Today I'm sharing some items that I'm loving from my favorite room in our current fixer upper. I'm not sure why it's randomly my favorite room in the house right now, but I think it's because it is the closest to being done! We still need to caulk and paint the trim.

First, let's talk about this rug. I originally bought it to go in front of my slider door where my dog tracks in dirt from the yard, but I tried it in here (juuust to see), and I loved it so much I couldn't take it out. It would also look great in my kitchen too though! One of the best things about is it the rubber backing, so it stays in place. I hate having to constantly straighten up my accent rugs!

I shared this hand towel and potted plant last week in my Hearth and Home for Target new arrival picks. You should probably run to Target, because they are both amazing!

I am so happy with this mirror that is a very reasonable price for the size with a thin modern frame - a combination that is surprisingly hard to find. I love the brass, but it also comes in black (which I also love) and silver. It comes in any size you could ever need, and ships quickly. I bought a smaller size for our smaller master bath, so clearly this is my new go-to mirror.

The globe vanity light we used in here is so dang good! It comes in four finishes. The aged brass doesn't look great online, but I promise it's beautiful in person!

Here's the before of this bathroom. Check out that nasty toilet! We were able to clean up the existing shower/ tub and get it looking good, but everything else had to go!

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Other products used:
Sink Faucet
Bathroom Accessories

Paint Color:
Sherwin Williams Pure White

Here's a quick update as we are finally seeing some major progress on the house after this weekend, but things definitely continued to get worse before they got better. Electrical has been a much bigger project than expected, but is wrapping up so now we are closing up walls and starting to finish the drywall, which is very exciting!

All the drywall torn out of the kitchen and bathroom was a scary sight!


The completely gutted bathroom!


We built a wall back up between the two bedrooms where previous owners had taken a wall out.

We installed a new deep tub and plumbing and we are almost ready to prep for tile!


What a huge difference drywall makes in the kitchen!


My sisters came into town for the weekend and were a huge help! Since all the walls and ceilings are smoked stained, we have to clean and Kilz the whole house. Thanks to my sisters, we were able to Kilz 3 bedrooms in one day!


The rooms feel so different with the drywall on the new wall!


Starting to finish the drywall!


Until next time!

Welcome to our first update! So much has happened in the space in just the past week! We found out that demo starts out fun but eventually gets exhausting. Martin has spent a good amount of time in the attic this week for electrical work and rerouting a plumbing vent. I feel like most of our communication lately has happened while yelling at each other through the ceiling. That's not good for any relationship! I've also had a few power tools dropped on me through holes in the ceiling. But he did clean up the 3 dead squirrels that were hanging out up there so I think we're even!


As you can remember, there was a wall separating the living room from the kitchen and dining room and also a wall between the dining room and kitchen...



Say goodbye! We tore out all the walls to create one big open space!



I spent a good three days last weekend, with the help of my mother-in-law, removing the wallpaper backing from the dining room and living room. NEVER AGAIN. I'm not even a fan of cute wallpaper anymore.



All the flooring is now tore up on the main floor. There was at least two layers of flooring in every room, but the kitchen takes the prize with a total of six layers of flooring!





Not too much has happened in this bathroom as we quickly figured out that much of the drywall will need replaced!



The kitchen is looking cleaner and has some new outlets roughed in for above the counter. Martin has started rerouting the sink plumbing to go under the window, relocated a few light switches, and fixed some switching messes.







My favorite thing so far are these recessed LED lights that we installed in the hallway. We have nine more to install throughout the space so these were our practice. They started out rough but I think we finally outsmarted the light so we are ready to knock out the rest.



Until next time!