Grand transformations

A lot has changed since my last posting. The school semester closing off got in the way of me keeping a more steady blog, along with a few interviews and the holiday/family season. I haven't been able to keep up with pictures always either due to forgetting the camera, or early sunsets, so I apologize.

The cabinet guy has officially completed all my cabinets, so yay for that! They look absolutely stunning and I can not wait for them to be installed into my home.

The above are labeled as to the proper placement of them.

 Below are all my kitchen cabinets, including the open corner cabinet. The cabinets with the missing center panels are the display ones that will have glass in the front.

 The picture below is the new cabinet face of the linen cabinet in the hallway. Good picture for an idea of what the cabinet color will be in sunlight.

The cabinets can not be installed until the texture has been done on the walls in the kitchen and bathrooms, and the walls have been painted. After much stress, the heater has been officially fixed, so the drywall and patching could finally dry. Texture will be up tomorrow throughout all missing areas in the house. Thursday we are meeting with the painter and possible carpet installers. Hopefully paint will go in Friday, Saturday, and at latest Monday. That means cabinets can begin going in Monday, finish on Tuesday. Granite can then go in Tuesday and Wednesday.. and then I can begin moving in finally!! Oh and the kitchen appliances will be delivered on the 3rd, so yay for having a fully functioning kitchen then.

The bathroom is pretty much done and looks awesome (sans cabinets and sink of course lol)! It's exciting to see a bathtub with enclosure in the new location and walls everywhere.
First picture is the view of the bathroom from the new doorway in the hallway. The second is the view of the bathtub area from inside the bathroom itself.

 The below view is the opposite side of the bathroom view while standing in the bathtub.

Kind of exciting to see it huh?? And the bedrooms look so much nicer too! They took off the closet doors and started to tear out the poor shelving in them. Without the old closet doors, they look freaking huge. The rooms look amazing.

My future bedroom below. You can see where the door use to be and is now patched up, and the amazing closet :].

 A better view of the vanity.

 View of the opposite side of the room from inside the closet. See the lack of popcorn on the ceiling???? :]

 The other bedroom below! Once again a view of where there was no wall and now there is.

 And a view of the full room without the mirrored closet doors and new wall.

I can't wait for everything to start happening like a snowball going down a hill soon. In the next week the house will change from looking like a construction zone to a completed home. So exciting! I promise I will update more frequently now.

Much love!!!
<3 Kathy

Progress in pieces

Although it is lengthy, progress is being made. The kitchen is almost ready for cabinets and paint, which is awesome. The lights were put in last week and all the whole's were touched up. The drain behind the refrigerator was pushed back so now our painter can come in and made it look more like a room than a construction zone.

The upstairs bathroom officially has a dropped ceiling! With the recently installed lights and new air vents (we unfortunately had to replace the entire heating and air conditioning units because they were original from the home.. 31 years old and not functioning one bit), it looks pretty spiffy actually.

I'm not sure if you can see in the picture, but they started to put up the sheet rock to close off one of the bedrooms. 

 The tub is hopefully getting installed on Monday, so after that is in, it will DEFINITELY start looking more like a bathroom and less like a gutted space. Hopefully once the tub is in, everything else will start falling into place much faster.

I'll post again a little later today with the inspiration pictures I was talking about from my neighbor. Sorry for the delay! School is over now, so hopefully I'll have more time to keep you all updated.

<3 Kathy

p.s. - With every negative there is always a positive. We did have to spend more money than we had originally anticipated due to the overhaul of the heating & a/c unit. However, they replace all our vent covers in the whole house for free, and they look sooo much nicer now!

New happenings!

The demo continues in my home every day. Since I have last posted the new door placement has been cut out  for hallway access for the upstairs bathroom and the supporting wall was removed as far as demo.

First the doorway: the view from both the hallway as you approach, and then the view out of the doorway from the future bathroom entry.

Next the supporting wall being removed: now you see them, now you don't!

 One of the things to note in the picture is the lack of insulation on the wall behind where the tub used to be. The original builder of this home never put it in, which was illegal even for that time. Yay for my contractor finding this and being able to fix it.

Next I'll show a wide view of the bathroom as of now:

 The frame is being put up in the bedroom, and the second picture will probably be one of the last I'll have where I'll be able to see into the bathroom from the bedroom. You can also see in the first picture the beams that were put up for the dropped ceiling we'll have in the bathroom.

And lastly, we have light!! Or rather, lights :]. Canned lights were installed in the kitchen a few days ago, and today they installed them in the stairway and upstairs hallway. Only place left to install lights now are both bathrooms, my vanity, and the laundry room.

 Before..

.. and after!

Entry way lighting 

 Staircase lighting! You can see the hole where the previous light was.

That's enough updates for now. Tomorrow I'll post about some changes we made to our plans in the kitchen and windows. I will also include inspiration pictures from my neighbor :].

<3 Kathy

Can you say Demo??

Last Saturday morning was when the demolition of my future home was supposed to begin. I was away at the time with my family for Thanksgiving, so I was unable to go and see the "damage" until later that night. Garrison swung by a little before I planned on leaving my parents house just to see what progress has been made it any. And whoo-wee! When he walked in, the kitchen was no more...

 The first picture is the doorway to the right as you enter the home. The second view is from the living room, and below is the picture from the corner where you see the doors above.

Well, they sure as heck weren't waiting! Demo was well on it's way, and it was only the beginning!

We stopped in again on Sunday and Monday, and during that time they demo'ed the tile in the hallway:

And the half bath downstairs! Or well, the vanity section that we're replacing anyways. 

It was quite a surprise to see the downstairs area so empty! It almost makes the home feel a little eerie, but at the same time it makes me really excited for what is to come :].

On Tuesday, Gary and I came back to check it out once more. This time there was a trail leading up the stairs..

Lo' and behold, the bathroom upstairs was no more!! Both vanities in the bedrooms were torn out, only to leave the naked lights on the walls.

 

And of course, the bathtub and enclosure were a done deal.

 Purple behind the tub? More deliciousness.

Good bye bathtub! You will be a sink and vanity in no time I hope!

And so the saga continues! Soon the wall to the left of what used to be the bathtub will be torn out, and a support beam will be put in place. The carpets will come out eventually, and the home will smell much more fresh and new. Until then, I await with baited breath to see what the next step will be. TTFN!

<3 Kathy