Thursday, April 3, 2014

What's Next?

My college friends came to visit over the weekend and got to see my home for the first time! It was exciting to show them around and one asked what was next (after we finish the marble herringbone backsplash).

So much on the to-do list, it's almost hard to answer that question.

1. As for the kitchen a lot still remains:
A sliding barn door to cover the washer/dryer stack. Probably something like the photo on the right so the air still circulates. The washer/dryer stack is right next to our water heater (currently blocked from view by the crappy louver door that won't close all the way in the photo on the left).

We still need to redo the floors. Previously discussed excitement over realization of hardwoods beneath the dining room. We'll probably extend the wood through the rest of the kitchen (we still have a bunch of reclaimed wood leftover from living room job.) It would probably be wise to install some kind of tile entry for the area around the back door. But this particular job is a long long way off. We'll let professionals handle the refinishing of the dining room floors and installation of the kitchen floors as we'll want it done as fast as possible.

2. The Guest/Hall Bath
This is the current state of the guest bath. This is the same view pre-demo. The floor tile is baby pink and the wall tile was salmon. The previous owners had applied a small portion of peel and stick gray tile (still visible) and the shower was cracked and cramped and gross. Our hope is to do a glass enclosure to open up the space, perhaps with a pony wall adjacent to the toilet (or maybe not).

3. The Garage
Hmm, I don't have any photographs of the garage. But it had been converted from a garage to living space a long long time ago. There was horrible wall to wall carpeting that we ripped out when we moved in. Currently the room is a large storage space, but eventually we'll turn it into a media/family room. The plan is to bust through the ceiling to open it up to the rafters, with a wall of sliding doors and windows. Maybe something like this: