Kitchen & Dining are DONE!

YAY! I walked in tonight just as Jeremy was putting in the last piece of flooring! Since then they've been installing the molding, and are now working on getting our 1/2 bath back together. I moved lots of stuff from the living room into the kitchen so that they can get a good start in the morning on the living room.

I'm so excited! I can't wait for this to be complete!

Progress

A lot was completed last night when they called it quits about 930PM. I took photos, but haven't uploaded them yet. I just talked to Jeremy and he said he's almost done with the kitchen & dining and his dad should be arriving any moment to help him wrap it up. They will then move furniture around so they can start on the living room tomorrow! He said if all goes well, they should be DONE with the downstairs tomorrow :-)

Since I can't be much help with this process, I'll post pretty inspriational photos, for how I want this space to look when we're done :-)

and FYI, we've found a lot on Carolina Beach that we are VERY interested in! It's a little over our budget, but hopefully, we can negotiate the price a bit!

LOVE these orange chairs!
(I don't remember where I pulled this photo from, but I do remember this is inside a yacht!!)

A very pretty dining room. Love the gray!

I love this desk. Simple and clean. I also LOVE the framed letter.

The bright walls are a bit much for me... but it's my color combo!

This bedroom is awesome! If we had not just redecorated our bedroom, this is how I would do it! That gray is very close to the gray we now have in our dining room!

Inspirational Board.






Happy Wednesday!

Flooring Update....

not going as quickly as hoped, but it's getting there....

Here's how yesterday started: (in the 1/2 bath/laundry)

Here's where they have made it to:

Where Jeremy is standing the flooring is down all the the right of him, through the dining area and kitchen... hence why everything is moved to the right of the space.

New Topic....

I've been trying my best to keep my mind off the chaos going on at my house right now.... (say a little prayer that the majority of our flooring downstairs will be done when I arrive home at 5:15.....)

To help keep my mind off these things I've been:

A. Looking at pieces of land for sale near the coast. The main problem I'm running into is that all the ones we can afford are all in neighborhoods that have yet to be developed. We wouldn't be building for a long time- so I suppose this isn't an issue.... but what if the neighborhood never fully develops? hmmm

Here's the 2 lots I like the best:

1. Very close to Ocean Isle


2. At Surf City- but has building restrictions


B. Looking at cute things online- like this.... to bad it's $80!!! WTF. I can paint "dog toys" on a $15 beverage pail from Target myself.

wow... crazy.... insane.... messy.....

I feel like we're about to move out of our house..... everything from our laundry room & pantry are out for all to see.....

see photos....

living room.....

everything pulled from the pantry, dining room, china cabinet and laundry closet into our kitchen....

Empty pantry and laundry......

pant samples.... the left is the sample for the lower part of the dining room, and the other two are for the living room..... we went wit the far right.

Dining Room BEFORE:















Dining Room Primed:

New Gray Paint!!

That's all for now..... pray that we get SOME of the flooring in today.... they started at 730AM.... it's now 2PM and no hardwood is down yet.... :-/

Disaster....

Our house.... is a disaster. I was too ashamed to take a photo of it last night. But- I will, when we return from the beach on Sunday.

I came home from work and our couches were rearranged, my desk had moved from the kitchen to the living room, and the black bookcases were gone, so Jeremy moved the cedar chest to hold the tv for now. We then moved the dining table, chairs and china cabinet into the kitchen. Everything that was in the china cabinet is now ALLOVERMYCOUNTERS....... wow.... what a disaster. I'm really glad the floors are going in... but I am dreading coming home to a disaster of a house on Sunday. I think it was seriously giving me anxiety last night, just looking at the mess. I am not a neat freak by any means- but it was really on my nerves last night. So- I went upstairs and cleaned up our room, and watched tv.... I needed to be in a somewhat clean space.

I'll post flooring updates on Sunday & Monday..... happy Memorial Day weekend! Say a prayer we don't get stuck in Coca-Cola 600 traffic coming home Sunday!

Pretty Please.....

Could someone ship me these.... size 7 would be great ;-)

We're headed down to Wilmington tomorrow afternoon and it can't get here fast enough! We have no agenda, but to lay on the beach, eat seafood, and be lazy! We're coming back on Sunday so we can move furniture, and pack up stuff so that Jeremy and his dad can start on the new flooring first thing Monday morning!! We picked out some paint colors for Jeremy to pick up samples of today....

We've decided to put chair rail in our dining area, and paint a dark gray under the rail and white above the rail. We're still struggling on what do do with the wall our new desk is on. I am tempted to paint the shelf gray, instead of trying to paint the wall.

We got our black bookcases sold this morning, so we'll be making a trip to IKEA to purchase our new tv console cabinet... sorry no photo of it on the website :-( It's white with a clear door on each side and open shelving in the middle.

Jeremy also got our tv wall mount yesterday and all the goodies to run the surround sound wire in the walls instead of under the carpet (which will be ripped up Monday!)

That's all for now.... Happy Thursday!!!