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Tile Selections

04.14.2014

We’ve finished up our tile selections for our “Laboratory” (new home). This involved so many decisions when doing a couple of bathrooms and a kitchen. Reminder, this is a small home as my husband and I are downsizing but with that said, we made a total of 14 decisions on tile. Phew!!!!! I’m truly feeling my clients pain when remodeling an entire home. Below are a couple of our selections.

A few of our tile selections. I’m really in LOVE with the save pattern which will be on the back wall of our guest shower.

The square tone-on-tone pattern will make a mosaic design behind our cook top. The oblong inset brown and beige tile will be used on the back splash of our guest bathroom. The square beige and brown glass tile will be used in the master shower as an inset border (eye level).

I’ve decided to keep all of the tiles and counter tops in a neutral tone because I know that I will want to make frequent changes in color in my “laboratory”. It’s much easier to make changes in drapery, upholstery, accessories and much less expensive.

I can’t wait to see all of this come together. We are praying the final permits come through today!

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Living Room Windows

04.13.2014

After visiting our “new” home yesterday for our weekly building inspection, I came up with my new name for the house, “My Laboratory”. I think it’s perfect as it has given me a place to try out many of my ideas, learn about some new building procedures, and just generally mix it all up and see what happens in the end. Fun times for any designer!

Upon pulling into the house yesterday it was apparent that most of the new windows had been put into place. None of the them had been finished but at least we were off to a good start. Below I’m going to show you how a couple of our front room windows looked when we purchased the house, and what they look like now.

There were two small windows, where there is now one large window.

Two small windows have now been closed up and one large window was put in the middle.

Just another view of the new window.

Macy, our furry friend and Laboratory mascot. She’s been so good through this process.

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Lighting for Our New Home

04.12.2014

We’ll we’ve made some final decisions for interior lighting of our remodel and a couple of decisions for the exterior.

Dining Room Lighting Fixture

Island Lighting

Above are the two fixtures that will be placed in the dining area, the larger fixture will go above our dining room table and two of the pendants will be placed over the island.

The remainder of the light in the kitchen and dining areas will come from recessed cans. We’ve also decided to keep a recessed can above the kitchen sink. I would normally suggest a pendant for this area but the view out of this window is beautiful and I don’t want to do anything to cover it.

Recessed Lighting In Kitchen

For the master bedroom bathroom we will will have a small lighting fixture above the tilting vertical mirror along with two sconces on either side of the mirror.

Both bathroom showers will also have recessed lighting. I can’t wait for this feature!

I was not able to come up with a picture of the fixture for the guest bath. Once it is actually installed I’ll make sure to post a photo.

Master Bedroom Bathroom Sconce

Master Bedroom Bathroom Lighting Fixture – But Different Finish

The exterior lighting has brought a challenge as the house is in a very traditional track home which was built in the early 1960’s. As for the interior of the home, we’ve gutted every room to reflect a very transitional feel and brought it into the feeling of 2014. With the exterior we need to honor the building period as we will not be making any major changes until we re-coop from the building of the interior . . . so we are still in the middle of making those lighting decisions. We have decided on one fixture (below) which will be placed on several areas on the front of the house.

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