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Now that we’ve been in our newly renovated home a couple of months, listed here are a couple of new house surprises we’ve found alongside the way in which!
Whenever I’ve purchased a brand new house, or think about folks shopping for a house, I all the time suppose “What if the XX is bad and you don’t know it until you move in?!”
Perfect instance: the water strain! You often don’t take a bathe in a home earlier than shopping for it, and whereas your inspector may name out oddly low water strain, he/she may not make notice of something that’s just a bit bit dangerous.
When you’re constructing or renovating a house, you strive to consider the whole lot you need/want/want, however then there are issues that pop up that also don’t work fairly proper. On the flip facet, there are certain to be a couple of nice surprises!
Having lived in our newly renovated house for 2 months now, I’m sharing a couple of of these professionals and cons that we have now discovered about our newly designed area.
New Floors
How we thought it might go: lovely however soiled
How it’s going: GREAT!
We knew we wished lighter flooring for an aesthetic really feel, so there was actually no going backwards and forwards on ought to we go darkish or gentle. I used to be somewhat nervous that the lighter wooden would present every kind of stains and dust, however the truth is, I feel they present FEWER stains and dust than our earlier flooring! I can not determine why. The solely stain that reveals worse is espresso drips. Everything else (smudges, ice cream drips, dust) appears to mix in rather well.
And one actually actually superior discovery: the flooring match Gus’s hair!! He sheds like loopy however we simply can’t see it as a lot. Also having a robotic vacuum has been a very life altering addition to the quantity of canine hair that accumulates each day.
Appliance Garage
How we thought it might go: all of the home equipment in there
How it’s going: it’s the brand new espresso station!
I already wrote about this alteration on this put up, however this swap was one we didn’t plan for however turned out to be superb! Thomas loves all of his espresso provides collectively and useful subsequent to his newly put in espresso sink with water filter; I like that each one the espresso mess (grinds on the counter, drips from the lids, sprinkles of sugar) are behind closed doorways that I by no means need to see!
Coffee Sink Faucet Confusion
How we thought it might go: we don’t want as fancy of a faucet for the secondary sink
How it’s going: my mind is so confused
Let me clarify this as greatest as I can: our main kitchen sink faucet is fingers free and also you wave your arm via the neck to show it on and off. I’m so used to doing this movement that I am going to different homes and do it there too. It’s exhausting to unlearn! Our espresso sink is identical model, however it’s a faucet on and off, so you must contact it along with your finger or the again of your hand to show it on. So half the time I’m tapping our primary faucet and waving my arm via our espresso faucet. In hindsight, we must always have simply gotten the identical faucet in each. It’s driving me somewhat bit nuts!
Not Having A Real Garage
How we thought it might go: chaos for stuff
How it’s going: no large deal
Since constructing our hidden trash can storage and shifting a whole lot of the issues we used to retailer within the storage into our larger kitchen / utility closet / storage rooms, we actually don’t miss having a storage in any respect. I don’t miss AT ALL questioning if there are spiders within the cooler luggage or seaside chairs that we used to retailer within the buggy storage. We nonetheless have plans to buy a small shed for the yard, however in the meanwhile, we don’t remorse shedding our storage in any respect.
The Parking Lot
How we thought it might go: we’d want to significantly troubleshoot our parking spots
How it’s going: my two-point flip is now a four-point flip
When we began to plan our our renovation, we knew including the facet porch would imply Thomas’s truck’s parking spot obtained pushed again a couple of toes, which cuts off my potential to show round within the driveway. It was already tight, however shedding 3-4 toes would make it even tighter. We debating parking on the road, parking within the again, making a brand new, wider driveway. None of those alternate options appeared like good concepts, so we determined to cross that bridge once we get there.
I used to have the ability to do a two-point flip to get out, and now I would like 3-5 factors to make the flip, however I CAN DO IT! Thomas tries to inform me simply to again straight out, however we reside on a busy road and driving shouldn’t be in my expertise stack, so I proceed to do foolish Austin Powers-style turns. There are worse issues, haha.
The Dining Room
How we thought it might go: household dinners within the eating room, breakfast on the island
How it’s going: we now have a puzzle desk!
Prior to our renovation, the eating room was the prime consuming spot. We didn’t have an island or kitchen desk, so we did virtually all breakfast, lunches, and dinners right here. Everyone mentioned we’d begin to eat all meals on the island. I didn’t actually imagine them, however it’s true!! We eat most of our meals on the island, or out on the screened in porch whereas it nonetheless heat. But this has led to an incredible discovery of utilizing the eating desk as a puzzle desk! We borrowed this puzzle from Thomas’s good friend Anna and instantly obtained a second certainly one of the nationwide parks to begin. It’s been so enjoyable to placed on spa music and puzzle within the evenings.
New Primary Bathroom
How we thought it might go: a serene area for the adults
How it’s going: the entire gang’s right here!
Our rest room is the place to be. Everyone prefers to bathe in there, and the bathtub is large and huge, so the boys love to wash in there too. The solely downside I’m fixing now’s whose towel is whose!? It’s type of good that I can do my skincare or fold laundry throughout tub time now vs. being cooped within the smaller boys rest room, so I’m calling this a win-win.
Shower Cleaner Bar
How we thought it might go: set up a bathe bar that you should use to wash the bathe
How it’s going: I’ve a neck-down bathe for non-hair washing days!
This was a kind of “the first time you shower here” discoveries. I didn’t notice that our hand-held bathe sprayer that we put in for cleansing is definitely an adjustable bathe HEAD too! I can use it if I’m taking a neck-down bathe and never washing my hair as an alternative of holding my head sideways to maintain my hair dry beneath the rainshower. #itsthelittlethings
The Open Mudroom
How we thought it might go: trying messy on the time
How it’s going: 1,000% higher than it was
I feel I’ve talked about that our mudroom began as a extra closed off room, and we determined to open it up. And we additionally debating having doorways on the lockers and drawers for sneakers to comprise the open litter, however we didn’t have fairly sufficient depth for these. So the whole lot is open…..and it’s going nice! While we we are going to by no means have sufficient hooks for coats or cabinets for sneakers, the proportion enchancment from what it was earlier than is so dramatically improved that I couldn’t care much less that it’s open and generally somewhat cluttered. It’s superior!!!
