tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61390570352568267672024-03-19T01:28:07.616-07:00Vintage Dollhousethere once was a little yellow house...Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-64688348655146040392012-04-30T17:34:00.000-07:002012-04-30T17:34:35.022-07:00Office Mood BoardSo my husband has been working from home a lot more lately and it seems my dining room is constantly covered with a laptop, maps, files, folders, etc.. etc.. etc.. Basically anything but what you would typically find on a table, say.. plates? forks perhaps? So anyway, I've decided to turn our front living room (which really is pointless anyway because we never use it) into an office area with a sitting / living space. I've created a mood board of my thoughts. I tried to combine my new tv room plan which was expertly planned out with the help of Holly Mathias Interiors through an online consultation along with some ideas she had for a desk and fabrics, I just put all of it together and added a few of my own ideas.<br />
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New projects are so exciting!<br />
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<3 AlisonAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-54330578877573434842012-02-16T19:21:00.000-08:002012-02-16T19:21:29.176-08:00Long over dueThe kitchen has actually been done for about 2 months now and I'm just now writing a post about it! I can't believe time gets away so fast! Here is a before picture. I don't have any pics of the actual original kitchen because I was so totally embarassed of it. The original had mustard yellow counter tops (classy). <div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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If you have been following the process in my blog, you know how much I hated those checkered floors and how much we had to go through to get them up! It's so strange to look at it now and then look at this old pic. It's like its not even the same house!<br />
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Here are the after pictures (yay!)<br />
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Counter top shot, and what's that in the corner? A sink?? I've never been so thankful for a kitchen sink after going over 3 months without one.<br />
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After I put the curtains up.<br />
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I'm still deciding what to do with that empty space above the oven. I originally wanted to put a small pot rack for utensils and things.<br />
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The island was made by old barn wood we found in our barn in the backyard. So its a real reclaimed wood table!<br />
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I'm so happy its finally done and I think I'm done with construction on the house for a while. It can get pretty stressful, but it was totally worth it.<br />
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Thanks for looking. <3<br />
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</div>Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-44829034599568417382011-12-30T12:17:00.000-08:002011-12-30T12:29:33.678-08:002012 will be wonderful!Hello! Once again, I have not updated in quite a while! Things got very busy after Thanksgiving at home, work, and with every aspect of my life! I have some belated Christmas photos of the house, and a sneak peak at the finished kitchen! Countertops get installed Thursday, and DONE! <br />
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Lovely living room (chairs are a new addition!) with my Christmas wreath in the window and LingLing posing on the coffee table.<br />
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So anyway, a new game plan was planned. I will be making the following dishes and will be crossing my fingers the whole time I'm making them.<br />
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Crock pot meat balls (for my mom's get together later in the evening, we will be putting up the Christmas tree at her house tomorrow night :)<br />
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1) Package of frozen meatballs<br />
2) 1 bottle chili sauce <br />
3) 1 small jar of grape jelly (werid I know)<br />
Got the recipe off a food blog I found through pintrest.<br />
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Also on the list is these pumpkin goat cheese mini-pies.<br />
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Also, I will be making a "cheesy squash bake", which is suprisingly healthy.<br />
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AND last but not least, I will be attemping to make a cake from a recipe that will be adapted off of a cupcake blog. Its called the <a href="http://www.cupcakeproject.com/p/my-ten-favorite-frostings.html">Ultimate Vanilla Cupcake</a>. I made it with their strawberry frosting. I've made the cupcakes before will great reviews from Michael.<br />
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A little off topic, but our kitchen is coming to a close! We still haven't painted anything, but our reclaimed wood island is in the works and I'm so excited. We actually found all the lumbar out in our old barn in the backyard. I can't wait.Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-73369324170469521992011-11-17T19:16:00.000-08:002011-11-17T19:16:24.497-08:00Open ShelvingOk, when I bought our house I had never thought or even considered a lot of the design elements that I'm obsessed with now. One of these elements is open shelving, especially in the kitchen. I knew when we finally got to our big kitchen project that this had to be incorporated somehow.<br />
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Anyway! Our open shelving wall is well on its way! <br />
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Will post more progress soon!<br />
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AlisonAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-78022224576303531222011-10-31T16:48:00.000-07:002011-10-31T16:51:04.109-07:00Long time no seeWell 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! <br />
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We figured out how to do this kitchen on a budget... like, major budget.<br />
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First, we had to figure out the kitchen layout, which involved moving the fridge and the stove around.<br />
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New stove location (featuring my new DOUBLE OVEN). <br />
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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)<br />
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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!<br />
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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?<br />
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Here are some pretty awesome pictures I have been collecting on my <a href="http://pinterest.com/alidue/">pintrest</a>. <br />
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I'll be posting more pics and progress on the kitchen soon I hope! :) :)Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-71778102653016106342011-10-08T20:50:00.000-07:002011-10-08T20:50:25.135-07:00Mercury and BurlapSo 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. <br />
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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!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rhajkIx7OHSxm3JwFGTySGRjy_d2w0fw8joSzW1pUUPlq4kzwCsBljzxgvHPcYMEH1P34Ll_C0blDs1MkhyphenhyphenoXxs56oDMIKDNgQCbDxxtVFs4ki0v0Cg7MAPnDejyjk2P5-b_hyyiiuk/s1600/oct+9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rhajkIx7OHSxm3JwFGTySGRjy_d2w0fw8joSzW1pUUPlq4kzwCsBljzxgvHPcYMEH1P34Ll_C0blDs1MkhyphenhyphenoXxs56oDMIKDNgQCbDxxtVFs4ki0v0Cg7MAPnDejyjk2P5-b_hyyiiuk/s320/oct+9.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>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!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-57021833669020217712011-10-03T21:13:00.000-07:002011-10-03T21:13:52.621-07:00Everything is coming togetherIts 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!<br />
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Here are some updated pics of our home that is edging its way closer and closer to completion.<br />
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Antique tool box turned coffee table. This was a good find up in Cbus Short North.<br />
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Dining room into living room.<br />
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Thanks for looking :)Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-14033320711489280572011-09-26T18:10:00.000-07:002011-09-26T18:13:29.228-07:00The many personalities of my kitchenWell construction has begun on our kitchen.We are taking a little bit at a time, starting with ripping out the old, dirty lenoleum checkerd floor. My hope was that we could salvage the hardwood that I know was underneath the lenoleum. I was going to do a painted hardwood look with charcoal and white diamonds. Oh how lovely it would have looked, the painted gray and white with the planks of the floor still visible... until my dream was shattered. Apparently previous owners had similar ideas about changing the kitchen floor, the only problem is that they were all lenoleum lovers, they all did not have very good taste, and worst of all, the original layer was secured down with TAR to the beautiful original 1903 red pine wood floors. Knife.to.the.heart.<br />
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Floor #1: Back and White (more like brown now) Checks<br />
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Soon I'll be posting my living room update. New couch is here!!! Will have to take pics, I'm kind of waiting on my other items to arrive from Etsy before posting. SOON!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-52527833291158373672011-09-21T21:45:00.000-07:002011-09-21T21:55:37.256-07:00Officially ThursdayWell its past midnite and I'm still up...again. I have too much on my mind to get any decent rest these days it seems, so why not share some of my never ending thoughts!<br />
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So my new couch is coming hopefully this week. Its from Simple Pleasures in Marietta Ohio (my fav fav fav store of all time). Its a slipcovered apartment sofa (aka smaller size) from <a href="http://www.leeindustries.com/">Lee Industries</a>. Key feature to that statement is SLIPCOVERED so I can wash the fabric in my washer like only an true OCD sufferer could appreciate. Here it is.<br />
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These pillows will be added of course, you have seen the fabric before:<br />
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I'm probably going to add another jute rug like my parlor room to mimic the appearance of carpet, since my floors are all hardwood. I figure if the rugs are the same in both rooms it will flow better.<br />
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I'm still a little torn on the chairs, once again. I like leather chairs, as I've said over and over again. But I also like a slipcovered club chair as well.<br />
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And to finish the day off right, here are some lovely things I've been admiring.<br />
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Good night everyone!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-89121568348587465602011-09-15T19:22:00.000-07:002011-09-15T19:22:38.460-07:00New Restoration HardwareToday I got the new restoration hardware magazine in the mail. I'm not really into the whole modern industrial look, however, little touches here and there I'm liking alot. I have the habit of making rooms look too "femimine" if I'm not careful. I'm attracted to a lot of antique curvy lines and light colors. I've found that if you add in an industrial style piece it can make the room balanced. Not too feminine and just enough masculinity.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by :)Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-54827212341171517182011-09-14T18:50:00.000-07:002011-09-14T18:50:20.278-07:00RandomRandom post for a somewhat uneventful week. Here's my asian family members, Ping and Ling.<br />
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Ping is the fat one up front, Ling in the creeper you can see creeping in the back. <br />
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Love this kitchen. I may be repainting our kitchen walls white and our trim gray after seeing this beautiful inspiration! Also love the painted hardwood floors, would love to do this to our kitchen.<br />
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Sassycatcreations @ Etsy grainsack pillow (Want these made in Euro shams for our bed)<br />
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OldNewsCollective @ Etsy (Would love these on my dining room table)<br />
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Alexandragrecco @ Etsy (I want this cape)<br />
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Happy Tuesday everyone. Sternwheel Festival this weekend, can't wait for fireworks :)Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-6011242877118786762011-09-05T05:13:00.000-07:002011-09-05T05:15:29.494-07:00KitchenWhen we bought the house we did it with the intention of completely gutting the kitchen. We're waiting to do this last so we can have time to save but I just had to post this picture of what we did yesterday. The kitchen is, well, pretty ugly. It has old cabinets, an old checkered floor, and the counter tops were yellow. Yesterday I couldn't take it anymore and thought I would do some minor changes to make it look a little updated until we could afford to do the whole thing.<br />
I bought some counter top paint (which I didn't even know existed) and painted the counter tops gray instead of yellow and it really does look a lot better! I wish I had some before pics but I don't. Here's what it looked like after.<br />
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Thanks for looking!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-41524377427790784242011-09-03T19:39:00.000-07:002011-09-03T19:39:37.719-07:00Updated PicsI started this blog over 6 months ago and then kind of forgot about it, but now that we are making a great deal of progress with our home I thought it would be fun to document it all! Here are some pictures of the house so far, still a work in progress :)<br />
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More pics later!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01311867365625751647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6139057035256826767.post-87740690024363914252011-02-17T20:16:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:16:28.080-08:00spring thoughtsI'm getting really excited for spring. I'm thinking about outdoor living and gardens. I love the idea of making the outdoors like a part of your house.<br />
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