Week 5 One Room Challenge: Modern Vintage Kitchen in Grand Rapids, MI
Here I am posting a few days late. We had a client presentation for a big project this week (it’s going to be amazing, and I can’t wait to show it to you…in like 8 months), and that means that our own projects go on the back burner.
see the pretty new windows!??
I can only imagine how long this project would take us if we didn’t have the ORC to give us a kick in the butt.
SO! Week 5! Big things happened this week!.
We had new windows installed! We actually ended up getting new windows throughout the whole house which is exciting since the original ones were literally a hundred years old. Winter will be more enjoyable now.
We also had them remove the window in the kitchen and frame it in. Same for the window in the mudroom. The mudroom won’t be all finished by next thursday as they can’t install the cabinets until thursday….but considering that’s my third room in this seasons one room challenge, I don’t feel too bad about finishing that room late.
My hot tile guy finished up tiling over that wall where the window used to be. He gets to grout this weekend and the tile will be completely finished!
I’ve started working on upholstering for the banquette bench. I’m totally making it up as I go along. No idea how to really upholster for a built in upholstered look, and so I’m winging it with my trusty stapler.
I haven’t decided if I should paint the two doors in the kitchen black or not. I prefer dark doors to white, but 1) I’m not convinced I’ll love it in this room 2) I’m running out of time.
Since I’m running out of time, I thought maybe I would add one more things on my list and paint the mudroom ceiling the color of the kitchen cabinets. It remains to be seen if that actually happens.
I got lulled into thinking “we are almost done, we’ve totally got this!”. And then we made a to-do list last night and I was reminded we still have so much to do in order to have a finished room.
Grout tile
Hang shelves on tiled wall (drilling into tile can be a pain in the butt)
Install new kitchen faucet
Finish upholstering banquette bench and back (no idea how long this will take)
paint trim to finish trimming bathroom
smooth wall to prepare for wallpaper…(we ripped off a chair rail)
Hang cabinet doors
Install all cabinet hardware
Put together Ikea cabinets for mudroom
Potentially paint mudroom
maybe paint kitchen doors.
Who wants to come over and do some projets?? Anyone? Bueller??
Don’t forget to check out the progress from the other guest participants in this seasons one room challenge and also some of the super fun stuff that the featured designers are doing!