Long time no see

Well it has been almost a month since I made a post. We are in the middle of the kitchen project, which hopefully will be coming to an end before Thanksgiving (that's pushing it a little) but definitely before Christmas!

We figured out how to do this kitchen on a budget... like, major budget.

First, we had to figure out the kitchen layout, which involved moving the fridge and the stove around.

New stove location (featuring my new DOUBLE OVEN).

I will be adding open shelving to this wall over the oven as well, kind of like this (My kitchen will be all white too! Love Love Love)

New fridge location.

These changes made for a lot of extra space in the room. You can kind of see the begining of the custom crown molding going on top of the cabinets woo!

The next task was deciding what to do with our old, pretty much useless cabinets. We didn't want to go the brand new custom cabinets route because its pretty pricey (like, 10,000 pricey). We had considered just doing new cabinet doors for an update, but then the brilliant idea came to us: Buy unfinished stock cabinets at Home Depot, add a bunch of custom wood work to them, paint them an awesome color, and yay! Brand new cabinets for about $900. Pretty ridiculous right?

Here are some pretty awesome pictures I have been collecting on my pintrest.

Love those taupe metallic lights and the open shelving that matches. Beautiful!

I love this for a stairway wall, or an entry way like this one if its big enough (mines not).

I love these patterns and colors.

I'll be posting more pics and progress on the kitchen soon I hope! :) :)

Mercury and Burlap

So today I discovered some awesome finds! I was browsing TJMaxx and came across a large array of mercury glass vases and containers, my heart jumped with joy and then I started having a heart attack when I saw the price: $4.99? $7.99? HOLLA WHAT!? Let's just say I'm not usually a TJMaxx cart user but I was all about the cart today. I bought like 20 of these things. My house is going to be decked out with mercury glass, oh yeah.

Mantle awesomeness!

Also, my burlap curtains came in today for the living room. The combination of this mercury glass business and then my much anticipated etsy purchase arriving was just too much! Here is the pics of the curtains, lighting is not that good because it was night time. I'll post better ones in the daylight, but I just couldn't hold back!

Cute littel ruffle!

Beautiful! Can't wait until my VERY much anticipated pillows come in. More pics to come! Thanks for stopping by to enjoy my new additions!

Everything is coming together

Its weird to think that this time last year we had nothing but a matress and a tv in our house. Michael and I waited to move in with eachother until, well.. marriage! So we started out with a beautiful home but nothing to put in it! A lot has changed since then! The kitchen is well underway. My near heart attack inducing week of the floor being ripped out and demolition of the kitchen is complete. Now there is the start a new, amazing floor. We had a cabinet guy come today and measure the doors for replacement with new "shaker" style doors. (Praying the quote is mega low!) I'm just so happy that we are finally going to be done with construction on the house after the kitchen is done. Then all thats left is the fun stuff, buying and decorating!

Here are some updated pics of our home that is edging its way closer and closer to completion.

Antique tool box turned coffee table. This was a good find up in Cbus Short North.

Dining room into living room.

 Antique light. Also a good find in Marietta Front St.!

 I like the lighting here.

 NEW COUCH! I still don't have my accesories. But I just had to post. Also new coffee table. Love.

Here's the sweet curtains I'm waiting on. Got them for a steal on ( can you guess ? ) etsy.

I will be posting pics soon of the kitchen project more in its completion. Crossing my fingers its soon!

Thanks for looking :)