Island/Bar Lights

John taped the floor (because I am very visual) so we can see where the island will go. I came home from work one day to see the wall was put in!

 John is putting in two outlets in the island-so this can be a prep area.

 Love these bar lights! We were concerned they might look off since our ceilings are low, but they turned out good! (I may have asked if we should switch to track lights...after these were wired in...)

 

next step...adding a counter to the top

A weekend of appliance shopping!

This last weekend John and I decided to take advantage of some President's Day sales! Saturday John was super sick, so we went out on Sunday. We made a couple stops, and landed at an appliance store with Allan, our hilarious salesman. Again, we got in the car, and shopped around a little more (HAD to get the best deal!) and ultimately came back. Decided on a GE stove and microwave. I kept walking around the store to make sure this is the one we (I) wanted :) They loaded them into the truck, we called Chuck over to help unload and here they are! We ended up finding a better deal on a dishwasher at Sears, and that is being picked up tonight. Last night John wired in the microwave :) I had a mini photoshoot with our "sexy" new appliances :)

*Took an embarassing number of pictures...don't judge.

kitchen "uppers" and beginning of the bathroom

We had a busy weekend! This was essentially all done on Sunday (John was at work on Saturday). While he was prepping the kitchen for the rest of the cabinets, i was in the bathroom pulling out hardware and spackling the walls.

 Got the lazer out...had some fun with that...

 Safety first

 And...cut to the bathroom. This was my little project. John brought home some neutral paint from work (too much paint!) so we thought for the time being we will just cover up the blue until we are ready to do a full remodel. Before painting, I had to remove these little pieces of hardware from the wall. They were EVERYWHERE. I got pretty good at punching them into the wall :)

 Holes from the hardware, and some towel racks. Notice the while part? The day we moved in we literally ripped a super ugly, dark brown medicine cabinet from this spot.

 New door and framing (note where the drywall ends, thats where the old door was). The original was much bigger.

 A true beauty. I've brainstormed what to do here, but everything i think of is super cheese (curtains?!?) or too expensive to be short term. This will eventually be all covered up. But for now, this treasure.

 Our beautiful vanity. This thing is bizzare, has funny built in drawers and toilet paper holders

 I dont even know where to start. Again, this is all going. eventually. But for now, just paint.

 More funny holes/hardware

 Once i was done, it was back to the kitchen...

 Since the original builder didnt use the standard "16 inches off center" rule for construction, John has had to guess where the studs are (uh huh...his stud finder broke). These marks are obviously where the cabinets are going, but shows how many trys it took :)

 First one up!

 And this guy. Jackson. John's friend Andrew when to Hawaii with his family and asked if we could watch his dog. We were tricked. This guy never left the kitchen, stole Whiskey's food, peed everywhere, and howled. NEVER AGAIN.

 Cabinet above our soon-to-be new microwave

 The second picture shows it better, but john called me over to show me how off this wall was. See how it isnt level with his 90 degree ruler? This created a bit of a problem. We had no wiggle room for these cabinets (in fact, john had to shave 1/8th inch off the last one to make it fit). This is how far out the wall went out. John had to modify the wall, then scribe the cabinet to the wall.

almost there!!!