Our new HOME!

You might have noticed a shortage of fun and exciting updates to our resolution list, but we have a good excuse for it.  We bought a home!  A 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, in Hillsboro Village.  And, we found plenty of activities around our new place to keep us busy.  Take a look!

Our first project was to re-do the floors.  Left over from the 80s was laminate flooring in the living room and tile in the kitchen.   Here are the before photos:

 

After lots of research into hardwood (and I do mean LOTS, I now know about handscraped wood, treads, noses, floating hardwoods, etc.) we settled on a beautiful cocoa colored stained concrete. And the after photos:

Kelly's favorite part

Neil's favorite part

View looking down

We also ripped up the carpet upstairs and got a new tan carpet.

Carpet before

Carpet after

We also painted the ENTIRE house.  When we moved in, it was a beautiful shade of tannish pink, perfectly chosen to match our pink bathroom (more on that later).  We chose a cool color scheme complete with our own chalkboard and hatch print wall!

Lots of notes from our housewarming!

Dining room/living room area

Master bedroom





Guest bedroom



 

We also did a little updating in the kitchen.  Neil's favorite project (and my most nerveracking project since sledgehammers were involved) was opening a small window in the kitchen into a larger space to create a little breakfast nook.  Everything feels much more open and flowing now!

Before kitchen

After kitchen

And a view from the other side

Then it was time for a few finishing touches.  Neil built a gorgeous mantle and outdoor seating area.  I painted a headboard for our bedroom, and we hung some of our favorite pictures.  Now it feels like "us" and we couldn't be happier!