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You Light Up My Life

You Light Up My Life

I think I mentioned during the Home Tour that we have only lived in this house for a little over a year.

Although this house was 7 years old when we purchased it, it was as they say, turn key ready. I think my husband was excited that he didn’t have to do a thing and we could park our stuff inside and get out on the lake to fish. Silly husband, it’s as if he never met me.

In all honesty, we haven’t really done anything major around the house. But what I have done is replace several of the light fixtures. Putting my spin on decorating makes this house a home for me.

I don’t have any before pictures. Remember “we” were excited to get outside and go fishing. 🙂

Let me describe what the before looked like . Again, it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t me.

Here is the new dining room table chandelier. Metal Orb from World Market.

There was a five piece chandelier over the table that matched the pendant lights that hang over the island. In fact, I think the original light is still in the garage waiting to be posted on Craigslist. Note to self: get that listed.

Here is the light in the bathroom over the double vanity. Home Depot purchase.

It use to be a 5 round bulb on a metal piece. Nothing wrong with that, just not me.

Now for my favorite change.

This…..

Turned into this…

Yep. I took what is affectionately referred to as a nipple light and replaced it with a 6 lamp chandelier. And here’s the best part…

This is in my walk in closet!

How many times has someone seen the inside of your closet? If you are like me, close to zero. But everytime I turn on the light, I smile. I love touches of whimsy in decorating and this is the icing on the cake for me.

Plus this was a labor of love. My husband has become pretty handy at changing out light fixtures for me, but he never enjoys it. Here is the picture of him right after he replaced the light.

That is a face saying, “A chandelier in the closet? If this doesn’t prove to you how much I love you, nothing does.”  heehee. He is so cute.

I hope you get a chance to stop in tomorrow. I need your help with something.

Have a great weekend!

 

Home Tour 2015 The Dining Area and Kitchen

Home Tour 2015 The Dining Area and Kitchen

Happy Official First Day of Fall Everyone!

I can’t think of a catchy segway into todays tour, except something like “Let’s Fall into the Dining Area” (see…not so amazing) 🙂

Anywho, Spencer took so many great detail pictures of the kitchen that this post might be a bit of a photo mosaic.

Breaking the livingroom, dining area and kitchen into three separate posts is kind of silly because in reality it is one big continuous room.

Dining Area:

Moving past the livingroom brings us to the area where we have our dining table.  I love this table. I purchased it from World Market probably 8-10 years ago. It came with 6 chairs and two leaves and  I think I paid about $500 for it. Best purchase ever. It still looks as good as the day I bought it.

And can I brag about that chandelier a little? Okay, thanks. I purchased that from World Market also. See the pendant lights hanging over the island? There was a matching 5 piece chandelier over the table originally. I liked it, but I didn’t love it and I LOVE this Metal Orb Chandelier. It added that little something more to the area setting it apart with a statement piece.

You may have also noticed my black and white houndstooth rug under the table. This is a purchase from RUGSUSA.com. We have lived in this house for 13 months as of this posting and I think that is the third rug from RUGSUSA.com that I have purchased and used under the table. I always wait until their 80% off and free shipping sale to buy something different. Their selection has something for everyone and I have never been disappointed by the quality. What happens to those previous rugs you wonder? They always find a home in someone’s new apartment or new house or get moved to different room in our house. 🙂

The Kitchen:

This is where the photo mosaic comes in. Let me describe the kitchen and then you can look around.

In the center of the room is a large 4ft by 5ft island with a one piece granite top. If I had to guess, I would guess that the granite is called Tropical Brown. This same granite was used for the countertops and the desk top.

All of the cupboards are hickory with oil rub bronze hardware. It is a lot of brown which is why if you remember from this post, I painted the hickory base underneath the island. 🙂

There is a corner walk-in pantry and stainless steel appliances throughout.

Take a peek.

 

I hope you enjoyed touring around! See you Friday!