New House Before + After: Kitchen + Living/Dining Room

Welcome to the very first installment of our new house Before + After/During tour! Finally, right?

I'm super excited to share these pics with you, but want to make sure you know that none of our rooms are finished and we still have a wayssss to go. Also, I'm sharing just 2 rooms today--the kitchen and the and living/dining room. The only other rooms we've really worked on are the bathrooms, which I'll share next week. 

I know you just want to see the pics, so I won't spend much more time blabbering here at the top...tutorials used, in-progress pics, + more below! 

ROOM #1: KITCHEN
As soon as we closed on the house, we tackled this room. Here's the list of things we did to it, and what we still have to do:

DONE:

• Removed wallpaper
• Spackled + primed walls
• Painted walls
• Primed and painted cabinets
• Spray painted cabinet hardware
• Primed + painted tile backsplash
• Bought rug + breakfast bar/stools
• Hung painting

TO-DO:

• Finish painting all cabinet doors 
• Re-hang cabinet doors
• Paint trim
• Replace overhead light fixture (happening today!)
• Replace blinds
• New kitchen door
• Eventually: new appliances (eek!)

Kitchen BEFORE:

Kitchen IN-PROGRESS:

Kitchen AFTER/DURING:

As you can see, we've still got quite a bit of work to do in here, but we're getting there!

We've started painting the rest of the cabinet doors (we had to get the bottom ones put on before we moved in because of Sayde!) and hope to have them done in the next month or so...that will be a BIG step. 

Hooray!

ROOM #2: LIVING/DINING ROOM
This room is by far our favorite room in the house thus far. Although (once again), we've still got quite a bit to do in here, we're happy with how it's looking at this point. Here are the lists:

DONE:

• Primed and painted walls
• Chandelier makeover
• Hung curtains
• Removed fireplace cover/doors and purchased new screen
• New rug, pillow covers, table, etc. 
• Removed horrible hotel blinds
• Hung (some) art

TO-DO:

• Paint trim
• New blinds/window treatments
• Chairs for dining room table! I'm going to get a bunch of antique chairs, all different styles, and paint them...
• Hang more art
• Eventually: new couches, coffee table, and tv stand

Living/Dining Room BEFORE:

Living/Dining Room IN-PROGRESS:

Living/Dining Room AFTER/DURING:

What do you think? We've come pretty far, right? And if you can't tell, we're kind of in love with how the chandelier turned out ;)

Want to do some similar projects to your place? Here are some of the tutorials we found helpful for all of these changes:

• Chandelier tutorials: This one and this one.
• Painting kitchen cabinets tutorial
• Backsplash painting tutorial
• Spray painting hardware tutorial

Oh, and just to inject a bit of reality into this post--and so that you can see where my priorities lie--here's our mantle vs. our "office:"

Ha! [And yes, those are some of Ben's high school trophies on the floor in the office...don't ask]. 

Hope you enjoyed the tour and thanks for being a part of this fun new journey!