Dining Room Reveal

 Loving my 12 light chandy from Ballard Designs, I wanted a significant piece over the round table, this was just perfect.

 Everything in this bookcase has meaning to us.

 I found this awesome column for $35 at my antique mall. The mirror was a $4 gar.sale find last summer.

 Under this cloche is one of the very old German Bibles that my mother in law gave to us from Mark's grandmother.

 Some more of the collection. It was like they were meant to be there.

 The cigar box was in some of my Grandmother's things, the binocs were from a g.s.

 Almost everything in this room was second hand, except the chandelier and the new PB rug.

 Everyone loves my tobacco basket, I found it for $35 at a second hand thrift store a few years ago. 

 The Ethan Allen dining set and buffet was a hand me down from my sister Melanie. Those gorgeous curtains were a gift from her for my 40th bday last year, she got them from her sis in law who didn't like them! They are from Chandlers'.

 One day we will have wood floors!

 I have named  our home Dandelion Cottage, I will explain it later in another post!

 A few before shots with my mil's things in here.

Ta-Da !!!

Kitchen Remodel part 1

Whew!  I am tired just looking at this post!  We have been busy as bees since moving last month, we have been waiting for the contractors who are doing my mother in law suite to remove the cupboards in the kitchen and re use them in her new kitchen.  Last week we finally had demo day and Mark and I got straight to work, and work we have done.  Constantly.  We are starting to see things take shape so I thought I would share a few (ok alot) of pictures, mostly so that  could keep track of our progress (and my mother in law who has fled to Florida for 2 months could see too!)  Here are a few photos of the before, the way it was when my mother in law left. 

I am already taking heat from the locals for not making cookies like she does!

She is never this cluttered, I took the photo on busy day.

We are reusing her cabinets in her new kitchen space.

She even got her own entry door

The door to her new bedroom.

This hallway will lead to her family room. 

Here is the kitchen now that we have our cupboards going in.  We purchased our cabinets from Ikea and are very happy with them so far. 

I am so excited about having glass doors, you have no idea!  I wanted you to see how high they are, my hubby is 6'2", he has been so wonderful, staying up late working hard to get this done for us. 

So my first choice for countertops was a marlbe looking granite, loved it!  But way out of our budget so we went with the Corian countertop. We ordered ours from Lowes and right now they have a deal where you get free undermounted sink with your order ($400 value).  So we were pumped about that. It is going to be a few weeks before the countertop is installed, I can hardly wait! Lowes also has a deal going on right now if you purchase a gift card (over $500) they will give you 10% gift card starting March 18th. We purchased a gift card in the amount of our counter top and in  a few weeks we will have  over $200 worth of Lowe's credit coming to us.  We thought that was worthy of passing along to you guys!

We painted the wall in the dining room and purchased an awesome rug from the Pottery Barn Outlet. Things are taking shape!  We also hung a new chandelier in the dining room , it is large and grand and I love it!  We are not done with it yet, I need to clip the chain and maybe add some shades, I found it at Ballards. 

These are my mil's appliances, we need to go back to the old house to get ours this weekend.

We are going to put in darker wood floors eventually and paint the lovered doors white.  The knobs still need to go on the island and wood blinds need to be hung.  I have a new light fixture to hang over the sink, I need to find somthing else for the ceiling lights.  We are also going to attempt a subway tile backsplash. 

So that is it so far.  We still have  a long ways to go, it will be wonderful to get the countertop in!  I am really sick of eating out!  At least we have a temporary sink, thankfully!  It is so exciting to see our hard work paying off.  I am living in a constant mess around here, but it will be worth it when all is said and done! 

As a side note, my coach Mr. Cole's body has still not been located in the icy waters.  It was 4 weeks ago yesterday that he was presumed to have drowned.  They are still searching for him and need our prayers.  Thank you.