paint colors picked!

We're slowly but surely making progress, y'all! After going back and forth many times over this past month, we finalized our paint colors for the house yesterday! I'm excited to finally get started on the painting, because it's going to majorly transform the place.

Here are the winners:

1) Benjamin Moore- Oxford White

2) Benjamin Moore- Oystershell

3) Benjamin Moore - Cheating Heart

4) Benjamin Moore - Sunlit Coral

5) Benjamin Moore - Gondola Ride

6) Benjamin Moore - At Sea

home remodel update

Our guest bathroom is at a bit of a standstill while we're waiting for plumbing and fixtures to be installed. We've tiled the floor, and will start tiling the shower as soon as plumbing is completed.  I have very high hopes that it will all be completed next week, so check back soon for updates!

While we are waiting I've set my sights on Charlie's "man cave". I've finally decided on our wall color (Benjamin Moore - Gondola Ride), and we've purchased the lounge chair - I've wanted this chair for years, so I'm way excited for its arrival. It's funny that when I started designing this room I was trying to make it extra masculine, but I haven't been able to convince Charlie on anything in here except for the chair!

I'm debating on whether to do a daybed, sofa bed, or just a regular sofa in this room. We'd like to use it as an additional guest room, so right now I'm leaning towards this sofa bed from sofa.com. Flooring will hopefully be going in some time next week, and after that I'll be able to get to work painting and putting together this space!

project: guest bath

We started tackling our guest bathroom this weekend. We decided to start with this bath so that we had something nice for guests (and us) to use since the master bath will be a total gut project that we'll hopefully start in late summer/early fall. From far away this bathroom may not look terrible, but the tile was cracking, there was mold all along the grout lines and behind the tile, and it was also incredibly dirty and gross.

We're changing out the vanity, adding an additional sink, updating lighting, tiling, hardware, and venting, adding a new, deeper tub, and removing (hopefully) the bulkhead above the shower, toilet, and vanity. We haven't opened it up yet, but I'm hoping there isn't anything in there and it should be an easy removal.

Dirty, dirty tub, cracked tiles, and cheapo toilet. This is all going!

Don't even get me started on this texture. I hate, hate it. The previous owner also textured the ceilings with a completely different sponge texture, so it's a total mess. I purchased a drywall sander and (hopefully) will be sanding down these walls. I really hope it goes well, because I would love to sand down the rest of the house, too.

Chipping these tiles off the wall was surprisingly satisfying. I did most of the shower while Charlie tackled the vanity demo.

I'm going back and forth on whether or not I want to keep this privacy wall. I'm leaning towards yes, only because the toilet and tub area of this bathroom are about an inch and a half higher than the vanity portion (you can see the previous owners remedied this by stacking two transition strips on top of each other, ha!), and I'm not ready to commit to having someone come in and fix that so I'll probably just work with it.

source: Apartment Therapy

Here is a photo of the tiles we will be using. I love how classic and clean this combination is. We're going with gray grout so the contrast won't be as severe as it is in this photo, but it will still highlight the shape of the tiles, which a I really want. You can see the rest of the fixtures that we picked out on my home board!

Our goal is to have the bathroom completed in three weeks, but I'm optimistic that we'll be finished in two. We're also making major progress on our backyard. We're trying to get someone to come out and lay sod this week, and all we'll have left are flowers and furniture. After all of our hard work I can hardly wait to see it come together!