Installed a new window so that we'd be able to fit regular size counters under it. Besides that, at this phase we got walls up, insulation added, putting up moulding, painting bricks and patched a bazillion holes. Unfortunately we were working like mad and I didn't get as many pics of this stage. But, to be fair, we all don't really care, we just want to see the FINAL PRODUCT. No need to yell in caps, I know, but it's really hard not to.
Ok, on with the show.
And how about these floors? There was original wood under all of the layers of nasty linolium, but the bottom layer had black, sticky glue which would have been TERRIBLE to scrape off. So, at this point, we decided to cover it. This product is called Marmoleum and is made from recycled materials and is cork-based. It's pretty awesome and feels very 1950's which seems to fit the house.
Our chimney was also covered as the brick is cheap. And not pretty. I heavily debated keeping it open or covering it back up. We did a paint test and I asked a few of my design-saavy friends what they thought. All voted for keeping it open and painting white. So, that's what we did. The final product is pretty cool (you'll see on the reveal post..which is coming soon).
