Finally getting around to posting these after pictures of our kitchen remodel. It was a long and grueling process. Not really for me, but for my husband who did the majority of the work. And for my parents because we were all living with them with 2 kids and dogs. As expected in the construction world it took double the time and triple the cost….
I started this blog as sort of a mid life crisis to do something different with my life. I was, and am not planning on doing a whole lot of medical posts because this is kind of my escape from that. However, I want to share with you some of my favorite ways to fight off colds, infections, and all those nasty germs. I am…
Today was an amazing day. I really don’t know where my blog is going yet as I am just getting my feet wet but today was my first official blogging event. An Affair of the Heart Tulsa is a contemporary craft show that has two shows a year in Tulsa. The show is this weekend in Tulsa at the Expo Pavilion November 16th-18th. Saturday the…
Fall Table Decor This past weekend we had my son’s baptism and hosted a brunch at the house afterwards. Since we recently just finished Halloween, yet Thanksgiving is just around the corner, what a perfect way to decorate a table than with an Autumn theme and left over pumpkins. I have seen several local florists and Pinterest posts about making floral centerpieces with pumpkins. I…
Hey Tulsa Moms and Families!!!! It’s fall in Oklahoma although it doesn’t always feel like it. And I am here to give you the down and dirty on all the Pumpkin Patches around town! It’s so overwhelming to figure out where and when you need to go, and most importantly what to expect. If your kids love pumpkin patches as much as mine do, you…
The Gathering Place is a new privately funded park opening in Tulsa on September 8th, 2018. The price tag for this $465 million park was funded primarily by the George Kaiser Foundation, with donations by many other local businesses and individuals. The park will be donated to Tulsa River Parks but be run as a separate entity funded by its own endowment. This is going to…
Tulsa, OK was so blessed when the Oklahoma Aquarium was built. We had Sadie’s second birthday here 2 years ago in their shark room and absolutely loved it. They wall off the upper area above the shark exhibit and you have a private room with great views for an hour. When John became super into turtles this year I knew this would be a great…
I actually like the planning process of taking family pictures. It means taking a quick peek in everyone’s closet and then heading over to target or oldnavy.com. I usually have a piece in mind as a starting point. Usually that piece is something fun for Sadie to wear and then after that I coordinate everyone’s outfits from the one piece. Without being “too matchy,” finding…
Ok, first off, how is it July already. Maybe its because we are still living with my parents during house renovation and we don’t have all of our stuff. No decorations. No summer stuff. No things. But then again maybe it’s cause it was on a Wednesday and who has time to plan something for one day. Especially with two toddlers, on a school and…
Remember when we bought a new house in September? And I was begging Russell to be in by Christmas? HA. Fourth of July coming up, still living with my parents. Granted, we need to be thankful we don’t have 2 mortgages and that our other house sold so fast and that took a lot of time to get that house up to par with 2 toddlers, dogs, 4 fish, and intermittent new and dying snails. So to be honest we didn’t even start the new house until AFTER Christmas. But one of the reasons I wanted to start a blog was to document our home renovation and so now that we are finishing up I should probably start this.
What started as remodel of the kitchen and bath has obviously extended to an entire first floor remodel taking everything down to the studs. Moving bathrooms, taking out and adding walls and making this our forever home. We are so excited to get moved in.
Here are some pictures of before.
The house had a really funky brick tile that we did not hate but could not see making it work while we updated the rest of the house. So it got tore up. Then the kitchen was a galley kitchen with pantry in the adjacent laundry room. So we had to get the pantry moved into the kitchen and open up that wall. So much easier to take a wall out on HGTV. Its ALWAYS a load bearing wall. That’s what is frustrating about HGTV. There is one day of demo, one day of problem solving, and then the next day they are installing floors and cabinets and then they move in.
Demo DAY!!!!
The removal of the load bearing wall above. Makes it look easy in 3 simple pictures.
Cabinets arrived….
Then flooring, sorry for the dust.
Now we initially tried to contract this out, but my husband has a background in construction and works for a construction company. And as the costs kept going up and the budget quadrupled, we couldn’t take any more of the unexpected costs and my husband had to take over the brunt of the work. Thus the extended timeline got longer and his evenings are now spent sawing, nailing, painting, and organizing sub-contractors. While my job is to just search everything on pinterest, stress over decisions, make them, and then bring them to him to get vetoed.
We will be getting into painting cabinets, countertop and back splash install in the next couple weeks and hopefully moved in the first week of July. Then slowly working on making it our forever home with furniture and finishing touches. I will most more on specifics and each room individually but enough of an update for now!