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So Busy Renovating…

UPDATE! Be sure to check the end of this post for an update on this whole house renovation!

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating Update Post

I wasn’t able to post last week because I just didn’t have time to due to being so busy renovating…

I still don’t have time, but I didn’t want you to think I wasn’t here…

I’m here and trying not to panic over the timeline set for things to get done before the wood floor goes in as scheduled the end of next week!

Yikes!

It seemed like a solid goal, not too lofty…

but in reality, it’s going to take a lot of hours of my carpenter getting many projects finished, and many hours of me caulking and painting after that!

The title page of this post gives you a peek at the new tile in the hall bathroom… I’m loving it!

(I found this gorgeous tile here!)

It still needs to be grouted before the wood floor goes in. I’ll share the before and after of this bathroom post with you soon.

Last week I painted the brick on the fireplace…

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating Update Post

that’ll be a whole post explaining why and how, but the top still needs a custom wood chase/mantle to be built and painted, hopefully before the new wood floors are installed all around it…

As well as the tile around the hearth… it is installed, but needs to be grouted before the wood floor goes in.

We have beautiful Pickwick paneling going in the entire hearth room and kitchen area…

I’m so excited to show you that when it’s done. Today I hope to get it mostly sanded, caulked and primed… Hopefully painted by the middle of the week. (I’m just not as fast a painter as I once was…)

I spend last Sunday painting several layers on the custom kitchen island…

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating Update Post

Trying to achieve an antique mercantile look for it. I’m super happy with the results and can’t wait to share it with you, but that too will take time in another post.

I’ve been priming and painting many walls,

just behind our friend who’s been painting the ceilings for us… (I can’t do ceilings anymore, messes up my neck too bad), I’m so thankful he’s willing and able!

Besides the kitchen island, we have many custom additions to the kitchen cabinets, that all needed constructing, and then painting….

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating Update Post

After 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of paint,

I wasn’t pleased with the rough texture compared to the wonderfully smooth satiny finish of the factory sprayed doors.

My carpenter, (who knows pretty much everything about anything to do with construction and finishing a house!) gave me a few tips to wet sand the cabinets.

Saturday morning was the wet-sanding and repainting the custom work on the cabinets project.

The wet-sanding seemed to work, but I haven’t touched the cabinets since I painted them another coat after wet-sanding them. As soon as I’m done writing this, I’m going up there to check it out. (I’ll share the process and outcome with you in a different post)

The kitchen counters are going to be installed Monday morning… (I’m writing this post on Sunday) We went with granite. Excited to see it!! I’ll give you a peek later!

I had to work quickly on Saturday morning though because, after the cabinet project,

SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating update

we picked up our grandkids to walk in the St. Patrick’s Day parade with friends… (so much fun!!)

I really want to get done renovating, so that I can get back to my life again… This is trying to fill my entire existence, but I not going to let it…

I just have to get done painting before the deadline… 🙂

Here are all the post on this whole house renovation, including this bathroom all finished:

Barn-Style-Garage
Blue-and-White-Backsplash-Tile
Re-Thinking the Living Room Furniture Plan
Creating a Built-In Faux Fireplace
Antique Inspired Kitchen Island
Wall Mounted Pot Rack
Front Entry Portiere
Repurposing Vintage Screen Door
Simple DIY Curtain
Tiling the 2nd bath floor
Before and After Living Room Renovation
Before and After Front Entry Renovation SimpleDecoratingTips.com
Incorporating Vintage & New Light Fixtures SimpleDecoratingTips.com
Fireplace Renovation SimpleDecoratingTips.com
How to Install an Interior Storm Window SimpleDecoratingTips.com
SimpleDecoratingTips.com How to tips Window Well Installation
Vintage Window Awning Redo SimpleDecoratingTips.com
hall closet into library simpledecoratingtips.com
front porch addition mostly done SimpleDecoratingTips.com
Hang a Group of Pictures with even spacing SimpleDecoratingTips.com
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how to install a vintage ceiling light fixture simpledecoratingtips.com
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating the Basement Apartment
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Cedar Closet Lining
SimpleDecoratingTips.com From a Tub to a Shower
SimpleDecoratingTips.com How I Made Curtains without a Sewing Machine
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating a Whole House is a Lot
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Door & Window Decisions
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Adding a Front Porch
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Basement Apartment Bathroom Renovation Done
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Surface Mounted Suspended Ceiling
SimpleDecoratingTips.com we had to cut down 13 trees
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Repurposing Cabinets
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Progress Report on our Whole House Renovation
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Renovating Update Post
Dining Room Progress SimpleDecoratingTips.com
Main Floor Completion Celebration Giveaway SimpleDecoratingTips.com
SimpleDecoratingTips.com How to Change a Door Lock
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Luxury Vinyl Planks
SimpleDecoratingTips.com Basement Apartment Progress

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