Seashore Home Kitchen Rework Replace + Tiny Cottage
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Hey, associates! Our contractors have been busy bees right here on our seaside home kitchen transform and the addition of the Tiny Cottage! Each time I check with our house as our seaside home I feel it seems like we will need to have a second house, however in reality, that is our solely each day house! Even so, it’s like being on trip each day. We stay up by the San Juan Islands, so it’s a beautiful place to go to and you may simply get to so many lovely locations by automobile or ferry.
If you’re new right here or simply catching up, we moved to this island from Seattle a 12 months and a half in the past. My mother and father have moved in with us and we’re within the means of including on a Tiny Cottage for them to the again of our house and a renovation of components of the remainder of the house. It’s not a big home, in reality, it’s just a bit over 1900 sq. ft, however we’re including about 450 sq. ft to it within the Tiny Cottage.
My husband and I are formally empty nesters now, however we wish this seaside house to be a gathering place for our household so we’re making it as snug and alluring as we are able to!
You may atone for our reworking posts right here.
There are nonetheless many key particulars to return in each areas, however it’s enjoyable to share the most recent undertaking progress with you!
Final I shared we didn’t have our partitions or ceilings completed but! They’re painted Basic Mild Buff by Sherwin Williams (similar because the kitchen cupboards). We’re loving the comfortable heat white and the gorgeous golden hour glow in right here when the solar pours in (because of our new home windows and doorways!) I can’t imagine the pure gentle we get now!
We’re nonetheless ready on Beatrix to be introduced in (our new blue green stove) to the brand new kitchen. She’s going to in fact be the STAR of the kitchen (and a coloration style-setter for remainder of the home ha!) however we can also’t wait to see the tap, lighting (these pendants over the island, and this chandelier with blue shades over the eating desk), wooden floors to be uncovered, different home equipment to go in, and all of the ending touches that can convey the area collectively as we envisioned it.
Every new addition is so thrilling, however I’m additionally all the time anticipating these subsequent important components of the design so we are able to lastly see and revel in it as a complete.
You may see our kitchen design temper board right here to see extra of what’s to return!
My imaginative and prescient for our renovation was to create a seaside house that feels comfortable, heat and welcoming (in all seasons). I’m thrilled concerning the cozy timeless character that has been added by way of the structure.
As quickly because the renovation is full we’ll be layering in materials, furnishings and equipment in shades of blue and greens, heat whites and a wide range of different NW cottage-by-the-sea-worthy colours all through. As I discussed, we wish it to be a contented place! I’m even envisioning including a beautiful shade of coral coloration and a little bit of yellow to our palette, so I’ll be on the hunt for simply the proper materials.
I like to brighten for every season and play with coloration combos all 12 months spherical, so it’s thrilling to now have the backdrops in place that I do know will give me so many inventive alternatives to brighten in each season.
This previous week we began taking a look at materials for our eating bench, contemplating window remedies and developing with a imaginative and prescient for the adjoining front room. We’ve thought of portray the lounge partitions blue (all of the trim will even get a contemporary coat of paint), however proper now I’m leaning in direction of placing in blue grasscloth! I simply ordered a pattern of this blue imitation grasscloth to check out.
Visualizing new parts prompted me to set some books within the bookcase and a few pillows on the eating bench. It’s a begin haha, however it helps me to arrange equipment to begin to get a really feel for the area.
I can’t wait to arrange a desk and chairs and have the ability to do easy homey issues once more, so we’re feeling very grateful to be on the house stretch!
The Tiny Cottage for my mother and father can be coming proper alongside. It will likely be so lovely I can hardly stand it, so cute already! The decrease blue cupboards for the kitchenette look SO GOOD (there will even be a blue dish show cupboard above, which shall be put in quickly). The colour is Languid Blue by Sherwin Williams. Quickly there shall be white sink, cooktop, and darling fridge. The sunny kitchenette home windows may have window bins proper outdoors so they are going to be crammed with flowers!
You may see the tiny cottage kitchenette design temper board right here.
Whereas they’re now coated up, the attractive flooring have been lately put in. They’re the identical flooring as what shall be in the remainder of the home (European white oak). The entire partitions and ceiling shall be coated in Merely White painted paneling. Mild, shiny and but tender, heat and comfortable!
The cupboard within the sitting room will get a brand new prime and the darling checkered tile shall be added. It’s a multi-purpose spot (as is the complete Tiny Cottage, ha!). They’ll use the cupboard as an extension of the kitchen for his or her espresso station and countertop oven, further storage, in addition to their Frame TV on the wall above. Talking of creating each inch rely! My mother has deliberate each element of this tiny cottage so will probably be as purposeful and cute as may be.
The pure lighting in right here is simply attractive, she has morning solar and southern publicity all day so it’s simply the happiest! There shall be an lovely blue hearth by the home windows. It should simply be the cutest cozy place in each season, like a captivating Mattress and Breakfast getaway!
A few of you had requested the way you get to the Tiny Cottage and the place it’s related to ours. You may see the connection on this picture above. That is our mudroom proper off our kitchen. By way of the far door you may take a left into the Tiny Cottage or a proper into the storage!
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Extra Posts about our Rework:
A Tiny Yard Cottage (progress on the addition for my mother and father!)
Kitchen Renovation Replace: Marble, Soapstone, French Doorways and Beadboard
Tiny Cottage Kitchenette Design Temper Board (My Mother and father’ Addition)
A Peek at Our New Espresso Station Cupboard with Pocket Doorways
The Great thing about Soapstone Counters (+ why we selected them for our kitchen)
Kitchen Renovation Replace: Flooring, Cupboards, Sink, {Hardware} and Extra
Our New Kitchen Design Temper Board (and 5 questions that helped me make selections!)
Including Character in a Kitchen Rework: The Story of Our New Vary and Faucet
My New Kitchen Flooring Plan + Mother and father’ Addition and Exterior Elevation