september mama

we've been talking about removing the wall between our kitchen and living room for at least the last year or so, and yesterday we finally did it. matt popped the question saturday night (way too late for me to be sensible), and i said we could talk about it the next morning... so by 1pm he was demolishing it. we finished cleaning around 8pm. i was amazed how quickly we got it all done!

what a horrid mess though. i looooathe plaster dust! it takes months for it to come off the floors completely. but the house looks a million times better now that light gets in from three directions. it also feels much bigger. now we have to decide how we want the bar to look, and i'm researching paint schemes to unify-yet-distinguish the living room, dining room, and kitchen. so far this is my favorite inspirational piece (color-wise--we will not be designing in art nouveau style). we have a wine red in the dining room already, we'll have mid-reddish laminate flooring, and i just love the pale yellows with teal and soft blue-greys. and black. mmm hmm.

next projects on the list:
-build a bar/finish kitchen
-finish drywall in living room, then paint!
-floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in living room + rearrange furniture
-install new floors
-finish sanding drywall in baby room, then paint!
-fix bathroom window