hallway was one of them. This grandma was obsessed with wallpaper and she even cut out parts of the wallpaper and papered them over the wallpaper for accents....and we did have to soak those little cut-outs with warm soapy water and scrapped them off with a metal hamburger flipper....nice!


Stay tuned for more to come...

Renovation Day 1...

On Saturday, we jumped right in and started the DEMO...that is Jerry's favorite part! We got a ton accomplished!

Here is a photo of the Tiny Kitchen Before.

Lovely Avocado Green Cabinets & Strawberry Wallpaper!

Here is the shot of the adjoining Dining Room full of wallpaper & PINK!

After the days end....here is a list of all the things that we could mark off the list:

• Carpet removed
• Tack strips removed
• Kitchen cabinets removed
• Sink removed
• Wall that separated kitchen from dining room
• Wall & baseboard trim removed
• More ol' Grandma items taken to the local Charity

A shot looking from the Kitchen into the dining room.

Disconnecting the plumbing....love that starburst Avocado counter top! :-)

Getting those built in place laminated cabinets down.

That ugly wall that separated the dining & tiny kitchen coming down!

WOW...look at all the light this lets in!


Making the opening larger in the wall to the cabana room brings that light all the way thru!

And now we have a blank canvas! We really all worked really well together and accomplished a ton I think~!

This was after we carried back in all the furniture off the lawn for the night looking straight through our now wide open kitchen & dining area!

Stay Tuned!