Happy belated New Year! The fall was busy for us with a lot of different projects all leading up to this:
We're selling our house! We're currently under contract so should be closing in the next month! Yippee! Our lives over the past 4 months have revolved around work (and LOTS of travel for me!) and projects to prepare the house for selling.
Our house overall was in pretty good shape, but there were definitely some projects that needed to be done, so here are some highlights of what we did!
--Updates to the kitchen: we ended up refreshing the cabinets with new hardware, cleaning and touching up the paint on the cabinets, and doing a deep clean of the grout (that was a fun Saturday!).
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| Top is the new hardware and bottom is what we replaced. |
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| Cabinets with new hardware! |
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| Grout- before and after deep cleaning |
--Refinished the fireplace in the master bedroom: the paint on the fireplace had gotten a bit dull and some of the knots in the wood were showing through the paint, so we wanted to refresh the fireplace to make it look that much more appealing in the master suite.
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| Before! |
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| Prepped and ready to paint |
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| The finished product with a drawing I bought from a street artist in Vienna. |
--Organization: We packed up a lot of items to de-clutter the house, but there were some items we needed to keep handy that we used pretty frequently, so the solution was baskets to store items to look more organized. It's amazing how these spaces were transformed with just a couple decorative baskets from Target.
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| Coat closet - before |
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| Coat closet - after |
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| Laundry room - before |
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| Laundry room - after |
--Staging: I didn't take before pics, but we followed the advice of all the different websites that touted the importance of staging the house to sell it. We removed pretty much anything in the house that was personal including all pictures and knick-knacks and packed them up. We packed up a bunch of other stuff to generally de-clutter the house, especially the kitchen. The after results of all the packing up and staging the house!
The living room: our sectional previously was one large piece of furniture but we ended up completely rearranging the living room to make it flow better and to move the couch away from the fireplace.
Kitchen: We packed away most of the items that were on the counters (i.e., our extensive wine collection since we don't drink wine that often...) and put away all the wedding save the dates and invitations that were covering our fridge.
The dining room: we had been using the dining room as an office so we had to completely update that room to turn the room back into a dining room.
The house selling process should be wrapped up in the next few weeks so now our attention is turned to packing up and trying to find a new place!
Until next time,
CZP
