Blogiversary House Tour: Part One

Tell all ya friends and neighbors!

PART ONE A MINI HOUSE TOUR TO SHARE WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN OUR FIRST YEAR OF LIVING IN OUR SWEET LITTLE HOME

August 4th was my one year blogging anniversary. I posted my very first post with no idea where I was going or what I was doing. Still don’t! Hooray!

Since starting this blog, I have bought a domain (which means I’ve lost a couple posts and lots of pictures), got a starter camera as a birthday present (that I’m still learning how to use) and had an entire hard drive crash on me (which means loss of more pictures and a TON of work). DRAMA Y’ALL.

BUT! Since I’m trying to be thankful about even the “bad” things, today I thought I might share part 1 of a mini house tour, showing the projects that we have done/are doing. I figured I should show you what our house looks like normally before I get to take you on a Christmas tour!

Part 2 will show rooms I haven’t shared on the blog before because we haven’t touched them yet. Never before seen footage coming your way soon, folks!

ENTRY

This was during our walkthrough right after our offer was accepted on this sweet little thing.Everyone say hey to Jordan’s right shoulder and foot. Oh heyyy! This is what we are working with now:

PROJECTS: (Some affiliate links used below. Read my full disclosure here.)

• Painted doors SW Iron Ore
• Replaced interior door handle
• Painted walls SW Alabaster
• Removed all trim and replaced
• New rug (from TJ Maxx)
• Removed double doors and did cased openings
• Photo gallery wall (we got our frames here)
• New light fixture (Amazon)
• Entry drop spot

TO DO:

• Change the doorknob on the front door
• Knock down the wall between the entry and the living room
• New flooring

DINING AREA

We don’t actually have any formal dining space, but our 5-10 year plan is to lose some walls and open this bad boy up, but that takes money so don’t mind me, I’ll just be working my fingers bloody on this blog until we’re able to complete this renovation. Here’s the dining area when we bought it: And now:

PROJECTS:

• Painted walls SW Alabaster
• Shiplaped wall
• Removed all trim and replaced
• New light fixture (From Lowes)

TO DO:

• Finish trim on windows and door
• New flooring
• New table

KITCHEN

This is probably the biggest transformation thus far (until we get our guest bathroom done).

Before:

To now working with this:

PROJECTS:

• Painted walls SW Alabaster
• Painted upper kitchen cabinets SW Pure White and lowers SW Peppercorn (part 1 here and part 2 here)
• Added new door hardware
• Created extra storage
• Added open shelving
• Changed light fixtures (over the sink barn light here)

TO DO:

• Create trash can storage
• New flooring
• New appliances
• Completely gut and change the flow of this kitchen

LIVING ROOM

Another room that had a pretty huge transformation in my opinion. Here it was when we saw it for the first time:And here’s where we sit now:

PROJECTS:

• Scraped popcorn ceilings
• Painted walls SW Alabaster
• Shiplaped walls beside the fireplace
• Removed and replaced all trim
• New fan (We got ours at Home Depot, but here are some similar ones here, here, and here.)
• Removed plantation shutters and add curtains with DIY custom curtain rods
• Whitewashed fireplace (This would be one of those posts that I lost in the transfer of sites. UGH.)
• Remove old mantle and replace with new faux wood mantle

TO DO:

• New flooring
• Knock down both interior walls to create open concept with kitchen

HALLWAY

Before: And now: