Home is Where the Heart is

Monday, May 5, 2014

Dinning Room with Bling

Happy Monday! I want to say "Thank you" to each and everyone of you who so kindly left us a note on our kitchen post. You all are so sweet to us!
This Monday we want to share with you our dinning room.Below are the before pictures, you will see that we removed two of the can-lights the ones in front and had a new electrical junction box installed in the ceiling so we could hang a chandelier.

Custom trim was added around the windows and doorway that leads to the kitchen, also the rug was removed and new flooring was installed.

In our last post I shared with you my love for brick and that we had used it in several rooms in our home. Another place besides the kitchen was in the dinning room. We had a brick mason install a brick wall as our focal wall.. the brick we used was 1/2 brick paver's.

In this picture the cement was still wet so the brick looked darker. I couldn't believe how many choices there are for brick, it was crazy with choices.

And Wall-La its done! We decided not to use the shutters that were in the dinning room after the windows were trimmed out the shutters no longer fit. I love roman shades so decided to have fabric shades made.

The door to the left leads to the kitchen. I was able to use my mirror and buffet table I had bought for our previous home. We purchased a new dinning table and chandelier.

The roman shades are made of a floral linen toile. The grandfather clock fit well in this little corner.

Here's the door way into the kitchen. The brick wall in the kitchen flows into the brick wall into the dinning room. Oil painting (Private Reserve) by Stiltz

A view of the dinning room from the kitchen.

Buffet table and dinning table. They are from different designers, but work well together.

The Yellow Cottage Picture is by Dwane Hickman (yep\Dobie Gillis)

The brick wall gives the house a kind of lofty cottage look I think...

The dinning room table was handcrafted by Simply Amish from the Aspen Trestle collection made in the USA.. I love the Arts & Crafts feel of the table and chairs. The chairs are so easy and comfortable to sit in.

A closer look at the roman shades.

The chandelier we choose was designed by Schonbek and is from the Madison Collection with handcut crystal made in the USA. I really love the mix of metal and crystal, its like wearing blue jeans with your diamond earrings. It gives our dinning room a touch of bling the ( diamond earrings) and the brick wall (blue jeans). I am a jean girl who always has her diamond earrings on...Yep that's me! bluejeans and diamonds. So why not have my dinning room comfortable and blingy LOL

From our living room the dinning room is visible in our open floor plan.

A little peek of the living room, next week I will show you all of the living room.

Since our last post of the kitchen we found these cute little bar stools. They tuck ever so nicely under the counter. Bar stools are from Pier One.

During all my picture taking Shiloh hardly budged from his bed, he was a tired baby after his bath. Shiloh brought his chewy to bed with him, how cute is he ( we are such proud puppy parents) love him!

Nite, Nite baby...

Aw such a sweet face, Shiloh was plum tuckered out!

Have a safe and happy week everyone.

Joining in with the following parties.

Susan-Between Naps on the Porch Metamorphosis Monday

Mary-Boogieboard Cottage Masterpiece Monday

Kathryn-The Dedicated House Make it Pretty Monday

Brenda-Cozy Little House Tweak it Tuesday

Marty-A Stroll Thru Life Inspire me Tuesday

Kim-Savvy Southern Style WOW Us Wednesdays

Sherry-The Charm of Home Home Sweet Home Party Friday

Courtney-French Country Cottage Feathered Nest Friday

Monday, April 28, 2014

Heart Of The Home ~ Our Kitchen

Well Hello there! I am so sorry I have been absent from my blog for so long. So many changes have taken place. During the move and remolding our youngest daughter Bernadette became Mrs. Dinehart, just last weekend April 19, 2014. Gary and I are so pleased and love our new Son...I will show you pictures of the wedding very soon.
Gary and I are also finely in our home and we wanted to share with you " The Heart of the Home" Our kitchen. This post is picture heavy (sorry) it was really hard for me to choose the right pictures to show you.
The first two pictures are how our kitchen looks now, below are the before, during construction and then completion.

We chose mission style cabinets that were custom designed, GE Cafe appliances and a farm house sink.
Gary and I love brick and wanted to incorporate it throughout our home. We used the brick as a back splash and behind the glass cabinets, to highlight the brick we had LED lights installed. The knobs and faucet are high polished chrome. Vintage drop lighting over the breakfast counter and can lighting in the ceiling.
We used our go to paint colors that we have used before Cozy Cottage on the walls, Swiss Coffee for trim and ceiling, cabinets Dove White.
There are pull outs in every cabinet and easy close doors and drawers.
The counters are quartz in Polor White. I love our kitchen so much it's everything I ever dreamed of!

BEFORE Photos ~ We had the counters extended from 5ft to 8ft, removed the bulk ceiling and moved the refrigerator from the stove side and extended the counter over to the wall and added more cabinets. The refrigerator now is on the sink side.

BEFORE Photos

DURING Construction

Behind the door is a half bath and laundry room.

Gary is in the plaid shirt, Charlie is in the beige shirt he is our General contractor and Jeff wearing a black Tee shirt is our cabinet contractor. Measure five times cut once...

Ripping out the ceilings is such a messy job...

Cabinets being installed, before paint

Lots of he-man muscle...

Kevin wearing the brown tee shirt is our all around talented Lead contractor he did all the finish work also installed all the trim throughout our home and painted all the cabinets. I think he must have been very tired of Gary and I day after day bugging him with questions..and there's Jeff installing the cabinets he made for us.

Jeff surprised me with the slots in the cabinet above the refrigerator, they are nice and deep and hold all my long serving trays..Thank you Jeff!!

Jesus is the owner of Concept Marble by Design they are located in Stockton Calif. Such a great guy! his shop fabricated all the counters in the kitchen and bathrooms for us. We highly recommend him.