RENO WEEK 6

Well let's not dilly dally ... here she is!

Kitchen to Family Room - with a sad pup wanting somewhere soft to lay

Kitchen

Family Room to Living Room

What an amazing change! We are so happy to have floors back in our house and have moved a few pieces of furniture back in (thanks Holtgrewe's!). Of course there were a few little snafu's along the way but overall we are VERY HAPPY, and miraculously our fridge fit back into its home with not a hair to spare ... literally. Having the same flooring throughout the first floor makes it feel larger and far more cohesive, even if it does mean we see a bit more of Willy's hair around. The good news is it cleans up in a jif and I don't have to see a film of it on top of the berber any more :) I also think the white cabinets "make sense" now. They look fresh and clean and contrast the floors perfectly. When we get some hardware on them I will scream success, I am just sure of it. I also think the flooring helps tie our brick fireplace in to the house better. We had considered painting it white at one point but with the dark floors we am much happier keeping it au naturel. 

Other than the obvious, we also tried our hand at installing doors and frames last week. Wow. Not as straightforward as it seemed. The 3 doors took over 12 hours to install over a 2 day process and we learned our house is not square and we will not be doing the 9 doors upstairs any time soon. But we survived and no divorce papers were served so that is good. This week we hope to get the doors painted and hung back up. It will be so nice to use our bathroom again! I also hope to make some progress on the bathroom vanity so we can wrap that up too. Then I think we will just be left with trim and cabinet hardware and we can call this first floor reno a wrap!