As you guys know, I’m a new {3rd time} homeowner. When we bought our home this past June, we did so with the intent to do a massive home renovation. We completely gutted the kitchen {goodbye dated cabinets, countertops, soffit, wretched hand-painted ivy, and a wall}, converted the formal dining room into a home office with a new wall and pocket French doors, and added a 300+ square foot sunroom where the screened patio used to be. I’m going to take you through some of the steps to the renovation so you see exactly how crazy it was.
If you want to see the before pictures, CLICK HERE.
I’m going to begin with the sunroom addition. We began by tearing the carpet out of the old patio. From there, our contractors removed a portion of the foundation that was not level, poured a new, larger foundation. Walls were framed out, windows added, the walls were insulated, drywall installed and plastered, stucco on the exterior, a new portion of the roof was added, and Richard painted the exterior blue and white. He isn’t quite done yet, but it looks great so far!
Next, the office. This was an open formal dining room, but since I need a home office to run this blog, we enclosed it by adding a wall and pocket French doors. Richard painted it to match the rest of the house, and we added a pretty gold chandelier.
Finally, the kitchen! This kitchen was very closed off and dated. We removed a wall, converted the peninsula to an island, switched out the flooring from old beige tiles to sleek new grey tiles, painted the walls a light grey-blue, upgraded to beautiful cabinets, and we will be adding white granite countertops and a subway tile backsplash.
So all of that takes you to the like 75% point of our home renovations. We are now just about finished up, so I will slowly post about our completed home, likely through future posts, like this Family Road Trip Photography Gallery {dining space} and DIY Wooden Christmas Tree Farm Sign {fireplace}.
Have you completed a home renovation?
Any Comments?