Building our own Walk In Closet

It is really important for us to have a functional walk in closet. We have one now and we completely outgrew it. I have clothes spilling out of baskets and you can barely see the floor.

 

I had ClosetFactory come over and price out a closet for us. She drew up the entire closet and I was so excited about it! She did a beautiful job but when she told me the price...I was taken back.

 

 

The closet that she drew up for me was $3,347.00. Then she took off a discount for us which came to $3047.00. This is without crown molding and fancy hardware, this was just for a normal standard closet.

 

I am convinced I can do my own closet for $1000.00 or less.

 

These are just book shelves from IKEA with hanging bars attached.

 

And how cute is this organization idea!

 

 

I am off to IKEA now...I am excited to design my own closet and save money!!! 

 

 

 

 



Dining room chairs

I had this idea in my mind that I was going to find 8 beautiful upholstered dining room chairs for cheap at Homegoods. I wasn't worried because I've have seen them a million times when I would go shopping. Of course when I actually go to purchase these chairs...they have none. I went to Homegoods a few days ago and found 2 beautiful dining room chairs.

 

 

 

 

I got so excited and asked if they had any in the back...they said no. So I called EVERY Homegoods and Marshalls on Long Island and sadly...they did not have the chairs. My idea went out the window.

 

So I figured...since I making my dining room table I could just purchase upholstered chairs and then add the nail heads. I went on Overstock.com and found a perfect chair to work with and 8 chairs cost me $574.00.

 

 

 

I will add my own nail heads to dress them up.

 

 



Bed for the Master Bedroom

It takes me forever to make a decision when it comes to purchasing furniture because I get bored of things quickly. I know that I wanted a dramatic headboard but I couldn't decide between a tufted headboard or a headboard with nail heads. I also couldn't decide on color. I save a lot of pictures on Pinterest and when I referred back to it I noticed that all the pictures I had pinned had one thing in common: neutral colors and white or cream headboards.

 

I always saw this picture on Pinterest and loved the bed (below thenester.com), I researched it and found it that it was purchased from Wayfair.

 

 

I found it on wayfair an purchased it in white

 

The bed cost $574 which included the frame and headboard. It is a white velvet with silver nail heads.

 

I researched is a little further and found the same bed for $1249.00 on Horchow.com

 

 

 

I am happy with the price...I just hope I am happy with the bed when it comes!



My obsession with recess lighting

I am not an interior designer but I do know that lighting can make or break a room. I love recess lighting which is why we bought 47 high hats for our house. We want to have the brightest house on the block!! The only high hat cans in our house were in the kitchen, downstairs bathroom, and 4 in the living room. When we are finished they will be EVERYWHERE!

 

I love the lighting in this picture

 

We started putting the high hats in our bedroom and I can already see a dramatic difference.

 

 

We also got to the upstairs hallway and the office. We only have one more room upstairs and then we are going to start the downstairs.

 

 

Finally...LIGHT!

 

We need to patch up a lot of holes in the ceiling, spackle, paint...SO MUCH WORK TO DO!!!!!!

 



Archway Progress

When we bought the house there was an archway which leads into the living room. It is very pretty but just not my style. Also the archway was maybe 6ft, I don't want any of my tall friends and family to be ducking under it.

 

 

 

 

My original plans were to get rid of the whole wall, than we realized that the wall was made of stone (read more about that here)

 

Option 2: Get rid of the arch and bring it up to the ceiling.

 

 

I like it so much better already. It makes the ceilings look taller and from the dining room you will be able to see the TV which is going over the fireplace ( Very Important )

 

That wall is made of stone so we hired one of my fathers friends to come over and chisel it out stone by stone. Best $200 we spent so far.

 

My father also had to put two junction boxes on either side of the entry way because there were wires running across it. A lot of work but luckily he does it for free. :)

 

 

 

We have an appointment with the Jetmore Fire Places on Monday. Hopefully we can start that project and then the floors are next!



DIY Dining Room Table

Since furniture shopping is harder than I thought it would be I decided that I wanted to build our dining room table. I do not want to spend $3,000 on a dining room table that I might not like in 2 years.

 

I have seen a lot of DIY on Pinterest and I think it would be fun if I tried to make my own table.

 

I found this table I loved on Houzz in this picture

 

 

I love this table and I did a little research and found out it is from Restoration Hardware and goes for $2395-3895. That is not including the chairs!

 

 

 

 

I did some more research and seen tables that could resemble this one and I can build it myself for $125.00. That sounds amazing to me!!

 

 This table is from shanty-2-chic

 

 

This table is also from Shanty 2 Chic and she has the directions on her Blog. Isn't it AMAZING??!!!

 

I cant wait to start this project!!!

 

 

 



Oh Home Goods how I love you.

I finally got Sebastian to go to Home Goods with me, and we did some damage!

 

 

We bought pots and pans, silverware, plates, bowls, glasses, draw organizers, and I snuck in some gorgeous candelabras.

 

 

 

I cant wait to display these gorgeous babies!

 

When we got home we unloaded everything because we were so excited that we actually bought some things to put in our cabinets lol

 

 

 

I would of never thought I would be so excited about pots and pans lol

 

 

 

The Halloween decorations are amazing at Home Goods! I loved this pumpkin!!

 

"Keep Calm and Haunt On"



Furniture Shopping

This was my "IM SO EXCITED IM FURNITURE SHOPPING" face

 

 

 

I thought that furniture shopping was going to be fun...but it is actually hard work! There are so many furniture stores that all carry the same pieces for all different prices and it gets very overwhelming. Some furniture is so gross...like this gaudy couch I took a rest on during our furniture hunt lol ( it has tassels!)

 

 

 

 

I am not into "matchy matchy" so I do not want any furniture sets. I need furniture for every room but I am going slowly and only doing one room at a time. I am starting with the living room. I found a couch I liked from a no name brand store in our town. Then we went to Jennifer Convertibles and saw this couch and we both liked it. I realized it was the couch I had found in the No name store so that is the one I went with.

 

 

This is the couch we bought

 

 

and I changed the fabric to a micro suede called Railway Hemp, which is the light tan color in this photo.

 

 

I am so excited for this couch to come. It should be arriving in 4-6 weeks, I hope the floors are done by then!!!

 

 

 

 



Some progress on our projects

We have been doing renovations since we closed on the house 2 weeks ago. It has been crazy. We knocked down walls, built closets, ripped out a fireplace, and tried removing a stone wall ( didn't work).

 

My renovation plans have changed since we found out that our house is made of stone. No really...its made of STONE! I live in castle.

 

 

 

GREAT! Looks like this wall is staying. My original plan was to remove this wall halfway and add a second railing to the stairs. That is not happening now.

 

In the mean time, our closet is coming along, we put down the floor and added the high hats. Now we just need to close up the walls which is getting done this week.

 

 

 

 

Sadly our fireplace still looks the same. We have a professional coming in to look at that. You can see the fireplace Before/After here:

Fire Place Renovation

 

I want to start rapping up these projects so we can stain the floors. The floors is the last project on the list. We are hoping to move in the beginning of October.