tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935338542274993232024-02-06T19:39:21.164-08:00Christine's Favorite ThingsChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13051806948557920100noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493533854227499323.post-59651802009182126322015-12-25T14:51:00.002-08:002015-12-25T14:51:47.935-08:00Before and After Kitchen Makeover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you know me, you know I have been dreaming of a white kitchen as long as I can remember. As soon as we moved into this house we began the process of redoing the kitchen, which I will post another time on the process of getting my dream kitchen. It was a LOT of work, we did it all ourselves, but so worth it. It feels like a totally new kitchen to me. I just love it! So here are the pictures. There are a few minor things I need to finish, but overall, it is finished!<br />
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Removed the micro hood and added a hood vent.</div>
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<br />Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13051806948557920100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493533854227499323.post-57200804604574193692015-08-28T14:17:00.002-07:002015-08-28T14:19:18.001-07:00Jason's New Business Office<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We moved to Arizona 3 years ago because Jason bought his<a href="https://agents.allstate.com/jason-davis-gilbert-az.html"> Allstate Insurance Agency</a> in Chandler after selling his agency in Washington. As his lease was getting ready to expire he wanted to change locations. After we searched for months, he found the perfect location in Gilbert that he was able to buy. It's a few miles more east, closer to home, and walking distance to Cafe Rio (Yum!).</div>
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His new office didn't need much work done to it, but we always find a project to work on to make our lives just a little bit more stressful and hectic. Here some of the before and after pictures of the few projects we worked on before he moved in.</div>
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The Front Reception Area </div>
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We built his reception desk. He really likes the industrial look and this desk was fairly simple to make, just time consuming. We used different woods stained in the same color and had the steel counter-top custom made to fit. He had the Allstate sign custom made in the nook that I painted. I used the Sherwin Williams color Foggy Day that we had also used in our home office.</div>
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This is a big office space, too big for one person, so Jason had the idea of building a wall to make two separate work stations. </div>
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The next room is Jason's office. The only thing I did was paint the accent wall. We will probably put something on that wall since it looks pretty bare. </div>
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That's all we did for projects! There is also a conference room, an open area for his file cabinets, a small office, and a kitchen area that we left as it was. If you live in Arizona <a href="https://agents.allstate.com/jason-davis-gilbert-az.html" target="_blank">give Jason a call</a>, he's the best insurance agent, I know because I married him : ).</div>
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One of the house projects we had on our to do list when we first moved into our house almost 3 years ago, was to update the home office room. Since I get to decorate most of the house to my liking, Jason claimed the office for himself, and he wanted it to look more masculine. I like light and bright rooms, but he wanted this room to have dark walls and dark wood. So here is our process of updating our office. <br />
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We had replaced the fake wood floors with engineered wood floors when we first moved in, so that was already done. </div>
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First thing was sanding. Boy did I sand and sand and sand and probably
should have sanded some more. After sanding the built-ins,
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You can see the difference on the photo above with me putting the Poly-shades over the stain on the shelves. And below you can see how uneven the doors took the stain, so I had to put on thicker coats of the Poly-shades to even it out.</div>
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Next, we decided to get rid of the current desk and start over with a newly built one, about a foot longer. We used plywood and casing molding around the edges. Then we stained it just like everything else.</div>
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Next, choosing a paint color. I just kept thinking of a slate blue and I couldn't imagine anything else. I found the perfect color called Foggy Day by Sherwin Williams. We all really like it and Jason is really happy with it, and since he's my client, his opinion mattered the most!</div>
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We put everything back together. Almost all done but a couple things left to do, we want to put up trim around the window and get new office chairs and I need to put black and white photos in the new frames on the wall. So here are the after pictures before we installed the computer and printer onto the desk. </div>
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Well, I am still here and fully aware that my poor blog has been greatly neglected. I started Real Estate School last Fall and got my Real Estate License, so that has occupied a lot of my time. But I put together some things that we did in 2013, and some in 2014. </div>
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We were guests with HopeKids at an ASU Hockey game. We got to go in the locker room and meet the players. The kids got all their autographs. What a smell too in that locker room!</div>
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Tanner played the saxophone for his second year. As a 7th grader he had concerts throughout the year and they did a great job, I was impressed.</div>
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I got my beach trip that I look forward to every year. We went to Newport Beach, CA.</div>
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We went to The Renaissance Festival. It was fun, hot, and entertaining. </div>
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Our kitchen island is finished! Woohoo! All I need now is the hardware. I'm very happy with how it turned out. It took me longer than I had planned, but I think because I took my time on how I was going to achieve what I wanted, I got good results.</div>
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We added trim around the ends of the island and a toe kick using the same molding around the bottom. We used real wood, since it's in the kitchen I don't want any warping problems.</div>
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The color I used I altered a bit. I chose Palladian Blue by Benjamin Moore, 5% enhanced. I thought it was a little too minty green, so I had about 4.5 drops of blue added into the mixture. Now I did use a little bit of the paint before adding the extra drops, so on a full can maybe 5 drops would be about right. I'm happy with how the color turned out, it's exactly what I was trying to get. It goes really well with the blue green backsplash.</div>
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I used Advance Paint by Benjamin Moore to paint the island. This is the best paint for cabinets out there. It acts like an oil-based paint, but cleans up like like latex, just soap and water. Awesome stuff! I got a nice smooth paint finish, which was important to me.</div>
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There are so many great tutorials on painting your cabinets so I won't go into detail (see <a href="http://icecreamandboys.blogspot.com/2013/05/kitchen-island-project.html">Kitchen Island Project</a>), but one tip that was helpful was when you paint in the grooves using a good paint brush, wipe off the excess paint that gets onto the flat part of the cabinet. If you don't you will have a build up on the edges, which you don't want for a nice even finish. Also, I did use a <a href="http://icecreamandboys.blogspot.com/2013/05/kitchen-island-project.html">wood grain filler</a> and I think it worked out really well and was pretty easy to use, EXCEPT next time I won't do it in the groves of the door, it was too hard to sand out. I will only use the wood grain filler on the flat part of the door. I don't see the wood grain on the flat part of the doors now.</div>
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I recently finished my niece's quilt I've been working on for quite sometime. We went to Washington in July and I wanted to hand deliver it. She just turned 3yrs old yesterday, so I'm a little late on the "baby" quilt. Her crib bedding I made a few years ago was with Moda's Soiree fabric by Lila Tueller, so I used a Jelly Roll in the same fabric to make her quilt. It's close to a twin size quilt so she shouldn't out grow it for a while. I love it, I think it turn out beautifully even with a few imperfections. I saw an inspiration photo of a quilt and copied the design. I free-motion quilted it and used a turquoise fabric for the backing.</div>
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After meeting Stan Lee we wanted to explore downtown Philadelphia some more and see some of the historical sites. We first walked to Reading Terminal Market, which is an amazing place to eat. There were so many delicious food places to choose from in this cool historic building. </div>
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On the Man vs. Food TV show, Adam named the Roast pork with broccoli rabe at DiNic's as "Best Sandwich in America" (below). So of course Jason had to try it, but was disappointed. Tanner got one too and didn't finish it so I ate some of his and I don't think it was all that impressive. Oh well, I got a delicious fruit smoothie and Spencer got carmel apple crapes, they were really good.</div>
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We relaxed the rest of the evening at the hotel and ordered in pizza. The next day we flew back home. Thanks Make-A-Wish, we all had a memorable and fun time and you made Spencer's wish come true!!!</div>
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Spencer's Wish Day was finally here. There were two other Make-A-Wish boys who had wished for the same thing, to meet Stan Lee. All three of our families were picked up in a H2 Hummer Limo. There was plenty of room for all 14 of us. Spencer was very excited!!!</div>
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While we waited to go into Comic Con, there were fun things to see such as R2D2. He was like the real thing rolling around making R2D2 noises. The guy controlling him let us get a picture with him.</div>
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All three of the Make-A-Wish boys finally got their dream come true, they met with Stan Lee in a private room. All of them are great artist and wanted to show Stan their art work. Stan Lee was great, he made us laugh a lot.</div>
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Spencer also had a book for Stan Lee to sign. Stan said, "This is a good book, I know because I wrote it", of course we all laughed. Stan was very kind to grant these boy's their wishes. Thanks Stan Lee and Make-A-Wish!</div>
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Since we were only a 2 hour bus drive to NYC, we couldn't go this far and not go there. We rode a bus from Chinatown in Philadelphia to Chinatown NYC. It was a nice drive, we were able to see the country between the two big cities. It was green like Washington, but flat no hills and mountains.</div>
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After we were dropped off in Chinatown, we started to walk to the pier. Chinatown was interesting, a lot of food and raw fish, it felt dirty and a the kids especially thought it stunk. After we got to the pier we got on a water taxi to see the sights in the New York harbor. It was about 90 degrees and humid, so it was hot.</div>
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I highly recommend going on a boat ride in the harbor if you ever have the opportunity to visit. We got a great view of the city and the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge.</div>
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The Statue of Liberty was closed because of damage done by hurricane Sandy, but will re-open again July 4th. It was really neat to see the Statue of Liberty in person.</div>
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We got off the boat and walked and walked viewing the city as we walked towards Times Square. Times Square was crazy busy. Busy with people and advertising everywhere. When walking on the streets we tried to keep up with the hustle and bustle, you can't stop in the middle of the sidewalk or you'll mess everyone up.</div>
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The boys really wanted to go to FAO Swartz Toy Store. You know the one in the "Big" movie with Tom Hanks and the famous giant piano scene.</div>
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Then we took a New York City cab back to Chinatown to catch our bus ride back to Philadelphia. We made it back to Philadelphia and we were hungry. We hardly ate at all in New York because we were so busy and didn't have much time to see everything we wanted to, but no one complained.</div>
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We had a long, but adventurous day and loved it! Thanks Make-A-Wish!!!</div>
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We were picked up for our trip bright and early the morning of our Make-A-Wish trip. We were all ready and excited, and to make it even more exciting we were picked up in a Limo to take us to the airport. It was all of our first time except for Jason's. Of course, it was pretty cool and exciting for the kids.</div>
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Here we are at the airport, where Mark met us and helped us get checked in. We flew on Southwest Airlines, who gave our family star treatment. We had a Southwest employee escort us to the front of all the lines and did everything for us, she was great.</div>
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Another perk was getting on the plane first. The pilot let the kids check out the cabin and even gave Spencer a lesson on how to fly the plane.</div>
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Only two of our kids have been on a plane before, but they were babies, so technically this was their real first time flying. Some were a little unsure, but after take-off they all thought it was so awesome.</div>
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Our oldest son was born with Congenital Heart Disease called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome a very serious heart defect. It was very scary for us expecting our first child and hearing that he may not live. Fortunately, the heart surgeons had a plan to save his little life and less than one day old he had his first open-heart surgery and a pacemaker put in. After many more surgeries mostly before the age of two, he only improved and is still with us today. We know he's a miracle, especially after losing our youngest, Alaina who also was born with a heart defect, but less serious, and sadly surgery didn't go so well for her.</div>
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Last year Spencer's nurse in Portland asked if Spencer would be interested in Make-a-Wish, where children with a life-threatening disease are granted a wish. At first, I was worried that she thought he was going to die in the near future, but I soon learned after looking up Make-a-Wish that's not what it means. Of course Spencer would love to have a wish granted! When I told him about it, only a few minutes of thinking about it he knew what he wanted and since he has never even second guessed himself. Then we moved to Phoenix and Make-a-Wish contacted us there and began the process of granting him his wish.</div>
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Spencer's wish: He wanted to go to New York City and meet Stan Lee who is the creator of Marvel Comics and heroes like Spider-Man. </div>
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Mark and Erika, two volunteers were assigned to Spencer to make sure everything goes well during the wish granting process. We got a call from Mark that Spencer's wish was going to be granted. Stan Lee was going to Comic Con in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and they were going to fly our whole family there to meet him. When meeting a celebrity it depends on their schedule of when and where they are able to meet you. Spencer was excited and after we realized that Philadelphia was only a 2 hour bus ride to New York City, we decided to do that too, which is what Spencer was hoping for in the beginning.</div>
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The weekend before our big trip Mark and Erika threw a send off party for us at a fun pizza place and Erica brought yummy cupcakes from Sprinkles. Mark and Erika are really nice Make-a-Wish volunteers, who do this on their own time and they really enjoy it.</div>
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I'm currently working on my kitchen island. You can see my before picture above, that the butcher block top doesn't look right with the base cabinets. So I have finally started on this kitchen island project. It's taking me longer to finish because of problems with finding the right supplies or tools that I need. But I wanted to show you what I've done so far so you don't think I'm not doing anything around here.</div>
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Okay, most people empty out all of their cupboards, me, I emptied out one side and left the rest. A little lazy, but I can work around it.</div>
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I sanded the cabinet doors and island then used a deglosser on them. Next, I used a wood grain filler on them to fill in the oak grain. I wasn't sure if the wood grain would bother me, so I decided to experiment with the island before painting the rest of my cabinets using a wood grain filler. It's an extra step, but it might be worth it in the end.</div>
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I used Timbermate wood grain filler. First I thinned it a little with water and used a putty knife or rag to apply it into the woodgrain and let it dry. Then I sanded the heck out of it. It was hard to get it out of the grooves. I think next time around I won't put it into the grooves, but just do the flat parts.</div>
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Now on the island we used poplar 1" x 4"boards for the top and sides and 1" x 8" for the bottom. I also replaced the backboard.</div>
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Here it is with some primer. I still have more to come. I have a coat of primer on the cabinet doors and one coat of paint. I'll show you more when I'm finished, hopefully sooner than later!</div>
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Since we've moved to AZ we've been exploring new places. There are a couple nice lakes close by. Perfect for boating or wave runners.</div>
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My brother moved in with us and will be staying with us for a little while.</div>
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Have you ever seen an amphibious car? We'll here you go! I think it would be fun cruzin around the lake in your convertible.</div>
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We went to California for the second time in the last 5 months. One great perk to living only 6 hours to the CA coast. We love the beach!</div>
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We met up with some good friends and did a boat tour in the Newport Bay. Pretty nice homes! Oh yeah and very expensive!</div>
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In Carlsbad, Spencer flew a kite while the other three boys played in the ocean. More beautiful homes.</div>
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Jason's parents came down to visit. We rented some big boy toys and got muddy and had a lot of fun. It was cold so I didn't go out on them much, but there are some really great trails.</div>
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Recently I made a quilt for a friend who had a baby boy back in October. I used Riley Blake's Peak Hour Jelly Roll. I cut each strip into various lengths and sewed them together, easy peasy. On the back I used chenille, which makes it nice and soft.</div>
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I made a couple baby bibs for another friend who had a baby girl. I used a mini charm pack in Marmalade, I just love this fabric. My inspiration came from <a href="http://nanacompany.typepad.com/nanacompany/">Nana & Company</a>, she makes the most adorable things.</div>
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We have had a busy December! The kids had a couple school concerts, we've been exploring new areas, and making new and old traditions. We went to the LDS Mesa Temple to see the lights and hear live Christmas music.</div>
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Preston is so excited for Christmas! He just loves Santa and the magic of Christmas. He's a first grader, which has really made me so sad for the families in Connecticut who lost a child and won't be with them for Christmas this year.</div>
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Logan is excited of course too.</div>
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Tanner still doesn't mind talking with Santa, but not too close.</div>
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The kids decorated the tree. I think about 90% of our decorations are handmade by me or the boys. Every year we talk about getting new decorations, but it doesn't seem to happen...maybe next year.</div>
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Preston turned 7. I can't believe my youngest is that old now.</div>
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Tanner and Preston had school concerts. Preston sang songs with the first grade class, so adorable. Tanner played his sax and had a speaking part.</div>
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We are fans of The Piano Guys (if you've never seen them look them up on YouTube). We surprised the kids with an early Christmas gift, a concert last Friday to The Piano Guys. It was a lot of fun and entertaining. Tanner was even able to get Jon Schmidt's autograph. They will be performing for the big PBS fundraiser on TV, they are becoming very popular. We were lucky to get tickets to one of their last smaller concerts before they get too big for us little people.</div>
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I'm so excited for my Christmas present that will be coming after Christmas, a new camera. About half of the pictures I take with the camera I have now come out blurry. Anyways, hopefully soon I will have clear quality pictures. I can't wait.</div>
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The peninsula is painted Sherwin Williams Tidewater, which goes beautifully with the backsplash.</div>
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I LOVE this sink. It's large and only one drain that food can go down. Great for kids! I also love our new faucet, easy to use.</div>
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Our new dining table, well at least it's new to us. I bought it off of Craigslist. I love the pedestal legs, aren't they pretty?</div>
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Oh yes, beautiful roses in December. It's amazing my rose bushes are still loaded with roses. I'm still getting used to the weather here. It feels like summer to us still, I'm not complaining I like it, but it doesn't seem like Christmas time yet.</div>
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We finally did it! The new glass tile backsplash is done. I ordered the glass tile online from The Home Depot, it's the arctic ice tile in the 2"x 4" size. It comes on mesh which makes installation go quicker. We bought a tile saw after comparing the price of renting one to buying an inexpensive one that we could take our time using and keep when we were done. It took us about half a day to cut and install. A couple days later I grouted. Lastly, well I still need to seal the grout, but it shouldn't take long.</div>
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I'm happy with how it has all turned out. Here is what it was like before, just too dark for me. It is light and bright now! Next, paint the cabinets. Probably not anytime soon, I need a little break.</div>
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Here are the rest of the pictures of our main floor that we've painted. In the picture above you can see all the three colors together. On the left is the formal living room that I posted about earlier <a href="http://www.icecreamandboys.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-paint-colors.html">here</a>, it's Sherwin Williams Silverstrand. In the middle is the color we used for accent walls, it's Sherwin Williams Tidewater. Then on the right is the main color throughout most of the main floor, it's Sherwin Williams Useful Gray.</div>
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Our kitchen peninsula is also painted in Tidewater and the rest of the wall also in Useful Gray. You can see in the backsplash area where I didn't paint because our next project is installing the glass subway tile.</div>
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Our butcher block is also finally installed. I used Waterlox to coat the entire piece. Another big future project is painting the cabinets white, which is why the two different color woods doesn't bother me yet.<br />
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Our first Halloween here in Arizona. It was quite the party. Since the weather is perfect for a night stroll, everyone is outside enjoying the crowds that go by.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxm4IQVlmEay9Y6GkS4z_Djy_gsUR70iGlZ6BsOjUTjekQA3NkkN4hIUO5754pJkfgD86Pran5JrhtauQ2MjAeMAD_QclWz-lGT13ZTt5ZyDHOTDL8g1pgNduAPAWYTHzca3-HSUfDcd1/s1600/DSC06450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxm4IQVlmEay9Y6GkS4z_Djy_gsUR70iGlZ6BsOjUTjekQA3NkkN4hIUO5754pJkfgD86Pran5JrhtauQ2MjAeMAD_QclWz-lGT13ZTt5ZyDHOTDL8g1pgNduAPAWYTHzca3-HSUfDcd1/s400/DSC06450.JPG" width="225" /></a><br />
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Spencer was a spy.<br />
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Tanner was a ghost. (I used dry shampoo to make his hair and face white, weird I know, but it worked)<br />
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Logan was a vampire.<br />
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Preston was a policeman.<br />
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I was a slacker this year on costumes. We waited until the last minute to look for things to go with their costume. We didn't find much, so we mostly just used what we had. They all still got plenty of candy!<br />
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Happy Birthday to Logan today too! He is now 9 years old. He's a great kid; responsible, self-motivated, and just a sweet boy!Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13051806948557920100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493533854227499323.post-56445211040045104352012-10-30T08:37:00.003-07:002012-10-30T08:37:25.344-07:00New Paint Colors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have almost finished painting the entire main floor of the house after eight gallons of paint. We rented scaffolding so we could paint the high ceiling entry and install a foyer light. Let me just say getting on the very top of the scaffolding was very scary. I made Jason do all the painting up there, I only had to get up there to help him put it together. I don't recommend it to anyone who is afraid of heights, I didn't think I was until getting up there. <br />
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Most of the walls in the house are brown. We are now in the desert and all the houses are brown on the outside, I don't know why it has to look like a desert in the inside too. I chose three different colors for the main floor. In this post I will show one color that I chose for the formal living room and dining room. Picking out colors was quite the challenge. I wanted to do it right the first time. Colors always look different than what I had imagined once on the walls, but overall it has been a huge improvement. </div>
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I chose Silverstrand by Sherwin Williams. It is a blue gray color, which looks more blue than I expected, I thought it had a slight green tint to it, but I don't see the green anymore. I do like it, it's a nice color. By the way, the nice people at Sherwin Williams told me that they were going to have a 40% off sale on paint, so I waited for the sale. I will ask next time I need more paint when they will have a sale.</div>
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If you know me well, you know I like a light and bright house. The kitchen in our new home felt a little bit like a dungeon, well maybe not that bad, but it did feel dark to me. The countertops and backsplash were a black granite tile, that seemed really hard to keep looking clean. I always have had light colored countertops and realized that I've always been happy with them, even though they had been laminate. We decided to replace these countertops with Quartz Silestone in Blanco City. Because quartz can get a bit pricey, I chose the lightest color option in the least expensive group. We bought them and had them installed by Home Depot. They had a 10% off special, plus by signing up for a credit card I got another 10% off. I think we got a great deal. <br />
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After the old countertops and backsplash had been removed, it felt brighter already.<br />
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I love the new countertops! They feel clean, bright, and modern. We just did the 2cm thickness, which was the base price. I was a little worried they would be too thin, but it seems normal to me and doesn't bother me at all.<br />
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After shopping for a new sink, I found one that works perfect for us. It's a silgranit one bowl sink. We have a garbage disposal in the one and only drain, no more food stuck in the wrong drain. I think this is going to be great with kids. So far I love it!!!<br />
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We have our glass tile backsplash ready to install and our island butcher block still needs to be cut and finished before installing. I will be posting more pictures soon, we've been painting the house, repainting the brown walls with more updated colors.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13051806948557920100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493533854227499323.post-55440724089567251222012-10-03T21:41:00.002-07:002012-10-03T21:41:30.376-07:00Aqua Glass Floor Lamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our living room doesn't have any lights at all. I was on a mission to find a floor lamp to get started with the lighting in there. I remembered seeing a floor lamp at Pier 1 Imports that I liked. So I went to the store and saw "it", and it was more beautiful than I had remembered. But, there was one problem, the price. I couldn't pay $200, even though I <em>really</em> wanted it. After I wiped the drool off my chin I roamed around a little dreaming of how perfect it would be in my living room. The sales guy there asked if I needed any help, I asked if they were going to have a lamp sale anytime soon. He didn't know, and asked which lamp I liked. I told him which one and he said he had one in the back not in perfect condition that he could sell discounted. I got excited and wanted to see it. The top glass ball was missing and the part the lamp shade attaches to was loose and we couldn't figure out how to tighten it and the discount was getting greater. It also didn't have the original lampshade, but said I could pick out one of their extra ones they had in the back. To make a long story short, by time I got to the checkout, I paid $50! <br />
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We are making some home improvements before we really get settled in, some small ones and some bigger ones. Here is one small project that made my kitchen happier. I laid down new contact paper on the shelves in my pantry. </div>
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Because this is what was on them (below). A black rubbery padding that was stuck to the shelves that were impossible to clean with all the tiny holes filled with crumbs and such.</div>
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So I peeled them off and this is what was left. I scraped and cleaned what I could, then added contact paper. Now it looks much tidier, cleaner, and cute.</div>
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Now on to a bigger project. Remember this? We tore out the laminate floors that were in the formal living room, dining room, and den. Personally, I could have lived with them even though they did look plastic-like. But we'd much rather have real wood flooring. Better do it now or never!</div>
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Formal Dining Room. Notice the banister. We had to pick a wood that would work with our railing and front door, which is also wood. It matches better than it looks in the picture.</div>
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Well we made it to Arizona and finally closed on our house last week. We are still in a vacation rental while we move our things into our new home from the storage unit and have the floors redone. It's hot, but there is plenty of A/C everywhere and I think the heat feels good, unless we're working outside, like lifting boxes, then we're sweating like pigs. We miss Washington and everyone we left. The boys get a little homesick, missing their cousins and friends, but they are enjoying their cousins here and they're making new friends.<br />
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Our House Story:<br />
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We really love our new home. I just can't believe what a great house it is. Jason searched for a house while me and the boys sold the house in WA and packed up the house. Jason saw many houses in Arizona and I searched hard online for houses for him to go look at. We kept finding houses that already had offers on them, or there would be something we didn't like about a house. When we found "our house" I really liked it and we prayed about it and felt like it was the right house for our family and the right location to raise our boys. But we weren't the only offer and then...we DIDN'T get it. I was so sad! Jason kept searching, but I kept hoping the other house would go back to us. Jason told me, "You need to move on, it's gone", I said, "I know I just really wanted it." Well to make a long story short, I did pray that if it was the right house for us we would still be able to buy it. It was hard to move on but I tried even though we still couldn't find a house that I liked (yes, I'm more picky than Jason, plus remember I only have pictures to go by). Anyways, it had been a couple weeks and we made an offer on a different house that was nice, but I wasnt' in love with it and it was more expensive. The sellers wouldn't budge on their price, so we decided not to make another offer because I kept getting the feeling that this was NOT the right house for us. Then, just a couple hours later Jason gets a call from our realtor that "our house" was ours again. The other buyers has something come up and had to back out. Wow, I was estactic, I was on cloud 9! Now just for the record, I didn't wish anything bad to happen to the other buyers, but this house was meant for us after all.<br />
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The Floor Story:<br />
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When we saw the house again the Travertine floors looked like they were in worse shape than we originally thought. Jason had called someone before and asked how much it would cost per sq. ft. to have them restored. It was expensive, so we thought we might be better off tearing out the floors and putting down porcelain tile instead, which wouldn't need any maintenance, but it was even more pricey. We were just a day away from the floors being torn out, when Jason and I looked at our porcelain tile samples on the Travertine floors and said what a shame we can't save these floors they are so much prettier than the porcelain tile. BUT then a tile salesman came over and said it looked like the scratches and dullness on the floor was from some kind of wax coating put over the floor. Which is a big mistake on a natural stone floor, because they need to breathe, someone didn't know what they were doing. It was the coating on the floor that was causing it to look scratched and dull, not the actual stone. So we canceled the floor removal and called another floor guy to give us an estimate on restoring the floors, which was a fraction of the cost of the first bid we got, so we hired him and he started restoring them the next day. We are so happy with the floors now and thank our lucky stars we didn't tear them out!<br />
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Before: Kitchen, it felt dirty to me.</div>
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