Great Room Continued- Kitchen

Great Room & Entry

I will basically drop a ton of photos in this post because I'm not sure the best way to show the great room! This whole area makes me happy. Sometimes I just sit on the couch and look around...it's my dream great room. :)

Here's looking towards my favorite spot in the house...the entry...

I heart the vaulted ceiling in the entryway...which meant moving a giant HVAC unit and plumbing lines...sooooo worth it!

Hallway towards the bedrooms...

Looking at the kitchen...

Playroom...

Entry table...

The chairs I am OBSESSED with!

My little side table...

I'll do the kitchen in a separate post. :)

My Favorite Bedroom

Everett's orange and blue bedroom is my favorite...

I love the colors in his new bedding...

Front Yard & New Fence

Front yard is done!  Well, except for getting all the landscaping a bit more mature and painting our address on the fascia above the porch.  We just got our new fence installed yesterday, and I love love love how the front yard turned out!

First, here is the "before" photo...

And "after"...

Finally, lots of space to run and play!

One of my very favorite parts of our house- my adorable Dutch door- I love it!  We have it open all.the.time.  Even Gary said he loves having the door open. :)  Here it is closed:

And open...

And another front elevation feature I adore, our new Carriage style garage doors.  I'm not sure about the color because it was supposed to be almost black navy, but it's pretty true navy depending on the light hitting it so I'm thinking of repainting a much darker navy or white...can't decide...

Sorry! A Little Teaser? (Coffee Table)

I've been getting yelled at pretty much on a daily basis for not updating this blog...I'm sorry!  I know I owe the "after" pictures, but I do have excuses...we've been so busy on top of the fact that I want to take the final photos with our DSLR, which Ella drop and SHATTERED.  But, we finally sucked it up and bought a new one so I promise to take photos soon.  Plus, I'd like to do everything at once, and our backyard landscaping starts tomorrow, and our garage doors arrive at the end of this month, and our family room chairs STILL haven't arrived (don't get me started on that- it's been over 3 months).  When I have a minute, I'll try to take some interior photos and post those.

But I am really excited about our coffee table.  I could not find anything I liked anywhere- seriously, I spent hours searching online.  So I decided I'd have to create what I want and bought this one that I didn't love, but liked enough...

I finally finished staining it, and now I love it!  I don't know how the screen will show the color, but it's kind of a weathered grey tone stain- I think it looks so Cape Cod beach house! :)

See, you'll notice we have blankets over the couches (because I want to wait for the chairs to arrive so everything gets equally destroyed at once!), and the kids' PB chairs are serving as our family room chairs for now.  haha!