We’ve been busy!

Hi everyone! Sorry I’ve been MIA but we’ve been busy! Since I last posted, all of the interior painting has been finished, the floors are finished, a lot of repairs outside have been made, and we’ve been trying to get the place put together! 

We have made a lot of progress on the interior, and I’ll try to write a post later this week with some more pictures. 

Let’s start upstairs. As I mentioned in a previous post, I don’t love the carpet up there but it’s almost brand new and in good shape so we will leave it for now. In the upstairs bedroom, we’ve put a king bed. It has a slanted wall so we don’t currently have a headboard. At some point we will build one that fits the space, but in the meantime we’ll just leave it as is. I’ll share pictures of the space later this week once I get the bedding on the bed. The bathroom was painted, a new mirror was installed and a new shower curtain. The vanity was fine as is so we just updated the towel bars in there. There is an ugly overhead light that I need to swap out but that will happen in due time. Here is the before and then the after.

Outside of the upstairs bedroom is a large alcove which will serve as Keith’s office. We’ve replaced the lighting up there and painted the railings. Keith’s office has a beautiful view out the windows in the den. I found his desk on Facebook Marketplace. The top of it had to be refinished, so I did that over the past comple of weeks. I am still looking for some sort of credenza and we need LOTS of art for the house, but that will happen in due time.

Moving down to the main level, one of our first projects to be completed was the powder room. It had very outdated lighting, similar to what was in the upstairs office before. It also had a very ornate vanity which was very much not our style. We’ve replaced the vanity, mirror, toilet and lighting. And it looks terrific! Again, it needs some art on the walls, but in the meantime, here’s the before and after.

Here are a few pictures of the den. You may notice we’re lacking a coffee table and end tables. We plan to build our coffee table in the new year, and we haven’t yet decided if we will build or buy end tables. Please note Keith enjoying a beverage, using our cooler as his end table! ;) Also, if you remember how ugly the front door was before, the last picture shows how it looks better (still not beautiful but better) painted white without the weird little medallions around the windows! 

The kitchen deserves a whole blog post on its own. But in the meantime, you can see we did update the lighting and have it as functional as we can for the time being. We’ll be doing a lot of work in the kitchen in the new year. I promise you, the photos of the kitchen don’t do justice to how bad it is. It’s not very functional and the cabinets look terrible up close. 

Moving downstairs, the paint job made a big difference in the lower level. We need lots of furniture and some new lighting down there, but it’s not our focus for now. As a reminder, here are the befores of the den downstairs.

And here are some afters. We have some plans for the fireplace, but just removing the mantle helped aesthetically.

One thing Keith really detested was the vanity countertop in the downstairs bath. Let’s be honest. I’m not a huge fan, but I didn’t really want to pay to replace the vanity as it’s a fairly specialized size. So I had our painters paint the vanity and it looks a thousand times better. We’re still missing a mirror in there thanks to our new one arriving broken, but it still looks so much nicer. Enjoy the before and after.

Lest I forget the bar area downstars, we’re not 100% sure what we’re doing in there yet but here’s a quick before/after.

You may notice I’ve not really showed any of the bedrooms. I’ll do that in another post once I get all of the beds with beddings. We still have no nightstands other than the master bedroom, so all of the lamps are on the floor! Haha! I’m on a lookout for those now, so if you’re local to Atlanta and you have any nice looking nightstands you’re looking to get rid of, give me a shout! ;)

If I don’t post anything else before Christmas, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. We didn’t send out cards this year because we’ve just been too busy. But I promise you’ll get one next year!