Master Bathroom

The double doors I adore going into the bathroom...

And open looking into the bathroom...

The bathtub is immediately to the right...

And our giant storage center and hamper is to the left- LOVE this piece!

Vanities...

The door straight ahead is a pocket door leading to my closet and to the left is the door to the water closet...

Really bad photos of the shower...

More Master...

I know these are kind of boring progress shots, but we have a roof today!  Well, not a roof but the rafters at least.

Our two bedroom windows (not sure why those angled pieces of wood are there)...

They started tiling our guest bathroom shower today, and I LOVE it!!!  I'm so happy because I've never seen this done (unlike almost everything else that I have inspiration photos for!) so I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but it looks great.

 That's our awesome tile guy, Fabronio!

And here is a photo of HALF of our floors...they didn't even pick up the rest because we have nowhere to put them.  Who knew 2400 square feet of flooring would take up so much space?! 

I know it doesn't look like that much space, but we have all our interior doors, all our windows, all our french doors, all our appliances and some of our furniture in the garage so it's stuffed in there.

Major Tile Love

It's not done yet, but I had to post a progress photo of the kids' bathroom...I am beyond in love with the tile work!!!!  It is turning out EXACTLY how I wanted it.

Here is another remodel piece of advice...you can't splurge on much when you're doing an entire house all at once, but splurge on things that are really important to you.  I've had an inspiration photo FOREVER of a bathroom that I love, and the thing I love most about it is the tile chair rail and subway tile all the way around the bathroom.  The chair rail I bought is very pricey- just that one little line in that little bathroom cost more than ALL the subway tile to cover showers and walls in TWO entire bathrooms.  I was really close to buying the stock tile chair rail they carry at Home Depot and everywhere else, but I didn't love it, and I knew that was the feature I loved in my inspiration photo so I sucked it up and special ordered my chair rail from a tile store.  I am SO happy that I did. 

But now I'm wondering if my 2 and 4 year old are going to have a nicer bathroom than me?! ;)~

Cabinetry

Our kitchen and kids' bathroom cabinetry is almost finished, and it is TO DIE FOR!  I could not be happier with how everything turned out.  Our cabinet guys is beyond amazing.  I am SO excited to move into this house!

Here is the stove cabinetry and hood (of course the uppers and hood will not be resting on the counters!)...

I think the hood is my favorite part- he got it exactly how I wanted it...

The oven/refrigerator wall (see my appliance garage- woot!!!!)...

The sink and peninsula section (and another appliance garage!)...

The hole is where my pull out trash cans will be.

And the kids bathroom cabinetry- the two tall ones will be side by side across from the vanity...

My high was burst when I went to check on our window/french door delivery- apparently I wasn't thorough enough and didn't catch that they ordered them with two many lights (the panes of glass), and I can't send them back because although they didn't specify to me, it was on the order form.  I think it will work out ok- they are just much more cottage looking than I was going for, but that is more Cape Cod style anyway.  We are definitely on a steep learning curve with this remodel.  It's REALLY hard to keep track of every last detail.

Electrical, Plumbing & Kids' Bathroom

I just don't have much to talk about lately because although there are 4-8 guys at our house every day all day long, they've been doing only electrical, plumbing and ducting since the entire house is getting rewired and replumbed.  Let me tell you, our house is going to be BRIGHT...I won't need to put lamps anywhere!  So even though a lot is getting done, there isn't much to show for it.  Well, except for our brand new electrical box...

I know, super exciting.

And then they are just digging deeper and wider in our master bathroom (seriously, I told Gary that I think it would have been much easier to just take a couple bulldozers, knock down the house and yard completely and start over)...

An even larger pile of dirt in my closet...

We've had a few changes in the kids' bathroom.  You might recall that we were having a vanity similar to this built...

Well, my cabinet guy informed me on Tuesday that the kids' vanity is much larger than the one pictured (ours is 58", which is really long for a single sink vanity) so it will be extremely cumbersome to open those two large drawers- especially for the kids.  He suggested that we go with a more basic and typical vanity design.  I was not pleased.  The sole reason for custom cabinets in their bathroom was to get this furniture style vanity.  So I scoured the internet for 2 hours trying to find something else I liked that had doors and drawers.  This is the only thing I could find, but it still isn't what I wanted...

So I decided I would make my own design!

I should be an artist, right?  You get the idea.  So the bottom drawer will still be quite large and cumbersome, but we won't be using that drawer much anyway.  Both middle drawers have to be fake drawers for the plumbing, and the four outside drawers will be functional.  I think I actually like it better than my inspiration photo, and I feel better not trying to exactly copy someone. ;)

This will be the style of the drawers on the vanity and the drawers/doors on the built-in cabinet across from the vanity...

I cannot WAIT to see these done!!!!

RH Love

That's Restoration Hardware, not Real Housewives. ;)  I love them!  I realized I forgot to purchase the light for the guest bathroom, but I didn't want order it separately because I was already paying the max shipping amount (one thing I don't like is they won't even let you ship to store for free on lighting- you HAVE to pay shipping on lighting).  Anyway, I called to add it to my order, but they can only add to orders on the same day so she had to do a separate order but waived the shipping costs for me!  I love good customer service.  Here is my cute guest bath light...

Guest Room/ Bathroom

Wow, I haven't updated in over a week!  Basically, that's because it's STILL just demo, and I'm really just not in the mood to talk about the remodel anymore because it's making me so anxious to still have nothing done (I know demo isn't "nothing", but it feels like nothing). 

Supposedly, we will hear back from the county on Tuesday for our "first review" where they tell you what you need to change on your plans.  I also need to make a few changes with our structural engineer.

I've been focusing on the guest room.  Originally, I was going to do a traditional guestroom with a bed, side tables, etc.  But the more I thought about it and talked to people, the more it seemed silly to have a dedicated guest room when we rarely have guests.  Since that room already has a built-in desk and storage area, which will be our office area for our desktop, I decided to make it a guest room / craft-sewing room!

So I bought this cute sofa bed, which pulls out to a queen.  This will be even better for guests than the bed I planned on using because it's a full (although I'm sad not to use the cute bed frame I've been storing for over 4 years!).

On the other side of our kitchen (and the reason our kitchen is so narrow!) is our powder room.  It also shares part of a wall with the guest room.  We initially toyed with the idea of putting in a shower, but we couldn't figure out how to make it workable because it is such a narrow space so we decided to save some money and add another bathroom in the future.  But then I saw this photo on Pinterest...

This is exactly what our contractor suggested doing long ago, but I thought it sounded awful having a sink on the side of the wall...until I saw this photo, and I love it!  This would allow us to put a shower at the opposite end of the skinny bathroom.  We have plenty of length because the guest room has a bar in it, which is already plumbed with a sink and drain on the other side of the bathroom.  That area was going to be a walk-in closet, but that room was going to have 2 closets anyway so there is no problem with making it a shower instead.  We'll have to see what the budget allows, but it would be great for guests to have their own full bathroom so they don't have to use the kids' bathroom!

Here is a picture of the bar- imagine that plus 2 feet because we are adding 2 feet all along that wall for the walk-in pantry.

The built-in desk is on the wall opposite the sliding glass doors- I just realized I don't have a photo of it.

Mas Demo & More in the Kids' Bathroom

This is what part of the ceiling in my kitchen looks like now!

And here is all that missing stuff...

Everett's room used to look like this...

But now looks like this...

By the way, I'm not sure if you can tell in the photo, but the kids' closets are huge!  At least double the size of the last house- yippee!

And in case you doubted whether we are literally gutting to the studs, here are some studs for you. ;)

Where the kids' vanity used to be (love that wallpaper!)...

The toilet...

Everett "in the bath"...

I'm slowly but surely making decisions and purchases.  I bought these for the kids' bathroom...

I bought all the tile for shower and floor. Subway tile for the shower and as a wainscoting around the entire room, and 2" carrera hexagonal tiles with a long subway tile border for the floor that will look like this...

 I think their bathroom is going to be beautiful!  Probably far too pretty for two little dirt monsters.