Wednesday, April 26, 2017

I'd mentioned at the beginning of the kitchen rehab that I'd try to finally post pics of the two bathrooms we remodeled a few years ago.  Here they finally are!

When we moved in 5+ years ago we opted to abandon the upstairs "master" bathroom for the time being and just used the main floor bathroom.  So it went from being 100% unusable to completely done, no in between bandage like the main floor bathroom and kitchen.

Here's some before photos...

Toilet and old sad sink............................................................................low ceilings
We were able to vault the ceiling...lots of old dirty insulation up there though!








 Other side of the bathroom - there was a closet for our master bedroom that we removed and stole the space for the bathroom 
(we already have a decent sized closet and the space was more valuable for the bathroom)


This bathroom was really the first step in our grand kitchen remodel.  The laundry had previously been downstairs off the kitchen in a large laundry/cat room that was mostly wasted space.  So we moved it upstairs. It's new home is the opening to the right of the window...

 




Finished product!  A few weeks later and one mishap of stepping through the open floor making a hole into the office ceiling below...

  

David built this great vanity out of metal and wood - wanted two faucets but something unique.  




Walk in shower with bench and rain shower head...love!


Sliding barn door to save space


And the view out the window...three happy fat goats and some little chickens.  Not bad.







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Kitchen has been done for months!  We absolutely love it and use it a lot...which means it always looks "lived in".  Finally snapped a few pictures of it all finished and cleaned.



We spend tons of time at the kitchen island - from the sink you have a great view of the backyard and side yard


 Many people ask if we like the open shelves - we had them in our old kitchen as well.  I definitely like them.  I prefer things to be out where I can see them and use them regularly versus hidden away.  It forces us to only have the dishes we really like and use on a very regular basis.

 
The old brick wall against the shiny white tiles turned out really nice.


We preferred to keep all white appliances - since the stove is white, we kept our white fridge and dishwasher.  But pulled in some stainless steel on the front of the kitchen island and on the side of the stove (can notice it a little on the next photo)


 New stairs that are AMAZING (some things you can only appreciate after having less)


 I wanted a wall of windows looking out into the backyard...pretty close!


It was important to still have an 'entryway' area.  This corner is for coats, shoes, cat food, etc.  David built these blue cabinets himself - they turned out really great.  The tall one is the cleaning closet, great use of space.

Amazingly I don't think there's much we would change!  After thinking through it and studying kitchens for 5 years I feel like we created something we're very satisfied with (for now) ;)