The Kitchen

Here it is, the last room where we did any work. The Kitchen - thankfully only minor changes (at least in this round, wait until the wine fridge goes in!) We actually weren't going to change anything for awhile, but since the guys were in building a wall anyway, turns out it's actually not that difficult to rip out a few counter tops and put new ones in. My goal was to lighten the kitchen up - the black floor, black tile, black back splash and black oven were a bit much for me. So, instead, we got a shade lighter with some grey and chrome. Oh how I can't wait to put some color on the walls. 

The before kitchen

Too bad the pooch didn't come with the house :O). 

After photos - where Mike got his American (or Canadian) style refrigerator with an ice maker. Gin and tonic heaven!

I am weirdly proud of our notice board/white board built by a Welsh craftsman found on Etsy.

The Office

 If there was a little girl in my life, I would have kept this room. But sadly, this girl needed an office as my playroom is now the gym! I've gone from pink to orange, as I needed something warm and cheery for spending 8 hours a day in the same room. 

The before pink playroom 

Now, the office. 

I think I substituted almost as many scented candles as stuffed animals :) 

The Gym

 Given lockdown #3, we knew we needed a place to work out. So we decided to use the conservatory as the exercise room. We did a lot of measuring to make sure it would fit yoga and fitness activities. We didn't do anything to the room, aside from the doors and window as part of the dining room below. Just some paint and a good clean (oh, and we added a radiator to try and be able to do yoga in the middle of winter. 

Before....

After.......

The Dining Room

 Not sure if there was an 'old' dining room, but we took the rest of the L-shaped room that we put the pocket doors in, to create the Dining Room. It also was the entrance to the conservatory, so we had to figure out how to close it off, but still let the light in. So, we added some doors and are in the process of putting in a window instead of sliding glass doors. 

Above is the old design

This is looking 'straight on' in the old configuration 

This is also an entrance to the conservatory ( we turn it into the gym) but it is cleverly hidden with boxes. There were no doors, just an opening

The custom window isn't ready yet, I'll post pics when it is installed somewhere around the end of April 

Creating 'The Snug'

 The original part of the house is L shaped. So we decided to wall off part of it and create a second TV viewing/yoga/reading area that we are calling 'The Snug'. 

Original room 

We added a wall with pocket doors to get some privacy but still let the light through, changed out the grey carpet for light wood flooring and went for Summer Suede on the walls instead of grey. I think it's a bit warmer, don't you??

In process construction

To finished pocket doors

Master bathroom expansion

 The old master bathroom was fine - it was recently re-done. However, it didn't have a bath tub so I figured, why not? 

Original bath had a shower as you walked in, a toilet to the left of the shower, and a pedestal sink across from the toilet. 

We walled in the closet in the master bedroom and expanded the bathroom. Moved the shower into the former closet, got some storage space by the sink, and put in one massive bath tub! That wasn't the plan but the original wall size was too small for a normal tub and since we had to move the wall anyway, why not put in a big ol' bathtub? 

I probably should have taken that picture with the toilet lid down. Doh!