My Home: Kitchen, Great Room, Entry Pre-Renovation

Good Morning! Today is a double post day and this is post 1 of 2. I wanted to share with you photos of our house before we start demolishing everything.  For each room that we are renovating I will be posting before photos, photos of my design plan and some "in progress" photos, and then the after photos. I hope you enjoy coming along with me for the journey of updating this home.

As you're looking at these photos I'm sure some of you are thinking, "The house doesn't look that bad...why are they changing it?" The short answer is that we purchased this home for a great deal and we just want it to be more our style. The current feel of the home is a little more rustic, dark, and heavy than we like. We prefer more traditional, light, bright, and airy interiors. We're just trying to bring our taste to this house to make it feel like home.  I see so much potential in this house and we hope to build more value in the home with the upgrades we'll make. I'm confident we will see a big return on our investment when we decide to sell it. We feel very blessed to have this opportunity and can't wait to make this house our own.

So, without further adieu here is Part 1 of our home:

The Great Room area

View from the Great Room

View from the entry with the office/ living room to the left

The Kitchen

The Kitchen and Dining Area

 The home has a very open floor plan with the kitchen, dining area, and family room all opening up to each other. This is why I often refer to it as "The Great Room"; a great room is a room that serves multiple functions, such as living and dining, in one space.  Furniture arrangement will be key to ensure that each space has it's dedicated purpose and feels somewhat separate from the other areas. The list of items that we will be doing to this space is:

• Painting
• Refinishing the hardwood floors
• New Carpet
• Completely tearing down the fireplace and re-building along with built-in bookcases on each side
• Painting the kitchen cabinets
• New granite in the kitchen
• Adding crown molding and wainscoting/ paneling
• re-staining the staircase banister to match the new floors and painting the spindles white
• New front door
• Re-casing some of the entry ways
• and that is it...at least I hope!

Here are a couple of my inspiration photos:

We are sooo excited to get started and can't wait to share our progress with you!

Stay tuned for more updates and today's second post is here

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