Hello friends!
Thank you all for your wonderful support since announcing our decision to sell, and take on the wild beast that is today's housing market. I'm happy to announce that we DID indeed find a new house, and as of today I already have 13 Pinterest boards dedicated to its design.
Don't judge. Focusing on the new space is helping me coup with the emotions of leaving this one. And there are PLENTY of emotions. I've been diving deep into the pics from when we first bought the place and comparing them to how our home currently looks all spick and span for the showings. Honestly, it's been insanely satisfying. We've done SO MUCH over the past seven years it really is impressive, even to me and I lived it!
So to celebrate this next chapter of our lives, I'd like to present one final house tour (check out our first-ever tour here!). Stuffed full of links to past posts, products, and sources to all my favorite thingamabobs and whatnots. I've also been posting these transformational Before and After pics on Instagram, so if you haven't already been following our journey there, just keep scrolling for a photo explosion! Let's begin!
Starting outside, our biggest and most recent update was removing the large burning bushes planted in front of the porch. I always felt like they looked too bulky, so when they randomly all died this past Summer (no I had nothing to do with it) Eric ripped them out and we replaced them with low flowering plants and two small trees flanking the stairs. I immediately loved how open and inviting it made our house look.
Other changes included updating the house numbers, painting our mailbox and hanging light black, as well as painting the front door a spunky orange.
We used Bristlecone by Olympic on the walls and Simply White on all of the trim. One of my other favorite projects (you're going to hear me say that a lot in this post) although not pictured, is our yellow upcycled chandelier. What began as a basic thrift score, ended up being the perfect pop of color our entrance needed.
To the left of the foyer is our living room. We used Gadget Grey by Dutch Boy on the walls and luckily didn't have to paint the window trim because it was already white. We did have to tackle the doorway trim and baseboards though. In the end, it was completely worth it to sit on the couch and see only white...instead of the three different trim finishes we had before.
Through the living room, you will find the dining room. We took the same Gadget Grey and used it on the top portion of this space, but painted the bottom Palladian Blue by Benjamin Moore. The china cabinet was a Craigslist score, as was the mirrored table, and the chairs...which took about six years to actually complete.
The last room on the first floor is the kitchen. We painted the cabinets, the walls (Kensington Green by BM), made curtains for the windows, and refinished the floors. We also replaced the appliances, covered the fan boob light with a shade, and more recently I swapped the fabric on the barstools for the 2nd time. Through the door to the left of the back door is the mini awkward bathroom...which until yesterday also held our makeshift pantry.
OK! First floor done! Heading up the stairs to the second floor you'll find our master bedroom. I can't stand bedroom furniture suites, everything too matchy matchy drives me nuts, so the furniture is a mix of IKEA, random pillows and blankets, plus Craigslist finds. We also updated the ceiling fan, and one of my favorite projects (not pictured, unfortunately) is my jewelry organizer made from an old crib mattress spring frame.
Biggest improvement? Um YES! Hands down yes. A million times YES. We had THE BEST time planning our outdoor oasis. Eric and his dad built the pergola themselves, we had the concrete poured and stamped, and then Eric built the flowerbeds. The hand-painted party table is still one of my obsessions, and you better believe it was put to use when we had the grand reveal.
The building at the back of our yard is the recreational space, aka Man Cave. If you haven't noticed by now, we don't have a garage. So this became where we did a lot of the projects that involved extensive painting and drying, assembly, or anything that needed to be stored and didn't fit inside the house. It really was the selling factor when we originally walked through the house all those years ago. And although I hate the term "man cave"...it is super sweet.
I can't even begin to link everything that's in this space. A lot of Craigslist, garage sales, and antique mall trips helped deck out this space. The lights we found at Open Box Outlet and they were an incredible deal, and the barstools came from Bargains and Buyouts. If you've never been to either of those places, do yourself a favor and head down there this weekend. Crazy fun.
Congratulations! You made it through our final, and probably most detailed, house tour!!! I hope you enjoyed this little peek into our home as much as we enjoyed living in and making it our own. SO MUCH LOVE went into each and every room. As we were searching for our next house, finding something that wasn't too finished was important. We really wanted a space we could put our own unique stamp on. Lucky for us the new place is literally a blank canvas! It's currently so boring, which is awesome, and I am ITCHING to start designing each room and start sharing my ideas with you all.
Until then, I'm going to leave you with a slew of oh-so-satisfying before and afters. Enjoy!
Check out all of our home improvements, by visiting the OUR NEST page.
