SPRING & HALLOWEEN IN THE FORMAL LIVING ROOM

On the blog today I'm sharing my unfinished living room nicely decorated for Halloween and spring ;) In the next week or so we are adding battens on the walls, repainting and tiling the

Living Room Update!

It's been a few weeks since the undertaking of this back breaking, marriage testing renovation but finally its nearly complete just painting to be done :)  and happy to report were still married 😀

Christmas Formal Living Room

Sharing my decorated Formal Living room for Christmas Late!! I knew I'd run out of time.....

Yesterday all my Christmas decor came down! It felt like it was never ending and definitely not as exciting as putting it up! Definitely going to miss listening to Christmas music.....ahh well I only have to wait 11 months haha!

Christmas in the Family room & Kitchen

So excited to finally share our family room and kitchen all decked out for Christmas!

Living room progress.............and spring styling!

Hi Friends! and thanks for stopping by today!

Sharing our nearly finished living room today.... its been a loooooooong stressful and time consuming renovation which is almost finished on the inside but unfortunately lots still needs to be done out side.

And the Reno's continue

Up date on our living room reno! 

Its finally taking shape we have most of the drywall up so hopefully we will be ready to paint soon.

Lots of photos in this post because it's been so long since the last post.... If only there were more hours in a day :)

Living room rennovations so far....

We have been planing this renovation for quite some time, the windows were leaking and very old, it is always to hot in summer and chilly in winter and because we are building a deck off the side of the house with doors opening out onto the deck all the window have to been changed so suit the new look we are going for!! I'm so excited!

The "Great room" makeover!

Welcome to our "Great room" make over!

We have now lived in our new home for a little over a year. When we purchased our very 1st house 10 years ago we were newly married, just had our first child and took on a full renovation and I swore I'd NEVER do it again but 10 years later and look what i'm doing!

This was a very sad day taking out this kitchen! We purchased this house after my father passed away and he built this kitchen so it was a kind of a bitter sweet feeling but it had to go! Im not one for timber kitchens with apricot tiles.

It took months to draw up a new kitchen plan lots of late nights browsing through the houzz app looking and finding styles and ideas that I liked.

I knew I wanted off white shaker style cupboards and stone bench tops with a huge island so that was worked out just layout trying to fit the as much storage in as possible and making it as practical and functional as possible.

We ended up stripping the whole kitchen and living area out, we needed to put in a huge beam to hold the structure (there was a post in the previous kitchen) which was a big job! lucky we have great builder friends and family that helped us out.

Here's the end result!

The one thing I would have loved to have is a window where the sink is to let more light in but the view looks directly into our neighbours yard so we ended up leaving it out..... 

We went with a marble herringbone tile back splash which I love! The one thing i'm still going to put in which i haven't done yet is a pot filler over the cook top.

I actually did the tiling and grouting which took me 19 hours! I've never tiled before so I was very impressed with myself I never thought I would be able pull it off  but after my husband ran out of patience after 5 mins of putting spacers in and lining them up if I didn't do it he would have called it quits.

I love how open the whole room looks! This room definitely is the most used in our house, its where you'll typically find me if not try the laundry lol

In the coming months my husband and I are planing on re doing our table and making bench chairs and giving it a new lease of life so stay tuned for that :)