Time has passed since our last update. Life has been busy and since the kitchen has been deemed as "usable" we moved back in and started using right away! We knew the window and door trim needed to be done, along with a back splash, but we took the summer and fall from renovating. We've been thinking about the trim for a long time, however we couldn't find our window trim to match the rest of the house. We were left with a few options a.) strip and repaint trim that we kept from old kitchen (not fun since I already stripped two doors and the pantry closest in the bathroom)A b.) have custom trim made ($$$) or c.) pick a window trim that wouldn't match the rest of the house.
We fluttered around a lot with the trim, going back between the options almost regularly. I was determined to have the same trim throughout the house, but after visiting lumber yards and home improvement stores, was not able to find anything similar. To keep a long story short, we ended up needing to complete the trim for our refinance. Our mortgage guy was able to give us a contact for a mill work shop. The mill work shop was able to get us in contact with a wood shop that could make our trim. In the end, I suppose we went with Option B, however all said and done it came out to slightly cheaper than buying from the mill work shop. Here are some before and after pictures.
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| No Trim |
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| With Trim |
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| Back Slider with Trim |
A second pressing project was the back splash! Wow, what a chore trying to pick out the tile. After visiting 8 tile stores over a series of three or four months, we were had basically given up on finding a suitable back splash. Jeremy really wanted marble, and I was on board with that. Seemed that none of the samples really went well and if they did they were mucho dinero. We never really fell in love with a back splash....until we started searching on houzz.com. We found an awesome back splash only to find it was discontinued. After some more searching we found this tile, it was quite a process to physically locate a sample, since we had to find a tile store that distributed this brand. We (me) ended up making many phone calls and ended up finding this marble at a great price!! Overall we think the back splash does a great job tying together the space. The back splash truly makes a stunning impression in the space!
Even more amazing is we had family help installing the tile (which meant it was done in like 1/5 of the time it would have taken us). Thanks Tommy Tile & Amy!
Even more amazing is we had family help installing the tile (which meant it was done in like 1/5 of the time it would have taken us). Thanks Tommy Tile & Amy!
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| Tommy Tile's work in action |
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| Finished backsplash |
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| Sink side with backsplash
Yes yes, we also did get a TV as a Christmas present! It has a sweet swivel mount so the TV can go all sorts of ways. No reason to ever leave the kitchen...in fact I'm writing you from the kitchen peninsula now!
The moral of this post is sometimes both procrastination and patience pays off. While we sat on kitchen projects for the majority of the summer and fall, we ended up getting a getting what we wanted and at a really good price.
I'll leave you with a few pictures of the kitchen! Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
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