So lets start the house tour....
The Living Room
To Do List:
-Tear out all carpet
-Block off the doorway by the double door
-Paint
-Lay hardwood flooring
-New windows
-Add curtains
Dining Room
To Do List:
-Tear out carpet
-Paint
-Replace outlet covers (in this room they are painted over so many times you cant plug anything in)
Kitchen
To Do List:
This is the biggest task- all the cabinets are literally falling apart so they must go and the stove faces a weird direction, that's not something we can change because of the gas hookups so we are going to close the wall next to it and turn this space into an L shaped kitchen.
-Close Doorway to Living Room
-Paint fridge (until we can get a new one)
-Tear out all cabinets
-Install new cabinets/sink
-Get rid of portable dishwasher and install dishwasher into new cabinets
-Lay new flooring
-Install back splash
-Paint
-Encase fridge with a cabinet on top to make the side of the fridge usable space
Guest Room
To Do List:
This room is kind of odd with so many windows on every wall and a huge closet on one of them. There are literally no blank walls in here. Originally we thought we would use this as Averie's "big girl" room because it has its own bathroom. Now, we're thinking we'd rather keep it as an office/guest room and maybe build on another bedroom down the line. We are leaving the cork flooring because its brand new and I really like it.
-Paint all walls
-Maybe take out closet and add a new smaller one
-Add chevron stripe to wall with 1 window
-Add curtains
-New windows
Guest Bathroom
To Do List:
This is my favorite bathroom of the 2 (The layout is smart and spacious) and I LOVE the mirror and cabinets. The cork flooring from the guest room carries to the bathroom too so we won't be touching that either.
-Replace toilet
-Add curtain to the window
-Change shower curtain to glass shower doors
-Add wainscoting to the lower half of bathroom
-Paint
-Change out fixtures
-Change light fixture
Hall Bathroom
To Do List:
I hate this bathroom. It's just a dark hole of a space and everything is so cramped. Everything in here is changing except the shower.
-Replace toilet
-Get rid of the 2 identical sinks and replace with one big double sink counter
-tear out the 2 medicine cabinets
-move large mirror from above toilet to above double counter and frame in
-remove towel bar and replace with artwork
-add overhead lighting with either a skylight or can lights
-get rid of extra vanity
-replace flooring
-PAINT (Ill never understand painting a bathroom the color of poop)
-Replace light fixture
-Reverse door swing since the light switches are behind the door
Our Room
To Do List:
The master doesn't have a bathroom... one day we will fix that or add on another master suite with a bigger walk in closet and a bathroom. For now, we have sort of an L shaped room and are having issues with how to furnish it. I'm thinking the nook by the window that shares a wall with the closet will be a beauty corner with a floor length leaning mirror and a vanity... but we'll see.
-Remove carpet
-Install hardwood floor
-Change door to closet
-Get rid of poop brown paint
-Add curtains
-New windows
Averie's Room
To Do List:
-Remove carpet
-Install hardwood
-Change or paint ceiling fan
-Install bi fold door on closet
-Add curtains
-New windows
-Paint
Laundry Room
To Do List:
This room is at the very back of the house (it leads out to the yard) but I am so excited! I've always wanted a laundry room!
-Washer and Dryer (obviously)
-Paint
-Change flooring
-Frame in washer/dryer with custom cabinets
Hallways
I know it's probably weird to include our hallways but I have big plans for them haha... so here they are and their orientation of the house...
From the hall bathroom TO the front door. I am going to paint this a deep purple. I love a colored door. All this flooring is going to be replaced with hardwood as well. The 2 white cabinets to the left of the door are going to be removed once the kitchen remodel is done. There is not storage in there right now, so the previous tenants were using them as kitchen storage.
Same view from the hall bathroom to the front door, just a few steps back. These are our linen cabinets but the top left is useless because it holds a huge heater duct. It's closed off from the rest. We are going to make the one below it the cats litter box (they are super into hiding in cabinets anyway). I am going to remove all the handles, fill them and add moulding to give them the same look as our kitchen cabinets. They will get painted as well.
This is the cabinet in the middle of our stairs. They will get the same moulding face lift/paint job as the hall cabinets. The bottom will be used for games/toys and the top for cleaning products and laundry stuff until my custom laundry cabinets are built.
These are the stairs from the laundry room to the entry/kitchen/ Averie's room is to the left and our room is to the right. I am going to add a chevron pattern to the stairs and probably some kind of paneling to the walls of all the hallways. They'll get painted as well. Kev is working on removing all the carpeting from this area to replace it with hardwood.
This is the reverse view of the photo above- looking into the laundry room (just to show a different perspective of this hallway)
So there you have it, our new house and all the plans we have for it. Some are already done, some are still in progress. I'll try to share them as we complete them. As far as the outside goes, we don't have solid plans for any of it, so I'll wait to share those pics. We have lots of plans though, we just need to figure out what is actually do-able. We are learning our way through this, but loving every minute of it. I can't wait to show some killer before and after pics!
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