Flip Home #5 Reveal {Before & After}

As promised from yesterday's post and this weekend's teasers on Instagram I am happy to share that our Flip House #5 is complete and up on the market! I listed it on Sunday night and we have already had 6 showings and a possible offer coming our way! Let's cross our fingers it sells quickly. It is in a great location and with almost 3/4 of an acre who wouldn't want to live in this little cutie?!

If you missed the before pictures on this place, you will want to go Here. It was a fun little project that took about 8 weeks. I enjoyed working with our business partner picking out colors, flooring, counter tops and adding those sweet little touches to make it feel like home.

This little beauty is around 1600sqft with 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, a good size family room with fireplace, eat in kitchen with french doors leading out onto a large back deck that overlooks a fenced in yard.

And I couldn't leave you today without a couple of before and afters....

Now...on to finding another! Stay Tuned!!

The Details:

Kitchen:
*New Appliances
*Painted Cabinets White
*New Vinyl Floors
*Sprayed hardware
*New Granite Countertops (Venetian Gold)
*New Paint (Sherwin Williams-Wedgewood Gray)

Master Bedroom:
*New Paint (Sherwin Williams-Bungalow Beige)
*New Ceiling Fan
*New Carpet

Bathrooms:
*New Vinyl Floors
*New Countertops
*New Sinks
*New Fixtures
*New Tub and Surround

Interior:
*New paint throughout (Bungalow Beige (sw 7511))
*New Carpet in living room and bedrooms
*Stained railings in entryway
*New Light fixtures/fans

Exterior:
*New Landscaping
*Power washed & Stained back deck
*New Paint on siding, trim, doors & shutters (main color: Amazing Gray (SW 7044)
*Removed wood rot from siding/replaced some siding
*Brought in a load of stone for driveway


Thanks for all of your wonderful comments and support on our flip homes! We sure love what we do!

Have a Fabulous Day!


Linked up at: Thrifty Decor Chick

Master Bathroom Updates {Paint & Cabinets}

Hello Hello! Are you all awake today? I am trying to be alert...it was one of those mornings where I woke up and thought it was still the weekend. Yeah...bad, really bad!

Anyway, I am pumped to finally be able to share some house progress with you this week. I am slowly chipping away at some of my New Years Goals from this year and last! (Yep..didn't finish some of 2013 house goals yet.) So hard to find the time to get items checked off your list, isn't it? Well lets work together this year to accomplish some amazing goals! You with me?

Today I am excited to share a little progress in our master bathroom. First, I will give you a couple before pictures so you can see where it is evolving from. We still have a long way to go, but paint on the walls and vanity has done wonders!

 Ya know...this bathroom was nothing horrible, just needed a little character. The walls were the builder beige/yellow color and the vanity was a maple color. I just felt like it didn't reflect my personality at all. Every time I would take a bath, I would look around and wish for a relaxing space.

What we have done so far:
We painted the vanity Urbane Bronze by Sherwin Williams and the walls Shoji White by Sherwin Williams. Both colors are on the same paint chip and blend really well in this space. The white is a warmer white which has created that relaxing feeling I was aiming for. It doesn't feel cold at all and the vanity has really made that statement I was going for. A little bold, but classy.

Here are a few progress pictures for you:

Some of you may remember my love for oriental rugs in the bathroom. I didn't want to splurge knowing that it would get wet on a daily basis, but really wanted to add that element to the bathroom. So I found this lovely at HomeGoods for $39! I was so excited and I think it works well bringing in a little color to the neutral bathroom.

I am pretty excited to see this bathroom slowly coming together. Isn't it amazing what a little paint can do?
Next on our list will be to tackle the little corner where the toilet sits. This half wall separates the tub and toilet. I would like to add some sort of artwork to the large wall. It would be a fun piece that would be seen immediately as you walk in. I would also like to add some floating shelves above the toilet for some extra storage.

Not sure when this will happen, but I would like to install some white subway tile around the tub to add that classy/timeless element into this space.

I am not in love with the vanity hardware, but I think it will stay for now. Since we will live in this house for only a couple of more years and then rent it, I really don't want to splurge on the hardware I really want! I will save that for our next space.

So what do you all think? Are you liking the dark cabinet trend as much as I am right now?

Hope to have more updates in a couple of weeks. Have a fabulous day my friends!



Linked up at: Liz Marie Blog

Bold Stripes In Our Entryway

I am so excited to show you this amazing DIY today! It was a lot of work and my calves were sure barking the day after, but SO worth it.

If you remember our Hallway use to look like THIS. It wasn't bad, but needed a little statement. I was so pleased with how the stripes came out that I needed to show you just a few tips on what worked for me. I was very intimidated on tackling stripes until I saw this tutorial and these tips! So helpful!

First, I started with a clean slate. Took all of the artwork and nails out of the walls. I repainted the walls with the base coat in Valspar's Bonsai. It is hard to tell in these pictures, but Bonsai is a wonderful neutral with gray and green undertones. Love the moodiness of it!

Next, I measured from the ceiling to the top of the wainscoting. I then divided that measurement by 7. Why 7? I decided I wanted an odd number of stripes somewhere around 10-12 inches wide. Not too wide, not too narrow. 

I then started measuring from the ceiling down every 10 1/4". I made little tick marks all the way across the wall and then used a level to draw my straight line while matching those tick marks.

(This was the tedious part ya'll! Up and Down my ladder a ba-zillion times!)

Then was the semi-fun part....Adding the Frog Tape! A tip on this also...it would be great to have two people adding the tape to the wall. One person holding the tape, the other actually lining it up and placing it right under the penciled line. I did this by myself and it just took forever dispensing the tape and adding it on the wall. Also, be sure that you don't tear the tape until the end of that stripe! Use a really long piece from start to finish!

Two things about the above pictures: 1) Those small pieces of tape are to warn me not to paint there! 2) You will notice that the stripes look uneven here. One larger than the other. It looks this way because I placed the tape inside the stripe that wasn't going to be painted. The tape is now inside the line I drew. Does this make sense? If you don't do it this way, then you will end up with uneven lines in the end. 

Next trick I learned...before you start with your darker paint, use your original wall color to edge the painters tape to seal in the color. Even though Frog Tape is suppose to be amazing with stripes, the darker paint can still bleed under the tape and then you will not have a clean straight line when you pull off the tape. It might take a bit longer for this step...but So worth it when you pull that tape off and squeal with delight!!

I then edged the darker stripes with a brush and then rolled the insides. I chose Slate by Restoration Hardware for the dark stripe and had it matched at Sherwin Williams. 

I am pretty excited to show you the end product! Sorry (not sorry) for the overload of pictures!!!

Next on the list..getting rid of the boob lights!

And of course I couldn't possibly say good-bye for the day until I gave you a little before, before and after!

Tell me...have you ever painted stripes? Any tips or tricks you learned?

Have a fabulous day!

Linked up: LizMarieBlog & Thrifty Decor Chick & Serenity Now

Fabulous Feature Friday {Honey We're Home}

Happy Happy Friday! I have another great feature for you all today! My friend Megan from Honey We're Home just built her house a couple of years ago. She has really made her house a home by adding her own touches and DIYing many items throughout each space. Megan is also a very fit and healthy lady who writes Honey We're Healthy. Make sure you stop by and say hello!

Take a look at her beautiful home:

Loving the painted cabinets that make her white dishes pop! Megan and I both have an obsession for Urban Bronze by Sherwin William!

She is a styling queen! Take a look at those amazing built ins also painted Urban Bronze!

This is one amazing mudroom. I would love to have an entryway with so much storage!

Megan recently painted her doors dark gray. Head on over to see the transformation! 

She sure has inspired me. 

Okay....I saved the best for last. Her "Mom Cave" AKA her walk in closet!! Ah-mazing!

What a beautiful place! Thanks Megan for sharing your home with all of us today! Lots of great eye candy!

Have a fabulous weekend my loves!