New House Kitchen

This kitchen has been worked on little by little since we moved in six months ago.  Honestly I thought we would never finish it, it's a good thing we have Brady's determination and my dad's mad skills.

We also gave this hideous door a little makeover

Here's a little list of everything we've done in here:

1.  All new floors.  We did the same floor throughout the entire first level minus the bathroom.

2.  Painted the walls and ceiling.  We did this throughout the entire house. 

3.  Painted the cabinets and added new hardware.

4.  Put in a new sink and faucet.  When we moved in there was a normal stainless steel sink that was pretty stained and a faucet that leaked and was also stained.  We put in an apron front (farmhouse) copper sink and a faucet that had been left in the house when we moved in.  It looks like it had been used as a display, but all the pieces were there and it worked perfect.  Score!

5.  Put in new countertops.  The countertops before were an off white formica with fake wood accents.  I wanted to do butcher block counters but couldn't find the ones I wanted for a reasonable price so Brady came up with the genius idea for these counters.  We used 2 x 6's and screwed them down on top of the formica countertops and finished them to look like the ones I was wanting for 1/10th of the price.  Score again!

New House Bathroom

After three months of waiting for our floors to arrive and not having a door on the bathroom, they finally came and our bathroom is done!  

This bathroom was by far the worst part of our house when we moved in.  We had it quarantined until my dad could help us rip everything out of it and start from scratch.  Luckily Brady's parents live down the road and have plenty of showers to share with us.  

Once again these are the realtors photos from before we moved in:

This is once we started working on it.

We had lots of awesome helpers!

And now we're done!!!

Kitchen photos will be next.

Christmas Time

I'm feeling extra Christmasy today so here are a few photos of our December

We put up pretty Christmas lights on our new house, found Santa's reindeer at Thanksgiving Pointe, walked around Temple Square and played in the snow.

Welcome Winter!

I don't know what it is about the first snow, but nothing gets me more excited.  So naturally Saturday morning when I awoke to big fat snowflakes coming down I immediately made Brady promise we could go up the canyon with the puppies.  I made some hot chocolate, pulled on my Sorel's, and put the puppies in the car.

New House

Three years ago Brady and I tried buying this cute little house in Lindon, but we were about one day too late on our offer and the people before us got it.  It was a lot more complicated than that, including tearful phone calls from the crazy woman selling the house, but we'll stick with the simpler version.

This year at the end of June the house came back up for sale and we jumped on it!  Those three years were pretty rough on the house, but we could still see the potential.  We put our current home up for sale and made an offer on this one as soon as possible.  By July 4th we were under contract for both houses.  On August 13th we moved in.  This is what it looked like...

I don't think I've ever been so overwhelmed in my life.  I new we had our work cut out for us when we walked through it a month before, but I was obviously looking through rose colored glasses.  These past two months have been the most physically and emotionally exhausting times I can remember, but we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!  If it wasn't for Brady's motivation and persistence we would probably be living in a hotel by now.  The first couple of days included many trips to the dump, tree trimming, grass watering, fence building, floor installing and waaaaay too much painting.  I'm still sore, but hey, it paid off!

Obviously we're not done with everything, but our Laundry/Stair area are, as well as the family room so here you go...

Sorry for the blurry before pictures, I had to take these from our inspection report because I did a horrible job of taking befores.

Ignore the blanket covering the couch, we had a small dog problem...

 This laundry room would be ok if you had some doors to close it off from the rest of the world, but since it's right out in the open we had to make it a little prettier.  Oh and that yummy kitty litter was scattered all over under the stairs, GROSS.  P.S. aren't indoor plants just the best?  They make my world go round.

Thanks for reading!

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