Summertime

Summer summer's fine...ooooh Summer's fine.

Summertime was like my favorite song ever when it came out (DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, stop playing like you don't know)
 The actual lyrics were Summer Summer time, but I sang it with my updated lyrics so much when the song came on the radio all my friends would sing it with my remix! And Summer is fine...because Summer is almost done!!

WANNA SEE??

The outside is completely done...stucco and errrythang.

I honestly can't believe there used to be NOTHING here. 

That's a peek inside...I know you can't see much but its a great picture...

Our chandelier is in and the color is on the walls.

Entry to the En Suite

This a view into our master bathroom...do you spy my HUGE tub?? No?

There it is!!

We have one side entirely covered in Carerra Marble.

And the Carerra shower with chrome fixtures and frameless shower doors.

That's our vanity. It's boring now but it won't stay that way. Can you believe how far we've come? We used to be this:

Hooray! Still more to do, floors and finishing (knobs, handles, countertops, recessed lights etc.) but we are dangerously close to being done.  

HOORAY!

and for your viewing pleasure

xoxoxo,

Summer

What you know about that?

Carrera Marble wall?

Progress Pics!!

This is the outside...can't believe there used to be NOTHING there. Bananas.

And we're ready to paint, so of course we're doing tests:

From left to right, Benjamin Moore Silvery Moon, Flint Smoke Behr, Sea Glass Benjamin Moore and Pale Smoke, Benjamin Moore.
The rest of the house is pretty muted, so I wanted some color in here. We're going one feature wall Flint Smoke and the rest Silvery Moon.
Now what you really came to see:

This is our whole Marble wall, with shower.

This wall is where the tub will go.

This is a close up of the floor - doesn't it look JUST like wood? It's porcelain tile!

This is a straight up shot of the tub wall. We're getting there....so close I can taste it! More to come...

xoxox,
Summer

Rub a dub dub

Summer got a big 'ol tub!

I love a good bath. In fact, I love a good bath so much I specifically designed my entire master bathroom around it.

That's why it hurt my soul when I had to go with a much smaller bathroom. But being who I am, I found a way to squeeze a huge soaker tub in that puppy anyway. Thanks in no small part to the Floor Plan Pro APP - which. is. genius.

So listen, I smushed everything in here. There won't be any room for dancing, BUT there will be room for bathing. I don't have a before picture, well because there was nothing there but this is the inspiration for after:

I really, really wanted a Gray vanity. I'm doing these super cool dark Ash Gray wood looking tile floors and I thought a light Gray vanity would have been awesome. But with all the unexpected budget hits, I ended up having to go with a builder grade white cabinet. But I tricked out the hardware AND am doing a Carrera Marble top, so that should help.

If the tub is the Star, the Carrera is the Producer. The entire east-facing wall is Carrera marble from the ceiling to the floor. Due to the fact that I smushed that tub in there, I had to make the fixtures come out of the wall, instead of a free standing tub filler. Its a downer but it its what it is. I also have a 3 x 3.5 foot glass enclosed shower. Of course, a toilet with a privacy wall and two ginormous mirrored medicine cabinets to bounce the light around in there. OH. Lights.

I goofed here, I have a ton of recessed so I should have done pendants but I didn't. I did those cheesy sconces. I don't love them but I was under the gun. I do however love my chandelier over the bathtub. Its not the safest thing, but whatever. I love it.

Its also a hodge podge of suppliers; sconces and mirrors are Pottery Barn, Glass Pulls and Knobs are Restoration, tub and Shower Fixtures are Grohe, Tub is Modern Bathroom and Chandelier is Shades of Light.

Tile is going in today!! Progress pics to come...

xoxo,
Summer

Fly me to the Moon

Well you don't have to actually. I've lit the outside of my house so that you can, now, see it from the moon. That's kind of the same...isn't it?

BEFORE

AFTER

What a difference day makes... well that and eight LED floodlights and 12 landscape lights, but I digress.

xoxox,

Summer