Coming Up...

We are hard at work on our next project. Our kitchen is a decent size with a lot of dead space. There isn't a lot of counter space or cabinet space but a lot of floor. Like I have said before we would like to redo the kitchen from floor to ceiling but in the meantime we are gonna keep tweaking until we can rip the whole thing out. We have decided to make a small rustic style kitchen island to go right in the middle of the room. We got the design from anawhite.com again and altered the plans to fit our specifications. 

In progress kitchen picture. 

The design is very basic and we are still deciding on a color for the actual island. We are going to stain the top planks to match our farmhouse table and then paint the bottom a color. The kitchen has A LOT of white and also avocado green walls so we need to work around those. We are thinking of a charcoal grey color possibly. What do you think? 

As you can see we are still in the early stages. It will have two 2x12 planks on top and then the two bottom shelves will have horizontal planks sitting an inch apart. Can't wait for it to be finished and I can get to styling that baby. Any input about color is much appreciated...as I am the most indecisive person around. 

Half Bath Update

We are continuing to do projects over here but we seem to be  failing at completing any of them...Brian has been working A TON so I have been left to work on these projects by myself. Me working on projects alone + hanging out with the baby and dog + all other wife duties = slow home progress. 

One project that is very far from done is our half bath. We are not fans of this room AT ALL. It is a half bath and it is HUGE! It takes up so much unnecessary space. Considering our living room is so small the half bath really could use a downsize. In the meantime we have given it a little face lift. It wasn't horrible before, just not really our style.  

Unfortunately I only took one before picture. It had a chair rail with some yellow striped wall paper with a pale yellow on the walls. There was also a huge built in towel rack (which makes ZERO sense for a half bath, built in toothbrush holder, and built  in soap holder.  

Here are our in progress pictures. 

We haven't done much...but it has been A LOT of work. When we started pulling off the wallpaper we found 2 more layers of wallpaper that had been painted over. It took me days to get all that wallpaper off. I did figure out that if you spray wallpaper with Windex (yes I'm Greek) and grab a paint scraper it makes for a much quicker job. We took off the towel rack which required drywall patches and a lot of sanding. We painted the walls (same as the hallway & dinging room) and added some decor we had hanging around the house.

To Do list for this room:

-hang the pictures/painting

-new light fixture

-paint the vanity (charcoal grey distressed??)

-frame the mirror

-window treatment

-remove built in soap/toothbrush holders

-hand towel rack

-possibly paint counter tops

-new knobs (or paint knobs)

Long term list:

-gut!!!!

-cut the bathroom space in half

-open up the hallway

-new Vanity, floor, toilet, mirror, etc. 

Sometimes when I make my lists I feel like a masochist. We signed up for this right??