Laundry Room June 2014

My dream had always been to make our second floor laundry room AWESOME, and in 2014 we decided to go ahead with it.  Previously, our washer and dryer were housed in a closet within the room, which never made much sense to me.  There is a door from the hallway to the laundry room already, so why hide the machines even further?  It's a laundry room, they are meant to be in there!  Also, since we have front loaders, I really liked the idea if elevating them for easy access.  We also needed to have some sort of pan under the machines, being on the second floor.  Another thing I always wanted in a laundry room was a slate floor.  We ended up going with ceramic tile that had a slate appearance.  This was the last job that our contractor Brian did on the house- we miss him, he did great work!  And of course Francesco did the tile work, and built the step for the washer and dryer.  I found Francesco back when we renovated the boys' bathroom, and he has done TONS of jobs for us since- he is a true tile artist, straight off the boat from Sicily.

BEFORE pic-

Former location of the sink-

(Not pictured: coral/orange formica countertop!)

Work in Progress

Finished!

It's a gorgeous place, as it should be, considering how much time I spend in there!

March 2018! Holy Crap!

I haven't blogged since 2015- oy vey!  Since then, much has happened, both with the house and with our family!  After some bumps in the road, we welcomed a daughter, Emerson Jane, on April 19, 2017.  She is a dream come true and completely meant to be in our family.

We've also done TONS of house stuff! (shocker)  I don't even know where to start.  I guess the pool is a good place, as it was done in Spring of 2015.

The pool was ancient and crumbling.  Tiles were falling off, the bullnose edge was cracking, we had leaks, etc.  We also had a useless "spa" off to the side that we never used and never planned to use, so we decided to get rid of it.  Our pool deck was cracking concrete, so we ripped it out, as well as the backyard walkway leading up to it.  It was a massive, annoying, expensive project, but came out really beautifully.

But first, Emerson!

Ok now the pool project:

Finally, in JULY!  The project took 3 months total.