Home Design
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Our Primary Bathroom Remodel
Lessons learned from our first renovation project with a designer This year we embarked on our first experience using a professional contractor to complete a major home renovation project. We completed a remodel of our primary bathroom, which included reconfiguring the space and overhauling nearly all of the old finishes. Our primary bathroom before When we initially moved into our house, our primary bathroom was underwhelming but it did have some features we appreciated. Our bathroom included a separate water (toilet) closet, dual sinks, a standalone tub, and lots of light courtesy of a window and skylight. The shower and finishes were our biggest areas of complaint. The shower was…
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Our Sideboard Makeover
Our house has a weird front room that we decided to turn into a dining room in the first few months of living here. We figured the space would work for family gatherings like Thanksgiving or Christmas since the table in the kitchen area is too small to accommodate a large group. Shortly after purchasing a dining table we started looking for a sideboard to get the space ready for hosting Christmas. I found a piece at Home Goods that I didn’t hate, and the price was less than some other comparable sideboards I had seen online. It was a good place holder until I could find something that fit…
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Small Changes, Big Impact
I recently shared a post on Instagram about a change we made to the kitchen this past weekend. Long story short, I had been holding off on swapping out our outdated sink faucet because I wanted to wait until we did a large-scale kitchen remodel. I accidentally broke the faucet handle, which forced us to get a new one. Holy smokes, it was such an amazing change that I instantly regretted not doing it sooner! I have a tendency to want to do everything at once and make grand-sweeping changes in our house, rather than updating in small increments. I’m slowly starting to realize that my mentality needs to shift…
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Our Fireplace Remodel
Last summer my husband and I decided it was time to replace our carpets with new flooring. While discussing the project, we knew we’d have to address the slate hearth that was in place. Since we were moving from carpet to laminate hardwood, we decided to remove the hearth altogether and redesign the fireplace in the process. I had always disliked the slate tile and thought our fireplace wall was, well… boring. In starting to design the space, I took into consideration that the fireplace wall is angled, and it was a focal point of our living room. The current scale was all wrong. We briefly considered replacing the gas…
