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Master Bedroom Surprise Update! Before and After

17 October 2011

Master Bedroom Surprise Update! Before and After

Deployment Project # 86

MASTER BEDROOM REVEAL

FINALLY...

I am ready to show you my master bedroom. I know it took FOREVER....and to be honest, I STILL have a few things I want to tweak in here, but for the most part...It is COMPLETE!

But before I show you what it looks like now, I have to show you what it looked like before I started....

Here are the BEFORE pics (get ready....LOTS of photos)

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Kitchen Remodel on the Cheap!

10 October 2011

Kitchen Remodel on the Cheap!

Submitted By The Nest on the Hill

Here we are in before land:

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Elegant Vintage Master Bathroom Makeover

23 September 2011

Elegant Vintage Master Bathroom Makeover

Submitted By Saltbox Treasures

A few weeks ago I shared our sideboard turned sink vanity that we put in our master bathroom. Today I'm sharing the whole room.

Here are the before pictures . . . . [WARNING: It is 80's pink/mauve]

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Classically Beautiful Galley Kitchen Before and After

03 September 2011

Classically Beautiful Galley Kitchen Before and After

Submitted By A Sense of Design

OK...now this kitchen was seriously ugly when we first moved in, needless to say it was one of the first things I did...and in a hurry. Luckily I was fairly organised and the day we moved in I had the removalist in the morning and about 4 trades turn up in the afternoon to start quoting!!!

I was determined that I would plan this kitchen carefully, it is compact and important to get right. So although I was pushing to get my new kitchen installed quickly I took the time to make sure that the storage worked and the layout was as ergonomic as possible.

It needed to be fully custom built as I wanted to take advantage of all the available space. A more cost effective kitchen would have been to use standard size cabinets. Because I am tall I also wanted the bench height to be a little higher than normal (this is the opportunity to get what you want for once, when you are having a kitchen designed for especially for you).

The original kitchen was a galley kitchen with an opening each end. I decided to close off the far end (to create a space for the large freestanding stove) and enlarge the opening leading into the living room. The window in the kitchen was too high and impractical, so it was replaced with a larger window in keeping with the rest of the house.

Some things to consider when you are planning your new kitchen...

Make sure that you have a cupboard close to the dishwasher to unstack the dishes so you are not trekking across the kitchen.

Plenty of bench space can never be over-rated.

Consider how you and your family use your kitchen, you may want a bench for the kids to sit up at if room allows or you may chose to have an extra small sink for the prep area. Every family has their own way of operating.

A microwave should always be considered as a built in, we all have one so plan for it to be either built in like an oven or in a cupboard....never on a bench top.

Good lighting is important, especially in the prep area and stove area, make sure that it is considered at the planning stage.

Have an appliance cupboard (or 2), toasters, kettles etc are used regularly so have them in an easily accessible cupboard where they are plugged in always ready for use and not on show! I have two, one side has kettle and coffee maker with jars of teas, coffee and sugar on the shelf above and cups on the next shelf. The other cupboard has a toaster and blender with bread box above and then glasses above that.

A good exhaust fan over the stove is a must...make sure that you choose one that is not too noisy and if possible can be ducted outside.

Bench tops - mine is marble on one side and timber on the other, both fairly high maintenance, which I am prepared to do but you might prefer to use a quartz stone top (man made stone). The many different brands available now are all more or less the same but they are a great practical surface.

Well on with the photos...I hope there aren't too many!!!

YES...it had to go

Ahhh....that's better, the new enlarged doorway

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Beautiful Open Staircase Reveal

29 August 2011

Beautiful Open Staircase Reveal

Submitted By The Henry Family Adventures

We finished the floors two days before Easter.

Oh yeah - down to the wire and stressing out about having a floor to walk on for all the people coming to the house for Easter.

That's how we roll....

Just to give perspective, here are a few before pictures.

The dining room looking into the entry hall and the sitting room beyond.

The other side of the wall. The sitting room looking into entry hall.

The wall comes down!

Nice and open now....

The stairs are rebuilt (here, here and here the dreaded floor is being installed.

And FINALLY....drum roll please.....

AFTER!!

The stairs - looking in the front door.

And Baxter Boy makes an appearance....the dogs were never far from theconstruction.

The sitting room looking into the entry hall and dining room. Notice the lack of wall - ha!

And Chauncey - the wonder dog.

Dining room looking into the entry hall and sitting room

Dining room looking through the pocket doors into the family room.

The sitting room.

I still need to finish the furniture, change the light fixture and hang pictures.

The little green chair belonged to my great-great Aunt Pearl. Love it.

I love how cozy this room is at night.....

The entry hall. Still need a little table for under the mirror.

So, there you have it. Whew!

Now I have a lot of furniture to refinish.

Which is good because Brian told me that if I start another project, he's sooooo outta here.

I'll give him until the fall before I start something else - ha!

This project was contributed by one of our fabulous readers! We love to share your projects with this great blogging community. So, if you have projects from kitchen renovation ideas to small bathroom remodels, overhauled and repurposed furniture, spray paint updates you name it please send it in! Thanks for reading Remodelaholic!

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The Blooming Hydrangea Kitchen Remodel and Reveal!

02 August 2011

Kitchen Remodel and Reveal!

Submitted by The Blooming Hydrangea

When we first considered buying the house we currently live in, Mr.A and I made a list of pros and cons of moving and selling our house that we had just built two years earlier. One of the pros we listed on our sheet was NO large projects needed. HA HA! If you know anything about me at all, I love to just dive in to projects, I start projects while my husband is at work and doesn't know what is going on. (I've been trying to work on that by the way).

We moved into the Colonial as I like to call her, On October 1st. We started demolition of the kitchen the weekend of Thanksgiving. Yeah, ummm....I didn't waste time.

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A Fabulous Kitchen Restoration Reveal!

Fabulous Kitchen Renovation, A while in the making!

Submitted by The Five Year Project

I'll start with a couple of before photos. The first is looking into the kitchen from the lounge/dining room with me sitting at our temporary make shift island bench flipping through a magazine as I do! There is also a closer view with Hubby caught out in his pj's! (He, he, he!!)

So the first job was to remove the shelving above the sink which I have since painted white and re-hung in my sons room (that story to come..). Next was to tackle the floor and I don't think we knew how bad it was going to be........

Underneath we discovered this black thick and dried glue! We tried sanding, we tried kerosene, we tried paint stripper.... It was an extremely slow and tiring task which seemed to take hours with only a small area exposed.

I know it sounds brutal and probably very dangerous but the one thing that did the trick with far less grief was ..... wait for it..... a blow torch!!!!! Scary stuff but hey it did the job beautifully!!!

Wow, look it is magic! The floors are being prep'd for sanding and the cupboards have magically turned white!!! Thank you to Lisa for her fantastic paint job!

Notice the tiles above the sink with their embossed picture. We thought we would be replacing those but Ben talked me into just trying the tile paint that is now available. I must admit I was very skeptical but the result has been great! I actually quite like the embossed look and we will now do the tiles behind the oven alcove as well...

Now that job was done, it was time to replace my (oh so handy and really did the job) makeshift island bench with a real one. After doing the ring and run around, I discovered that many kitchen companies are not interested in just building you an island bench!!! They want the whole deal...

So, I gave up on the ridiculous quote of $7,000 just for an island bench and went with Ben's idea of doing it himself using IKEA draws/cupboards and a bit of chippy work!!! Again my skepticism kicked in and we had many a 'discussion' over it but I have to give him absolute full credit! He did it and I love it!!!! Especially with my Le Forge stools. The final cost of our home job was approximately $2,000 ($400 for draws, $400 for materials - framing timber etc and $1,000 for Caesar stone bench top and $200 for electrical - I have power points on both sides) Thank you Lovey xxx

Just need to add the last door and put in the kick board....