tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85365418819726032752024-03-14T06:40:13.895-07:00Steward of DesignStacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-5481587134138342662019-05-26T14:26:00.001-07:002019-05-26T14:26:10.691-07:00Where to Find MeIt's official... you can now find me at <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://stewardofdesign.com/">Stewardofdesign.com</a></span></b><br />
I am thankful for those of you that have followed me here on blogger even when I wasn't so good at staying active in blogging. I hope that you were continue to follow me over at the new site, and of course you can find me on<a href="http://instagram.com/stewardofdesign" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> or my <a href="http://facebook.com/stewardofdesign" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> for more up to date posts.<br />
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Thank you so much!Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-79365251527013943582019-01-19T11:08:00.000-08:002019-01-19T11:08:01.760-08:00I'm Moving.....Hey all. I have finally done it. I am moving. Moving from blogger that is.<br />
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Please follow me over at <a href="http://stewardofdesign.com/"><b>STEWARDOFDESIGN.COM</b></a>.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-85426608677607871282019-01-03T11:34:00.002-08:002019-01-03T11:38:00.709-08:00New Year, New IdeasHappy New Year!<br />
It has been awhile and if I have any readers still around, I thank you!<br />
For 2019, I will be working on a new website, new portfolio photos and a pricing list. When the new website is up, I definitely will be blogging more and helping give you inspirational decorating ideas and tips.<br />
For now, I'd like to announce some introductory prices to kick the year off.<br />
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One Hour consultations: $100<br />
It will include an hour at your home, and you can ask me an design questions or concerns you have for a space. I will verbally give you my advice and ideas.<br />
After that, if you'd like to take it to the next step, I am offering $300 for a custom design board for your space/budget, an itemized list of the products I recommend, and furniture layout.<br />
For kitchens/bathrooms, I will charge $400.<br />
If you'd like to take it an even further, and want me to do all the shopping, install, work with a contractor, etc. I will charge $75/hr.<br />
For local friends, I will travel anywhere in the greater Seattle area. If you're not near this area, we can still work with each other from afar.<br />
These prices are just for the month of January, so contact me to set up a meeting! I would be honored to help you create a space in your home that you love spending time in.<br />
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It contains some of my favorite colors and patterns.. black/white and ticking stripe.<br />
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Emily & Meritt have done lines for PB Teen and kids in the past and it's so nice to see them in the more adult buyers world of Pottery Barn. I love the way they take classic staples, fabrics and colors and put their fun twist on it. For example the bunny art, the stars of the duvet and shams, the tassles on the drapes, the hand collection. It takes what could be a very sophisticated room and puts a bit of youth and whimsy into it. Who can't use a little youth and whimsy in their life?<br />
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Here are some of my favorites from this line.<br />
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A huge fan of ticking stripe, it never gets old for me.<br />
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This sconce is beautiful leather and brass!!<br />
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Fun rugs. The top rug has a little stripe of blue in it.<br />
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I can definitely see this pillow in my family room.<br />
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The drapes. Again the ticking stripe I love and the fun gold tassels.<br />
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That HUGE striped bolster! Love it!<br />
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Some fun art pieces. Isn't the bunny so cute?<br />
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Very cute and fun dessert/appetizer plates and napkins. I could also see these fitting in well into my kitchen.<br />
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And this cute toiletry bag also might be finding it's place in my shopping bag.<br />
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I realize I used the word cute way too much in this post. I will need to start using a thesaurus.<br />
Anyway, what do you think? What are your favorite pieces?<br />
To see more of this line, go <a href="https://www.potterybarn.com/search/results.html?words=emily%20and%20meritt&cm_sp=HeaderLinks-_-OnsiteSearch-_-MainSite&cm_type=OnsiteSearch&typeahead=legacy+emily%20and%20meritt+" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-22544494090516622122017-02-16T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-16T06:27:50.440-08:00White Walls<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When I mention painting a room white to someone there seems to be one of two reactions. The reaction of white walls is either met with great acceptance or "white? really? That's so boring"<br />
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I am in the very strong camp of painting walls white. If you ask me to pick out a color for your living room, kitchen, entry, etc. more often times than not, I will suggest white. There are of course exceptions and I do love a good moody gray, a crisp navy, a rich dark green and even a pretty shade of pale pink. It just depends on the room you're doing, the amount of light the rooms gets, and how you want the room to "feel" but after all said and done, I will most likely say white.<br />
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Why do I like white so much? It's crisp, clean, light/airy, and a great neutral base. In my case I like to switch out my decor a little more often than the average folk and keeping things neutral on the walls, gives me the opportunity to switch things up with pillows, throw rugs, lamp shades, etc without worrying if it'll match the wall color.<br />
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Another reason I love it for my house is because we live a little bit north of Seattle. If you're not familiar with Seattle weather... it's dark. It's a lot of gray cloudy days throughout the year and put that on top of me living in a wooden neighborhood, you can imagine we don't get much sunshine through our windows. When you don't have the power to change the dark weather outside, take the opportunity to lighten up your home on the INSIDE! It has made such a big difference in the feel of our house once I started painting rooms white.<br />
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This room by <a href="http://amberinteriordesign.com/" target="_blank">Amber Interiors</a> is one of my favorites. To me it is anything but boring. To me, this room is bliss. It reads light, bright and to me it doesn't scream white walls. Amber uses patterned/colored drapery, textured rug, dark sofas, leather side chairs, and lots of patterned throw pillows. With the white walls, I feel all these things pop, or are highlighted, whereas if you used a striking color or a dark color on the wall your eye would rest on that color and wouldn't move around the room as much.<br />
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Here's another favorite of mine by <a href="http://matthewcaughy.com/" target="_blank">Matthew Caughy</a>. The blues and the greens just stand out so much against the white. It "feels" like such a happy room, doesn't it? People think of white walls as being stark and cold. This room feels neither of these to me. Matthew brought in the warm wood-tone tables, woven shades, chairs and ottoman to bring warmth to the room, the plants give the room some life and the black in the vases, floor lamp and ceiling light grounds the room. Perfection!<br />
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In this room <a href="http://instagram.com/william_mclure" target="_blank">William McLure</a> not only did the walls in white but also painted the wood floors white. What makes this white room work? He added the textured woven blinds, bamboo chair, different shades of blues in the pillows, drapery, throw and vases, the great texture of the urns, wall art and fun turtle under the table.<br />
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I can't tell you how much I love this space by <a href="http://themaryn.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Adams</a>. Blue, white and pops of red, stripes, plaids...love. Again, is this room boring?? Not in my book.<br />
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<a href="http://kellynuttdesign.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Nutt</a> is a favorite designer of mine as well, and I love her Instagram feed. She brings warmth in the room with the wood coffee table and leather chairs. Pattern is brought in with the drapery, pillows, and rug, black for grounding the space with the curtain rods, door hardware, base of side table and other small side table.<br />
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Not only do I seem to love white walls but looking at the photos I've selected I definitely have a love for blue as well.<br />
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While everyone has their preference on what they like, I hope I have at least shown that white doesn't have to be boring, cold, and stark. To keep it from looking cold/stark all you need to do is bring in some texture (woven shades, baskets, woven furniture), warmth ( color of pillows, rugs, blankets, drapery, leather goods, wood furniture) pattern and sometimes hints of black to ground the room. <br />
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Want more examples of painted white rooms? Visit my <a href="http://pinterest.com/staceysteward" target="_blank">pinterest page</a>!<br />
Are you a white wall type of person?<br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-12363095744959564202017-01-12T03:00:00.000-08:002017-01-12T03:00:03.901-08:00The Best of PlansSomething I learned while we repaired and remodeled our home from last year was that even the best of plans don't always work out and you sort of have to roll with things sometimes.<br />
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I thought I'd take a look back at my original plans and see all that did and did NOT make the cut.<br />
Also, why I chose the items I did and how it's working out now 6 months later.<br />
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This was a little sketch done on how we originally saw the kitchen plan. It did pretty much end up looking like this but we didn't add a hood above the oven. We chose a pop up downdraft instead and we didn't choose a single oven but added 2 wall ovens inserted in the cabinets below with the induction cooktop centered.<br />
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It was supposed to look something like the above inspiration photo. I am so happy we went with the 2 full ovens though. I hosted Thanksgiving at our house this past year and it was so handy. It also comes into use when you are making more than one thing and need different cooking temperatures.<br />
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Going from the little counter space we had before to this has been a dream. It really has been so nice to be able to find room to spread out and doing baking or prepping and chopping for dinners. It also comes in when we are entertaining and to spread the food along the counters for buffet style eating.<br />
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I chose the white ovens because I love how they just blend in with the cabinets. I feel the whole kitchen has this camouflage type theme, for even the cooktop sort of just blends in with the dark countertops.<br />
As for the induction cooktop, I LOVE it! We had originally thought we were going to chose a gas range oven. When we went to the appliance store, we just were sold on the induction. It's safe, energy efficient and the easiest to clean up ever! I have never cooked with a gas stove so I can not compare but it is amazingly better than my old electric glass cooktop. Night and day difference. I think because the stove itself doesn't get hot ( just the pots/pans heat up- science is weird) if something boils over, the stove itself isn't really hot so it doesn't get baked onto the glass. Therefore cleaning up has been an absolute dream. Plus the quick range of heat is amazing. If I have something on too hot and starts bubbling too much, I switch it down and it instantly stops bubbling, where as with my electric it took forever for it to cool down. There's sort of a bad rumor that you had to have "special" pots and pans that are for induction cooktops only. That is not true. They just have to be stainless steel or iron. Something that if you put a magnetic on the bottom of your pot/pan it would stick. I unfortunately didn't have that kind. I had the hard-anodized aluminum pots from Calphalon. I did have a few Le Creuset pieces and those are cast iron so they work. I purchased a few All-Clad pieces and I love those too. I haven't had any problems with cleaning those either. <br />
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The plan of having the black counters on the exterior counters and a quartz marble like counter on the island stayed the same. Although I do like all white kitchens, I just love how having the black gives it just enough contrast. I couldn't be happier with both the countertops choices. The Absolute Black granite however can get a little streaky looking after cleaning if my cloth is too wet, so I use a fine dry microfiber cloth to buff out any streaks. I only use water on my counters and my <a href="http://staceysteward.norwex.biz/" target="_blank">Norwex </a>cloths. No chemicals at all. It is nice having the quartz on the island. Nothing will stain like real marble can and it is so durable.<br />
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The light fixture is not the same for we ended up adding three skylights above the island to gain more light into the kitchen and the single light would work, so we chose 2 pendant lights to center between the skylights.<br />
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I had great debate over the bar stools but ended up choosing these from <a href="https://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod6470222&categoryId=cat10220057" target="_blank">Restoration Hardware</a>.<br />
They are a weathered oak and bring some warmth into the all black/white color scheme. Yes, the chair pads are white but they are made with a perennial fabric, which is easy to care for and they are slipcovers so I can throw them in the wash. We have had them for about 5 months, and I haven't had to wash them yet.<br />
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The cabinet pulls I had chosen in my original plan were a dark bronze but I nixed that idea and decided to stay with the silver since it would tie in with the brushed stainless steel of my fridge handles, microwave and dishwasher. The pendant lights are the Pottery Barn classic pendant metal bell in nickel, which tie in with my faucet.<br />
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You can see in my original sketch I had drawn in a sconce above each window. This unfortunately didn't happen because as we were installing the ceiling our contractor asked if we wanted the load bearing header beam to be exposed like it was before or concealed. We decided to hide the beams. Since this was the case the ceiling would be dropped just a little and there is now only about 2 inches about the window trim and the where the ceiling begins. I was a little bummed out about that but hiding the beams is so much better.<br />
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This brings another slight change of plans, the beams. Although we decided to hide the load bearing beams, we were going to install faux beams to the ceiling but after we saw how much the ceiling was being dropped and again the lack of space above the windows it was no longer possible. I love love love the ceiling in the below photo but at the end I am okay that we don't have them. I still have the planks that I love and they bring in a little texture and visual interest that I wanted.<br />
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My basic thoughts of my plan prior to building was that I wanted the kitchen to be open and airy. We needed it to be light and bright because we are in a dark wooded neighborhood and I wanted it have a classic timeless look. Somewhere and I don't remember from who but a designer once said they liked when kitchens didn't scream KITCHEN, and that they liked when it sort of just felt like any other room in the house. Something about that stuck in my head and that's why I chose to blend in the ovens with the base of cabinets, hide the fridge and no hood above the stove. I sort of like that when you enter the kitchen you don't see a big oven and hood, or a gigantic fridge and upper cabinets all over. But and I'll give that a big BUT... don't get me wrong, there are plenty of kitchens I adore that the oven is the center piece and it's <i>BEAUTIFUL! </i>And if you see my Pinterest board I have many kitchens pinned with large and amazing decorative hoods above the oven. Just for me personally in this space I just felt the need to go simple and light.<br />
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I believe that about sums up the plan then and now. All in all there weren't too many changes. Some were out of my control and some were just last minute changes of my own.<br />
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When and if you do remodel or just a little refreshing of a space, my recommendation is to definitely get a plan in order. Choose what look you want the space to look like and feel, and really think how you want to use that space. However, be a little flexible in knowing somethings on the plan may have to change.<br />
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If you'd like my help with redoing a space of yours, please contact me. I'd be happy to help.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-59709316311234614122017-01-11T03:00:00.000-08:002017-01-11T07:02:12.942-08:00Powder Bathroom MakeoverI joined in on the One Room Challenge last spring 2016 and chose our powder room for a little makeover. Half of our house was being repaired/remodeled anyway and this powder room needed a little updating so we threw this room onto the punch list too.<br />
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However, I wasn't able to complete the room in the 6 week time frame of the challenge due to other things going around the house and yada yada yada, it didn't get done in time for the full reveal.<br />
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Here is what it looked like prior to the makeover.<br />
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It was painted a light brown with oak cabinet. It was very basic, and very brown.<br />
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Though I do have a fondness for some dark rooms, this one wasn't cutting it, plus the cabinet was very large and dated.<br />
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Here was my inspiration ideas.<br />
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It's very challenging to get a photo of this room but hopefully you can get the idea. We added beadboard vertically around the walls, painted them Farrow & Ball's All White, added a pedestal sink and I kept the same mirror and lights.<br />
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I love how bright the room is now. Before it felt almost dungeon like. I added the checkered towels and the blue and white stripe tray is from Fog Linen. I also like to keep a basket full of toilet paper handy in case a roll runs out.<br />
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Really this room has everything I love... blue and white, buffalo check, stripes, texture, nautical elements and white!<br />
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Hope you enjoyed this little makeover. <br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-37962672218697893182017-01-10T13:37:00.002-08:002018-07-01T20:34:29.986-07:00New ResolutionsThis blog has definitely been neglected this past year. Maybe it's the early stages of 2017, a new fresh start of a new year but I am excited to get back to blogging and talk about all things home decor.<br />
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It has been so easy to just post one photo on <a href="http://instagram.com/stewardofdesign" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and be done with it but as of late feel I have more to talk about and share than what I can do in that one little square box. However, don't get me wrong, I am still obsessed with IG and love getting so much inspiration from the people I follow, so I won't be leaving IG anytime soon. I am truly a visual addict!<br />
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So in short I hope that I will be back on the blog more this year but I won't commit to how many days a week, because just like any diet I've been on I am sure to fail that commitment. All in moderation, right?<br />
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First thing I'd like share with you are a few (VERY LATE) photos of our house this past Christmas. I know Christmas was so last year, people are already planning Easter by now. Anyway, here are a few shots of the house decked out for the holidays, if you follow me on Instagram you probably already saw them though.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-39651101998819312582016-10-13T12:45:00.002-07:002016-10-13T12:45:35.765-07:00When the Wind BreaksWe are having a wind advisory for my local area tonight and a second storm coming again on Saturday. They are predicting gusts up to 50mph or stronger. Sadly now when I see or hear anything about wind, my ears perk up and I get a pit in my stomach.<br />
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Eleven months ago this happened...<br />
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This was during the same kind of high winds.<br />
I will give a quick recollection of the day though not really just a recollection as I really know every detail by heart.<br />
We had a wind advisory that day and I was a little nervous as I always am on windy days/nights as we are surrounded by giant fir trees. I picked up my girls from school around 2pm and wind was picking up. We got home and it really started coming on strong. We could hear pinecones and branches pelting our house like a war zone. Every hit made me and the girls jump. We stepped into our little hallway going into kitchen and I was actually recording on my phone the sounds to send to my husband because it was so loud and crazy. I heard a loud bang and thought I better back up, and just as I backed up the tree fell in. The girls and I were standing a little farther back then the shot of the last photo above. We saw the tree fall in. We screamed and ran towards the other side of the house. This was after we had been home for maybe an hour or hour and a half.<br />
To say our adrenaline was in overdrive is a mild statement. I felt trapped in the house. We didn't know where to go to be safe and if anymore trees were going to fall in. We certainly couldn't go outside either. We are still dumbfounded by what happened next and even contractors and architects were scratching their heads on what caused this, but after the tree hit, our french doors in our dining room and back master bedroom blew open. These are wood french doors that were deadbolted shut. Blown right open, splitting the wood. Our two attic access hatches were also blown up into the air and dropped.<br />
I immediately called my husband at work and couldn't get through. I couldn't even process how to dial the phone at first. I just stood looking at it, thinking what am I supposed to do with this? I then called my parents, who live just a few blocks away. We didn't have a clue what to do. What do you do when a huge fir tree falls in your house?<br />
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Here are my tips of what to do.<br />
1. If you are at home at the time, go to a safe place. Put on shoes if you aren't already wearing them, as there could be broken glass or sharp debris.<br />
<br />2. Turn off any electricity to the affected area of the home. We had dangling live wires hanging from the ceiling. Our power had gone out shortly after the hit, as well as the rest of the neighborhood. If we didn't turn off the electricity it could have started a fire when power came back on or someone could be electrocuted. Since our house was hit so violently almost like a earthquake, we shut off gas but that might not be necessary for everyone.<br />
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3. Don't call 911, unless someone is hurt. I had called them because I had NO IDEA what I was supposed to do. Unless someone is hurt, there is nothing they can do and it is a waste of time for them and their resources. Lesson learned.<br />
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4. Call your insurance company asap. Sooner you get that claim going the sooner they can get to addressing it. They will not send anyone over that night. We actually didn't have anyone come for a couple weeks. They don't work on who has worse claim either. If your area has been hit hard, they will have several claims going and it will take awhile to get someone out to your home. We felt pretty frustrated about that part but it's something you will have to be patient about. This occurred on November 17th. About a week and half later, our house was broken into! A local representative came out and pretty much did a quick survey but that's it. We had to wait until early December for the Big Claims Representative to come in from the East Coast. He brought an architect and they survived and measured every square inch of the home. They basically write up a blueprint of your home and address everything that needs to be repaired. I will have to write a seperate post on what to expect from insurance company after this point.<br />
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5. Insurance company will tell you to go stay in a hotel and to do whatever you need to do to secure your home. They will reimburse you.<br />
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6. Call a tree service. Three giant firs fell that night from my neighbor's property, one hitting our house, one hitting their house and one falling in between our two properties. They called a tree service right away and we just used the same company. They were able to get on the house roof that night and trim back tree limbs and cover our exposed roof with tarp. This will save you from getting more damage. They had to come back the next day to pull the tree off the houses.<br />
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7. Then find a good and honest contractor as soon as possible. Preferably someone that has dealt with insurance claims before and know what they are doing. We were very lucky to have our neighbor who is a contractor do the work and he knew the ins and outs of dealing with insurance companies in the past.<br />
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8. Lastly, if you are in situation like we were and had to leave the home that night and couldn't live in the home until it was repaired, start looking for alternative living. Our insurance company paid for us to live in a rental home. They had a company searching for a home or apartment that was suitable in size and distance to girls school but we ended up finding the home ourselves. So don't be afraid to look on craigslist, zillow or wherever and do some sleuthing too for rentals. We stayed at my parents house for a month until we found our rental. We were out of the house for 8 months fyi.<br />
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What happens after the hit... emotionally?<br />
I wasn't upset about the house at all surprisingly. A lot of people that know how much we put into redoing our house and updating, etc. thought we'd be so sad to see it destroyed. I really wasn't. All I could do was be grateful. Grateful it wasn't worse. The house can be repaired and all the "stuff" could be replaced.<br />
What happened later is the hardest to get through. I couldn't go to sleep without seeing flashbacks of the tree falling over and over. I couldn't help thinking of what could've happened if girls were home alone, or if they or our dog were sitting on that couch. My nerves were fried. I really think I had a small form of PTSD. I was on verge of tears at all times. Not because of the house but because of the fear. I would jump at any sound. We had a few more heavy windstorms after that night and I was a basketcase! I felt fearful of everything. I would turn red inside when someone would tell me that it won't happen again. I would like to think I am an intelligent person. My brain knows this was a freak thing and chances of it happening again are extremely slim, but I'm guessing anyone you ask that has been hit with lightening if they still go out in storms now, and I'm pretty sure they'll say no. When I heard wind, all those fears, anxiety, and feelings from that night came rushing back.<br />
We have friends that had a similar situation happen to them years back and I remember how awful it was but you just don't know what they are feeling emotionally and how long that emotion goes on until you experience it yourself.<br />
If this happens to someone you know, be a shoulder to cry on and don't forget to keep checking in on them during this process. It is a long process, rebuilding the home and rebuilding the feeling of safety.<br />
So those are my tips. I hope they help and also hoping that none of you ever actually have to use them.<br />
As for me and my family we will be hiding out somewhere in the house where we are hoping no trees can hit. I really wish we had a basement right now. <br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-25288960521323581692016-10-10T13:11:00.000-07:002016-10-10T13:47:58.070-07:00My Silver Lining KitchenFor those that have been following me or know me personally, know I've been dreaming of a kitchen remodel pretty much since we first moved into the house 15 1/2 years ago.<br />
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Since moving in we have remodeled bathrooms, bedrooms, living/family rooms, dining room, floors, fireplaces but we just never pulled the trigger on the kitchen because of well... the huge expense that a kitchen remodel typically takes to complete. Shortly after moving in we replaced the dated 80's yellow tile counter tops, put on new hardware on the cabinets and bought new appliances. Pretty much putting lipstick on a pig so to speak. It was an improvement but not really a dream kitchen by any means.<br />
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Then almost one year ago, during an exceptionally windy November day, a large tree fell on our house, or rather fell <b>through</b> our house. The tree fell into the family room that adjoins our kitchen. While by the looks of it in pictures you wouldn't think the kitchen was damaged at all. The tree damaged the exterior wall that runs along the west side of the house, which is our family room, informal eating area, and kitchen. The wall was not 90degrees any more and it would obviously have to be repaired, meaning the kitchen cabinets would have to be removed from said wall. Luckily, our insurance company realized that there is no way to remove the cabinets and reinstall them and have them looking just as good as they were before, so they gave us money to rebuild our kitchen, minus the costs for appliances, since there was nothing wrong with them.<br />
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So our silver lining was a new kitchen. I have been dreaming and scheming a new floor plan that would work for us better for years, and we were finally being able to get it.<br />
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After getting the okay from insurance company we would be compensated for a new kitchen, we took no time ripping out the cabinets.<br />
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This was a happy moment when the sheetrock was installed and the skylights were installed. It finally felt like things were progressing. </div>
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Another happy moment was when the planking on the ceiling was in, painted and then the cabinets arrived!<br />
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Counters were installed. We chose black honed granite for the exterior cabinets and white quartz on the island for some contrast.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-80234014607696434042016-09-15T13:53:00.001-07:002016-09-17T12:38:39.495-07:00Moved InLittle late in writing this post, but what's new? We have been moved in for two months now and besides trying to clear out some piles in the garage and finishing some repairs in the laundry room (more on that later), we are pretty much settled in.<br />
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In case you are new to ready my blog, a quick recap of what has happened in the past 10 months is a tree hit our house last November. We had to leave our home that late afternoon and were unable to live in our house for 8 months! We stayed with my parents for 4 weeks and then our insurance company found a house to rent for the last 7 months. We had lots of damage obviously and we added on some other improvements to the house because of the whole "we might as well" stage we were in.<br />
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Yes, I was home and with two of my daughters standing just feet away from the tree. It was traumatic and I think the three of us had PTSD for a few months after. I will get more into the whole incident in another post.<br />
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Since it has been FOREVER since I last posted, I thought I'd show you some quick photos of what the house looks like now for those of you that have been so kind in following along with the whole rebuilding progress.<br />
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This is what our family room looked like BEFORE the tree fell.<br />
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Things get delayed for various reasons, and all I can give for advice to anyone that has to go through a large rebuild or renovation like this is to have lots of patience and that it'll get done when it gets done. Believe me when I say I know it can be frustrating at times and you will think it'll never get done but everything will come together in the end. All in all, we have been very lucky in the fact that whatever worker that was supposed to show up on a particular day, has actually shown up. In past experience and stories I've heard from friends, many times workers go MIA, but we've been very lucky in that area. <br />
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Enough talk, let me show you a little of what's been going on...<br />
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The house got painted a dark gray. I chose Benjamin Moore's color Wrought Iron. I love the way it turned out with the bright white trim. Next up is fixing the deck and repainting that. I haven't chosen the color yet, but will probably go with a light gray.<br />
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Counter tops were installed and I'm so happy with them. I picked Absolute Black Granite in a honed finish by Pental for the exterior cabinets and "Misterio" Quartz by Pental as well. <br />
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Not the best photo but you can see I chose two wall ovens and mounted them in the lower cabinets, in the middle is the induction cooktop and we installed a downdraft fan, so no need for an upper fan.<br />
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To the right, you can see 2 niches, one has a built in lower cabinet. At first I was planning on using this as a "command center" with family calendar and such, but I think I will install shelves instead and make it into a little coffee bar and maybe put my wine glasses up there too since we took down our other bar area in the family room. The second niche is our walk in pantry. We had this before the renovation and we will be installing new shelving inside and adding a barn door instead of the bifold door that was on it previously.<br />
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Windows were temporarily covered because the exterior was being painted.<br />
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Again, not a great photo but white subway was installed to the ceiling there on the back wall, pendant lights were installed as well as the sink faucet.<br />
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Our harwoods are just starting the staining process. I really wanted to go light but we have red oak floors and if I went light they would still have a pinky tone to them, and I just wasn't loving that. Instead I decided to go similar to what we had before but went a little darker and added ebony so the floors are more of a true brown with no hints of red.<br />
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That's about all to show for now. The staining process should take most of the week if not all of this week. We are hoping to get back in by the weekend, so we can start touching up paint in the other areas of the house.<br />
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Hoping that the next time I check in here, I'll be able to show you the tiled fireplace. I will also do a post on any changes that were made to my original plans and why. Stay tuned.<br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-55932398356860361852016-05-27T08:40:00.003-07:002016-05-27T08:40:37.989-07:00House UpdateI just was looking back at my last blog post about updates on the house renovation and see that it has been awhile since I posted all that has been happening.<br />
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A look back at where it all started until now...<br />
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Hardwood floors were replaced and fixed in the kitchen and new hardwoods installed in family room to replace the damaged carpet.</div>
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Things are moving along now. I'll post more updates of other areas of the house next. Lots of stuff coming together, so stay tuned.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-87725276628490047582016-04-28T12:42:00.000-07:002016-04-28T12:42:25.603-07:00ORC- Beadboard Powder Room Week 4Week Four in the One Room Challenge (ORC) hosted by Linda of <a href="http://callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a>.<br />
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Updates from last week is my husband installed the floor to ceiling sheets of beadboard to our powder room, while my I painted one of my daughter's bedroom because you know we just can't get enough of projects right now.<br />
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The real reason for me painting my daughter's room wasn't for the pure joy of another project, it was because one of her walls was damaged during the install of the new ceiling beams in the family room. In case you aren't up to date with why we installed new ceiling beams... you can catch up <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-failed-and-home-update.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
I could've just painted the one damaged wall but the rest of the walls were looking a little banged up so I decided to do the whole thing and do it myself to save us some costs to go to other areas of the home.<br />
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Back to the powder room... here is the current look.<br />
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I am thinking there will be a lot of painting primer in our near future, don't you think? I am excited to see it all painted bright white though. It'll add so much to this little powder room.<br />
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Bad news, I'm 100% sure I will not complete this challenge in time. When I decided to jump on this challenge, I knew there was a chance it might be close but now I have a better grasp of the house timeline. <br />
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Our new hardwoods in the kitchen should be installed soon, and perhaps the rest of the house floors will be sanded soon too but they won't be stained until the kitchen cabinets are in and that won't be until the end of May (crossing fingers). After the kitchen cabinets are installed then they will be sprayed and left to cure THEN the floors will be stained and finished, leaving the toilet and sink not to be installed until after the floors are done. Insert sad emoji.<br />
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I will continue to post our updates along the way though and hope you'll follow along with this project and the rest of the house projects after the ORC challenge is over.<br />
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In the meantime, you can see the Featured bloggers/designers week 4 progress <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-week-4-featured-designers" target="_blank">HERE</a> and the other link uppers like myself <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-guest-participants-week-4" target="_blank">HERE</a>. See you next week!<br />
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Missed any of my past week's progress?<br />
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<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/orc-bathroom-remodel.html" target="_blank">Week 1</a><br />
<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-room-challenge-week-2-powder-room.html" target="_blank">Week 2</a><br />
<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/orc-week-3-powder-room.html" target="_blank">Week 3</a>Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-51839803054478363312016-04-21T12:28:00.001-07:002016-04-21T12:28:36.950-07:00ORC Week 3 - Powder roomIs it just me or do weeks go by pretty fast when you're on a deadline?<br />
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We are at week three of the One Room Challenge hosted by Linda of <a href="http://callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a>. For anyone new to the blog, I'm am working on my powder room and you can catch up here on <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/orc-bathroom-remodel.html" target="_blank">week 1</a>: the before shots and <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-room-challenge-week-2-powder-room.html" target="_blank">week 2:</a> the plans.<br />
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No photos of progress to share with you this week. Last week I was teetering on whether to do a dark paint on the walls or go white. Although I saw many gorgeous dark bathrooms to give me inspiration, in the end I have decided to go white. There are no windows, skylights or any trace of natural light in this small powder room therefore I was a little afraid it would turn into a dark hole.<br />
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We did pick up the sheets of beadboard this past weekend and maybe we will get a chance to install it this coming weekend.<br />
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Here are some more inspiration photos to get me through this renovation.<br />
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I have made another mood board and switched things up a little.<br />
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I will be honest that since this is the third week and we should be half done, I'm not too confident that I will make the 6 week deadline. All of it waits on the hardwoods being installed and stained before the toilet and sink can be installed and <i>when</i> the hardwoods get installed & stained isn't really in my hands. It could be a tight race to the deadline for sure.<br />
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To see the 20 Featured Challengers 3rd week update go <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-week-3-featured-designers" target="_blank">HERE</a> and to follow along with the other linking up challengers like myself go <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-guest-participants-week-3" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Lots and lots of inspirational makeovers happening over there!<br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-18597459412498581042016-04-13T01:00:00.000-07:002016-04-13T01:00:11.356-07:00Going DarkPicking paint color is not always an easy job. You really need to consider several things before choosing a color that is right for your home.<br />
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Today I will be giving you a run down on how I chose my new paint color for the exterior of our house.<br />
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Where is your house located? Is it on a wide open acreage, near the beach/lake, in a housing development, in a wooded area?<br />
You may be wondering why this matters. The color you choose should compliment your surroundings and not stick out awkwardly. I believe your exterior should definitely stand out but in a good way of course.<br />
I live in a wooded neighborhood in the Pacific NW where we get our fair share of dark, rainy days. My love of white houses will have to be a love from afar, as it would be a task to keep it clean and not have the moss show on it after a long wet fall and winter. I could probably get away with a white house here in my town, if I didn't live in such a wooded neighborhood where it can be a bit darker than other neighborhoods.<br />
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<i>Neighbors</i><br />
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Look around at the houses around you. Make sure you aren't choosing a color similar to theirs. You want to stand out but again in a good way, and it might be difficult to give directions to a friend saying the light grey house when there are 3 grey houses in a row. <br />
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<i>Research</i><br />
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Not sure what color to choose? Look around on Pinterest, Instagram,Google. See a house in town that you love? Go ahead and knock on their door and ask what color they used. I am sure they'd be flattered. Pick a color that sings to you. I know that sounds weird, but if you don't really love it than I promise in a couple years you are going to HATE the color. Painting a house is not exactly cheap or easy to do, so make this a good choice.<br />
This leads me to my next point however. No matter how great a photo looks like online or your friends/relatives house, it doesn't mean it'll look the same on your house.<i> </i><br />
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<i>Test, Test, Test</i><br />
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Go to the paint store and pick several paint swatches. Bring them back to your home and see what they look like. They will look a lot different than they do inside the store! Narrow it down to 2-4 different shades of what color you are leaning towards,buy small samples and put them on your house in different areas. The sun hits your house in different angles and it will look a lot different on one side of your house than the other, especially during certain times of the day.<br />
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Here's my example<br />
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This is the look I am going after. A dark gray with bright white trim.<br />
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The colors I tested on the house.<br />
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I thought I was going to love the second from top color but when I got it on, it was way too blue for me. Especially on this side of the house. Don't get me wrong I dig a dark gray/blue house, I really do but it was a little too blue and made me a little nervous.<br />
See how different these 4 colors look from just a different angle I was standing in?<br />
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Here's what those same colors look like on the front of the house. The color I chose is the far right, Benjamin Moore's Wrought Iron. It has the dark look I am going for and maybe a tiny tint of blue. The other colors were leaning either too blue or purple to me. My plan is to paint the brick although the husband is fighting it. We will paint the siding first and see what it all looks like but I am thinking it won't look right unless it's all painted. Since it is brick and there's really no going back, I will wait and see before we dive in. I will be sure to show after photos and let you know if any changes have been made in the meantime because I have been none to change my mind at the last second a time or two.<br />
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Looking at this photo is so sad with our poor missing post light, our paint swatches, and dangling shutter... sorry neighbors. It will be beautiful soon! Crossing fingers anyway. Stay tuned.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-84887522035207944742016-04-12T02:00:00.000-07:002016-04-12T02:00:12.809-07:00Cha- Cha ChangesTime for a little house update since there have been some changes and progress.<br />
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Think this is about where I left you last.<br />
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Here is where we are now.<br />
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Roof is on, walls are fixed, electrical and plumbing done and thumbs up from city, insulation in and also thumbs up from city, drywall complete and texture spray complete. We have some progress people!<br />
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Thought I'd make a little list of things that are still needing to be complete in hopefully the next <br />
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Things that I will * next to are things that we are doing as add on's to the work and everything else is because it was damaged by the tree and the shaking it did to the house.<br />
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Family Room:<br />
-ceiling/beams<br />
-Fireplace redo with gas insert and install TV above fireplace*<br />
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-install hardwood floors* there was carpet in this room before and we have an allowance to replace carpet but we are upgrading to hardwoods since it was so hard to keep carpets clean in this room for we enter from the garage into this room multiple times a day<br />
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Kitchen:<br />
-Ceiling<br />
-skylights* (skylights will be new addition)<br />
-new cabinets<br />
-pantry shelves & barn door*<br />
-install pendant lights*<br />
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Dining Room:<br />
-New French doors<br />
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When the tree hit the house there was so much pressure and shaking that it blew these doors and our master bedroom doors wide open! I might add that these doors were locked and dead bolted shut and the master bedroom is on the complete other side of the house and it did the same to those doors as well. Pretty insane! It even popped all of our attic hatches up and out of place.<br />
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New doors have now been installed.<br />
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Stairway:<br />
-drywall fix and painted. Drywall shifted and you could see nailpops and lines of the drywall<br />
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Powder Room:<br />
-install new sink*<br />
-fix hardwoods*<br />
-remove small closet*<br />
-patch drywall*<br />
-paint*<br />
This is a room that needed updating and I am doing this room as part of <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/orc-bathroom-remodel.html" target="_blank">The One Room Challenge</a>.<br />
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Upstairs bedroom 1:<br />
-new windows (these windows are covered under insurance, they were tweaked with the hit)<br />
-repaint room<br />
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Upstairs bedroom 2:<br />
-New windows*<br />
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Master Bedroom/Bath:<br />
-new french doors<br />
-new windows*<br />
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Laundry room:<br />
-patch ceiling<br />
-paint<br />
-remove built in iron board*/patch hole<br />
-install tile floor<br />
- install utility sink<br />
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-fix siding on damaged side of house<br />
-remove and replace rest of siding of house*<br />
-paint exterior<br />
-fix exterior post lights<br />
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My little list is longer than I thought. Lots of different stuff going on in almost every room in our house, but I feel we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.<br />
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I will follow up soon on some changes that have been made to my previous plans on the kitchen and family room.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-23435517516474576452016-04-11T21:07:00.000-07:002016-04-14T04:19:10.981-07:00One Room Challenge Week 2: Powder Room PlansWeek two and nothing too exciting to share just yet of my One Room Challenge of redoing the powder room in 6 weeks. See the first week <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2016/04/orc-bathroom-remodel.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The cabinet has been removed and the drywall has been fixed.<br />
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I have been wanting to remove this dated cabinet for sometime but knew we'd have issues with the hardwoods, as you can see. Since we are redoing our hardwoods in kitchen and other areas of the house currently this was the perfect time to tackle this too. <br />
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In the last photo that rectangle was a little closet. I am not sure what it's purpose was for in a powder room but it was torn out when we removed the bar area in the family room which was right behind it.<br />
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Not all my plans for this room are set in concrete sadly, but here are the definite changes..<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These Schoolhouse Electric sconces I already have and they were above my kitchen window. We were no longer able to use them there so I may re-purpose them for this bathroom.</td></tr>
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Now onto the more non-concrete decisions...<br />
I am either going dark,<br />
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or white...<br />
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I am pretty certain I will be adding some sort of planking/beadboard to the space. You'll just have to come back next week and see what's been decided.<br />
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If you haven't already checked out the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-week-2-featured-designers" target="_blank">20 featured Challengers</a> on Linda's blog, Calling it Home, you really should. I love that Linda chooses different bloggers/designers with different styles and taste, since we all have different styles and tastes that we gravitate too. There's something out there for everyone to get inspiration from.<br />
Also, please check out all the other linker uppers, like myself on <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-guest-participants-week-2" target="_blank">Linda's blog</a>. There are so many joining in on the fun challenge that I have not had a chance to look at all of them myself! I am very excited to dig into them this weekend though.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-69436379085662281142016-04-06T22:31:00.001-07:002016-04-06T22:31:46.202-07:00ORC Bathroom RemodelOur house is coming along and we have several projects going on so it makes sense that I should jump aboard the linking up party on Linda's spring edition of the One Room Challenge.<br />
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The One Room Challenge consists of redoing a room in 6 weeks and checking in every week during those 6 weeks to update you on the progress. Every Wednesday, Linda of the blog, <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a> and the creator of the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2016/4/one-room-challenge-featured-designers-spring-2016" target="_blank">One Room Challenge </a>hosts her 20 Featured designers/bloggers on their 6 week challenge, and then on Thursdays, any one with a blog can join in on the fun on can link up to her blog.<br />
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<br />This challenge is not new to me, I've joined in four times before when redoing our <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-room-challenge-master-bedroom.html" target="_blank">Master Bedroom/Bathroom</a>, one of my daughter's <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2013/11/pre-teen-hangout-room-reveal.html" target="_blank">"hidden hangout room"</a>, a <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-week-six-final-reveal.html" target="_blank">bar area</a> in our family room and the last one was our<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/laundry-room-refresh.html" target="_blank"> laundry room</a> which was not complete because the tile I chose arrived too late before the deadline. Actually the tile is still not installed.<br />
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For me picking a project this time around was hard because there's just so much going on at my house right now. To recap for new readers, a tree fell through our roof in November during a high wind storm, and you can read about it here in this <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-failed-and-home-update.html" target="_blank">post</a>. We have been going through insurance and waiting for good weather, and are FINALLY hitting some good momentum with the rebuilding. I'm a little nervous about joining in this time around because I have no control on when this room is worked on and when it will be complete. Our whole house should be done in 6 weeks but you know how that goes.<br />
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Since we are in this huge remodel of what feels like half of our house, one of the other projects we decided to add to the list was our powder room. You may be familiar with the the children's story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, well that is ringing true for us and this remodel. One thing is leading to another, but seriously a lot of it just makes sense to get done while in the thick of it all. I will have to do another post on all the added projects we have going on soon.<br />
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Back to my One Room Challenge project. The powder room. I'm so embarrassed that I don't have better photos. I had my husband take these real quick for me one day before they started ripping the room apart. The photos don't show much and they don't show all of the room and there was a bad filter on his photos. Basically, what we had going on was a brown oak vanity, brown silestone countertop, and brown walls. Pretty boring. Also, I have to add this is what our bathroom looked like during construction of other areas in our house and was being used by the construction workers. I don't usually have a roll of toilet paper sitting on the counter or the hand towel crumbled there either.<br />
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To be honest, I am not 100% sure what I'm doing with this room. I am either going dark or I'm going light. Real nail biter huh? haha Well, you'll just have to come back next week and see my plan and hopefully I'll come up with a more concrete plan by then. Crossing fingers.Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-12402902877583372212016-02-23T21:02:00.000-08:002016-02-23T21:02:11.324-08:00Family Room Changes and UpdateWe finally got some good weather and our house is making some progress!<br />
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Isn't it a little sad that THIS is progress?? In case you are new to my blog, you'll have to go back and read<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-failed-and-home-update.html" target="_blank"> this</a> post to understand why we have no roof.<br />
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I'm so ready for the "good" stuff! Not this boring, oh you need a roof stuff. Whatever.<br />
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Here's a look back at what was once a livable family room.<br />
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Other than a roof, we are making some other changes in here. The dark beams you see are the load bearing beams covered in a faux worm wood type material. These are the beams that were hit by the tree. Our contractor/builder is redoing the load bearing beams and they will be hidden under the sheetrock. I do however love the look of exposed beams, so we will be doing faux beams hopefully similiar to the ones below.<br />
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We will also be adding planking to the ceiling in between the faux beams and adding skylights. The decision of how many skylights and how big are being determined tomorrow.<br />
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The fireplace will look the same as before. All the planking on the top half will be rebuilt, and my husband is overjoyed it doesn't have to be him to rebuild it. We will be putting a tv above the fireplace and moving the clock somewhere else. Our tv was in the little bookshelf to the left of the fireplace before and we are limited on the size the tv can be there. This way we can get a much larger tv for this room. I also will be adding a white mantle to the fireplace instead of the wood beam.<br />
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A few other changes...<br />
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Remember this bar that I designed and my husband built for one of my <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-week-six-final-reveal.html" target="_blank">One Room Challenges</a>? Well, it is now gone.<br />
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Honestly, I'm a little sad about it being gone because I thought it was cute and it did come in need when entertaining. It however drove me nuts and my husband as well that it was designed in the room as just this box protruding from the wall. It felt awkward to us, so we thought while in the midst of all this tear down this was the time to do something about it.<br />
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I will be changing up the decor just a little bit as well. Most of the things above are already in my room. My plans are to add those new leather stools from Pottery Barn. Our ceiling fan was damaged and I might possibly replace it with the beautiful beaded chandelier from Pottery Barn instead. My mirror above our console was damaged too, so I may be adding something like the round rattan mirror from Serena & Lily as well as the striped rug from Serena & Lily since we will be replacing our trashed carpet with hardwood floors that match the kitchen.<br />
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That about concludes my family room plans. I'm sure there will be some changes and maybe obstacles that will come up along the way of rebuilding. Some of my kitchen plans have already changed and I will do another update on that soon.<br />
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<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-29956664351788949592016-02-15T16:48:00.000-08:002016-02-15T16:54:34.022-08:00Kitchen Plans aka My Silver LiningA new kitchen is something I've been dreaming about since we received keys to our new home 15 years ago! Lots of dogeared magazines, many pins of kitchens on Pinterest, and the time is finally here. Gulp! <br />
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Have you ever been in this situation where you finally are able to attack a project that you've been dreaming about for so long, and now that it is here you freak that you aren't sure about the choices you have made? Well, that's me.right.now. <br />
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There are definitely some ideas that I know FOR SURE that I want without question but others, I'm like teetering on and hope I'm choosing the right choice.<br />
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Here are my ideas as of now....<br />
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A rough draft sketch of the layout.<br />
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Then we took our plans to Lowe's and they put it out on this 3D scale. Again rough idea, not completely the same as what it will look like but similar. It depends on which oven I choose, and if it has a down draft, I won't have the hood that I sketched in above, and the island should be longer. I am hoping it will fit at least 5 chairs.<br />
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A look back at what it looked like before. As you can see, very 80's oak cabinets, with that one upper that was at eye level and you couldn't carry on good conversation with anyone that was seated in the kitchen eating area (below the chandelier). From the plans above you will see we are eliminating the eating area and we will no longer have a kitchen table in there. We will plan to use the island to eat our informal meals and the stairs that you see going up in the back of the second photo is our formal dining room that we will use when we have company or when we want to sit around a table and not at the island. I love that this plan will open up the space so much more and I will have so much more working/prepping space that I didn't have before. In this old kitchen everything was so choppy with the cooktop in center on one area and the sink in the middle of the other and a small area next to the refrigerator. There wasn't a lot of space to spread out.<br />
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Also, you know when you have a get together and everyone hangs out in the kitchen, with this old layout it was very confined to the u shape area and felt cramped, or people were on the other side where you couldn't see them very well because of that upper cabinet.<br />
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This is a little "mood" board that I created for the kitchen.<br />
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This reflects my idea to have 2 windows flanking the the stove in the center of the long wall.<br />
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Thinking one or 2 of these for above my island.<br />
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I haven't gotten to the point where I've actually had to pick out my countertops yet, but I will be doing some black honed granite or quartz on outer cabinets and a "marble" like quartz on the island.<br />
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My island counter height chairs that I'm debating. I am pretty sure I'm going with the top one for 3 reasons, 1. they are cheaper of the two, 2. they are just like the ones we had in my kitchen growing up, 3. I am adding a leather chair and stools to the adjoining family room and feel it might be too much leather. <br />
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We got a pretty ridiculous deal on a used Sub Zero fridge. It is a paneled one and we will have our cabinet maker make new panels to match our new cabinets, and paint them white of course.<br />
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We have an allowance from the insurance company to fix some of the damaged hardwoods in the kitchen area and refinish, and I would LOVE to lighten the heck out of them. I love this look so much. These are I'm guessing white oak and my floors are red oak, so I'm pretty sure I can't get this exact look but I'm going to try. Some people might say this is a fad/trend of going with light floors but I'm not choosing it because it's trendy, I'm choosing it because I love this look.<br />
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Our ceilings will be redone obviously. (if you don't know why I am saying obviously, you need to go back and read my last two posts) You can see in my above before photos, we had large exposed beams on our ceiling and while I love exposed beams, I wasn't in love with the dark worm wood material that wrapped the beams. Our contractor is redoing the ceiling to conceal the beams under the sheetrock, but since I love the look of beams, we will be adding faux beams and will be painting them white as the photo above. The plan is also to have planking in between the beams and a few skylights in the kitchen and adjoining family room. This will bring in so much more character and texture to the two rooms, and more natural light that is much needed in this area of the house.<br />
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This is my basic plans right now. We are still in a stalled position right now since we are waiting for clear days to do the next step of rebuilding which is opening up and redoing the roof. Sadly I don't see really any clear days in our near future, so this might take awhile.<br />
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To maybe clear up some questions you might have, like why are you getting a new kitchen when it looks like there wasn't any damage to your cabinets or to the kitchen really at all?<br />
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Where the tree in lying above the three windows is our family room which is connected to the kitchen, which are the two windows to the left. The impact of the tree pushed that wall out from 90 degree angle to about 70 degree angle.You can't tell that from the photo, and believe me none of the photos even come close to how bad the house really was/is damaged. The people that come to our house and see it in person have been shocked and say the photos really didn't do it any justice.<br />
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To fix the misalignment, the sheetrock and insulation all had to be removed thus the cabinets would have to be removed. The cabinets actually had come apart from the wall in certain areas and were coming apart from each other in other areas. Our insurance company deemed the kitchen a loss because we would not be able to take cabinets apart to get to fixing the wall and possibly re-framing and put the cabinets back together.<br />
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We received money to go towards new cabinets and new countertops based on our old cabinets. The costs that will deal with the switching of the layout of the kitchen and any upgrades past what we've been compensated for will be on our own dime. This was definitely without a doubt NOT how I wanted to get my kitchen remodel. If I had a choice of not having a tree fall on our house (and possibly being scarred for life) and no remodel versus the tree falling/new kitchen, I would choose no tree/no remodel. It happened though and this is just a sweet silver lining out of it all. <br />
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This was a lot longer of a post that I had anticipated. I will post our family room plans soon. If you have any questions feel free to ask away.<br />
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Until next time. Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-57734650583997813932016-02-12T08:23:00.000-08:002016-02-12T08:23:52.154-08:00Broken House UpdateIt's been awhile since I've blogged and thought I'd give you a little update on what I'm calling our Broken House.<br />
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If you missed what happened to our house in November and don't follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/stewardofdesign" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. You can read my last post <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-failed-and-home-update.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It's been almost 3 months since a tree fell on our house, and here is where we are today.<br />
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Not a lot of progress in those 3 months. I will dive into all of what's happened in those last 3 months later. I will also be giving tips on what to do to protect yourself in cases like this and tips on making your life easier with dealing with your insurance company in case of fire, theft, or let's say a tree falling on your house. Our insurance company has been great so far and the delay is not the fault of them or our contractor, it's just the whole darn process which I will dive into in a later post I promise. I have lots of tips to share for sure but I pray no one has to go through what we've gone through.</div>
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The silver lining in all of this is I'm FINALLY getting my new kitchen that I've been dreaming of for the last almost 15 years since we've lived here. You can see in the above photos how cut off the kitchen was with that horizontal cupboard blocking any vision into the family area. I've got big plans for these two rooms and I will post those ideas/plans on another post, that I swear won't take another 2 months to post.</div>
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Hope you'll follow along with me on the rebuilding process! I will be more good about posting more frequently so you'll see the up to date progress, but to be fair there wasn't any progress to talk about until now. I'll be back soon!</div>
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Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-58564504255015542142015-11-29T12:33:00.000-08:002015-11-30T22:56:35.069-08:00Challenge failed and Home UpdateFor those that don't follow me on Instagram, and were following my One Room Challenge, you might be wondering what happened to me and what is going on with my laundry room refresh.<br />
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First of all, I will say I failed the 6 week challenge of completing a room from start to finish for Linda of <a href="http://callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a>'s One Room Challenge. We were almost complete but our tile was delayed and didn't arrive in time.<br />
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Then when we were days away from having a tile installer come to finish it off, this happened....<br />
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No, we didn't decide to do a little remodel during the One Room Challenge... but I guess we are now.<br />
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We live up in the Seattle area and on November 17th we had a severe wind storm. Wind gusts were around 55-60 mph.<br />
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Ironically, if you follow me on Instagram you would see I posted a sweet picture of a hummingbird on our feeder that day. Wind gusts were strong but not that bad. Later in the day we got torrential rain that flooded streets, street traffic lights had gone out and the weather just picked up greatly. I picked up my 2 girls from school, arrived safely back home and the wind got worse and worse. We live in a wooded neighborhood with 100' feet trees surrounding us. It has always been a concern living here for the last 14 years but you just never think it will really happen.<br />
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Around 4:30 in the afternoon, as we were standing a few steps back to the left of this picture below when a tree fell through the house. It was truly horrific. We actually saw it fall through! First thought was to call my husband, and I can tell you I had so much adrenaline that I could not even figure out how to work the phone.<br />
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Tree fell from neighbor's back yard and fell in our family room and across the house to the front of our house into our driveway. Needless to say but it was a VERY large tree.<br />
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It is quite amazing how much damage the tree did and what it didn't do. As you can see above all the damage to the ceiling and with all the debris that fell but nothing on our bar area was touched.<br />
The house shook like an earthquake and we now have windows in other areas of the house misaligned. Our french doors in our dining room and master bedroom that were dead bolted locked were blown right open, but nothing on the bar moved. So crazy!<br />
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This is our laundry room. Surprisingly, no big damage other than the ceiling. It looks like it's a broken 2x4 busted through. Sadly looks like the ceiling in this room will possibly be removed as well. I just hope it doesn't ruin the walls that we just completed.<br />
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A photo from the night of of storm. You see this is the top of the tree that fell over the house blocking our entry and in our driveway.<br />
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This is our neighbor's house as they are removing a tree that fell onto their house right after ours. A third one fell as well and fell between our two properties.<br />
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I'm not upset with the damage of our home. I am too grateful that my neighbors are all safe,that my daughters, our dog and I are all safe and no one was hurt. It could be SO much worse.<br />
All of this can and will be fixed.<br />
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We've had one insurance adjuster and one engineer out to our home already to assess the damage. We are waiting for our Big Claims adjuster to fly in and come assess now. We are told it will be a very long process. It hit the load bearing beams and the roof/ceiling/walls from that whole side of house will have to be removed and rebuilt. Been told it could be up to 6 months. If there is a silver lining in all this, we better be getting a new kitchen out of this. Ugh!<br />
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I will be checking back in here to show progress of the home and the rebuilding. It may not be often as this again will sadly be a very long process.<br />
<br />Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-16230129734223020612015-11-05T15:30:00.000-08:002015-11-05T15:30:55.238-08:00Laundry Room Refresh Week 5Week Five is here for the One Room Challenge of freshening up our laundry room.<br />
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If you are just checking in here for the first time, I'm a link up participant for Linda of Calling It Home's One Room Challenge that she hosts twice a year.<br />
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Here's a recap of my weeks leading up til today:<br />
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<a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/laundry-room-refresh.html" target="_blank">Week 1</a> <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/laundry-room-refresh-week-2.html" target="_blank">Week 2 </a> <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/laundry-room-refresh-week-3.html" target="_blank">Week 3 </a> <a href="http://stewardofdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/laundry-room-refresh-week-four.html" target="_blank">Week 4</a></div>
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Last week was pretty unproductive and I was really hoping that more would've gotten done but honestly this will be a super quick post because not much was done. </div>
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Painting didn't get done. I'm hoping to do that this weekend. It should go quick and hoping it will only need one coat.</div>
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My husband did a little DIY for me. I saw this Pottery Barn hanging system and love the simple look of it. </div>
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I love the simplicity of it and we had some leftover wood from the moldings, so we used that. We bought a 5/8" w dowel and cut it into 9 pegs. We found these black rubber caps and after we painted the pegs/rail, we attached those.<br />
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Sorry for the very poor photo. Just have the peg rail sitting against the wall for now until I paint the room. I really like the look and hoping if I do decide in the future to buy any of the Pottery Barn components to this system it will fit our peg rail.<br />
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Now for the very bad news... I will more than likely NOT be done by Thursday's deadline. It is totally my fault. I was indecisive about what tile to use and for some reason thought I'd be able to find it in stock somewhere. Silly me. I got it ordered and it should've been here by now but there has been a delay. It should arrive now early next week, anywhere from Monday-Wednesday. Crossing fingers that there isn't any more delays. If we get the tile like Monday we might have a fighting chance.<br />
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Please do come back to see the final reveal (whenever that might be-gulp). I'm so excited to see the tile installed!<br />
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Here is this week's 20 designers/bloggers updates <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2015/11/one-room-challenge-fall-2015-week-5.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and the many other link up participants progress <a href="http://callingithome.com/" target="_blank">here</a> </div>
Stacey {steward of design}http://www.blogger.com/profile/16121023839502377752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8536541881972603275.post-80103190390680670472015-10-30T10:48:00.000-07:002018-07-01T20:42:46.409-07:00Fall House Tour 2015While I love all the little things that each season brings, I really love decorating for fall. I love adding new textures, and the burnt oranges, reds, and browns that I don't usually have in my day to day decor colors. It's sort of fun decorating for seasons like this because you can sort of redo rooms with just little touches without redoing the WHOLE room.<br />
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Some people go all out for decorating for the fall, and some people like to just add a thing or two and call it good. I think I fall somewhere in the middle. I don't decorate for Halloween, I decorate for fall and keep these items around from October until Thanksgiving.<br />
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Every year, I try to mix things up a little and sometimes I may add a new item. This year I did not buy anything new.<br />
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Here's a tour of my house this year.<br />
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As you can see I started out with the top photo of decorating our entry table, but rearranged somethings so I could use things for my mantle.</div>
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And I was super excited to see <a href="http://pier1.com/" target="_blank">Pier 1</a> used my photo on their Instagram feed.</div>
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If you don't follow me on Instagram, I'd like to share my recent design book purchases as of late.<br />
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Emily Henderson's <a href="http://stylebyemilyhenderson.com/" target="_blank">Styled</a></div>
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Below, Lauren Liess' book <a href="http://www.laurenliess.com/pure-style-home" target="_blank">Habitat</a>.</div>
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And lastly, Ellen DeGeneres' book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Home-Ellen-DeGeneres/dp/1455533564" target="_blank">Home</a>.</div>
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While I have not read through them all, I have started them all and they are all SO good in their unique and different ways. </div>
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I hope you enjoyed the little tour and hoping you have a fun & safe Halloween.</div>
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