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Remodel No 6: Our Fireplace

The living room is the hub of our home. It’s the place where friends and family gather and memories are being made that will forever live long after we are gone.  One of Abbie’s dreams when looking for a home was to have a fireplace that would be reminiscent of some of her homes she had growing up in Georgia. Since growing up in Houston, I never shared in that sentiment but part of love is compromise so we always knew we would add a fireplace to our home at some point.  When we started the initial living room renovation, we knew that we would later come back and add the fireplace to the room. The room originally had a dingy white wall with a gas wall heater. This worked to our advantage because we would later repurpose the gas line to use for the ventless natural gas fireplace.  We…

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Remodel No 4: Our Dining Room

One of our shared values in purchasing a home was to be able to have a space full of love and laughter that could easily host friends and family. Originally our kitchen and dining room were separated by a wall which really made the house feel divided. We started by removing the original wall heaters and relocating the outdated electrical panel from the dining room. The second major project was to demo the wall to open up the space. Having the natural light coming in from the kitchen made such a big difference and the two rooms together now helped our home have the open floor plan we were hoping for. We also decided to add a matte black shiplap accent wall to bring interest and continuity with our white shiplap wall in the living room. We replaced the stained glass in the two small picture windows with new panes…

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Remodel No 3: Our Living Room

We’re not sure if it was intentional, but somehow it just made sense to tackle the house in order so next came the living room. The living room is the first room just on the other side of the sunroom and is technically the first space of our home. We probably spend more time in this room than any other and we absolutely love how it turned out. We previously tackled the biggest eyesore of the room by adding the shiplap wall. You can check that out here. The renovation began by adding 3” crown molding. Next came scraping back old paint and then freshening up the room with a new coat of white paint and painting an accent wall. There was some minor electrical of work splitting the recessed lighting into zones and adding dimmers perfect for movie nights. The furniture and styling made the room come to life.…

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Remodel No 2: Our Sunroom

The first time we stepped through the front door of our now home, we were greeted by a small, dark, room with grey carpet on the walls. Needless to say, it was quite an odd room. It had a drop ceiling along with fluorescent lighting making the room feel even smaller. It wasn’t the warm and beautiful space we wanted our guests to walk into when first arriving into our home. It took a lot of vision to get a plan of action on how we wanted to renovate this space. We started by pulling down the florescent lighting and the drop ceiling. We’ll probably mention more times then once about how well this house was built, and this ceiling was a great example. It took some muscle and sweat, but we finally pulled out EVERY SINGLE NAIL. Behind the drop ceiling was the original bead board. We liked the…

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INTERIORS & DECOR

Remodel No 1: DIY Shiplap Wall

During the initial remodel phase we found a bit of a surprise once the contractors removed the 60’s style wood paneling to add in the new window into the sunroom. It turns our there had been a window previously behind the wall that was covered over in old sheetrock and duct tape.  Our contractor quoted us an amount to re-sheetrock the entire wall, but we were hoping for an alternative and less expensive route. After a bit or research, we decided to fix the sheet rock and install a shiplap wall ourselves to add visual interest to the front living room wall. We decided to purchase our runs of shiplap from Home Depot. They have primed pieces in 8ft and 12 ft runs that lock into one another — no fuss with using pennies between panels to create spaces between pieces. It was simple and fairly quick although we would…

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Our Journey Begins: Major Renovations

The journey began  and we wanted to get our hands dirty, but we also knew that with this house there were several projects that required a general contractor to do some of the permitted work. Here’s the major list of what was completed over a seven week timeline: Rewire house to code and remove all knob and tube. Install recessed ceiling cans in living room. Install HVAC. Replace hot water heater and move from kitchen to the attic. Install new gas piping for stove, water heather, furnace and future fireplace. Joist and framing repair in living room due to extensive termite damage. Remove carpet and refinish floors throughout most of the house. Remove drywall and install two windows in the sunroom/living room. Remove 5 windows and repair wood frame damage and replace with vinyl windows. Remove all burger bars from windows. Remove large furnaces from wall and AC units. Remove…

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