We’re coming in a little late this week but life happened last week! We spent a week traveling to help my mom in Oklahoma, but we managed to squeeze in some progress before we left town. Even on mother’s day! In addition to some other spoils, Ryan gave me a great mother’s day present and painted the kitchen walls so I didn’t have to. Score!
We had some issues out of our control for week 2 (and I fear week 3) of the One Room Challenge. Our countertop situation is not great. We ordered slabs to swap out our dark grey slabs with some brighter slabs. Those were supposed to be installed a couple of weeks ago. They, unfortunately, made some bad cuts and had to replace a few pieces. And now they can’t find materials. So the pandemic remodeling goes!
But that’s ok – we managed to tackle other parts of the kitchen. Here’s our wish list plan of things we’ll be doing over the Challenge:
- Replace counters
- Replace backsplash
- Mud and Paint
- Install new sink and plumbing fixtures
- Install new cabinet hardware
- Install floating shelves
- Paint our island
- Update our pendant lights (just a tiny bit by swapping out our coloring fixtures)
- Update our island stools
- Installing new undercabinet light in our butler pantry
- Installing a new beverage fridge in our butler pantry
Before we left, we worked on mudding and painting. We got the walls mudded, textured and painted in the kitchen area, and the side butler kitchen area was mudded (but not yet painted).
This is the after of paint:
And here you can see the progress on a wall that will have floating shelves. This is also where you can see the pretty Ceasarstone Calacatta Nuvo counters we’ve got partially installed. Can’t wait for these to be everywhere!
This wall had our kids art wall, which I made from an Ikea frame filled with corklining and wrapped with burlap. We have a new Ikea hack idea in mind for the art display. Can’t wait to get that kid art up again.
Our tile has arrived, so as soon as we get our counters installed we’ll be continuing on!
For week 3, we plan to finish the side pantry paint, hopefully have some word on our counters, and be preparing to tile. We also plan to install those floating shelves.
See you next week! In the meantime, check out other participants here! blog — One Room Challenge®
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