During the pandemic shut down, we've been continuing to work on our house, but it is getting harder and harder to stay motivated because it has been 8 months and we still aren't finished with everything. There is a lot to go, but we've decided to start working on the little things that keep us interested right now.
I've been coveting these chairs on Amazon since we moved into the house. I thought that they would be perfect for our sunroom. When we first moved in back in November, they were only $177, but I felt like that was still too much, so I waited. And then they proceeded to go up in price...and up...and up. I finally just broke down and did it because they were exactly what I wanted.
Old laundry room
New laundry room. We used the same laminate floor that we used in the kitchen. The counter is a butcher block that we purchased from Lowe's. The shelf is my favorite -- we went to a place called Indy Urban Hardwood. It is an awesome place where they have tons of trees cut in slices for you and they've dried them in their kiln, so you don't have to wait to use them. The bottom of the shelf is rounded because it is the outside of the tree without the shelf. I really love the way the whole thing came together.
Old bathroom
New bathroom
The vanity is from Wayfair with the faucet from Home Depot. The mirror was ordered from an Etsy Shop and came really quickly. The light fixture is from Lowe's, and the shelves are from Amazon.
Old mudroom
New mudroom
We got the counter and the bench as raw wood from Indy Urban Hardwood (and it has a beautiful live edge on it). It was stained, sanded, with multiple layers of polyurethane added to it. These are actually from the same piece of wood that we had cut for us at the store. My husband made the bench piece that the wood top sits on top of and the shorter cabinet is just an off-the-shelf one from Lowe's.
Old deck. Note that there were several holes in the deck and missing pieces of wood on the deck down below.
New deck. We sanded and stripped the paint/stain that was on it previously -- scrubbing with a wire brush really stinks! But we also found that most of the deck is redwood, which is awesome. My husband did burn out the sander that he had, so I would definitely recommend renting a large floor sander to do something like this. We thought that the darker brown fit in with the woods a little more than the previous red color.
One of the things we enjoyed at our old house was a bar top that we had by the pool. We ate dinner out there all of the time. We didn't have anything like that here, and our bar top was too large for the upper deck, so we built this ledge. it is perfect for the two of us and we've had quite a lot of meals here so far.
We've definitely been keeping busy during the pandemic...but there is still more to come!
