New Kitchen Paint

It had to be done. Once we decided to paint the Living/Dining Room Edgecomb Gray, we knew that the time had come to paint the kitchen again.
I have had the Benjamin Moore Kensington Green colour chip in my purse for a very long time now. 
Ever since I saw this picture:

                                                           House of Turquoise

So one evening we were in Lowes and I just decided to have it mixed up and go for it.

After two coats of paint our kitchen now looks more like this:

The walls are now BM Kensington Green (mixed in Olympic One).

The rest of it looks like this:

We added trim work around the doorway. It looks so much nicer now.

One day we will change the light but not until we figure out the whole plan.

There is soooo much that I would love to do to this room. But it's not a necessity, the room works as it is.
But one day.....
With a hubby who works with customs kitchens as his job, we have many ideas for this space. It could function much better and be much more custom.
I'd love to have wood planked walls in here somewhere, or bead board on the ceiling. I would love to make a built in seat in front of the bay window. I am always thinking up new ideas ;)
But for now it will work just fine.

Living Room Reveal

My friends think I'm nuts because I paint so often. I actually hate painting at this point. But I am determined to have our house look the way we want it. I am finally finding a style that works for both me and my dear husband. Sometimes I come up with ideas and he hates it. So things have to change. We are both starting to love what we have done.

Enough chit chat...
Here's what we did to the living room & dining room.

So we did A LOT!! We painted the walls Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray. Then we had to finish the door moldings. Everything is connected and one project leads to the next. 
We bought black curtain rods on sale at Lowes. We put up Ikea Ritva curtains in white.
Then we decided that our dining room table wasn't coming back in our beautiful room.
I searched kijiji for a replacement. I found it and painted it white. I re-covered the seats in Navy Outdoor fabric from Tonic Living. I stripped the top and re-stained it. 
We love this table now. It really goes well with the look we are going for. Light and bright.

Now get ready for picture over load!

I still need to decide what I want to put on either side of our sailboat painting over the couch.

I moved the console table from the entry in here. Now the laptop goes there. I also moved the mirror there too. It's a black qua trefoil  mirror from Lowes. I have big plans for the entry anyway and now it's a blank slate.

I love my Nate Berkus turtle shell. But the colour just doesn't work for me now. I want to spray paint it but I need to decide if I want white or do something neat like Navy Blue.

One of our next projects is building a fireplace where the TV unit is. The white unit we have now is way too big for the space. The TV will go above the fireplace. I'd love to get rid of the TV in this room. But having two young kids, that's just not going to happen.

I also ordered new art for either side of the Ballard Inspired Shelves. They are prints of vintage travel posters. 

We also bought a orb chandelier from Home Depot. We loved other ones too but decided we needed something that we could see through. Then it wouldn't take away from our view.

There's nothing like a before & after to really show you the changes.

Before:

After:

Thanks for looking around. Next time I will show you what the hallway looks like now too.
I hope you love it because we spend time just looking at everything and thinking about how much we love it now.

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Kids Bathroom Painted!

I finally painted the kids bathroom.

I painted it Benjamin Moore Colorado Gray (mixed in Olympic One).

There is still soooo much to do in here. But at least the paint is done ;)

This week we plan to rip out the vanity and hopefully get the tile floors done.

Here's our plan: 

Kids Bathroom by sherrymiser featuring silver home accessories

I made a sign for the wall already. I even have the art for above the toilet done too. I have a neat red shelf for above the toilet. We have the vanity and toilet too. 

Now we just need to get started on the hard stuff. Still need a counter top, sink and faucet too. 

Fingers crossed we get this done soon!

Big Changes Happening in the Living Room!

We have been wanting to put hardwood in our living/dining room since we moved in. But we agreed to wait until we found something we really loved and it was a great deal.

We had requirements. It had to be hand scraped and distressed. It had to be brown but a warm brown. Those dark espresso floors can look nice but they show every mark and spec of dust. No thanks!

We walked into Home Depot one night and BOOM!! There it was!! It was a great deal! But we took home a sample to be sure we loved it in our house. Turns out we LOVED it!! We went back and bought it on Sunday afternoon. They were installed Thursday morning. 

After my hubby installed the hardwood in our last house, he swore he would never do it again! Plus since this is our forever home we wanted it perfect :)

Here's what the process looked like.

We had to rip out all the old laminate floors.

 That left us with our sub floors to clean up.

The day the floors were installed it looked like this: 

 Oops! Sneak peak of our new doors and black hardware.

 It looks gorgeous with our board and batten walls :)

We love, love, love our new floors!!! 

The only problem is once the the floors were installed we hated our paint colours with it. So now I have repainted the whole main floor! But that's a whole other post :)

Powder Room (Half Bath) Reveal

Well, we are FINALLY finished the powder room!

Here it is!

 The white painted vanity was custom made by my hubby. He is awesome! Gray counter tops and a white sink are nice and simple.

 The light fixture is part of the Archie Collection from Home Depot. We LOVE it! The mirror is the Songe from Ikea.

 The walls were painted Benjamin Moore Kensington Green (mixed in Valspar).

 White bead board wainscoting is on the bottom.

 We added some picture from our travels above the toilet.

 I ordered a Katie Daisy print for the wall. I love it :)

 Yellow hand towel is from Target. The towel holder and toilet paper holder is from Ikea.

 We got white rectangular tiles from Home Depot.

What do you think?? I am so glad to finally be done!!

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