Design
How We're Mixing Metals in Our Kitchen
With the recent countertop install, and all the sharing I've been doing on my Instagram stories (click here to see the whole highlight) the buzz around our kitchen renovation has been alive! We're feeling all the love, and are excited to share more about what's next, including all the metals we'll be using. I had […]
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December 7, 2021
DIY
The Finished Pantry!
The pantry is complete and I'm sharing a bunch of photos today! We actually finished it a couple weeks ago, and it has been a dream to have and use. It signifies the completion of a year of hard work and transformation in our home, but specifically this corner of the home. The best way […]
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November 11, 2015
kitchen reno
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Inspiration
HOW OUR FRIGIDAIRE PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCES TRANSFORMED OUR KITCHEN AND HOW WE USE IT + A VIDEO!
Today we are so excited to finally share with you a little more about the Frigidaire Professional appliances we chose for the kitchen. We couldn't be more in love with how they transformed the way our kitchen looks, but more importantly, the way it functions and works for us. Along with a bunch of fresh photos and […]
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September 30, 2015
DIY
It's Done! : The Full Kitchen Reveal
The day has come! Our kitchen renovation is finished 7 weeks after we started tearing out our old tile countertops and I can't wait to share with you photos of what it looks like today. I've put all the sources at the bottom of the post for your convenience. When we moved into our home […]
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September 23, 2015
DIY
Sealing our White Concrete Countertops
Definitely one of the most popular projects of our kitchen renovation so far has been our DIY white concrete countertops. You can read the whole post here (if you scroll down to the bottom of that post, Z Counterform has even offered up a discount code to our readers after the post went live). There was […]
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September 17, 2015
DIY
Customizing Our Ikea Kitchen Island
This weekend, we finally paid some much needed attention to our island. Up to this point, it has been mostly covered with tools and supplies in photos bearing its bad, fake brown wood interior for all of you to see. We had always planned to cover those sides with the coordinating Laxarby cover panels that […]
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September 14, 2015
DIY
Our DIY Reclaimed Wood Open Shelving + Fresh Flowers
This project tutorial is sponsored by The Bouqs Company--a new flower delivery service that’s easy, fresh, and beautiful. We hung open shelving in the kitchen this week! It was a decision I touched on in this post, and we're so glad we went this route. After living in a construction zone for the past 5 […]
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September 10, 2015
Projects
Appliances Are Going In Today!
Last night we built and hung the supports for our vent hood insert that is being installed today, along with the rest of our appliances. A crew of three hilarious, kind, knowledgable guys from Frigidaire flew in last night and stopped by to get to know us and the kitchen before the big install day […]
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September 9, 2015
DIY
A Fresh Take on a Classic Tiled Backsplash
The backsplash is in! Last week, after we put the girls to bed, Chris and I tiled the whole back wall of the kitchen and a little bit on the left sink wall. It took us about 8 hours total over a few nights, including grouting which is nothing compared to the 20+ hours it […]
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September 8, 2015
Projects
The Doors+Drawers, Hardware and What's Left To Do in the Kitchen
This past weekend, we tackled putting together all the drawers, attaching the 32 drawers and 8 doors to the cabinet boxes followed up by adding shiny new hardware. The drawers weren't hard to put together, but there were so many, both of our hands had blisters on them before we were finished Saturday night--which is […]
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September 2, 2015
Projects
Lights On In the Kitchen!
This weekend, we got all the cabinet fittings in, which amounted to about 40 doors and drawers!, and all the hardware on and everything cleaned up (again). I can't wait to share those details and photos with you later this week, but today I wanted to circle back around to a project we did a […]
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August 31, 2015
Projects
That's A Wrap on Kitchen Demo!
Ahh, all the kitchen demo is done! A week ago, we shared all the re-workings of the right side of kitchen that included recessing a wall where the fridge and surrounding cabinet with a built in-microwave will go. On either side of that recess, a walk-in pantry was framed in on one side with kitchen […]
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August 17, 2015
Projects
Let's Talk About Appliances!
Appliances are probably the most important part of the entire kitchen, but especially to Chris. He is a serious at-home cook who not only enjoys making meals every night for our family, but we invite people over a couple times a week, as well. There were only a few particular items on his must-have appliance […]
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August 12, 2015
DIY
The Kitchen's New Layout, with Walls and Everything.
I meant to write this post last week from my hotel room in Mexico (my little sis got married!), but the internet was nowhere near reliable enough to upload the photos, so this kitchen update is coming at you today! My apologies in advance--you'll likely get at least one more kitchen update this week. I […]
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August 10, 2015
Projects
Our Experience Designing, Ordering and Picking Up Our Ikea Kitchen
Progress is happening so fast in the kitchen, I can't wait to show you how things are looking there later this week. But, today I wanted to share about our experience designing and buying an Ikea kitchen since we picked up our cabinets over the weekend. We started designing our kitchen when we moved into […]
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August 3, 2015
Mood Boards
All the Kitchen Plans!!
It has been a difficult couple of weeks over here since Chris's surgery hence my lack of posting, but we are trying to focus on when he'll be fully recovered and able to lift more than five pounds. While there isn't a lot of reno going on, there's more planning than ever--which is helping to […]
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February 9, 2015
Inspiration
Learn From My Mistake Before You Paint Your Cabinets
Every day the kitchen plans come up over here. We'd love to start the big renovation (new cabinets, appliances, countertops, lots of windows!) next year and it's one of our favorite things to talk about these days. Endless drawings and plans and discussions. In those discussions, I almost always end up frustrated at myself. You […]
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July 16, 2014
