Home Sweet Home

YIPPEE!!!!!!!

HURRAY!!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!

We are finally moving back HOME!!!!

Our home is all fixed and ready for us!!!!!
(for those who don't know what happened Click Here)

Our Lakefront English Tudor Cottage

Home Sweet Home

7 weeks was a long time to be away from our home....so we are all EXCITED to be coming HOME!!

I'll post interior pics soon.

My Home is a Wreck!

Just a quick update on the water damage our home incurred while we were on vacation.
We moved out of our home last friday into a vacation rental. The contractor says the work will probably take 6-8 weeks. The contractors arrived bright and early Monday to pack up our stuff and put it all in a storage facility. Tuesday they started tearing off the damaged drywall and sprayed a mold inhibitor in the walls. Wednesday they started replacing the drywall in areas they knew was no longer wet. Thursday the granite was taken out and the damaged kitchen cabinet & bathroom vanity was removed. Friday the acoustic (popcorn) ceiling was scraped off. That is something we added. Figured it was the perfect time to finally get rid of that ugly popcorn ceiling!!! Yeah!! We also are having the bathtub/shower unit taken out and replacing with a brand new bath/shower unit. The other one was scratched up, biscuit colored, and 17 yrs old...new one is bright white! So since we are changing the bath/shower we are also changing the toilet to a white one instead of the biscuit color. Oh and one more upgrade while we are at it...hardwood floors!! We had tan carpet in our living room/dining room and in our 20 yr old daughter's bedroom, but tired of carpet so we are doing a handscraped rustic hickory engineered hardwood. Now it's time for me to design a couple new custom rugs!!

Anyway, here are a few pics of my tore up home. I had more, but they accidently got deleted...I hate when that happens!!

Paint colors chosen are:
LR/DR walls- SW Kilm Beige
LR/DR ceiling- Divine White (it's the step up on the swatch from Kilm beige)
Alcove accent- SW Fireweed

Kitchen- Is staying SW Clary Sage

Hallway-SW Nomadic Desert
Ceiling-SW Kilm Beige

Bathroom walls- SW Svelte Sage
ceiling- SW Ancient Marble

Daughter's bedroom- Walls are staying gray
Ceiling-SW Natural Tan

I will post more pics as the house starts coming back together.

DON'T FORGET!!!!!!

If you haven't already entered the Custom Rug GIVEAWAY...there is still time to enter! We will draw the winner on September 3rd which happens to be our 1 yr Blog Anniversary!!

We're Back from Vacation

We got home from vacation this afternoon and guess what we came home to??? I wish we could say came home to a big "welcome home" sign, but we came home instead to a flooded house! We opened our front door and heard water running, ran into the kitchen and water was spraying everywhere and we had about 3-4 inches of water on the floor. The plastic pipe on the faucet broke (yes, our new faucet). There was water in our dining room, kitchen, bathroom, our daughter's bedroom, hall way, and the garage. So we spent the rest of the day ripping out carpet, carpet padding, removing furniture, sucking up water with wet vacs and now we have fans running to dry out our home. What a great way to come home after vacation...NOT!!! Oh and ya know our kitchen we just finished remodeling....well the cabinet by the sink is ruined! So is our vanity in our bathroom. Thank the Lord we have homeowner's insurance!! The adjuster is suppose to come out tomorrow.

So if I'm not posting for awhile that is because I'm dealing with this!! UGH!!!!!!!!