In Bathroom Mode...

Hello hello....

It's been such a long time. This little blog of mine was on such a roll.... meaning I was consistent with my posts. Then... I fell pregnant, had horrible morning sickness, we did more renovations, had another baby and well...life was/is busier and this little blog went to the back burner.

I have decided I am going to work harder at posting more frequently. Posting what is relevant to me, things I like...basically all things life and style. It will be for me to look back on and maybe...just maybe...you will find it relevant and helpful too.

So...with that out of the way I turn to the issue at hand.... Our bathrooms and laundry.

It's the final stage of our renovations. Yippppeeeee!! It's going to be the messiest and the hardest seeing as I have two little people, it's the bathrooms and laundry and we're living through it.

Oh the decisions!!! It's our first bathroom and laundry reno so we're feeling a little cautious. We have a wonderful builder who we have worked with from day one with this house....now 2.5yrs ago (where does the time go!!) and N's family are seasoned renovators so are a wealth of knowledge and invaluable sounding boards. Even still, we find ourselves nervous that our selections may not work and may not hit the mark we are aiming for. I have been trawling the web and magazines for inspiration and I will share some of these in a future post. We think we are getting close to a decision and I have a meeting with the builder to go through them this week and identify any issues and make any changes needed (fingers crossed there are none)

I have worked up a little inspiration collage in Polyvore and thought I might share it...

As you can see the colour palate is very neutral with grey's and white. We are going for something that feels large, bright, fresh, classic and warm. Fingers crossed we are on the right track.

Thoughts and feelings you might want to share are more than welcome...

Jx

Bathroom Inspiration by jessflett on Polyvore

Kitchen Renovation...Before, During and After...

I was going through some photos and came across the before photos of our kitchen. I always get a little thrill when I see what we started with and look at what we have now...

I thought I would share the photos with you...

When we bought our house this is what the kitchen looked like... The lovely couple we bought it from had lived here for nearly 40 years...it was their family home...they raised their children here and enjoyed their grandchildren here too. They had decided to downsize and move to a beautiful new apartment closer to the city...

This is what it looked like during construction...whilst we created doorways, removed bulkheads, turned the existing arched doorways into bigger square doorways, changed some plumbing around, rendered a wall and swapped mission brown floor tiles for wooden floor boards...

and this is what it looks like now...

As you can see it was old, dark and dated. We went with all white to add as much light as possible and give it a clean, fresh look.

I love these next photos...seeing the before and after side by side...

I'd love to hear from you...

Have you done a complete kitchen renovation? 

How did you find it? 

Were you happy with the final result?

Have you got a kitchen you would love to re do?

Jx

Update: We bought all the appliances from Winning Appliances. They have a terrific range to suit all budgets. We chose Bosch (Oven, Cooktop and Dishwasher), Panasonic (Microwave) and Electrolux (Fridge). The sink and Tap are Franke.

The Building works was done by Langlands Building Group. The Kitchen was made and installed by Coastline Kitchens and the glass splash back was supplied by Creative Glass.