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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 5: Our Bathroom

The most rewarding things are often the most difficult to obtain and our bathroom was no different. We absolutely love the transformation we were able to create but it was no small feat for first time DIYers. After many lessons learned and two long weekends our bathroom renovation is finally complete and we can’t wait to share it. When we first purchased the home, the bathroom was a beige nightmare with dark features, a yellow sink and a black plexiglass vanity complete with old wood features and a black medicine cabinet. There was also sliding door to enter the bathroom. During our first few days in the house we started by taking down the dual wall medicine cabinets and towel racks. We also hung a new door with a vintage inspired mortise lock to match the character of the home. After months of planning out what the bathroom would look…

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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 We started by removing the original wall heaters and relocating the outdated electrical panel from the dining room.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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We Bought a House

Last year in the midst of planning our wedding (what were we thinking?!), we decided to start looking for our first home together. Several people warned us about the long, heart breaking process of searching for that first place, and they could not have been more right. For about a year we consistently searched, viewed homes and had our offers rejected. Then in the midst of our search Harvey devastated our city, so while we were looking for a home, millions of people lost theirs. As our city rebuilt we tried several routes, including buying an abandoned home that was set to be demolished and having it moved to another property. This also fell through, but through this process we were able to connect with our loan officer and learn more about the 203K program, which is the direction we decided to go.  Finally we found the house on King Street.  It had…

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