#closely followed by white walls + wood trim/wainscoting

[pinejay]

if i included wood the answer would be white walls + wood trim no contest. so no wood

[samuelmmarcus]

Black and White Modern Farmhouse

  This large-scale renovation and addition transformed the modest home into a larger modern farmhouse with a classic black and white palette. The interior has been completed with all new finishes, custom cabinetry, and reclaimed barnwood accents throughout the first floor & second floor.

Edward Deegan Architects (previously featured here & here) worked closely on the project with this client. The clients weren’t afraid to use bold wallpaper or a funky light fixture. The interior designer repurposed many of their existing furniture pieces and accessories and the client’s eclectic taste helped bring color and life to the overall palette. Building and remodeling a home takes trust and believing in the team you’ve hired to create something you will love.

Make sure to pin your favorite modern farmhouse interior design ideas and have a great time, my friends!

  Interior Design Ideas: Black and White Modern Farmhouse

If you follow interior design trends, chances are that you know how popular modern farmhouses are right now, especially modern farmhouses with black and white accents, and that goes for both interiors and exteriors. This home is a really good example of this. Front door paint color is “Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron”.

Light Fixtures: Restoration Hardware – similar here & here.

Foyer

Featuring a transitional style, this foyer feels very authentic.

Furniture/rugs: Clients – Beautiful Vintage Rugs (many Sizes): here, here, here, here, here & here.

Lighting: Visual Comfort Ré Flush Mount.

Paint Color

Walls are clad in shiplap. Paint color is “Benjamin Moore Simply White OC-117”.

Cabinet Hardware: Schoolhouse.

Dining Room

The dining room features plenty of great ideas! I am loving the ceiling wallpaper and the black and white rug.

Cabinet: Custom, “Benjamin Moore Simply White OC-117”.

 Lighting: Visual Comfort (Medium).

Wallpaper: Cole & Son Nuvolette.

Rug: here & here – similar.

Furniture: Client’s.

Inspiring Dining Room Decor:

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Kitchen

There’s nothing boring about this kitchen and it certainly features plenty of innovative design ideas!

Countertops are Quartzite.

Island Lights: Visual Comfort Strada Small Chandelier – Others on Sale: here, here, here, here & here.

Cabinetry

The kitchen cabinets are custom made. White cabinets are painted in “Simply White OC-117 by Benjamin Moore”.

Backsplash

Kitchen backsplash is 3×12 White Subway tile.

The kitchen hood is a custom design material in blackened zinc.

Cooktop: Thermador.

Dark Cabinet Paint Color

The dark cabinet paint color is “Wrought Iron 2124-10 by Benjamin Moore”.

Hardware: Waterstreet Brass – Others: Pulls & Knobs.

Appliances: Thermador.

Runner: Vintage – Other Beautiful Runners: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Reclaimed Wood

The kitchen ceiling and the back of island features real reclaimed wood.

Faucets: Kohler Polished Nickel.

Sink: Kohler Prolific.

Counterstools: CB2 – Others: here, here, here, here & here.

Black Windows

Black Window Paint Color: “Wrought Iron by Benjamin Moore”.

Breakfast Nook

Framed by black windows and shiplap, this breakfast room feels inviting and stylish.

Table: 60″ Oval Dining Table.

Settee: Clients, fabric: Genevieve Gorder Flock Velvet Onyx Fabric – Beautiful Dining Benches: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Decor

Isn’t it the perfect spot to have breakfast every morning?

 Lighting: Serena & Lily.

Chairs: CB2 Tolala Natural Armchair (discontinued) – similar here & here – Others: here, here, here & here.

Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring is 5″ character grade White Oak – stain is natural – similar here, here, here & here.

Porthole: Amazon – similar here.

Home Office

A custom door opens to a cozy home office with floating desk and a faux deer hide wallpaper. Cabinet and trim are painted in “Benjamin Moore Collingwood OC-28”.

Wallpaper: Wayfair.

Countertops: Oak stain in Ebony.

Lighting: Clients’ – similar here.

Family Room

The kitchen opens to a large Family Room with a comfy leather sectional, reclaimed shiplap tray ceiling and retractable patio doors.

Living Room Sofa: Century furniture custom – similar here & here.

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Bookcase

Painted in Benjamin Moore OC-117, this custom bookcase features Ebony stained Oak countertop.

Bookcase Lighting: RH – similar here, here & here.

Powder Room

This powder room features a dramatic geometric wallpaper and black shiplap.

  Sink: Alape Bucket Sink.

Faucet: here – similar.

Mirror: Worlds Away.

Wallpaper: Thibaut Tribeca Sisal Wallpaper in Midnight Blue (available through the designer).

Sunroom

Featuring T&G cathedral ceilings, this sunroom feels bright and airy. Wall paint color is “Simply White OC-117 by Benjamin Moore”.

Lighting: Visual Comfort Darlana – similar here (recommended).

Furniture: Clients’ – similar: Sofas, Rug & Chairs.

Bunk Room

This is a very flexible space that can either be used as a home office, bonus room or as a guest bedroom.

 Walls: Benjamin Moore Simply White.

Lighting: Ashley Homestore.

Black window Color: BM Wrought Iron.

Flooring: 5″ character grade white oak stain is natural.

Beds

Custom Murphy beds make this space more practical and extra functional.

Beautiful Murphy Beds: here, here & here.

Guest Bathroom

Black and white bathrooms always feels crisp and timeless.

Cabinet: Custom, “Benjamin Moore Simply White OC-117”.

Walls: “Benjamin Moore Simply White OC-117”.

Hardware: Matte Black Top Knobs.

Flooring: Ann Sacks Zig Zag – similar here & here.

Countertop: White Quartz.

Faucets: Kohler Archer faucet.

Lighting: Schoolhouse.

Master Bedroom

This gorgeous modern farmhouse bedroom features cathedral ceilings with turnbuckles. Custom dressers, windows and accent wall are painted in Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron. Walls are Simply White by Benjamin Moore.

Flooring: 5″ character grade white oak stain is natural

Lighting: here.

Sconces: Rejuvenation.

Furniture/rugs: Client’s.

Master Bathroom

The master bathroom features beautiful cabinetry, also painted in “Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron”, and an inspiring layout.

Wall Color: Simply White OC-117 by Benjamin Moore.

Countertops: White Quartz.

Sconces: Visual Comfort – Other Great Sconces: here, here, here, here & here.

Tiling

Tile: Marble from etched in stone – Similar: Marble Tile, Border Tile & Black and White Tile.

Shower Lighting: Rejuvenation.

Hardware: Restoration Hardware Strande Pull 6″.

Faucet: Watermark – Others: here, here & here.

Mudroom

Edward Deegan Architects design the most beautiful homes! Isn’t this mudroom gorgeous? I love the shiplap wainscoting, the black and white wallpaper and the stone floor tile.

Cabinet Built-Ins: Custom, BM Simply White OC-117.

Flooring: Limestone, Blue chinois – similar here.

Lighting: RH.

Shiplap Wainscoting

Shiplap Wainscoting Paint Color: “Benjamin Moore Simply White”.

Shadow Puppet Wallpaper: Paperboy ‘Hand Made’ Grey children’s wallpaper – Others: here, here & here.

Backyard

This home is beautiful, inside and out! The back porch and patio features Bluestone tiling.

Walls: White brick and board & batten.

Windows/Doors: Black Marvin Windows.

Roof: Metal and Asphalt.

  Many thanks to the architect for sharing the details above!

Architect: Edward Deegan Architects (Instagram – Facebook – Make sure to follow them!

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Photography: Karen Loffing.

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Interior Design Ideas: Home Renovation.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Modern Farmhouse.

2019 New Year Home Tour.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Charlotte, NC.

New-Construction Home Ideas.

Small Lot Modern Farmhouse.

Florida Beach Cottage.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s Home – Full House Tour.

Dark Cedar Shaker Exterior.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Coastal Farmhouse Design.

Neutral Home.

Southern-inspired Modern Farmhouse.

Coastal Farmhouse Home Decor.

Modern Farmhouse with Front Porch.

Lake House Interior Design Ideas.

New England Home.

Florida Beach House Interior Design.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Fixer Upper.

Tailored Interiors.Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

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Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Coastal Farmhouse Design

  Hello, everyone! How are you all feeling after the long weekend? We finally could slow down a little after a busy week and really take in all the great things summer has to offer in… which includes days without any plans. Those are the best days, in my opinion. It’s just wonderful to wake up and not have anything on your to-do list. You don’t have any appointments, any big errands, nothing… all you need to do is wake up whenever you body chooses to, prepare a healthy breakfast and let the day unfold as it goes. The older my kids get, the more I enjoy our calm and easy summers!!!

Chrissy’s home is one of the most beautiful homes I have seen lately and I feel that it captures my personal feeling about how we should live, especially at this time of the year. Chrissy is a busy mom of four, she is extremely talented and I couldn’t be happier to have her on our “Beautiful Homes of Instagram” series. Please, read more about her home and make sure to follow her on Instagram and visit her blog!

  “Hi everyone! My name is Chrissy of @chrissymarieblog. I am thrilled to contribute to Home Bunch. When we were building our home I was constantly scrolling through Luciane’s Home Bunch blog for ideas and inspiration! It’s exciting to pay it forward and inspire others now that we have been living in our home for over a year. I love answering questions about our own experience so feel free to reach out.

I grew up in Durham NC, left for college where I met my now husband, and a few years after getting married moved back home to NC and started our family. The 2008 economic recession happened right around that same time, and we were able to buy a 1970s home in an older neighborhood. The neighborhood itself was seeing hard times and our new home was surrounded by foreclosures. We were so grateful to be able to have space and a yard to raise our young kids- the age and the maintenance the home needed didn’t scare us off. That home was a DIY haven for me: it nurtured my creativity and taught me how to be brave enough to change things myself that I didn’t love. Fast forward a few years and we were parents of 4 children, all our bedrooms were filled up, and the neighborhood was doing much better. Now the homes around us were selling within days. Meanwhile, I was dreaming of living in a place with sidewalks, a community, and kids riding bikes outside. My husband is a Realtor, and we would go look at homes all the time together. I was picky- and too busy being a Mom to want another “project house”. One day he made a side comment saying “people like you would just be better off building”. I don’t think he expected me to take that to heart. We switched strategies and started looking at land- we found one of the last lots available in an established neighborhood that checked off all the boxes and our next adventure began!

Kevin Poythress, of Poythress Construction Company was our builder and he was fantastic to work with. My goal right from the beginning was lots of windows, a clean look and a fairly open living space. Although we are 2.5 hours from the beach, I love a coastal vibe and I tried to keep that relaxed feeling in this home. The best part about my home though is how I know our children appreciate it; it’s a place they tell us they love coming home to. Truly the best part of any home is that it is yours, and you are free to make memories all your own in your home. There’s nothing my husband and I love more than putting on some music in the kitchen, sharing a little wine together, and chatting over the island while he cooks up something yummy.”

  Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Coastal Farmhouse Design

What a curb-appeal! Isn’t it a “home-sweet-home”? I love the painted brick, the front porch with metal roof and the grey shutters. Shutters are painted in “Sherwin Williams Uncertain Gray”.

Exterior Brick Paint Color

Exterior Brick Paint Color:  “Sherwin Williams Extra White” for the siding and trim.

Front porch has Nantucket Rocking chairs from Grandin Road (similar here & here), and the side table is from Serena and Lily.

Front porch lantern Savoy House Monte Grand lantern.

Doormat: “Hello” doormat.

Planters: Target.

Foyer

I knew I had to share Chrissy’s home with you guys the moment I saw her gorgeous foyer. It’s one of the most inspiring I have seen lately! Notice that adorable window-seat with cushion and wainscoting.

The front door features a custom stain mixed together.

Lighting: Visual Comfort Lantern Darlana – Similar: here (affordable option).

Rug: Target’s Blue Jacquard Woven Rug – Others: here, here (washable rug), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Paint Color

The foyer paint color is “Sherwin Williams Ice cube”. It works perfectly with the white wainscoting and light hardwood floors.

Lumbar Pillow: Serena & Lily.

Grey Buffalo Check Pillow: here – similar.

Dining Room

The foyer opens to a newly-redecorated dining room with navy blue grasscloth wallpaper above the wainscoting. The wainscoting paint color is “Sherwin-Williams Extra White”.

Dining table is Bradding Table from Pier 1.

Artwork: Minted.

Host Chairs: Serena & Lily.

Rug: Serena and Lily.

Bar: Serena and Lily.

Mirror: Serena & Lily.

Chandelier

This picture shows quite well the flow of this space. Chandelier is Visual Comfort Darlana – similar here.

Sconce is Cypress Double Sconce from Rejuvenation.

Side Dining Chairs: Discontinued – similar here & here.

White Chair: Serena & Lily.

Wallpaper

Wallpaper in dining room is a grasscloth from York Wallcoverings.

Sideboard is called the Wesley 4 Door Sideboard from Mcgee and Co.

Table Lamp: Visual Comfort.

Great Room

The foyer leads to a spacious Great Room with shiplap and beautiful decor.

Ceiling Fan: Fan Minka Aire.

Accent chairs are from a local store – similar here, here, here & here.

Chair Pillows: Target – similar: here & here.

Sofa Pillows: McGee & Co.

Rug is Pottery Barn.

Paint Color

Shiplap and trim are painted in “Sherwin-Williams Extra White”.

Cabinets

Cabinets with doors keep everything organized and hidden. The leather pulls are from CB2 (similar here).

Blue and White lamps on the cabinets are from Serena and Lily.

Shades: Locally sourced – similar here.

Ceiling Treatment

Ceiling treatment is coffered and the height is 9 ft.

Sofa sectional is the Lounge II 3 piece sectional from Crate and Barrel.

Side stools are the dip dyed stools from Serena and Lily.

Cabinet

Cabinet is from Crate and Barrel. Chrissy added a floating shelf to display some family photos.

Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring is White Oak 4″ plank (similar here, here & here). Custom mix for the stain: Duraseal (made by Minwax) made up of half Country White and half natural.

Black & White Artwork: here & here – similar.

Kitchen

What a gorgeous kitchen! Featuring a light grey island, white perimeter cabinets and a smart layout, this kitchen is not only timeless but also very functional.

Appliances: KitchenAid.

Lighting

Pendants are Visual Comfort EF Chapman Large, (in the Antiqued Burnished Brass). Other Pendants: here, here, here, here, here, here.

Kitchen Island Paint Color

Kitchen island paint color is  “Sherwin Williams SW 6247 Krypton”.

Counterstools

Counterstools are from Serena and Lily. I love them! These counterstools are perfect for homes with children because they’re so easy to clean.

Island Dimensions

Kitchen Island Dimensions: 4.3″ x 9.7″

Countertop

Kitchen island countertop is Cambria Brittannica quartz with a 3″ mitered edge.

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware

Hardware: Amerock’s Westerly pull in Satin Nickel.

Runner: McGee & Co.

Backsplash

Kitchen backsplash is beveled subway tile “Soho Brite white” 3×6 – similar here.

Beautiful Cutting Boards: here & here.

Kitchen Cabinetry

All of the cabinets were made by “1st Choice cabinetry” and they are Norcraft, maple wood with soft close. The doors are framed full overlay. The white color is the standard white they came with, similar to Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Dishwasher: KitchenAid.

Faucet & Sink

Kitchen faucet is Moen StO Motionsense touchless faucet.

Perimeter countertops are Cosmos white quartz.

Teak Step Stool: Serena & Lily.

Breakfast Room

The breakfast room is located between the kitchen and family room.

Dining Table & Chairs

How perfect is this breakfast room? I am loving the shiplap and the casual, but beautiful, furniture. The dining table is from Wayfair – highly recommended.

Dining Chairs: here.

Lighting

Breakfast room lighting is Jarrod light small from Arteriors.

Powder Room

Painted in Extra White by Sherwin Williams, the powder room features floor-to-ceiling shiplap, White Oak hardwood floors and a custom vanity.

Mirror: Target.

Lighting: Hudson Valley – similar here & here.

Countertop

Countertop is Cosmos white quartz.

Faucet: Kohler Purist.

Staircase

A beautiful staircase with Oak treads lead to the upper level of the home.

Basket: Serena & Lily – Large.

Bookshelves

Instead of having a linen closet, Chrissy opted for fit bookshelves and she loves seeing this built-in just outside of her bedroom.

Stair Lighting

Lighting is Jarrod light small from Arteriors.

Rug: here – similar.

Girls’ Bedroom

This bedroom makes me wish my daughter was a little younger so I could do something similar. I am loving the two-toned walls!

Bunk bed is Hayes low bunk from Pottery Barn Kids.

Desk is Addison Leaning Desk from Crate and Barrel.

Wood chair is Anthropologie.

Bedding: Pottery Barn Kids.

Fan: Minka Are Fan.

Rug: here.

Paint Color

Top half is Sherwin Williams Extra White and bottom half is Valspar Sweet Pastel.

Mirror: Target’s Carved Dot Natural Wood Floor Mirror.

Bookshelf is Crate & Barrel Kids.

Baskets: Serena & Lily.

Girls’ Bathroom

The girls’ bath paint color is Sherwin Williams Ice Cube.

Countertop is Cosmos white quartz.

Mirror: Urban Outfitters.

Faucet: Moen.

Hardware: here – similar.

Sconces: here & here – similar.

Runner: Dash & Albert.

Boy’s Bedroom

This bedroom feels calm and timeless. Bed is Jenny Lind bed from Crate and Kids.

Duvet Cover is Hammonds Duvet Cover from Serena and Lily.

Rug is Jute Chenille Herringbone from West Elm.

Fun Mid-century Nightstands: here, here & here.

Stools: Serena & Lily.

Paint Color

Paint color is SW Extra White. Notice the smartly-designed bookcase tucked into this niche. It’s perfect for books and toys.

Dresser is Reclaimed Wood Dresser from West Elm.

Rug is Jute Chenille Herringbone from West Elm.

Jack & Jill Bathroom

The boys share a Jack & Jill bathroom with a black and white motif. Tiling is 12×24 milestone west black tile (similar here) with brite white permacolor grout on the floor.

Black & White

Countertop is Cosmos white quartz.

“Wash your Hands” Sign: Target.

Cabinet Hardware: Amerock’s Black Rock Pulls & Ring Pulls in Black Bronze color.

“Work hard and be nice to people” Art: here (large)

Sconces: here.

Mirrors: here.

Bath

Shower tile is subway tile with gray grout (similar here).

Shower Curtain: Target.

Little Boy’s Bedroom

This adorable boy’s bedroom features subtle two-toned walls. Bed is Gallery Navy Twin Wing Bed from Crate and Kids.

Camp Stool is Target.

Fan: Monte Carlo Ceiling Fans.

Paint Color

The top half paint color is Sherwin Williams Extra White and bottom half Sherwin Williams Ice Cube.

Dresser is PB Teen (discontinued) –  Others: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Bookshelf is Danish White and Natural Wide Bookcase from Crate & Barrel.

Large art piece is from Minted.

Basket: Serena & Lily.

Playroom

Our playroom is on the finished third floor. Our kids love to take their friends up there, and we enjoy them having that space to themselves as well.

Wallpaper in playroom is removable wallpaper from Urban Walls called Cannes Wallpaper – Other fun wallpaper ideas: here, here, here, here & here.

Chandelier: here & here – similar

Sconces: here – similar.

Books

Displaying books is the best way to make them more enticing to kids and these shelves are perfect for that!

Bookshelves: here & here – similar.

Giraffe: Melissa & Doug Jumbo Giraffe.

Baskets: Serena & Lily.

Sofa

Playroom sofa is the Lounge ii sectional in slate from Crate & Barrel.

Fun Kids Table & Chair Sets: here, here & here.

Master Bedroom

Chrissy’s master bedroom is a dream! The soft textures and neutral palette bring a restful feel to the entire space.

Bed

Bed is Pottery Barn (Discontinued) – similar here, here & here.

Nightstands are from Pottery Barn (Discontinued – hardware is from Anthropologie) – Others: here, here, here, here & here.

Fiddle Leaf Tree: here & here – similar

Rug

Rug is Jute Chenille Herringbone from West Elm.

Wood chair is the Blake Chair from Crate and Barrel – Others: here, here, here & here.

Master Bedroom Paint Color

The bedroom paint color is Ice Cube by Sherwin Williams on walls and Sherwin Williams Extra White on wainscoting and trim.

Bench & Draperies

Bench is the Shore bench from Serena and Lily with cushion.

Drapes are Emery Drapes from Pottery Barn.

Bedding

Bedding is from Target – similar here & here.

Master Bathroom

The master bathroom continues to carry a neutral color scheme with timeless finishes.

Lighting: Visual Comfort Bistro Sconce Double and Singles.

Mirrors: Pottery Barn.

Countertop

Master bathroom counter is Cosmos Carrara Classic Quartz.

Hardware: Tiffany pulls in polished nickel.

Flooring

Master flooring is 12×24 Calacatta Porcelain Matte tile (similar here) with bright white permacolor grout.

Mudroom

I love Chrissy’s mudroom! It’s very practical and it doesn’t compromise on style.

Rug is vintage.

Mirror: CB2.

Inspiration

The mudroom features a custom L-shaped corner bench with Oak seating.

Mudroom pendant from Ikea, Hektar large – Other Fun Lighting: here, here, here, here & here.

Mudroom baskets from Serena and Lily.

Hooks: Target’sBent Metal Hook– similar here.

Drop Zone

This beautiful mudroom also features a custom drop-zone/desk area.

  Many thanks to Chrissy for sharing the details above. Please, make sure to follow Chrissy on Instagram and visit her blog to see more!!!

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Coastal-inspired Home Renovation.

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Coastal Farmhouse Home Decor.

New Desert Home Design.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: British Columbia.

Reinvented Classic Kitchen Design.

New England Home.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: How to Build your own Home.

Interior Design Ideas: Home Renovation.

2019 New Year Home Tour.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Urban Farmhouse.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Fixer Upper.

Small Lot Modern Farmhouse.

“Before & After” California Home Renovation.

Beach House Interior Design Ideas.

Florida Beach House Interior Design.Tailored Interiors.

Modern Farmhouse with Front Porch.

Dark Cedar Shaker Exterior.

Classic Colonial Home Design.

Family-friendly Home Design. Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

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I royally suck at decorating so if I ever get rich I will hire an interior decorating and give them the following rules:

Good colours: warm greens, sage, oranges, yellows, cream, warm browns, dark reds.

Acceptable colours: blue (only on the ceiling or in the bathroom), blurple, bright reds, black, pink, vintage mint green (jadite), coral.

Unacceptable colours: white, grey, emerald greens, greyish anything, purple, peach.

Good patterns: chintz, gingham, madras, damask, solids, ticking stripes, parasol stripes, calico, maps.

Acceptable patterns: petits pois.

Unacceptable patterns: chevrons, polka dots, Lilly Pulitzer, Marimekko.

Floors: dark wood, linoleum (not tiles), small machine-washable rugs.

Ceilings: Colourful, low.

Lighting: warm, ambient, preferably from the side. No recessed or pot lights. No spot lights. Prefer wall lamps, avoid table lamps. Easy to clean, easy to change bulbs (avoid ceiling fixtures?).

Windows: small panes, easy to open and close, shutters?

Furniture: dark and/or rich colours, dark wood or painted. Comfortable, practical, easy to clean. Drawers. Canopy bed with removable canopy.

Good materials: shiplap, wallpaper, paint, woodwork/trim/wainscotting/plate rail dark wood or painted, glass, milk glass, jadite, delphite, copper, resin.

Acceptable materials: ceramic tile: only in the bathroom (not in the kitchen), stained glass, painted boards, ceramic, cast iron.

Unacceptable materials: pine, pale wood, wall-to-wall carpeting, marble, brass, wicker.

General: horizontal lines, warm, cozy, practical, comfortable, whimsical. Everything should be easy to find, easy to reach (no bending over or climbing up) and easy to put away. Drawers and cupboards should be easy to open and close. Lots of storage. No clutter. No chachkas where they are easy to knock down. No dangly bits. Tidy yet homey. Lots of horizontal space for working. No stairs or ladders.

Styles I like: shabby chic, Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, Bag End, farmhouse.

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$550,000 Homes in Minnesota, Massachusetts and Indiana

St. Paul, Minn. | $548,000

A two-bedroom, two-bathroom condominium in a 1904 Regency Revival building

This home is in the Ramsey Hill neighborhood, known for its concentration of Victorian buildings on tree-lined streets. F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up a few blocks away. Converted into condos in the 1980s, the 16-unit building is named for Nathan Hale, as is a park across the street, with a statue of the executed Continental Army spy. (The statue is the first known tribute to Hale west of the Ohio River.) Historic houses, shops, restaurants and bars are nearby, with a concentration of businesses along Selby Avenue, four blocks north.

Size: 1,280 square feet

Price per square foot: $428

Indoors: The unit is a third-floor walk-up. It has large windows, wood floors, paneled wainscoting and nine-and-a-half-foot ceilings.

The front door opens to a hallway, with a living room on the left, a combined dining room and kitchen on the right, and a pair of bedrooms straight ahead. The living room has a wall of built-in cabinetry and a facing pair of closets. The kitchen is fitted out with white cabinets topped with stone (in the case of the square seating island) or butcher block (for the work counters). The stainless steel appliances include a Viking range.

Both bedrooms have operable glass transoms over their paneled doors, and both bathrooms have black-and-white-honeycomb tiled floors, marble-topped vanities and walk-in showers. The master bedroom includes a walk-in closet that connects to a bathroom with twin sinks. (It can also be entered from the hallway.) The second bedroom has a wall of built-in bookshelves and is currently used as a study. The unit also has a stacked washer and dryer in a hallway closet.

Outdoor space: A door in the kitchen opens to a private outdoor area off an exterior staircase. Parking is in a covered garage bay that comes with the unit.

Taxes: $4,378 (based on a 2018 tax assessment of $295,100), plus a monthly $597 homeowner’s fee

Contact: Sarah Kinney, Coldwell Banker Burnet, 631-231-2211; coldwellbanker.com

Sandisfield, Mass. | $539,000

A net-zero-energy passive house built in 2010, with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on 11.3 acres

Built for energy efficiency — monthly costs for electricity, heat and hot water top out at $25, even in winter — this house is in a town of about 860 in the southern Berkshires. It is close to farms, ponds, forests, hiking trails, skiing and fine dining. Lenox, Mass., and the Tanglewood Music Center are about 21 miles northwest; the Ski Butternut resort in Great Barrington is about 13 miles northwest; and Springfield is about 36 miles east. Albany International Airport, in New York, and Bradley International Airport, in Connecticut, are about an hour away.

Size: 2,872 square feet

Price per square foot: $188

Indoors: The house minimizes energy consumption through blown-in cellulose insulation, upgraded triple-pane fiberglass windows, superior air sealing and a heat-recovery ventilator, among other strategies.

The main level has polished, radiant-solar-heated concrete floors and quarter-sawn oak trim throughout, and centers on a large, open room with a post-and-beam loft built of Douglas fir.

Between the living and dining areas is a Tulikivi soapstone wood-burning stove. The living area has an open-beamed timber ceiling and a built-in wood storage unit. The open kitchen has wood cabinetry, a curved seating peninsula with quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances.

To the left of the entrance is a den with a recently installed wet bar with natural stone counters. A screened porch is off the dining area.

The two main floor bedrooms include a master with a long window seat with built-in storage. There is a main-floor hallway bathroom with stone tile surfaces and a glass-walled shower, as well as a half bathroom next to a laundry room.

The fir-wood-floored loft holds a third bedroom with a pair of cedar-lined closets, an open den area with built-in bookshelves and a full bathroom.

Outdoor space: The large front yard has raised garden beds. In back is an apple and pear grove. Parking is in an attached two-car garage with storage space.

Taxes: $6,025

Contact: Stephanie McNair, William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, 413-204-4749; williampitt.com

Bloomington, Ind. | $550,000

An early 1990s post-and-beam house with three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a separate garage and studio building, on 20 acres

This home is about six miles northeast of the center of Bloomington and five miles from the Indiana University campus, on a large, hilly piece of land cut with hiking trails. A former occupant of the property was Bob Glaze, a local television celebrity known as Cowboy Bob, the host of a children’s variety show in the 1970s and ’80s called “Chuckwagon Theater” and, later, “Cowboy Bob’s Corral.” The owner has made substantial improvements inside and out, including a new kitchen, a 1,200-square-foot finished studio space in a former pole barn and a reconfigured driveway.

Size: 3,677 square feet

Price per square foot: $150

Indoors: The post-and-beam building has an open layout with brick floors and lofted ceilings on the main level. Standing in the kitchen, you can see past the second floor, where the master suite is, clear up to the third.

The kitchen has maple cabinets with a distressed, painted finish and bluestone tile covering the original Formica counters (oak is on the island).

The owner installed an efficient Blaze King wood stove in the living room and refinished the main-floor bathroom with reclaimed barn wood and fluted metal on the walls, adding a claw-foot tub. This floor also has a study behind double glass doors.

The second-floor master suite has parquet flooring throughout and includes a sitting area overlooking the living room that is next to a walk-in closet and used as a dressing room. The third floor has two bedrooms with peaked ceilings under the roof gable, arched windows and skylights.

The cement-floored studio has a full bathroom and a kitchenette (but no stove).

Outdoor space: The owner created the fenced garden. There is also a stone patio and a dog run. Parking is in a garage bay attached to the studio building.

Taxes: $2,598 (2019)

Contact: Tom White, White & Co. Real Estate, 812-369-8760; irmls.paragonrels.com

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51 Luscious Luxury Dining Rooms Plus Tips And Accessories For Decorating Yours

We focus on meal times during annual special festivities and personal anniversaries, but sitting down to break bread together is something that should always carry a sense of ceremony. Enjoying this daily activity with the added shine of a luxury dining room design means that every day can feel like a special occasion – without all the added prep and hoo-ha. Inspiration for luxury dining furniture and decor can come in many shapes and forms, so we have put together a whopping 51 images of our favourite dining room decor schemes to draw inspiration from. Plus, we offer a few tips and tricks that can be adapted to fit many different room sizes and budgets.

Visualizer: Dvice Inc   The ceiling is just as important as the floor – sometimes more so. If you want to create an intimate feel for your dinner parties, visually lower a ceiling by installing a dark feature, like a stained wood slat design. This tip can work in just about any room dimensions but use caution on low ceilings, you don’t want to leave your diners feeling claustrophobic.

Visualizer: Bashar Swileh   A live edge dining table isn’t just for rustic cottages. Live edge tables are big news right now and there are sizes to suit all sorts of dining room floor plans.

Visualizer: MONO Architects   Define your dining area on a flat woven rug. You don’t have to create an island of colour with your rug, even one in a similar tone to the existing floor will create a luxury island on which to welcome your guests.

Visualizer: Render Vision   Accentuate the head and the foot of the table with a different colour chair – or a completely different chair design altogether.

Visualizer: Bui Ni   Use oversized dining room pendant lights in multiples to make a bold, expensive looking statement… Even cheaper lighting options can look high-end when set in twos or threes.

Visualizer: David Straka   If you’ve got the budget for one big stand out chandelier then it’s a great way to set a high-end scene.

Visualizer: Naira Omar   Add a stylish sideboard and a sparkling mirror. These ones are set against an undulating feature wall for added effect.

Visualizer: Ri Ko   Use colour in unexpected ways. Not only do these glass globe pendants bring a cluster of rouge to the table, but ombre window drapes dip a toe into the blue spectrum too. Behind the monochrome dining set, a random section of wainscot has been picked out in a blush tone.

Visualizer: Lanre Alao   Alternatively, you don’t have to be so subtle with colour. Great swathes of turquoise and red crash up against each other in this wide open space, where masks decorate the bright volumes.

Visualizer: Maxim Tsiabus   Use two different dining chair silhouettes to encircle your table. You can pick them out in similar shades for a subtle yet interesting effect.

Visualizer: Vittorio Bonapace   A black dining room looks decadent with gold trimmings and accessories, like this shining gold finish chandelier.

Visualizer: Mykhaylo Faydula & Uliana Yanishevska   Change out the flooring beneath the dining zone in an open plan home.

Visualizer: 4 Pixos   A large or linear dining table light is another effective way to anchor your table in an free-flowing living space.

Visualizer: Cubico 3D   A formal dining area gives you options. You might be happy perched at the breakfast bar for most meals, or sitting out on the patio. However, you will be thankful for that formal eating option when festivities roll around and when hungry guests stop by.

Visualizer: UNA Arquitetos   Create a warming effect with wall to wall wood. This sunny dining room is clad in wood panels and furnished with matching wood grain dining room furniture. A concrete ceiling balances out the scheme with a cooler finish. A glass exterior and dividing wall gives the natural toned room full views of the garden.

Visualizer: Djamal Mustafaev   Suspend dining table lights close to the table – even from ultra high ceilings. This fabulous design is the Vibia Match Suspension.

Architect: Drozdov Partners   If possible, consider installing a fireplace. This one has a log burning stove and integrated log store. Copper pendant lights hang above a wooden table that matches the tones of the cut logs. The seats are Flow dining chairs.

Visualizer: Archviz Mallorca   Bring in natural greenery. This dining pendant includes planters to bring the garden right to the table.

Visualizer: Bui Ni   Dress to impress – the table that is. Use floral arrangements or classic candles to set the scene, even when the table is not in use. This floral centrepiece picks out the rich colour of the formal dining chairs.

Photographer: Lorenzo Pennati   Add a reflective wall to double the sense of space. This can be done with mirrors, smoked or coloured glass, or high gloss panels.

Visualizer: Nikita Dyagiltsev   Introduce a sense of movement with a veined marble feature wall…

Visualizer: Rosendo Maximiliano Mesillas   … Or a marble dining table and/or a marble effect rug.

Designer: Summer Thornton   Decorate with shape. The circular silhouette of Platner dining chairs has great synergy with a Saarinen tulip table.

Visualizer: Lorenzo Pennati   Add elegance to a shadowy corner with an attractive screen. This is also a great way to disguise a bank of electrical sockets or cover up a small study area.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Meld contemporary with traditional. These chic modern dining chairs have classic tufted upholstery. The room decor follows suit with the theme, with contemporary monochrome prints hung against a wall of boiserie.

Visualizer: Harun Kaymaz   Fashion a feature wall, like this rustic exposed brickwork wall that’s cut through with a marble stripe.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Give amazing tables room to breathe.

Visualizer: Dumbrava Traian   Another strong shape theme; this time with elliptical pendant lights complementing the outline of the Gubi Beetle chair.

Visualizer: Alesya Kasianenko   Match without repetition. Pick out a dining chair design that is available in several different colourways and purchase a varied selection. Change up the lighting by selecting two chandeliers or pendant lights that share similarity without being identical.

Visualizer: Erlind Llanaj & Ervin Arizi   Create a cocoon of calm. If a thoroughfare runs alongside your dining area, or the table is adjacent to a busy wall of doors, consider installing a buffer. Slatted screens are a great way to divide the space without closing it in.

Visualizer: U Design   Backlit dining room cabinets add a cosy glow.

Visualizer: Focus   Float a shoal of paper lanterns over the table. The grouping will create a sculptural attraction by day and a glowing spectacle by night.

Visualizer: Angelina Alekseeva   Create a luxury rustic dining room by teaming natural wood and raw brickwork, or stone, with sleek modern pieces.

Visualizer: David Straka   Not all dining areas are confined indoors; blur the boundaries for a luxury al fresco dining experience.

Visualizer: Alexander Uglyanitsa   Don’t fall short on exposed ducting and metalwork accessories to manufacture a luxury industrial dining room effect.

Visualizer: Leqb   A large lazy susan ensures everyone is served smoothly.

Visualizer: Anna Pahomova   Brighten up an existing suite by adding new additions. A colourful designer chair at either end will transform the look.

Visualizer: Amr Moussa   If there isn’t room for a sideboard in your dining room, try a long wall shelf to create a display instead.

Visualizer: Dezest Design   Traditional crystal chandeliers add sparkle for sure, but a modern chandelier can be just as eye-catching.

Visualizer: CG Walls   Enrich a white scheme with precious rose gold.

Visualizer: Ugo Concept   Choose a dining table chair combination that properly fits your space. A small suite in a large room will look lost – but go to large and diners will feel uncomfortably packed in. Allow room for people to easily leave the table.

Visualizer: Color Room Interiors   It’s all about the glow. Dining pendant lights are top of the list for illuminating mealtimes but don’t forget to include side lighting to build ambiance.

Visualizer: Nicolas Jouslin   You may not currently have a dedicated area for formal dining, but a small luxury dining room can be fashioned in all sorts of spaces. This table and modern dining chairs are situated right by the home library stacks.

Visualizer: AtViz   Enjoy the simple elegance of a fresh Scandinavian dining room…

Visualizer: Kanstantsin Remez   … Or a cool minimalist dining room design.

Visualizer: Igor Sirotov   A dining area can run directly off a kitchen island. Add a low hanging pendant light by the dining stools to set the tone.

Visualizer: Artem Bobrov   The striking contrast of a black and white dining room is sure to impress any taste.

Visualizer: Stanislav Gritsenko   A nomadic dining room features natural textures and items that seem to have their own story… You just can’t help but think about the past life of that dramatically gnarled live edge dining table.

Visualizer: Tаrаs Horoduskyy   Time travel into a futuristic dining room. A bleached-out white on white design lands a perfect space age look.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Enliven the beat-up industrial look with some eye-popping colour. A meandering path leads the way to an upcycled dining table in this open plan industrial style home; the metal table has been coupled with a set of fire engine red dining chairs.

Visualizer: En Eimis   Find drama in your natural surroundings. From the awesome rock face feature wall to the organic lightshade, this luxurious dining room celebrates all that is natural and part of this home’s magnificent location.

1. Menu Dropp fruit bowl 2. Saarinen Tulip style dining chair 3. Secto sculptural pendant 4. Menu ceramic salt and pepper shakers 5. Alessi lily bird sauce container 6. Decorative driftwood vase 7. Luxury Chandelier 8. Saarinen Oval Dining Table 9. Unique wine glasses

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51 Luscious Luxury Dining Rooms Plus Tips And Accessories For Decorating Yours

We focus on meal times during annual special festivities and personal anniversaries, but sitting down to break bread together is something that should always carry a sense of ceremony. Enjoying this daily activity with the added shine of a luxury dining room design means that every day can feel like a special occasion – without all the added prep and hoo-ha. Inspiration for luxury dining furniture and decor can come in many shapes and forms, so we have put together a whopping 51 images of our favourite dining room decor schemes to draw inspiration from. Plus, we offer a few tips and tricks that can be adapted to fit many different room sizes and budgets.

Visualizer: Dvice Inc   The ceiling is just as important as the floor – sometimes more so. If you want to create an intimate feel for your dinner parties, visually lower a ceiling by installing a dark feature, like a stained wood slat design. This tip can work in just about any room dimensions but use caution on low ceilings, you don’t want to leave your diners feeling claustrophobic.

Visualizer: Bashar Swileh   A live edge dining table isn’t just for rustic cottages. Live edge tables are big news right now and there are sizes to suit all sorts of dining room floor plans.

Visualizer: MONO Architects   Define your dining area on a flat woven rug. You don’t have to create an island of colour with your rug, even one in a similar tone to the existing floor will create a luxury island on which to welcome your guests.

Visualizer: Render Vision   Accentuate the head and the foot of the table with a different colour chair – or a completely different chair design altogether.

Visualizer: Bui Ni   Use oversized dining room pendant lights in multiples to make a bold, expensive looking statement… Even cheaper lighting options can look high-end when set in twos or threes.

Visualizer: David Straka   If you’ve got the budget for one big stand out chandelier then it’s a great way to set a high-end scene.

Visualizer: Naira Omar   Add a stylish sideboard and a sparkling mirror. These ones are set against an undulating feature wall for added effect.

Visualizer: Ri Ko   Use colour in unexpected ways. Not only do these glass globe pendants bring a cluster of rouge to the table, but ombre window drapes dip a toe into the blue spectrum too. Behind the monochrome dining set, a random section of wainscot has been picked out in a blush tone.

Visualizer: Lanre Alao   Alternatively, you don’t have to be so subtle with colour. Great swathes of turquoise and red crash up against each other in this wide open space, where masks decorate the bright volumes.

Visualizer: Maxim Tsiabus   Use two different dining chair silhouettes to encircle your table. You can pick them out in similar shades for a subtle yet interesting effect.

Visualizer: Vittorio Bonapace   A black dining room looks decadent with gold trimmings and accessories, like this shining gold finish chandelier.

Visualizer: Mykhaylo Faydula & Uliana Yanishevska   Change out the flooring beneath the dining zone in an open plan home.

Visualizer: 4 Pixos   A large or linear dining table light is another effective way to anchor your table in an free-flowing living space.

Visualizer: Cubico 3D   A formal dining area gives you options. You might be happy perched at the breakfast bar for most meals, or sitting out on the patio. However, you will be thankful for that formal eating option when festivities roll around and when hungry guests stop by.

Visualizer: UNA Arquitetos   Create a warming effect with wall to wall wood. This sunny dining room is clad in wood panels and furnished with matching wood grain dining room furniture. A concrete ceiling balances out the scheme with a cooler finish. A glass exterior and dividing wall gives the natural toned room full views of the garden.

Visualizer: Djamal Mustafaev   Suspend dining table lights close to the table – even from ultra high ceilings. This fabulous design is the Vibia Match Suspension.

Architect: Drozdov Partners   If possible, consider installing a fireplace. This one has a log burning stove and integrated log store. Copper pendant lights hang above a wooden table that matches the tones of the cut logs. The seats are Flow dining chairs.

Visualizer: Archviz Mallorca   Bring in natural greenery. This dining pendant includes planters to bring the garden right to the table.

Visualizer: Bui Ni   Dress to impress – the table that is. Use floral arrangements or classic candles to set the scene, even when the table is not in use. This floral centrepiece picks out the rich colour of the formal dining chairs.

Photographer: Lorenzo Pennati   Add a reflective wall to double the sense of space. This can be done with mirrors, smoked or coloured glass, or high gloss panels.

Visualizer: Nikita Dyagiltsev   Introduce a sense of movement with a veined marble feature wall…

Visualizer: Rosendo Maximiliano Mesillas   … Or a marble dining table and/or a marble effect rug.

Designer: Summer Thornton   Decorate with shape. The circular silhouette of Platner dining chairs has great synergy with a Saarinen tulip table.

Visualizer: Lorenzo Pennati   Add elegance to a shadowy corner with an attractive screen. This is also a great way to disguise a bank of electrical sockets or cover up a small study area.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Meld contemporary with traditional. These chic modern dining chairs have classic tufted upholstery. The room decor follows suit with the theme, with contemporary monochrome prints hung against a wall of boiserie.

Visualizer: Harun Kaymaz   Fashion a feature wall, like this rustic exposed brickwork wall that’s cut through with a marble stripe.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Give amazing tables room to breathe.

Visualizer: Dumbrava Traian   Another strong shape theme; this time with elliptical pendant lights complementing the outline of the Gubi Beetle chair.

Visualizer: Alesya Kasianenko   Match without repetition. Pick out a dining chair design that is available in several different colourways and purchase a varied selection. Change up the lighting by selecting two chandeliers or pendant lights that share similarity without being identical.

Visualizer: Erlind Llanaj & Ervin Arizi   Create a cocoon of calm. If a thoroughfare runs alongside your dining area, or the table is adjacent to a busy wall of doors, consider installing a buffer. Slatted screens are a great way to divide the space without closing it in.

Visualizer: U Design   Backlit dining room cabinets add a cosy glow.

Visualizer: Focus   Float a shoal of paper lanterns over the table. The grouping will create a sculptural attraction by day and a glowing spectacle by night.

Visualizer: Angelina Alekseeva   Create a luxury rustic dining room by teaming natural wood and raw brickwork, or stone, with sleek modern pieces.

Visualizer: David Straka   Not all dining areas are confined indoors; blur the boundaries for a luxury al fresco dining experience.

Visualizer: Alexander Uglyanitsa   Don’t fall short on exposed ducting and metalwork accessories to manufacture a luxury industrial dining room effect.

Visualizer: Leqb   A large lazy susan ensures everyone is served smoothly.

Visualizer: Anna Pahomova   Brighten up an existing suite by adding new additions. A colourful designer chair at either end will transform the look.

Visualizer: Amr Moussa   If there isn’t room for a sideboard in your dining room, try a long wall shelf to create a display instead.

Visualizer: Dezest Design   Traditional crystal chandeliers add sparkle for sure, but a modern chandelier can be just as eye-catching.

Visualizer: CG Walls   Enrich a white scheme with precious rose gold.

Visualizer: Ugo Concept   Choose a dining table chair combination that properly fits your space. A small suite in a large room will look lost – but go to large and diners will feel uncomfortably packed in. Allow room for people to easily leave the table.

Visualizer: Color Room Interiors   It’s all about the glow. Dining pendant lights are top of the list for illuminating mealtimes but don’t forget to include side lighting to build ambiance.

Visualizer: Nicolas Jouslin   You may not currently have a dedicated area for formal dining, but a small luxury dining room can be fashioned in all sorts of spaces. This table and modern dining chairs are situated right by the home library stacks.

Visualizer: AtViz   Enjoy the simple elegance of a fresh Scandinavian dining room…

Visualizer: Kanstantsin Remez   … Or a cool minimalist dining room design.

Visualizer: Igor Sirotov   A dining area can run directly off a kitchen island. Add a low hanging pendant light by the dining stools to set the tone.

Visualizer: Artem Bobrov   The striking contrast of a black and white dining room is sure to impress any taste.

Visualizer: Stanislav Gritsenko   A nomadic dining room features natural textures and items that seem to have their own story… You just can’t help but think about the past life of that dramatically gnarled live edge dining table.

Visualizer: Tаrаs Horoduskyy   Time travel into a futuristic dining room. A bleached-out white on white design lands a perfect space age look.

Visualizer: Double Aye   Enliven the beat-up industrial look with some eye-popping colour. A meandering path leads the way to an upcycled dining table in this open plan industrial style home; the metal table has been coupled with a set of fire engine red dining chairs.

Visualizer: En Eimis   Find drama in your natural surroundings. From the awesome rock face feature wall to the organic lightshade, this luxurious dining room celebrates all that is natural and part of this home’s magnificent location.

1. Menu Dropp fruit bowl 2. Saarinen Tulip style dining chair 3. Secto sculptural pendant 4. Menu ceramic salt and pepper shakers 5. Alessi lily bird sauce container 6. Decorative driftwood vase 7. Luxury Chandelier 8. Saarinen Oval Dining Table 9. Unique wine glasses

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Why Are Shutters So Hard? And Other Duplex Exterior Questions Answered

You guys may have seen some of our progress on the duplex’s exterior on social media, but let’s get into some of the nitty gritty (and answer a ton of questions that have come in about it) here on the ol’ blog. We wanna talk shutters, steps, metal awnings, and what the heck is happening with all of that diamond door drama (among other things).

As a refresher, this is what the house looked like before.

Due to the historic mandates in town, we’re required to keep all of the basic elements of the house the same – original front doors, exact window locations, the roofline itself (ahem), and the corbels along the roofline…

… although the historic review board allowed us to space the corbels differently so they’d go all the way around the house, and saved us from having to remake a ton that had rotted beyond repair. And yes, the duplex came with not one, not two, but three satellite dishes. Our cup runneth over.

And yes that’s regular old silver duct tape up by the roof on the right side. And the diamond windows were covered with DRYWALL and hidden in the walls on each side of the house instead of being exposed and letting the light flood in. In short: we had some work to do on the whole curb appeal thing.

A lot of the exterior elements of the 100+ year old house (like the rotting siding, degraded roofing, collapsing porch, etc) needed to be replaced with new materials that will hold up better over time, like HardiePlank cement board siding. We even reconstructed some corbels from composite, not wood (to replace some that were too far gone).

The entire idea of the Historic Review Board, who approves nearly every exterior house update, is to make sure that people can make these houses more durable and long-lasting so this sweet town doesn’t look like it’s slowly falling apart (almost every house is 100+ years old). BUT everyone renovating has to adhere to the same look/style/shape of the original house so this cool old downtown area still feels as historic and “original” as possible.

Since you saw the outside stripped bare back in April, the exterior is nearly complete – except for the new porch floor and columns… which are coming soon. But the roofing, siding, windows, and shutters are all done – and we could not be more thrilled with how it’s coming together. Sherry is beginning to question why she ever doubted this house’s potential in the first place! I’ve even heard her whisper that she might end up liking the exterior of the duplex more than the pink house, which I never thought I’d hear.

Hunting Down Operable Shutters

The shutters ended up being a bigger ordeal than we expected. New historic mandates require that the shutters appear to be operable, meaning vinyl shutters that you can pick up for about $60 a pair and screw right into the siding weren’t an option. The requirement is based on them wanting an authentic look and not based on function. Nobody actually closes their shutters there for storms – and many houses, including our pink house, don’t even have them at all! Most houses that do have them are those non-operable vinyl shutters that were hung before the mandate (like the periwinkle blue ones that used to be on the duplex). We actually get worse storms in Richmond, where we also don’t have operable shutters… ha!

The quotes we got for custom operable shutters from a few companies had our jaws on the floor. They were about $1,000 PER PAIR (!!!!) Meaning the whole front would set us back FIVE GRAND. I’ll wait while you deep breathe into a paper bag like I did for about five minutes after each phone call.

For a while we felt stuck with that fee (it’s a historic mandate! we have no choice!) and just as we were bracing ourselves to pull the trigger, Sherry found these pre-primed composite shutters on Wayfair for $250/pair. We’d have to hunt down hardware and paint them ourselves (more on that in a moment) but that price was muuuuuuch easier to swallow. In fact, our total for ten of them to do the entire front of the house was just a little over the price for ONE SET of shutters from those companies we called! Hallelujah.

They come in a variety of sizes and one was nearly perfect for what we needed (we got the 68.5″ tall by 15″ wide ones). They were a smidge narrower than what we’d need for the shutters to fully close (just about two inches), but we reminded ourselves that the mandate is just that they need to APPEAR operable (remember this isn’t about function, it’s about maintaining a more historic look – virtually none of these houses have working shutters that anyone closes ever).

Below you can see what they look like closed (still have to paint the backs of these!). Thankfully there’s not really a scenario when you’ll see them like this other than this photo, but a bunch of you were asking for this pic, so here you go. Obviously if you’re looking for shutters you can use to board up your house in a storm it goes without saying that you’d need them to be the exact width of your window, and you might be stuck with those pricier custom shutters, I’m afraid.

With our shutters found, the only missing element was the hardware, of which there seemed to be ENDLESS OPTIONS. And it can make your ears ring and your head spin when you’re trying to figure out which way things should hinge without grinding against the house, and how deep the swing should be so it doesn’t bump against the window.

These little hardware additions can also drive up the cost of your shutters, so we kept it fairly simple and hunted down these hinges and these shutter dogs (which are the decorative hooks that hold the shutters open). The grand total was another $380, so all in we spent about $1650 on these ten operable-looking shutters (not including installation, which is just part of our construction contract with Sean). And since we painted them, that saved us some cash too. Not bad compared to the $5000+ we would have spent on custom ones. Budget crisis averted.

The only small installation hiccup was that operable shutters typically screw right into historic wood windows, not vinyl ones like ours (a previous owner had already replaced the original wood windows on this house). We couldn’t drill the hinges into the vinyl frame because it would ruin the warranty and the efficiency of them – so we had to place them outside of the window, which thankfully ended up looking nice too.

Choosing A Shutter Paint Color

Sherry has long had her mind set on mint shutters on a white house (you probably remember that from our duplex style inspiration post). But we wanted to take our time finding the right mint. Since there were no mint coffee cups around (if you don’t get that joke, here ya go), we turned to another source of inspiration – this historic Pure Oil gas station right at the entrance of town.

The lighting in that shot above isn’t doing it any justice, but we’ve ALWAYS been charmed by this little building and its cheery color scheme. So we popped by a few months ago with a paint deck in hand to find some similar colors. We didn’t want to go quite as dark as their door, but we also know that colors tend to read lighter on exteriors (and they tend to look darker inside). So we used some removable paint decals to test five colors on various parts of the house. Clockwise from the top right: Pale Patina, Rice Terrace, Mist on the Moors, Salt Marshes, Aloe (all by Sherwin Williams)

Since people often ask us why we tend to go with Sherwin Williams for exterior painting stuff – well, most exterior painters will only use Sherwin Williams (that was true for the trim and siding on our house in Richmond, as well as for when we painted the entire pink house) so we figure if it’s good enough for the pros to pretty much use exclusively outside, it’s not a bad idea for us to follow suit (it has a nice warranty, good customer service, and has held up great for the last five years on our house’s siding and trim in Richmond).

As we were trying to choose from those five colors in the photo above, one of our favorites – Pale Patina – showed up in a surprising place: under the rotting stairs we were standing on! Once upon a time those stair risers were that exact color. How crazy is that?! We took it as a sign. The house was basically nodding its head in agreement on Pale Patina. Kinda like how we discovered in retrospect that the pink house’s kitchen had pink wainscoting.

The shutters were composite (no rotting!) and came pre-primed (uh, no priming!) so we picked up a gallon of this Weathershield exterior paint and over the course of several days, we put two coats of paint on all ten shutters. It took us a few days of intermittent painting because we didn’t have room to spread out and paint them all at once (no garage!) so we couldn’t do more than three or four at a time.

But just in the nick of time (literally, the night before Sean’s guys were scheduled to install them) we finished and set them out on our porch to go over to the duplex. The funny thing we realized is that Pale Patina is eerily similar to the color we painted the ceiling at the pink house (SW Breaktime). Is it me or is the pink house flirting with the duplex?

What About The Front Doors?

You may have watched the saga of Sherry hunting down a pair of diamond doors on social media (there’s more on that in podcast Episode #100 and Episode #109 if you missed it) and many have asked why they aren’t going on the front of the house. Historically speaking we have to keep the original front doors, so the diamond doors have always been planned for the BACK of the house.

We probably created confusion with photos like the one above, but those same front doors will remain. The good news is that we love the idea of the diamond doors out back because it’ll inject a similar diamond-paned look (inspired by the front’s diamond windows) around back too. So each side will have something-diamond going on for balance. Below you can see them hung, just not painted yet.

I know it may seem sad that they’re relegated to the back yard, but we’re actually crazy excited about the transformation of that side of the house. Everything from carrying the corbels around back to adding the metal awnings (ours are the 44″ x 36″ ones in the bronze color) and bumping out the second floor on both sides (thereby earning two additional bathrooms!) has made a HUGE difference. This is a before shot for you:

Crazy, right?! All of those changes had to go through the architecture review board (adding windows, bumping up the top, etc) but thankfully they all passed. WHEW.

Circling back to those metal awnings, we actually got a quote to have them built and it was around $1500-2K each… and then Sherry found these online and they’re so much more affordable – literally around a quarter of the price for each one! It meant we could definitely pull the trigger and get them – plus they tie into the same dark bronze color that’s on the tin roof out front.

We got some questions about choosing the height for our metal awnings (a few folks asked why we didn’t go lower). We actually originally held them up lower and almost screwed them in until I realized that from inside the house, they blocked the view and some light! So glad we caught that and raised them. Now the view out the door is unimpeded and as much light as possible shines into the mudroom. Note to self: always check the view from inside before hanging anything that can interfere with the view or the light shining in!

The spacing might seem a little random now, but once the lanterns are hung and the steps are added, there will be more elements around the awnings with similar spacing, and we think they’ll feel a lot more balanced. Along with adding porch lanterns and stairs, we’ll also be building outdoor showers and a privacy fence that can be opened to merge both areas if one family rents both sides, and we have a lot of other things planned too (of course: some string lights). We think the backyard might end up being the coolest spot in the house. Sherry keeps saying it’s gonna be “lit.” I give you permission to eyeroll that one.

But let’s go back to the front doors for a second. As you saw above, we tested out our mint paint swatches with some decals that we placed on the duplex’s front doors (which were painted a deep blue color and covered by janky storm doors). The original plan was to paint them the same mint color as the shutters, but after we got them stripped, we kinda fell in love with the raw wood look. Note: For anyone looking to strip old painted doors, first test for lead, and if they’re free of it you can use a product like CitreStrip and a spackle knife to scrape, scrape, scrape. 

The problem with keeping them wood, which I keep reminding Sherry, is that they’re still in rough shape. Not only is there a persistent haze of white paint (which is arguably kinda cool – and could most likely be sanded off) but more concerning is the doorknob, um, situation. The holes are in weird / high / completely different spots – and it’s gonna be tough to conceal any patching we do if we keep them wood (patching is much easier to hide with paint).

But Sherry is pretty adamant about keeping their wood tone and patching the holes and finding doorknobs with nice long backplates to conceal the patch-jobs. Then we’ll sand and seal them for a richer wood tone. They do look great with the warmth of the brick steps, and Sherry plans to add more wood accents (like wood benches on either side of the porch), so I can’t argue with keeping them wood – as long as we can get it looking good and feeling secure. Feel free to cross your fingers for us.

And Lastly, The Steps

You’ve probably never met a person more excited about brick steps than Sherry Petersik. We knew we had to replace the old wood steps, and while wood or composite is the most obvious answer, we really LOVE the brick steps at the pink house (and, incidentally, we also really like the awesome local mason who installed them). So brick steps at the duplex just felt like the right call.

Not only did they recently complete our super wide 10′ steps (with the same mitered corner detail we love from the pink house), we also had our mason redo the entire concrete pad beneath them because it was cracked and degrading.

We didn’t get any great photos of their process of installing them (it was raining on and off so they erected a tent around them part of the time) and we probably won’t get great photos of them until all of the other construction dust is cleaned up. But we love how wide and gracious they feel.

As for a porch railing and stair railing, those will be added later once the porch comes together more. It’ll be historic looking (white with vertical pickets) and we found this house as inspiration which also has wide brick steps, so that might help you picture it.

The last thing I’ll mention is the brick border along the perimeter of the house. We realized that splashing from the rain was quickly dirtying the foundation (see above), which was essentially skim-coated in a white plaster-like material. So at the mason’s suggestion, we had him install this border as sort of an upgraded version of pea gravel or rock that lots of houses have to keep that splash-back to a minimum (still haven’t hosed off the skim coated area – but once we do it should stay a lot cleaner now).

The brick border won’t be as noticeable once everything is landscaped, but we like being able to incorporate that brick texture since the rest of the street has brick foundations and our little duplex missed out on that.

So I think that gets you pretty much up to speed on the state of the exterior. The interior is actually done being drywalled (!!!) so next up is some primer and paint inside, followed by interior trim and doors – plus they’re going to start working on rebuilding the porch. That’s A WHOLE LOTTA PROGRESS that we should get to share with you guys over the next month or so, so stay tuned. Also, the day the Port-O-Potty finally leaves will be a day we dance on those wide brick steps like no one is watching.

P.S. Wanna read all about rebuilding this duplex from day one? There’s a whole category full of duplex posts for you to peruse and click into if they sound interesting. We also have a detailed podcast about how we could afford to buy the duplex in the middle of renovating our pink house (we include how much the beach house and the duplex cost us, etc). 

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You guys may have seen some of our progress on the duplex’s exterior on social media, but let’s get into some of the nitty gritty (and answer a ton of questions that have come in about it) here on the ol’ blog. We wanna talk shutters, steps, metal awnings, and what the heck is happening with all of that diamond door drama (among other things).

As a refresher, this is what the house looked like before.

Due to the historic mandates in town, we’re required to keep all of the basic elements of the house the same – original front doors, exact window locations, the roofline itself (ahem), and the corbels along the roofline…

… although the historic review board allowed us to space the corbels differently so they’d go all the way around the house, and saved us from having to remake a ton that had rotted beyond repair. And yes, the duplex came with not one, not two, but three satellite dishes. Our cup runneth over.

And yes that’s regular old silver duct tape up by the roof on the right side. And the diamond windows were covered with DRYWALL and hidden in the walls on each side of the house instead of being exposed and letting the light flood in. In short: we had some work to do on the whole curb appeal thing.

A lot of the exterior elements of the 100+ year old house (like the rotting siding, degraded roofing, collapsing porch, etc) needed to be replaced with new materials that will hold up better over time, like HardiePlank cement board siding. We even reconstructed some corbels from composite, not wood (to replace some that were too far gone).

The entire idea of the Historic Review Board, who approves nearly every exterior house update, is to make sure that people can make these houses more durable and long-lasting so this sweet town doesn’t look like it’s slowly falling apart (almost every house is 100+ years old). BUT everyone renovating has to adhere to the same look/style/shape of the original house so this cool old downtown area still feels as historic and “original” as possible.

Since you saw the outside stripped bare back in April, the exterior is nearly complete – except for the new porch floor and columns… which are coming soon. But the roofing, siding, windows, and shutters are all done – and we could not be more thrilled with how it’s coming together. Sherry is beginning to question why she ever doubted this house’s potential in the first place! I’ve even heard her whisper that she might end up liking the exterior of the duplex more than the pink house, which I never thought I’d hear.

Hunting Down Operable Shutters

The shutters ended up being a bigger ordeal than we expected. New historic mandates require that the shutters appear to be operable, meaning vinyl shutters that you can pick up for about $60 a pair and screw right into the siding weren’t an option. The requirement is based on them wanting an authentic look and not based on function. Nobody actually closes their shutters there for storms – and many houses, including our pink house, don’t even have them at all! Most houses that do have them are those non-operable vinyl shutters that were hung before the mandate (like the periwinkle blue ones that used to be on the duplex). We actually get worse storms in Richmond, where we also don’t have operable shutters… ha!

The quotes we got for custom operable shutters from a few companies had our jaws on the floor. They were about $1,000 PER PAIR (!!!!) Meaning the whole front would set us back FIVE GRAND. I’ll wait while you deep breathe into a paper bag like I did for about five minutes after each phone call.

For a while we felt stuck with that fee (it’s a historic mandate! we have no choice!) and just as we were bracing ourselves to pull the trigger, Sherry found these pre-primed composite shutters on Wayfair for $250/pair. We’d have to hunt down hardware and paint them ourselves (more on that in a moment) but that price was muuuuuuch easier to swallow. In fact, our total for ten of them to do the entire front of the house was just a little over the price for ONE SET of shutters from those companies we called! Hallelujah.

They come in a variety of sizes and one was nearly perfect for what we needed (we got the 68.5″ tall by 15″ wide ones). They were a smidge narrower than what we’d need for the shutters to fully close (just about two inches), but we reminded ourselves that the mandate is just that they need to APPEAR operable (remember this isn’t about function, it’s about maintaining a more historic look – virtually none of these houses have working shutters that anyone closes ever).

Below you can see what they look like closed (still have to paint the backs of these!). Thankfully there’s not really a scenario when you’ll see them like this other than this photo, but a bunch of you were asking for this pic, so here you go. Obviously if you’re looking for shutters you can use to board up your house in a storm it goes without saying that you’d need them to be the exact width of your window, and you might be stuck with those pricier custom shutters, I’m afraid.

With our shutters found, the only missing element was the hardware, of which there seemed to be ENDLESS OPTIONS. And it can make your ears ring and your head spin when you’re trying to figure out which way things should hinge without grinding against the house, and how deep the swing should be so it doesn’t bump against the window.

These little hardware additions can also drive up the cost of your shutters, so we kept it fairly simple and hunted down these hinges and these shutter dogs (which are the decorative hooks that hold the shutters open). The grand total was another $380, so all in we spent about $1650 on these ten operable-looking shutters (not including installation, which is just part of our construction contract with Sean). And since we painted them, that saved us some cash too. Not bad compared to the $5000+ we would have spent on custom ones. Budget crisis averted.

The only small installation hiccup was that operable shutters typically screw right into historic wood windows, not vinyl ones like ours (a previous owner had already replaced the original wood windows on this house). We couldn’t drill the hinges into the vinyl frame because it would ruin the warranty and the efficiency of them – so we had to place them outside of the window, which thankfully ended up looking nice too.

Choosing A Shutter Paint Color

Sherry has long had her mind set on mint shutters on a white house (you probably remember that from our duplex style inspiration post). But we wanted to take our time finding the right mint. Since there were no mint coffee cups around (if you don’t get that joke, here ya go), we turned to another source of inspiration – this historic Pure Oil gas station right at the entrance of town.

The lighting in that shot above isn’t doing it any justice, but we’ve ALWAYS been charmed by this little building and its cheery color scheme. So we popped by a few months ago with a paint deck in hand to find some similar colors. We didn’t want to go quite as dark as their door, but we also know that colors tend to read lighter on exteriors (and they tend to look darker inside). So we used some removable paint decals to test five colors on various parts of the house. Clockwise from the top right: Pale Patina, Rice Terrace, Mist on the Moors, Salt Marshes, Aloe (all by Sherwin Williams)

Since people often ask us why we tend to go with Sherwin Williams for exterior painting stuff – well, most exterior painters will only use Sherwin Williams (that was true for the trim and siding on our house in Richmond, as well as for when we painted the entire pink house) so we figure if it’s good enough for the pros to pretty much use exclusively outside, it’s not a bad idea for us to follow suit (it has a nice warranty, good customer service, and has held up great for the last five years on our house’s siding and trim in Richmond).

As we were trying to choose from those five colors in the photo above, one of our favorites – Pale Patina – showed up in a surprising place: under the rotting stairs we were standing on! Once upon a time those stair risers were that exact color. How crazy is that?! We took it as a sign. The house was basically nodding its head in agreement on Pale Patina. Kinda like how we discovered in retrospect that the pink house’s kitchen had pink wainscoting.

The shutters were composite (no rotting!) and came pre-primed (uh, no priming!) so we picked up a gallon of this Weathershield exterior paint and over the course of several days, we put two coats of paint on all ten shutters. It took us a few days of intermittent painting because we didn’t have room to spread out and paint them all at once (no garage!) so we couldn’t do more than three or four at a time.

But just in the nick of time (literally, the night before Sean’s guys were scheduled to install them) we finished and set them out on our porch to go over to the duplex. The funny thing we realized is that Pale Patina is eerily similar to the color we painted the ceiling at the pink house (SW Breaktime). Is it me or is the pink house flirting with the duplex?

What About The Front Doors?

You may have watched the saga of Sherry hunting down a pair of diamond doors on social media (there’s more on that in podcast Episode #100 and Episode #109 if you missed it) and many have asked why they aren’t going on the front of the house. Historically speaking we have to keep the original front doors, so the diamond doors have always been planned for the BACK of the house.

We probably created confusion with photos like the one above, but those same front doors will remain. The good news is that we love the idea of the diamond doors out back because it’ll inject a similar diamond-paned look (inspired by the front’s diamond windows) around back too. So each side will have something-diamond going on for balance. Below you can see them hung, just not painted yet.

I know it may seem sad that they’re relegated to the back yard, but we’re actually crazy excited about the transformation of that side of the house. Everything from carrying the corbels around back to adding the metal awnings (ours are the 44″ x 36″ ones in the bronze color) and bumping out the second floor on both sides (thereby earning two additional bathrooms!) has made a HUGE difference. This is a before shot for you:

Crazy, right?! All of those changes had to go through the architecture review board (adding windows, bumping up the top, etc) but thankfully they all passed. WHEW.

Circling back to those metal awnings, we actually got a quote to have them built and it was around $1500-2K each… and then Sherry found these online and they’re so much more affordable – literally around a quarter of the price for each one! It meant we could definitely pull the trigger and get them – plus they tie into the same dark bronze color that’s on the tin roof out front.

We got some questions about choosing the height for our metal awnings (a few folks asked why we didn’t go lower). We actually originally held them up lower and almost screwed them in until I realized that from inside the house, they blocked the view and some light! So glad we caught that and raised them. Now the view out the door is unimpeded and as much light as possible shines into the mudroom. Note to self: always check the view from inside before hanging anything that can interfere with the view or the light shining in!

The spacing might seem a little random now, but once the lanterns are hung and the steps are added, there will be more elements around the awnings with similar spacing, and we think they’ll feel a lot more balanced. Along with adding porch lanterns and stairs, we’ll also be building outdoor showers and a privacy fence that can be opened to merge both areas if one family rents both sides, and we have a lot of other things planned too (of course: some string lights). We think the backyard might end up being the coolest spot in the house. Sherry keeps saying it’s gonna be “lit.” I give you permission to eyeroll that one.

But let’s go back to the front doors for a second. As you saw above, we tested out our mint paint swatches with some decals that we placed on the duplex’s front doors (which were painted a deep blue color and covered by janky storm doors). The original plan was to paint them the same mint color as the shutters, but after we got them stripped, we kinda fell in love with the raw wood look. Note: For anyone looking to strip old painted doors, first test for lead, and if they’re free of it you can use a product like CitreStrip and a spackle knife to scrape, scrape, scrape. 

The problem with keeping them wood, which I keep reminding Sherry, is that they’re still in rough shape. Not only is there a persistent haze of white paint (which is arguably kinda cool – and could most likely be sanded off) but more concerning is the doorknob, um, situation. The holes are in weird / high / completely different spots – and it’s gonna be tough to conceal any patching we do if we keep them wood (patching is much easier to hide with paint).

But Sherry is pretty adamant about keeping their wood tone and patching the holes and finding doorknobs with nice long backplates to conceal the patch-jobs. Then we’ll sand and seal them for a richer wood tone. They do look great with the warmth of the brick steps, and Sherry plans to add more wood accents (like wood benches on either side of the porch), so I can’t argue with keeping them wood – as long as we can get it looking good and feeling secure. Feel free to cross your fingers for us.

And Lastly, The Steps

You’ve probably never met a person more excited about brick steps than Sherry Petersik. We knew we had to replace the old wood steps, and while wood or composite is the most obvious answer, we really LOVE the brick steps at the pink house (and, incidentally, we also really like the awesome local mason who installed them). So brick steps at the duplex just felt like the right call.

Not only did they recently complete our super wide 10′ steps (with the same mitered corner detail we love from the pink house), we also had our mason redo the entire concrete pad beneath them because it was cracked and degrading.

We didn’t get any great photos of their process of installing them (it was raining on and off so they erected a tent around them part of the time) and we probably won’t get great photos of them until all of the other construction dust is cleaned up. But we love how wide and gracious they feel.

As for a porch railing and stair railing, those will be added later once the porch comes together more. It’ll be historic looking (white with vertical pickets) and we found this house as inspiration which also has wide brick steps, so that might help you picture it.

The last thing I’ll mention is the brick border along the perimeter of the house. We realized that splashing from the rain was quickly dirtying the foundation (see above), which was essentially skim-coated in a white plaster-like material. So at the mason’s suggestion, we had him install this border as sort of an upgraded version of pea gravel or rock that lots of houses have to keep that splash-back to a minimum (still haven’t hosed off the skim coated area – but once we do it should stay a lot cleaner now).

The brick border won’t be as noticeable once everything is landscaped, but we like being able to incorporate that brick texture since the rest of the street has brick foundations and our little duplex missed out on that.

So I think that gets you pretty much up to speed on the state of the exterior. The interior is actually done being drywalled (!!!) so next up is some primer and paint inside, followed by interior trim and doors – plus they’re going to start working on rebuilding the porch. That’s A WHOLE LOTTA PROGRESS that we should get to share with you guys over the next month or so, so stay tuned. Also, the day the Port-O-Potty finally leaves will be a day we dance on those wide brick steps like no one is watching.

P.S. Wanna read all about rebuilding this duplex from day one? There’s a whole category full of duplex posts for you to peruse and click into if they sound interesting. We also have a detailed podcast about how we could afford to buy the duplex in the middle of renovating our pink house (we include how much the beach house and the duplex cost us, etc). 

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Why Are Shutters So Hard? And Other Duplex Exterior Questions Answered

You guys may have seen some of our progress on the duplex’s exterior on social media, but let’s get into some of the nitty gritty (and answer a ton of questions that have come in about it) here on the ol’ blog. We wanna talk shutters, steps, metal awnings, and what the heck is happening with all of that diamond door drama (among other things).

As a refresher, this is what the house looked like before.

Due to the historic mandates in town, we’re required to keep all of the basic elements of the house the same – original front doors, exact window locations, the roofline itself (ahem), and the corbels along the roofline…

… although the historic review board allowed us to space the corbels differently so they’d go all the way around the house, and saved us from having to remake a ton that had rotted beyond repair. And yes, the duplex came with not one, not two, but three satellite dishes. Our cup runneth over.

And yes that’s regular old silver duct tape up by the roof on the right side. And the diamond windows were covered with DRYWALL and hidden in the walls on each side of the house instead of being exposed and letting the light flood in. In short: we had some work to do on the whole curb appeal thing.

A lot of the exterior elements of the 100+ year old house (like the rotting siding, degraded roofing, collapsing porch, etc) needed to be replaced with new materials that will hold up better over time, like HardiePlank cement board siding. We even reconstructed some corbels from composite, not wood (to replace some that were too far gone).

The entire idea of the Historic Review Board, who approves nearly every exterior house update, is to make sure that people can make these houses more durable and long-lasting so this sweet town doesn’t look like it’s slowly falling apart (almost every house is 100+ years old). BUT everyone renovating has to adhere to the same look/style/shape of the original house so this cool old downtown area still feels as historic and “original” as possible.

Since you saw the outside stripped bare back in April, the exterior is nearly complete – except for the new porch floor and columns… which are coming soon. But the roofing, siding, windows, and shutters are all done – and we could not be more thrilled with how it’s coming together. Sherry is beginning to question why she ever doubted this house’s potential in the first place! I’ve even heard her whisper that she might end up liking the exterior of the duplex more than the pink house, which I never thought I’d hear.

Hunting Down Operable Shutters

The shutters ended up being a bigger ordeal than we expected. New historic mandates require that the shutters appear to be operable, meaning vinyl shutters that you can pick up for about $60 a pair and screw right into the siding weren’t an option. The requirement is based on them wanting an authentic look and not based on function. Nobody actually closes their shutters there for storms – and many houses, including our pink house, don’t even have them at all! Most houses that do have them are those non-operable vinyl shutters that were hung before the mandate (like the periwinkle blue ones that used to be on the duplex). We actually get worse storms in Richmond, where we also don’t have operable shutters… ha!

The quotes we got for custom operable shutters from a few companies had our jaws on the floor. They were about $1,000 PER PAIR (!!!!) Meaning the whole front would set us back FIVE GRAND. I’ll wait while you deep breathe into a paper bag like I did for about five minutes after each phone call.

For a while we felt stuck with that fee (it’s a historic mandate! we have no choice!) and just as we were bracing ourselves to pull the trigger, Sherry found these pre-primed composite shutters on Wayfair for $250/pair. We’d have to hunt down hardware and paint them ourselves (more on that in a moment) but that price was muuuuuuch easier to swallow. In fact, our total for ten of them to do the entire front of the house was just a little over the price for ONE SET of shutters from those companies we called! Hallelujah.

They come in a variety of sizes and one was nearly perfect for what we needed (we got the 68.5″ tall by 15″ wide ones). They were a smidge narrower than what we’d need for the shutters to fully close (just about two inches), but we reminded ourselves that the mandate is just that they need to APPEAR operable (remember this isn’t about function, it’s about maintaining a more historic look – virtually none of these houses have working shutters that anyone closes ever).

Below you can see what they look like closed (still have to paint the backs of these!). Thankfully there’s not really a scenario when you’ll see them like this other than this photo, but a bunch of you were asking for this pic, so here you go. Obviously if you’re looking for shutters you can use to board up your house in a storm it goes without saying that you’d need them to be the exact width of your window, and you might be stuck with those pricier custom shutters, I’m afraid.

With our shutters found, the only missing element was the hardware, of which there seemed to be ENDLESS OPTIONS. And it can make your ears ring and your head spin when you’re trying to figure out which way things should hinge without grinding against the house, and how deep the swing should be so it doesn’t bump against the window.

These little hardware additions can also drive up the cost of your shutters, so we kept it fairly simple and hunted down these hinges and these shutter dogs (which are the decorative hooks that hold the shutters open). The grand total was another $380, so all in we spent about $1650 on these ten operable-looking shutters (not including installation, which is just part of our construction contract with Sean). And since we painted them, that saved us some cash too. Not bad compared to the $5000+ we would have spent on custom ones. Budget crisis averted.

The only small installation hiccup was that operable shutters typically screw right into historic wood windows, not vinyl ones like ours (a previous owner had already replaced the original wood windows on this house). We couldn’t drill the hinges into the vinyl frame because it would ruin the warranty and the efficiency of them – so we had to place them outside of the window, which thankfully ended up looking nice too.

Choosing A Shutter Paint Color

Sherry has long had her mind set on mint shutters on a white house (you probably remember that from our duplex style inspiration post). But we wanted to take our time finding the right mint. Since there were no mint coffee cups around (if you don’t get that joke, here ya go), we turned to another source of inspiration – this historic Pure Oil gas station right at the entrance of town.

The lighting in that shot above isn’t doing it any justice, but we’ve ALWAYS been charmed by this little building and its cheery color scheme. So we popped by a few months ago with a paint deck in hand to find some similar colors. We didn’t want to go quite as dark as their door, but we also know that colors tend to read lighter on exteriors (and they tend to look darker inside). So we used some removable paint decals to test five colors on various parts of the house. Clockwise from the top right: Pale Patina, Rice Terrace, Mist on the Moors, Salt Marshes, Aloe (all by Sherwin Williams)

Since people often ask us why we tend to go with Sherwin Williams for exterior painting stuff – well, most exterior painters will only use Sherwin Williams (that was true for the trim and siding on our house in Richmond, as well as for when we painted the entire pink house) so we figure if it’s good enough for the pros to pretty much use exclusively outside, it’s not a bad idea for us to follow suit (it has a nice warranty, good customer service, and has held up great for the last five years on our house’s siding and trim in Richmond).

As we were trying to choose from those five colors in the photo above, one of our favorites – Pale Patina – showed up in a surprising place: under the rotting stairs we were standing on! Once upon a time those stair risers were that exact color. How crazy is that?! We took it as a sign. The house was basically nodding its head in agreement on Pale Patina. Kinda like how we discovered in retrospect that the pink house’s kitchen had pink wainscoting.

The shutters were composite (no rotting!) and came pre-primed (uh, no priming!) so we picked up a gallon of this Weathershield exterior paint and over the course of several days, we put two coats of paint on all ten shutters. It took us a few days of intermittent painting because we didn’t have room to spread out and paint them all at once (no garage!) so we couldn’t do more than three or four at a time.

But just in the nick of time (literally, the night before Sean’s guys were scheduled to install them) we finished and set them out on our porch to go over to the duplex. The funny thing we realized is that Pale Patina is eerily similar to the color we painted the ceiling at the pink house (SW Breaktime). Is it me or is the pink house flirting with the duplex?

What About The Front Doors?

You may have watched the saga of Sherry hunting down a pair of diamond doors on social media (there’s more on that in podcast Episode #100 and Episode #109 if you missed it) and many have asked why they aren’t going on the front of the house. Historically speaking we have to keep the original front doors, so the diamond doors have always been planned for the BACK of the house.

We probably created confusion with photos like the one above, but those same front doors will remain. The good news is that we love the idea of the diamond doors out back because it’ll inject a similar diamond-paned look (inspired by the front’s diamond windows) around back too. So each side will have something-diamond going on for balance. Below you can see them hung, just not painted yet.

I know it may seem sad that they’re relegated to the back yard, but we’re actually crazy excited about the transformation of that side of the house. Everything from carrying the corbels around back to adding the metal awnings (ours are the 44″ x 36″ ones in the bronze color) and bumping out the second floor on both sides (thereby earning two additional bathrooms!) has made a HUGE difference. This is a before shot for you:

Crazy, right?! All of those changes had to go through the architecture review board (adding windows, bumping up the top, etc) but thankfully they all passed. WHEW.

Circling back to those metal awnings, we actually got a quote to have them built and it was around $1500-2K each… and then Sherry found these online and they’re so much more affordable – literally around a quarter of the price for each one! It meant we could definitely pull the trigger and get them – plus they tie into the same dark bronze color that’s on the tin roof out front.

We got some questions about choosing the height for our metal awnings (a few folks asked why we didn’t go lower). We actually originally held them up lower and almost screwed them in until I realized that from inside the house, they blocked the view and some light! So glad we caught that and raised them. Now the view out the door is unimpeded and as much light as possible shines into the mudroom. Note to self: always check the view from inside before hanging anything that can interfere with the view or the light shining in!

The spacing might seem a little random now, but once the lanterns are hung and the steps are added, there will be more elements around the awnings with similar spacing, and we think they’ll feel a lot more balanced. Along with adding porch lanterns and stairs, we’ll also be building outdoor showers and a privacy fence that can be opened to merge both areas if one family rents both sides, and we have a lot of other things planned too (of course: some string lights). We think the backyard might end up being the coolest spot in the house. Sherry keeps saying it’s gonna be “lit.” I give you permission to eyeroll that one.

But let’s go back to the front doors for a second. As you saw above, we tested out our mint paint swatches with some decals that we placed on the duplex’s front doors (which were painted a deep blue color and covered by janky storm doors). The original plan was to paint them the same mint color as the shutters, but after we got them stripped, we kinda fell in love with the raw wood look. Note: For anyone looking to strip old painted doors, first test for lead, and if they’re free of it you can use a product like CitreStrip and a spackle knife to scrape, scrape, scrape. 

The problem with keeping them wood, which I keep reminding Sherry, is that they’re still in rough shape. Not only is there a persistent haze of white paint (which is arguably kinda cool – and could most likely be sanded off) but more concerning is the doorknob, um, situation. The holes are in weird / high / completely different spots – and it’s gonna be tough to conceal any patching we do if we keep them wood (patching is much easier to hide with paint).

But Sherry is pretty adamant about keeping their wood tone and patching the holes and finding doorknobs with nice long backplates to conceal the patch-jobs. Then we’ll sand and seal them for a richer wood tone. They do look great with the warmth of the brick steps, and Sherry plans to add more wood accents (like wood benches on either side of the porch), so I can’t argue with keeping them wood – as long as we can get it looking good and feeling secure. Feel free to cross your fingers for us.

And Lastly, The Steps

You’ve probably never met a person more excited about brick steps than Sherry Petersik. We knew we had to replace the old wood steps, and while wood or composite is the most obvious answer, we really LOVE the brick steps at the pink house (and, incidentally, we also really like the awesome local mason who installed them). So brick steps at the duplex just felt like the right call.

Not only did they recently complete our super wide 10′ steps (with the same mitered corner detail we love from the pink house), we also had our mason redo the entire concrete pad beneath them because it was cracked and degrading.

We didn’t get any great photos of their process of installing them (it was raining on and off so they erected a tent around them part of the time) and we probably won’t get great photos of them until all of the other construction dust is cleaned up. But we love how wide and gracious they feel.

As for a porch railing and stair railing, those will be added later once the porch comes together more. It’ll be historic looking (white with vertical pickets) and we found this house as inspiration which also has wide brick steps, so that might help you picture it.

The last thing I’ll mention is the brick border along the perimeter of the house. We realized that splashing from the rain was quickly dirtying the foundation (see above), which was essentially skim-coated in a white plaster-like material. So at the mason’s suggestion, we had him install this border as sort of an upgraded version of pea gravel or rock that lots of houses have to keep that splash-back to a minimum (still haven’t hosed off the skim coated area – but once we do it should stay a lot cleaner now).

The brick border won’t be as noticeable once everything is landscaped, but we like being able to incorporate that brick texture since the rest of the street has brick foundations and our little duplex missed out on that.

So I think that gets you pretty much up to speed on the state of the exterior. The interior is actually done being drywalled (!!!) so next up is some primer and paint inside, followed by interior trim and doors – plus they’re going to start working on rebuilding the porch. That’s A WHOLE LOTTA PROGRESS that we should get to share with you guys over the next month or so, so stay tuned. Also, the day the Port-O-Potty finally leaves will be a day we dance on those wide brick steps like no one is watching.

P.S. Wanna read all about rebuilding this duplex from day one? There’s a whole category full of duplex posts for you to peruse and click into if they sound interesting. We also have a detailed podcast about how we could afford to buy the duplex in the middle of renovating our pink house (we include how much the beach house and the duplex cost us, etc). 

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Why Are Shutters So Hard? And Other Duplex Exterior Questions Answered

You guys may have seen some of our progress on the duplex’s exterior on social media, but let’s get into some of the nitty gritty (and answer a ton of questions that have come in about it) here on the ol’ blog. We wanna talk shutters, steps, metal awnings, and what the heck is happening with all of that diamond door drama (among other things).

As a refresher, this is what the house looked like before.

Due to the historic mandates in town, we’re required to keep all of the basic elements of the house the same – original front doors, exact window locations, the roofline itself (ahem), and the corbels along the roofline…

… although the historic review board allowed us to space the corbels differently so they’d go all the way around the house, and saved us from having to remake a ton that had rotted beyond repair. And yes, the duplex came with not one, not two, but three satellite dishes. Our cup runneth over.

And yes that’s regular old silver duct tape up by the roof on the right side. And the diamond windows were covered with DRYWALL and hidden in the walls on each side of the house instead of being exposed and letting the light flood in. In short: we had some work to do on the whole curb appeal thing.

A lot of the exterior elements of the 100+ year old house (like the rotting siding, degraded roofing, collapsing porch, etc) needed to be replaced with new materials that will hold up better over time, like HardiePlank cement board siding. We even reconstructed some corbels from composite, not wood (to replace some that were too far gone).

The entire idea of the Historic Review Board, who approves nearly every exterior house update, is to make sure that people can make these houses more durable and long-lasting so this sweet town doesn’t look like it’s slowly falling apart (almost every house is 100+ years old). BUT everyone renovating has to adhere to the same look/style/shape of the original house so this cool old downtown area still feels as historic and “original” as possible.

Since you saw the outside stripped bare back in April, the exterior is nearly complete – except for the new porch floor and columns… which are coming soon. But the roofing, siding, windows, and shutters are all done – and we could not be more thrilled with how it’s coming together. Sherry is beginning to question why she ever doubted this house’s potential in the first place! I’ve even heard her whisper that she might end up liking the exterior of the duplex more than the pink house, which I never thought I’d hear.

Hunting Down Operable Shutters

The shutters ended up being a bigger ordeal than we expected. New historic mandates require that the shutters appear to be operable, meaning vinyl shutters that you can pick up for about $60 a pair and screw right into the siding weren’t an option. The requirement is based on them wanting an authentic look and not based on function. Nobody actually closes their shutters there for storms – and many houses, including our pink house, don’t even have them at all! Most houses that do have them are those non-operable vinyl shutters that were hung before the mandate (like the periwinkle blue ones that used to be on the duplex). We actually get worse storms in Richmond, where we also don’t have operable shutters… ha!

The quotes we got for custom operable shutters from a few companies had our jaws on the floor. They were about $1,000 PER PAIR (!!!!) Meaning the whole front would set us back FIVE GRAND. I’ll wait while you deep breathe into a paper bag like I did for about five minutes after each phone call.

For a while we felt stuck with that fee (it’s a historic mandate! we have no choice!) and just as we were bracing ourselves to pull the trigger, Sherry found these pre-primed composite shutters on Wayfair for $250/pair. We’d have to hunt down hardware and paint them ourselves (more on that in a moment) but that price was muuuuuuch easier to swallow. In fact, our total for ten of them to do the entire front of the house was just a little over the price for ONE SET of shutters from those companies we called! Hallelujah.

They come in a variety of sizes and one was nearly perfect for what we needed (we got the 68.5″ tall by 15″ wide ones). They were a smidge narrower than what we’d need for the shutters to fully close (just about two inches), but we reminded ourselves that the mandate is just that they need to APPEAR operable (remember this isn’t about function, it’s about maintaining a more historic look – virtually none of these houses have working shutters that anyone closes ever).

Below you can see what they look like closed (still have to paint the backs of these!). Thankfully there’s not really a scenario when you’ll see them like this other than this photo, but a bunch of you were asking for this pic, so here you go. Obviously if you’re looking for shutters you can use to board up your house in a storm it goes without saying that you’d need them to be the exact width of your window, and you might be stuck with those pricier custom shutters, I’m afraid.

With our shutters found, the only missing element was the hardware, of which there seemed to be ENDLESS OPTIONS. And it can make your ears ring and your head spin when you’re trying to figure out which way things should hinge without grinding against the house, and how deep the swing should be so it doesn’t bump against the window.

These little hardware additions can also drive up the cost of your shutters, so we kept it fairly simple and hunted down these hinges and these shutter dogs (which are the decorative hooks that hold the shutters open). The grand total was another $380, so all in we spent about $1650 on these ten operable-looking shutters (not including installation, which is just part of our construction contract with Sean). And since we painted them, that saved us some cash too. Not bad compared to the $5000+ we would have spent on custom ones. Budget crisis averted.

The only small installation hiccup was that operable shutters typically screw right into historic wood windows, not vinyl ones like ours (a previous owner had already replaced the original wood windows on this house). We couldn’t drill the hinges into the vinyl frame because it would ruin the warranty and the efficiency of them – so we had to place them outside of the window, which thankfully ended up looking nice too.

Choosing A Shutter Paint Color

Sherry has long had her mind set on mint shutters on a white house (you probably remember that from our duplex style inspiration post). But we wanted to take our time finding the right mint. Since there were no mint coffee cups around (if you don’t get that joke, here ya go), we turned to another source of inspiration – this historic Pure Oil gas station right at the entrance of town.

The lighting in that shot above isn’t doing it any justice, but we’ve ALWAYS been charmed by this little building and its cheery color scheme. So we popped by a few months ago with a paint deck in hand to find some similar colors. We didn’t want to go quite as dark as their door, but we also know that colors tend to read lighter on exteriors (and they tend to look darker inside). So we used some removable paint decals to test five colors on various parts of the house. Clockwise from the top right: Pale Patina, Rice Terrace, Mist on the Moors, Salt Marshes, Aloe (all by Sherwin Williams)

Since people often ask us why we tend to go with Sherwin Williams for exterior painting stuff – well, most exterior painters will only use Sherwin Williams (that was true for the trim and siding on our house in Richmond, as well as for when we painted the entire pink house) so we figure if it’s good enough for the pros to pretty much use exclusively outside, it’s not a bad idea for us to follow suit (it has a nice warranty, good customer service, and has held up great for the last five years on our house’s siding and trim in Richmond).

As we were trying to choose from those five colors in the photo above, one of our favorites – Pale Patina – showed up in a surprising place: under the rotting stairs we were standing on! Once upon a time those stair risers were that exact color. How crazy is that?! We took it as a sign. The house was basically nodding its head in agreement on Pale Patina. Kinda like how we discovered in retrospect that the pink house’s kitchen had pink wainscoting.

The shutters were composite (no rotting!) and came pre-primed (uh, no priming!) so we picked up a gallon of this Weathershield exterior paint and over the course of several days, we put two coats of paint on all ten shutters. It took us a few days of intermittent painting because we didn’t have room to spread out and paint them all at once (no garage!) so we couldn’t do more than three or four at a time.

But just in the nick of time (literally, the night before Sean’s guys were scheduled to install them) we finished and set them out on our porch to go over to the duplex. The funny thing we realized is that Pale Patina is eerily similar to the color we painted the ceiling at the pink house (SW Breaktime). Is it me or is the pink house flirting with the duplex?

What About The Front Doors?

You may have watched the saga of Sherry hunting down a pair of diamond doors on social media (there’s more on that in podcast Episode #100 and Episode #109 if you missed it) and many have asked why they aren’t going on the front of the house. Historically speaking we have to keep the original front doors, so the diamond doors have always been planned for the BACK of the house.

We probably created confusion with photos like the one above, but those same front doors will remain. The good news is that we love the idea of the diamond doors out back because it’ll inject a similar diamond-paned look (inspired by the front’s diamond windows) around back too. So each side will have something-diamond going on for balance. Below you can see them hung, just not painted yet.

I know it may seem sad that they’re relegated to the back yard, but we’re actually crazy excited about the transformation of that side of the house. Everything from carrying the corbels around back to adding the metal awnings (ours are the 44″ x 36″ ones in the bronze color) and bumping out the second floor on both sides (thereby earning two additional bathrooms!) has made a HUGE difference. This is a before shot for you:

Crazy, right?! All of those changes had to go through the architecture review board (adding windows, bumping up the top, etc) but thankfully they all passed. WHEW.

Circling back to those metal awnings, we actually got a quote to have them built and it was around $1500-2K each… and then Sherry found these online and they’re so much more affordable – literally around a quarter of the price for each one! It meant we could definitely pull the trigger and get them – plus they tie into the same dark bronze color that’s on the tin roof out front.

We got some questions about choosing the height for our metal awnings (a few folks asked why we didn’t go lower). We actually originally held them up lower and almost screwed them in until I realized that from inside the house, they blocked the view and some light! So glad we caught that and raised them. Now the view out the door is unimpeded and as much light as possible shines into the mudroom. Note to self: always check the view from inside before hanging anything that can interfere with the view or the light shining in!

The spacing might seem a little random now, but once the lanterns are hung and the steps are added, there will be more elements around the awnings with similar spacing, and we think they’ll feel a lot more balanced. Along with adding porch lanterns and stairs, we’ll also be building outdoor showers and a privacy fence that can be opened to merge both areas if one family rents both sides, and we have a lot of other things planned too (of course: some string lights). We think the backyard might end up being the coolest spot in the house. Sherry keeps saying it’s gonna be “lit.” I give you permission to eyeroll that one.

But let’s go back to the front doors for a second. As you saw above, we tested out our mint paint swatches with some decals that we placed on the duplex’s front doors (which were painted a deep blue color and covered by janky storm doors). The original plan was to paint them the same mint color as the shutters, but after we got them stripped, we kinda fell in love with the raw wood look. Note: For anyone looking to strip old painted doors, first test for lead, and if they’re free of it you can use a product like CitreStrip and a spackle knife to scrape, scrape, scrape. 

The problem with keeping them wood, which I keep reminding Sherry, is that they’re still in rough shape. Not only is there a persistent haze of white paint (which is arguably kinda cool – and could most likely be sanded off) but more concerning is the doorknob, um, situation. The holes are in weird / high / completely different spots – and it’s gonna be tough to conceal any patching we do if we keep them wood (patching is much easier to hide with paint).

But Sherry is pretty adamant about keeping their wood tone and patching the holes and finding doorknobs with nice long backplates to conceal the patch-jobs. Then we’ll sand and seal them for a richer wood tone. They do look great with the warmth of the brick steps, and Sherry plans to add more wood accents (like wood benches on either side of the porch), so I can’t argue with keeping them wood – as long as we can get it looking good and feeling secure. Feel free to cross your fingers for us.

And Lastly, The Steps

You’ve probably never met a person more excited about brick steps than Sherry Petersik. We knew we had to replace the old wood steps, and while wood or composite is the most obvious answer, we really LOVE the brick steps at the pink house (and, incidentally, we also really like the awesome local mason who installed them). So brick steps at the duplex just felt like the right call.

Not only did they recently complete our super wide 10′ steps (with the same mitered corner detail we love from the pink house), we also had our mason redo the entire concrete pad beneath them because it was cracked and degrading.

We didn’t get any great photos of their process of installing them (it was raining on and off so they erected a tent around them part of the time) and we probably won’t get great photos of them until all of the other construction dust is cleaned up. But we love how wide and gracious they feel.

As for a porch railing and stair railing, those will be added later once the porch comes together more. It’ll be historic looking (white with vertical pickets) and we found this house as inspiration which also has wide brick steps, so that might help you picture it.

The last thing I’ll mention is the brick border along the perimeter of the house. We realized that splashing from the rain was quickly dirtying the foundation (see above), which was essentially skim-coated in a white plaster-like material. So at the mason’s suggestion, we had him install this border as sort of an upgraded version of pea gravel or rock that lots of houses have to keep that splash-back to a minimum (still haven’t hosed off the skim coated area – but once we do it should stay a lot cleaner now).

The brick border won’t be as noticeable once everything is landscaped, but we like being able to incorporate that brick texture since the rest of the street has brick foundations and our little duplex missed out on that.

So I think that gets you pretty much up to speed on the state of the exterior. The interior is actually done being drywalled (!!!) so next up is some primer and paint inside, followed by interior trim and doors – plus they’re going to start working on rebuilding the porch. That’s A WHOLE LOTTA PROGRESS that we should get to share with you guys over the next month or so, so stay tuned. Also, the day the Port-O-Potty finally leaves will be a day we dance on those wide brick steps like no one is watching.

P.S. Wanna read all about rebuilding this duplex from day one? There’s a whole category full of duplex posts for you to peruse and click into if they sound interesting. We also have a detailed podcast about how we could afford to buy the duplex in the middle of renovating our pink house (we include how much the beach house and the duplex cost us, etc). 

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New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design Ideas Located in in Los Altos, Ca. and built by AK Construction, this 100% modern farmhouse features 5,013 sq ft, 6 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, a completely custom staircase and a modern farmhouse kitchen that will leave you inspired! Since this is a new constructions, it hasn’t been completely furnished but I want you to focus on the architectural elements, on the cabinetry, lighting, flooring and paint color choices. I am confident that this new modern farmhouse home will inspire many that are building or renovating their homes. New Construction Modern Farmhouse Design Ideas This sophisticated classic modern farmhouse is a dream come true for a family of 5. From class front cabinets, wood planked floors, barn-wood doors, galvanized metals, reclaimed wood, wood beams, shiplap walls, and brick this modern farmhouse does not disappoint. House Details: Square ft: 5,013 Bedrooms: 6 Baths: 4.5 Metal Roof Roof: Standing Seam Metal Roof. Curb Appeal The key to achieving a modern farmhouse is, “Marrying the contemporary modern style with the rustic farmhouse elements” says, builder/owner of AK Construction. Driveway & Pathway This home features a driveway and pathway with concrete and grass pavers. Front Door Front Door: Simpson 36803 Crafstman Two panel – three lite (sdl) no og edging with 36803 – stain Grade. Modern Farmhouse Kitchen This modern farmhouse kitchen features white oak hardwood floors and a barn door to pantry. Kitchen Paint Color Perimeter cabinet paint color is “Sherwin Williams Alabaster”. Sherwin Williams Alabaster is one of the best white paint colors for cabinets and often recommended by interior designers. Cabinetry Kitchen Cabinet: Decora/ Harmony Door Style / Maple Wood / Concealed Hinge/Non-Beaded Inset Hidden Hinge / 5-Piece Flat Drawer Face. Island: Decora/ Harmony Door Style / Maple Wood / Concealed Hinge / Non-Beaded Inset Hidden Hinge / 5-Piece Flat Drawer Face. Island Posts: Decora / Maple Wood / Island Leg 5×5. Kitchen Lighting Glass Island Pendants: “Kichler”. Island Paint Color Island paint color is “Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray SW 7016”. Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray SW 7016 is a very soft grey that works beautifully on cabinets. Pantry Barn Door Paint Color Kitchen pantry barn door paint color is Sherwin Williams Peppercorn SW7674 in eggshell. Countertops Island Countertop: Statuario Quartz 2cm Slab – Polished Perimeter Countertop: Silestone Cemento Quartz Hardware Cabinet Knobs: Top Knobs – in flat black. Cabinet Pulls: Top Knobs – in flat black. Shelves Open Shelving: Shelving: Rejuvenation – size: 10in x 3ft. Brackets: Rejuvenation. Sink & Faucet Farm Sink- Kohler -Whitehaven 36’’ Kitchen Faucet: Kraus. Above Sink Lighting: ANP Backsplash: Bedrosians. Grout – Permacolor Snd 25lb Dusty Grey. Kitchen Dimensions Kitchen Dimensions: Range Wall- 186 1/2″ Sink Wall- 134″ Island- 78″x50″ Doors Kitchen features bi-fold doors to patio. Patio Doors Folding patio doors open to a patio with concrete pavers. Hardwood Floor Open kitchen layout with hardwood floors on the entire main floor. Hardwood Floor: EverBright – White Oak. Wall Paint Color Modern Farmhouse Interior Paint Color: Window frame and grids, all trim, crown, baseboards, living room mantel, interior doors (except pantry barn door) Alabaster SW7008 by Sherwin Williams in semi-gloss. Foyer A shiplap hall connects the formal spaces to the rest of the house. Shiplap paint color is Sherwin Williams Alabaster (eggshell). Millwork The foyer also features shiplap paneling. Dining Room Lighting This tear drop chandelier is one of my favorites! It looks amazing when the lights are on. Lighting is from Overstock. Windows: 5/4 x 6 lintel header treatments with 1×4 window casing. Living Room Paint Color Paint colors is “Sherwin Williams Repose Gray SW7015”. Sherwin Williams Repose Gray SW7015 works with any style, traditional, farmhouse, modern. It’s one of my go-to colors and I often recommend it to my own clients. Layout New Construction Layout Inspiration: Formal living room opens to dining room, butlers pantry to kitchen. Modern Farmhouse Staircase This farmhouse stair is made of black steel, crossed barn look guardrails and steel cable wire. Walls are shiplap. Close-Up The white oak stair treads and shiplap paneling beautifully contrasts against the black steel. Landing The upstairs landing features a skylight, built-in desks and a built-in storage cabinet (far right). Hardware: Top Knobs. Paint Color Paint colors is Sherwin Williams Neutral Ground SW7568. Sherwin Williams Neutral Ground SW7568 is a great alternative to plain white paint color. This color is warmer and quite soothing. Master Bedroom Paint Color Paint color is “Sherwin Williams Sea Salt” – Flat. Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is a soothing color that works great in bedrooms and bathrooms. Master Bathroom Cabinet Paint Color Cabinet paint color is Peppercorn by Sherwin Williams. Bathroom Hardware: Pottery Barn – in Antique Brass Finish. Countertop: Calacatta Ravenna 2cm Quartz Slab Polish Master Bathroom Sink Faucets: Kohler. Lighting: Sea Gull Lighting. Wood-looking Tile: Bedrosians. Tile & Lighting Wall Tile: Bedrosians. Lighting is from Pottery Barn. Master Tub: “Wyndham Collection”. Tub Faucet: Kohler. Shower HydroRail: Kohler. Valve: Kohler. Girl’s Bedroom Paint Color Lavender Paint Color: “Sherwin Williams Lite Lavender SW6554”. Lighting: Cost Plus World Market. Jack & Jill Bathroom Jack and Jill bathroom paint color is Sherwin Williams Sea Salt. Countertop: Bianco Venatino 2cm Quartz Slab – Polished Bathroom Sink Faucets: Kohler. Hardware: Top Knobs. Tile: Essex Basket Weave Mosaic. Lighting: Park Harbor. Boy’s Bedroom Lighting Lighting: Minka. Guest Bedroom Paint Color What a great grey! This grey paint color works great with any amount of light. Paint color is Repose Gray by Sherwin Williams. Lighting: Cost Plus World Market. Ensuite Paint Color Paint color is Sherwin Williams Cityscape SW7067. Countertop: Bianco Venatino 2cm Quartz Slab – Polished Bathroom Lighting: Pottery Barn. Open Shelving: Shelving: Rejuvenation. Brackets: Rejuvenation. Cabinet Hardware: Top Knobs. Bathroom Sink Faucet: Kohler. Tile: Essex Basket Weave Mosaic Main Floor Power Room This modern farmhouse bathroom features a white oak vanity with chunky white quartz countertop, marble subway tile wainscotting and hex floor tile. Paint colors is “Sherwin Williams Repose Gray“. Countertop: Statuario Quartz 2cm Slab – Polished. Wall Tile: Wainscoting- White Carrara 3 x 6 Honed. Chair Rail – Honed White Carrara. Floor Tile: Bedrosians. Vanity: Sagehill Designs. Sink: Kohler. Basement This open concept basement features a wet bar, media room and a wine cellar. Basement Lighting: “Hinkley Lighting. Cabinet Hardware: Top Knobs. Walk-out Basement Exterior Wall Sconces- “Capital Lighting”. Tiles are natural slate. Aerial View Beautiful and inspiring! Builder: AK Construction. (Instagram) Architect: Chad Nguyen. Be part of the Home Bunch community. Leave your comment. Posts of the Week @my100yearoldhome: Beautiful Homes of Instagram. @MyGeorgiaHouse: Beautiful Homes of Instagram. Tuesday: Bungalow Renovation Ideas. Trending on Pinterest: Hamptons-Inspired Home with Coastal Colors. Trending on Home Bunch: Open-Concept Family Home Design Ideas. Interior Design Ideas – The latest on home decor and paint colors. Follow Home Bunch on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram. You can follow my pins here: Pinterest/HomeBunch See more Inspiring Interior Design Ideas in my Archives. Popular Paint Color Posts: The Best Benjamin Moore Paint Colors 2016 Paint Color Ideas for your Home Interior Paint Color and Color Palette Pictures Interior Paint Color and Color Palette Ideas Inspiring Interior Paint Color Ideas Interior Paint Color and Color Palette New 2015 Paint Color Ideas Interior Paint Color Ideas Interior Design Ideas: Paint Color Interior Ideas: Paint Color More Paint Color Ideas Hi, everyone! The moment I saw this home I knew it would inspire many of you and I hope it did! There are so many great things about this home – the kitchen and even the layout itself. What a great family home! Have a Blessed day, my friends and I hope to see you back here tomorrow! with Love, Luciane from HomeBunch.com Follow @HomeBunch: Contact: “For your shopping convenience, this post might contain links to retailers where you can purchase the products (or similar) featured. I make a small commission if you use these links to make your purchase so thank you for your support!”

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Custom Craftsman-style Family Home

  Hello, my friends! How are you today? I really hope everything is great with you!

This classic style craftsman built by Willow Homes sits in the heart of Historic Avondale, a trendy suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. This home is the perfect mix of new construction meets vintage design. Willow Homes’ intention was to help blend this new home into its surrounding historical neighborhood and they found the right balance to create a home that is not beautiful but also welcoming and perfect for family life.

Take notes on paint colors, lighting and other sources shared in this post.

  Custom Craftsman-style Family Home

This home exudes charm with strong yet simple lines. The exterior paint colors are; Benjamin Moore 861 Shale for the upper body and Benjamin Moore 1547 Dragon’s Breath for the lower body.

Window trim, door trim, soffits, corner boards, gable brackets: Benjamin Moore 861 Shale.

Two-Toned Home

Siding is Smooth HardiPlank Lap Siding.

Roof: Tamko Weathered Wood.

Front Door & Brick

Front door is Craftsman with dentil mold below window (similar here). Notice the brick Craftsman columns.

Brick is Boral Brick Weracoba II Queen with white mortar.

Outdoor Sconces: Feiss – Hanging lantern from the same collection: Here.

Beautiful Planters: Here & Here.

Foyer

The front door opens to well-appointed foyer with grid board and batten chair rail . The grey wall paint color is Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams.

All furnishings and window treatments from Willow Design Studios.

Metal Base Consoles: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Beautiful & Affordable Clear Glass Globe Pendant: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Driftwood Table Lamp: Here.

Great Room

This Great room feels so inspiring to me. It’s cozy but it certainly has a lot of style and comfort. This space also features a vaulted coffered ceiling and a fireplace with wood burning insert and painted brick. Walls throughout this home are painted in is Sherwin Williams SW 7016 Mindful Gray in Flat finish.

Painted Fireplace Brick: Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Similar Chairs: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Black & White Pillows: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Rug: Here.

Chandelier

Chandelier: Mistana (50% off, only a few left) – with white beads: Here.

Trim

Passing the kitchen, you will find a dining room with Craftsman style built in bookcases.

Chandelier: here & here – similar.

Kitchen

The Great Room opens to a lovely kitchen with a very practical layout and an inspiring color scheme.

Range: Jenn-air 30” 5-burner slide in range.

Kitchen Sconces (above windows): Savoy House.

Similar Counterstools: Here, Here & Here.

Island Paint Color & Lighting

Blue-gray Kitchen Island Paint Color: Benjamin Moore HC-160 Knoxville Gray.

Kitchen Island Pendants: Wayfair – Other Affordable Pendants: here, here, here & here.

Dishwasher: Jenn-air.

Kitchen Sink: Kohler.

Perimeter Cabinet Paint Color

Perimeter Cabinet Paint Color: Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Beautiful Runners: Here (washable! Perfect for kitchens!), Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Hardwood Flooring: Precision Floors, Site finished 3” Red Oak Hardwood with Antique brown/classic gray custom mix – similar here.

Kitchen Faucet

Kitchen faucet is Delta in Matte Black.

Backsplash

Kitchen Backsplash is a 3×6 Matte white subway with silverado grout.

Accent Tile

Accent tile above range is Fan Club Ice White from Artistic Tile – similar: here.

Cabinetry & Hardware

Kitchen features custom cabinets and with shaker style doors and drawers with soft close.

Cabinet Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Interior Doors Paint Color (see pantry door on the right): Knoxville Gray by Benjamin Moore – semi-gloss.

Interior Doors: Masonite.

Refrigerator: Jenn-Air.

Spice & Oils

 It’s so easy to keep everything organized with this custom spice and oil compartment.

Pantry

The panty is conveniently located right in the kitchen and it features custom shelving.

Microwave: Jenn-Air.

Trim

Classic details were added to bring this home to the next level. Notice the Craftsman style trim on doors and the cove style crown. Wainscoting and trim are painted in Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Lighting: Selamat – Similar: Here.

Powder Room

The powder room features grid board and batten chair rail and an antique dresser turned into vanity. Walls are Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams – the lines you see are the reflection of the lighting.

Sink: Here.

Faucet is Delta.

Mirror: Uttermost.

Affordable Bathroom Vanities: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Landing Area – Home Office

The landing area is perfect for unwinding with a good book or to be used as a homework station for the kids. Paint color continues to be Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams.

Beautiful Chairs: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Tufted Ottoman: Here & Here.

Floating Desk

The floating desk is custom with trim, painted in Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove – semi-gloss.

Chair: Here.

Lighting

Lighting: Hudson Valley.

Laundry Room

Located upstairs, this laundry room features a custom folding cabinet/island and retro-style mosaic floor tile.

Hardware: Pulls

Tile: Retro matte white black rose hex with raven grout.

Beautiful Pendants: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Drying Racks: Here.

Similar Baskets: Here.

Kids Bathroom

Cabinet paint color is White Dove by Benjamin Moore. Vanity is custom.

Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Bath floor is penny rounds with sterling grout.

Faucet: Delta.

Plumbing Faucets: Delta.

Similar Vanity: Here.

Similar Sconces: Here, Here & Here.

Master Bedroom

The master bedroom features the same grey color found in the rest of the house; Sherwin Williams SW 7016 Mindful Gray.

Chandelier

Chandelier is by Aidan Gray AIDAN-L280CHAN – similar here.

Dreamy Chandeliers (for different spaces): here, here, here, here, here & here.

Greek Key

I am loving the combination of the custom Greek Key bed with the nightstand with Greek Key base.

Similar Nightstand: Here.

Master Bathroom

The master bathroom cabinets feature shaker style doors and drawers. Paint color is Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray. Arched mirrors are installed over a large custom mirror to give a layered feel to it.

Similar Arched Mirrors: here, here, here, here & here.

Cabinet Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Faucet: Delta.

Bathroom Sinks: Here.

Sconces: Aidan Gray.

Shower

Master Shower Wall is 4×16 Choice White Matte subway with standard gray grout.

Grid Board & Batten Bath Nook

The master bathroom also features a stunning bath nook with grid board and batten paneling. This idea deserves a pin!

Tub Filler: Delta.

  Many thanks to the builder for sharing all of the details above!

Builder: Willow Homes (Instagram)

Interior Design: Willow Design Studios.

Photography: Tommy Daspit Photography.

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Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

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If I am wrong, right me. If I am lost, guide me. If I start to give-up, keep me going.

Lead me in Light and Love”.

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with Love,

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Custom Craftsman-style Family Home

  Hello, my friends! How are you today? I really hope everything is great with you!

This classic style craftsman built by Willow Homes sits in the heart of Historic Avondale, a trendy suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. This home is the perfect mix of new construction meets vintage design. Willow Homes’ intention was to help blend this new home into its surrounding historical neighborhood and they found the right balance to create a home that is not beautiful but also welcoming and perfect for family life.

Take notes on paint colors, lighting and other sources shared in this post.

  Custom Craftsman-style Family Home

This home exudes charm with strong yet simple lines. The exterior paint colors are; Benjamin Moore 861 Shale for the upper body and Benjamin Moore 1547 Dragon’s Breath for the lower body.

Window trim, door trim, soffits, corner boards, gable brackets: Benjamin Moore 861 Shale.

Two-Toned Home

Siding is Smooth HardiPlank Lap Siding.

Roof: Tamko Weathered Wood.

Front Door & Brick

Front door is Craftsman with dentil mold below window (similar here). Notice the brick Craftsman columns.

Brick is Boral Brick Weracoba II Queen with white mortar.

Outdoor Sconces: Feiss – Hanging lantern from the same collection: Here.

Beautiful Planters: Here & Here.

Foyer

The front door opens to well-appointed foyer with grid board and batten chair rail . The grey wall paint color is Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams.

All furnishings and window treatments from Willow Design Studios.

Metal Base Consoles: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Beautiful & Affordable Clear Glass Globe Pendant: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Driftwood Table Lamp: Here.

Great Room

This Great room feels so inspiring to me. It’s cozy but it certainly has a lot of style and comfort. This space also features a vaulted coffered ceiling and a fireplace with wood burning insert and painted brick. Walls throughout this home are painted in is Sherwin Williams SW 7016 Mindful Gray in Flat finish.

Painted Fireplace Brick: Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Similar Chairs: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Black & White Pillows: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Rug: Here.

Chandelier

Chandelier: Mistana (50% off, only a few left) – with white beads: Here.

Trim

Passing the kitchen, you will find a dining room with Craftsman style built in bookcases.

Chandelier: here & here – similar.

Kitchen

The Great Room opens to a lovely kitchen with a very practical layout and an inspiring color scheme.

Range: Jenn-air 30” 5-burner slide in range.

Kitchen Sconces (above windows): Savoy House.

Similar Counterstools: Here, Here & Here.

Island Paint Color & Lighting

Blue-gray Kitchen Island Paint Color: Benjamin Moore HC-160 Knoxville Gray.

Kitchen Island Pendants: Wayfair – Other Affordable Pendants: here, here, here & here.

Dishwasher: Jenn-air.

Kitchen Sink: Kohler.

Perimeter Cabinet Paint Color

Perimeter Cabinet Paint Color: Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove.

Beautiful Runners: Here (washable! Perfect for kitchens!), Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Hardwood Flooring: Precision Floors, Site finished 3” Red Oak Hardwood with Antique brown/classic gray custom mix – similar here.

Kitchen Faucet

Kitchen faucet is Delta in Matte Black.

Backsplash

Kitchen Backsplash is a 3×6 Matte white subway with silverado grout.

Accent Tile

Accent tile above range is Fan Club Ice White from Artistic Tile – similar: here.

Cabinetry & Hardware

Kitchen features custom cabinets and with shaker style doors and drawers with soft close.

Cabinet Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Interior Doors Paint Color (see pantry door on the right): Knoxville Gray by Benjamin Moore – semi-gloss.

Interior Doors: Masonite.

Refrigerator: Jenn-Air.

Spice & Oils

 It’s so easy to keep everything organized with this custom spice and oil compartment.

Pantry

The panty is conveniently located right in the kitchen and it features custom shelving.

Microwave: Jenn-Air.

Trim

Classic details were added to bring this home to the next level. Notice the Craftsman style trim on doors and the cove style crown. Wainscoting and trim are painted in Benjamin Moore White Dove.

Lighting: Selamat – Similar: Here.

Powder Room

The powder room features grid board and batten chair rail and an antique dresser turned into vanity. Walls are Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams – the lines you see are the reflection of the lighting.

Sink: Here.

Faucet is Delta.

Mirror: Uttermost.

Affordable Bathroom Vanities: Here, Here, Here & Here.

Landing Area – Home Office

The landing area is perfect for unwinding with a good book or to be used as a homework station for the kids. Paint color continues to be Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams.

Beautiful Chairs: Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Similar Tufted Ottoman: Here & Here.

Floating Desk

The floating desk is custom with trim, painted in Benjamin Moore OC-17 White Dove – semi-gloss.

Chair: Here.

Lighting

Lighting: Hudson Valley.

Laundry Room

Located upstairs, this laundry room features a custom folding cabinet/island and retro-style mosaic floor tile.

Hardware: Pulls

Tile: Retro matte white black rose hex with raven grout.

Beautiful Pendants: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here & Here.

Drying Racks: Here.

Similar Baskets: Here.

Kids Bathroom

Cabinet paint color is White Dove by Benjamin Moore. Vanity is custom.

Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Bath floor is penny rounds with sterling grout.

Faucet: Delta.

Plumbing Faucets: Delta.

Similar Vanity: Here.

Similar Sconces: Here, Here & Here.

Master Bedroom

The master bedroom features the same grey color found in the rest of the house; Sherwin Williams SW 7016 Mindful Gray.

Chandelier

Chandelier is by Aidan Gray AIDAN-L280CHAN – similar here.

Dreamy Chandeliers (for different spaces): here, here, here, here, here & here.

Greek Key

I am loving the combination of the custom Greek Key bed with the nightstand with Greek Key base.

Similar Nightstand: Here.

Master Bathroom

The master bathroom cabinets feature shaker style doors and drawers. Paint color is Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray. Arched mirrors are installed over a large custom mirror to give a layered feel to it.

Similar Arched Mirrors: here, here, here, here & here.

Cabinet Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Faucet: Delta.

Bathroom Sinks: Here.

Sconces: Aidan Gray.

Shower

Master Shower Wall is 4×16 Choice White Matte subway with standard gray grout.

Grid Board & Batten Bath Nook

The master bathroom also features a stunning bath nook with grid board and batten paneling. This idea deserves a pin!

Tub Filler: Delta.

  Many thanks to the builder for sharing all of the details above!

Builder: Willow Homes (Instagram)

Interior Design: Willow Design Studios.

Photography: Tommy Daspit Photography.

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2019 New Year Home Tour.

Stone Cottage-style Home Design.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Canada.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram.

New Year, New Beautiful Homes of Instagram.

Before & After Home Renovation.

Newport Island Beach House.

California Duplex Home Design.

Stone Lake House.

Australian Beach House.

Family-friendly Home Design.

Georgian-Style Manor with Traditional Interiors.

Transitional Home Design.

Interior Design Ideas.

2018 Norton Children’s Hospital Raffle Home.

Custom Home with Artisan Craftsmanship Interiors.

Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: California Beach House.

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You can follow my pins here: Pinterest/HomeBunch

See more Inspiring Interior Design Ideas in my Archives.

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If I am wrong, right me. If I am lost, guide me. If I start to give-up, keep me going.

Lead me in Light and Love”.

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Beautiful Homes of Instagram: British Columbia

  British Columbia has a special place in my heart, and Langley is also a very special city to me because it’s where my husband and I got married many years ago. To say that I am happy to be featuring a home from there and getting to know Cristy of @centrestagedesign is quite an understatement. Cristy, as you will soon see, is a very talented interior designer and she has opened the doors of her home to not only give a house tour but also share all details of her custom home.

Keep reading and make sure to follow her on Instagram!

  “Hello readers! I am beyond excited to be sharing photos of my home with you. A month ago, I received a message from Luciane @homebunch asking me if she could feature our home on her blog series “Beautiful Homes of Instagram”. I felt a surge of excitement and disbelief! Me? Our home? I couldn’t believe it! I am constantly inspired by the homes Luciane features and hope that you can find some inspiration in reading about our home too.

My name is Christy and I live in Langley, British Columbia, Canada with my builder husband Erik and our four children. My husband grew up in the country and I was a city girl and right now we’re living the best of both worlds on our half acre property just on the outskirts of town. Erik works in construction and I am an interior designer and the owner of Centre Stage Design. Prior to becoming a designer, I spent six years in University to become a high school teacher then later completed my interior design program and opened my own design business.

The first house we ever owned was one we built before our first child was born. We scooped up a lot at a great price just after the recession in 2009 and started the build process with much less knowledge than we have today. Our first experience building was a learning curve but it taught us a lot about design and function. We’ve since done other new builds and a renovation and have gained much more experience. We completed our current build in the fall of 2017 and I can honestly say that I am still so happy with the elements of design in this house. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do and thanks so much for checking out our work!”

  Beautiful Homes of Instagram: British Columbia

As much as I love the look of the ever-popular white house, I wanted to do something different so I opted for a grey-green exterior colour called Monterey Taupe. Our home was designed by the incredibly talented Andy Friesen from Su Casa Design. To save on cost, we used one of Su Casa’s stock plans and modified it to our liking. Andy is wonderfully intuitive and incorporated every element we asked for from the circle window to the arched entry and the curved gable roofline. We used a variety of textures on our exterior including shake, plank and natural stone!

Main colour – “James Hardie Monterey Taupe”

Architect – Su Casa Design

Curb-Appeal

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that so much planning and design thought goes into creating a home! I love that this close-up shows off some of these details.

Trim colour – “Benjamin Moore Ashwood”

Stone – White Harbour

Lighting: here – similar

Doors – Masonite

Meet the Homeowner!

This is the beautiful and talented Christy of @centrestagedesign.

Foyer

Our front entrance still gets me excited. I paired our double front doors with double French doors to the office for a dramatic flare. I am also a huge fan of bringing the outdoors in. We are blessed to have a family member who owns a plant nursery, so we were able to incorporate trees, like this Ginkgo, into our decor.

Door Colour – “Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain”

Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”

Wainscoting colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Bench – Valley Direct Furniture (Local store) – similar here.

Bench Decor – QLiving Furniture – (Local Store) – similar here.

Clock – Urban Barn – Others: here, here & here.

Beautiful Foyer Rugs: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Home Office

Our office is a beautiful mix of traditional and modern elements that blend perfectly. Our RH partner’s desk adds a sophisticated touch while our chairs add a whimsical and fun flare. These chairs are actually outdoor chairs that I’ve layered with pillows and throws to make them cozy indoor chairs.

Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”

Wainscoting Colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Desk – Restoration Hardware – Others: here, here, here (many colors) & here.

Desk Chair: here – similar

Chairs & Pillows – Homesense

Dining Room

When I saw this Robert Abbey light fixture in a magazine, I knew I had to have it. Knock-offs just wouldn’t do so I splurged and got it! I think the wallpaper compliments the chandelier perfectly.

Chandelier: Robert Abbey

Making Memories

I’ll admit, we don’t use our dining room much and I would contemplate putting one in our next house but it’s a great space to use for entertaining during the holidays and special events. We both come from large families so when we do host, there’s always room!

Wallpaper: Wayfair.

Table – Valley Direct Furniture – similar here.

Dining Chairs: Local Store – similar here – Others: here, here, here, here & here.

Vases – Structube

Faux Leaves – Pier One

Great Room

Since the fireplace design is the focal point of our Great Room, I wanted something different than the everyday stone wall, so we bought some 6” tongue and groove cedar and stained the rough-edge backside and installed it in a chevron pattern. The bottom of the fireplace is a textured tile that was originally grey to look like concrete, but it didn’t work well with our warm wood tones, so I painted it white!

Wall Clock  – QLiving – similar here.

Similar Rugs: here & here.

Layers

I love playing with textures and layers as you can see from my sofa styling. The oversized knitted blanket and large chopped pillows make this a spot to melt into.

Sofa & Pillows – Valley Direct Furniture – similar Sofa & Velvet Pillows.

Nesting Coffee Tables – here.

Chandelier

This 50” double tiered Restoration Hardware chandelier was worth every penny! I swapped out the candelabra bulbs for tube shaped bulbs for modernity.

Beautiful Chandeliers: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen

I LOVE our kitchen with our large 5’ x 10’ island, veined quartz countertop and gold accents. Our kids eat breakfast at this island each morning and I am so grateful for the size and prep space it provides! I went with a thinner shaker style on these maple doors and did a flat slab on all the upper drawers for visual interest. We have a good-sized butler’s pantry off to the right which allows me to keep my kitchen clutter-free!

Bar Stools – Wayfair

Kitchen Hood Vent Shelf

I love the shelf above the hood vent! We opted against open shelving so building our hood vent this way allowed me the option to still do some shelf styling.

Large Glass Vase – Homesense – similar here.

Stems in Vase – Pier One.

Dishwasher: KitchenAid

Faucet: Delta.

Island Pendants

Our oversized 18” island pendant lights are perfect for our 10’ island. I had them custom powder coated to match the hardware.

Lighting – RH – Other Beautiful Lighting: here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color

Island Colour – Custom Stain (close to Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain)

Cabinet Colour – Sherwin Williams Pure White

Wine Fridge – Having a wine fridge in the island was a must. Need I say more?

Wine Fridge – Vinopro

Range

The hot topic here is our 48” dual fuel range! 6 burner gas cook top with a griddle and double electric ovens beneath. The best part is we found this range at Costco for a fraction of the price of a Wolf and have no complaints!

Range: Thor Kitchen Range

Hardware – Richelieu Transitional Metal Pull Champagne Bronze.

Breakfast Room

With having 4 kids I knew I wanted a round marble tabletop but couldn’t find one large enough within my budget. So, I found a 60” marble tabletop at a Restoration Hardware Outlet in Vancouver and had the metal base custom made then spray painted it gold! Voila, my design breathed into life and at a fraction of the cost.

Similar Dining Tables: here & here – rectangular

Chairs – Wayfair

Metal Base – Xtreme EffeX

Powder Room

I kept most of our house light and bright but played with a moody tone in the powder room. Our gold “lightsaber-like” wall sconces are paired with our gold faucet. I even went as far as having our towel bar and TP holder powder coated in gold to match!

Vanity Colour – Benjamin Moore Silver Song

Wall Colour – Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain

Vanity – Custom – similar here.

Faucet – Delta

Sconces – Wayfair

Hardware – here – similar

Stairwell

Instead of carpet I opted for hardwood stairs with white risers. I shifted away from the thick and heavy spindles and selected thin rails and posts. These white oak posts are only 4” wide.

Flooring (European White Oak) – Dansk Mount Shasta Collection “Frost” – similar here.

Handrail Stain – Sansin Silver Birch.

Loft Landing

I love the rustic feel here with the beams and cowhide rug!

Rug, Desk & Chair – Valley Direct Furniture – similar: Rug, Desk & Chair.

Black Croc Head, Plant, and basket decor – QLiving.

Wall Art – Design Lighting – Other Beautiful Artwork: here & here.

Girls Bedroom

Our two girls share a room and they requested a pink wall! We added diagonal tongue and grove cedar feature panels above each bed to make the illusion of a larger headboard.

Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Driftscape Tan” (It’s pink)

Feature Wall Stain – Sansin Silver Birch

Artwork: here & here – similar

Beds: here – similar

Jack & Jill Bathroom

I put a lot of thought into designing our kids’ bathroom cabinet. The pull-out drawers on the bottom function as footstools for the kids!

Cabinet Colour – “Benjamin Moore Silver Song”

Son’s Bedroom

I created a mountain mural wall for our 3 year old son. It took me 20 mins to tape and prep this mural plus an hour and a half to paint!

Wall Colours – “Benjamin Moore Newburg Green”, “Benjamin Moore Classic Grey” and  “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”.

Bed – Wayfair

Master Bedroom

Our master bedroom feature wall, with its vertical slats and moody jewel toned colour, makes me smile every time I see it.

Dark Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Essex Green”

Light Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Bed: here – similar

Bedding: here – similar

Beuatiful Nighstands: here, here, here, here & here.

Bench: here – similar

Decor

The gold lamps and art give contrast to our “Essex Green by Benjamin Moore” wall. Huge thank you to Langley Decorating Centre for supplying the Benjamin Moore paint for this fun project!

Lamps: here – similar

Color Scheme

When we built our house the trend towards natural wood tones was just emerging but I thought I’d give it a try on our master vanity and I’m so happy I did. Our shower glass seamlessly leads into the frosted glass of the toilet room. We went open concept on this bathroom…no doors!

Chandelier: here.

Master Bedroom Lounge

We have this little corner of the bedroom where I like to lounge and read. Kidding…I don’t have time with four kids!

Master Bathroom

The custom floating vanity and the curb-less shower bring a sleek feel to this spa-like bathroom.

Beautiful Vanities: here, here, here & here.

Sconces: Wayfair.

Tub

I kept our tile floors simple so that our black bathtub and vanity could be the focal points. While we don’t often use our tub, it’s a beautiful sight to look at!

Tub – Costco – similar here.

Bathmat – Homesense.

Shower

Take a closer look at our shower and you’ll see the simple yet gorgeously textured white chevron tiles paired with grey penny tiles. Double shower heads were a must.

Faucets

These bold black vanity faucets tie in nicely with the black hardware and tub!

Faucets – Wayfair

Theatre Room

I have to admit; this is a pretty cool room with its 3-tiered seating and 120” screen! Our brass wall sconces compliment our navy blue walls and ceiling.

Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Hale Navy”

Power Recliners – Costco Abbie Black Top-grain Leather Media Power Recliner – similar here, here, here.

Sconces: here – similar.

Projector – Amazon

Gym

The first question people ask when they see this room is, “do you actually use your gym?” Why yes, yes we do! We added 3 large glass panels, so this room doesn’t feel closed off from the rest of the basement.

Artwork: Ikea, BJÖRKSTA Picture, Jungle Journey.

Laundry Room

 Marble hex flooring adds character to our laundry room.

Marble Hex Tile: Local store – similar here.

Mudroom

Dark large-scale herringbone floors with light grout distract from the dirt that is ever-present in our mud room. Believe it or not, the kids actually do use these shoe drawers so the mud room stays decently organized! Shiplap on both sides for fun!

Cabinet Colour – “Benjamin Moore Classic Gray”

Tile Flooring – 12” x 24” Black Slate

Exterior Back

I don’t know what’s more impressive, the front or the back! We love the classy look of the black windows and the impressive size of our 17’ x 33’ deck. Our East facing lot also allows for some beautiful sunrises through our master deck in the mornings.

Windows – Morrison Windows Ltd.

Deck

 The beauty that surrounds us is all the decor I need in this space!

Outdoor Furniture: here – similar

Roof Inspiration

I just love the sloped roof!

Thank you for stopping by and checking out our home!

  Many thanks to Christy for sharing all of the details above.

Make sure to follow @centrestagedesign to see more photos of her beautiful home!

Photography – White Cloud Productions.

Architect – Su Casa Design.

  Best Sales of the Month:

Thank you for shopping through Home Bunch. I would be happy to assist you if you have any questions or are looking for something in particular. Feel free to contact me and always make sure to check dimensions before ordering. Happy shopping!

  Wayfair: Up to 70% OFF – Clearance!!!

  Serena & Lily: Up to 30% Off on Bedding & Beds!

  Joss & Main: Warehouse Clearout – Up to 70% off!

  Pottery Barn: Huge Sale! Save Up to 75% Off!

  One Kings Lane: High Quality Design Decor for Less.

  West Elm: Up to 70% off clearance!!!

  Anthropologie: See the super-popular Joanna Gaines Exclusive line!

  Urban Outfitters: Hip & Affordable Home Decor.

  Horchow: High Quality Furniture and Decor. Up to 30% off the entire site!

  Nordstrom: Up to 40% OFF. New Decor!

  Posts of the Week:

Reinvented Classic Kitchen Design.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Fixer Upper.

Empty Nester Townhouse Design Ideas.

Small Lot Modern Farmhouse.

2019 New Year Home Tour.

Modern Farmhouse with Front Porch.

Florida Beach House Interior Design.

Small lot Beach House.

Coastal Farmhouse Home Decor.

Beach House Interior Design Ideas.

Home Bunch’s Top 5: Cabinet Paint Colors.

Tailored Interiors.

Florida Home with a Cottage Farmhouse Twist.

Dark Cedar Shaker Exterior.

Classic Colonial Home Design.

Family-friendly Home Design. Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

Follow me on Instagram: @HomeBunch

You can follow my pins here: Pinterest/HomeBunch

See more Inspiring Interior Design Ideas in my Archives.

“Dear God,

If I am wrong, right me. If I am lost, guide me. If I start to give-up, keep me going.

Lead me in Light and Love”.

Have a wonderful day, my friends and we’ll talk again tomorrow.”

with Love,

Luciane from HomeBunch.com

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Beautiful Homes of Instagram: British Columbia

  British Columbia has a special place in my heart, and Langley is also a very special city to me because it’s where my husband and I got married many years ago. To say that I am happy to be featuring a home from there and getting to know Cristy of @centrestagedesign is quite an understatement. Cristy, as you will soon see, is a very talented interior designer and she has opened the doors of her home to not only give a house tour but also share all details of her custom home.

Keep reading and make sure to follow her on Instagram!

  “Hello readers! I am beyond excited to be sharing photos of my home with you. A month ago, I received a message from Luciane @homebunch asking me if she could feature our home on her blog series “Beautiful Homes of Instagram”. I felt a surge of excitement and disbelief! Me? Our home? I couldn’t believe it! I am constantly inspired by the homes Luciane features and hope that you can find some inspiration in reading about our home too.

My name is Christy and I live in Langley, British Columbia, Canada with my builder husband Erik and our four children. My husband grew up in the country and I was a city girl and right now we’re living the best of both worlds on our half acre property just on the outskirts of town. Erik works in construction and I am an interior designer and the owner of Centre Stage Design. Prior to becoming a designer, I spent six years in University to become a high school teacher then later completed my interior design program and opened my own design business.

The first house we ever owned was one we built before our first child was born. We scooped up a lot at a great price just after the recession in 2009 and started the build process with much less knowledge than we have today. Our first experience building was a learning curve but it taught us a lot about design and function. We’ve since done other new builds and a renovation and have gained much more experience. We completed our current build in the fall of 2017 and I can honestly say that I am still so happy with the elements of design in this house. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do and thanks so much for checking out our work!”

  Beautiful Homes of Instagram: British Columbia

As much as I love the look of the ever-popular white house, I wanted to do something different so I opted for a grey-green exterior colour called Monterey Taupe. Our home was designed by the incredibly talented Andy Friesen from Su Casa Design. To save on cost, we used one of Su Casa’s stock plans and modified it to our liking. Andy is wonderfully intuitive and incorporated every element we asked for from the circle window to the arched entry and the curved gable roofline. We used a variety of textures on our exterior including shake, plank and natural stone!

Main colour – “James Hardie Monterey Taupe”

Architect – Su Casa Design

Curb-Appeal

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that so much planning and design thought goes into creating a home! I love that this close-up shows off some of these details.

Trim colour – “Benjamin Moore Ashwood”

Stone – White Harbour

Lighting: here – similar

Doors – Masonite

Meet the Homeowner!

This is the beautiful and talented Christy of @centrestagedesign.

Foyer

Our front entrance still gets me excited. I paired our double front doors with double French doors to the office for a dramatic flare. I am also a huge fan of bringing the outdoors in. We are blessed to have a family member who owns a plant nursery, so we were able to incorporate trees, like this Ginkgo, into our decor.

Door Colour – “Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain”

Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”

Wainscoting colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Bench – Valley Direct Furniture (Local store) – similar here.

Bench Decor – QLiving Furniture – (Local Store) – similar here.

Clock – Urban Barn – Others: here, here & here.

Beautiful Foyer Rugs: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Home Office

Our office is a beautiful mix of traditional and modern elements that blend perfectly. Our RH partner’s desk adds a sophisticated touch while our chairs add a whimsical and fun flare. These chairs are actually outdoor chairs that I’ve layered with pillows and throws to make them cozy indoor chairs.

Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”

Wainscoting Colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Desk – Restoration Hardware – Others: here, here, here (many colors) & here.

Desk Chair: here – similar

Chairs & Pillows – Homesense

Dining Room

When I saw this Robert Abbey light fixture in a magazine, I knew I had to have it. Knock-offs just wouldn’t do so I splurged and got it! I think the wallpaper compliments the chandelier perfectly.

Chandelier: Robert Abbey

Making Memories

I’ll admit, we don’t use our dining room much and I would contemplate putting one in our next house but it’s a great space to use for entertaining during the holidays and special events. We both come from large families so when we do host, there’s always room!

Wallpaper: Wayfair.

Table – Valley Direct Furniture – similar here.

Dining Chairs: Local Store – similar here – Others: here, here, here, here & here.

Vases – Structube

Faux Leaves – Pier One

Great Room

Since the fireplace design is the focal point of our Great Room, I wanted something different than the everyday stone wall, so we bought some 6” tongue and groove cedar and stained the rough-edge backside and installed it in a chevron pattern. The bottom of the fireplace is a textured tile that was originally grey to look like concrete, but it didn’t work well with our warm wood tones, so I painted it white!

Wall Clock  – QLiving – similar here.

Similar Rugs: here & here.

Layers

I love playing with textures and layers as you can see from my sofa styling. The oversized knitted blanket and large chopped pillows make this a spot to melt into.

Sofa & Pillows – Valley Direct Furniture – similar Sofa & Velvet Pillows.

Nesting Coffee Tables – here.

Chandelier

This 50” double tiered Restoration Hardware chandelier was worth every penny! I swapped out the candelabra bulbs for tube shaped bulbs for modernity.

Beautiful Chandeliers: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen

I LOVE our kitchen with our large 5’ x 10’ island, veined quartz countertop and gold accents. Our kids eat breakfast at this island each morning and I am so grateful for the size and prep space it provides! I went with a thinner shaker style on these maple doors and did a flat slab on all the upper drawers for visual interest. We have a good-sized butler’s pantry off to the right which allows me to keep my kitchen clutter-free!

Bar Stools – Wayfair

Kitchen Hood Vent Shelf

I love the shelf above the hood vent! We opted against open shelving so building our hood vent this way allowed me the option to still do some shelf styling.

Large Glass Vase – Homesense – similar here.

Stems in Vase – Pier One.

Dishwasher: KitchenAid

Faucet: Delta.

Island Pendants

Our oversized 18” island pendant lights are perfect for our 10’ island. I had them custom powder coated to match the hardware.

Lighting – RH – Other Beautiful Lighting: here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color

Island Colour – Custom Stain (close to Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain)

Cabinet Colour – Sherwin Williams Pure White

Wine Fridge – Having a wine fridge in the island was a must. Need I say more?

Wine Fridge – Vinopro

Range

The hot topic here is our 48” dual fuel range! 6 burner gas cook top with a griddle and double electric ovens beneath. The best part is we found this range at Costco for a fraction of the price of a Wolf and have no complaints!

Range: Thor Kitchen Range

Hardware – Richelieu Transitional Metal Pull Champagne Bronze.

Breakfast Room

With having 4 kids I knew I wanted a round marble tabletop but couldn’t find one large enough within my budget. So, I found a 60” marble tabletop at a Restoration Hardware Outlet in Vancouver and had the metal base custom made then spray painted it gold! Voila, my design breathed into life and at a fraction of the cost.

Similar Dining Tables: here & here – rectangular

Chairs – Wayfair

Metal Base – Xtreme EffeX

Powder Room

I kept most of our house light and bright but played with a moody tone in the powder room. Our gold “lightsaber-like” wall sconces are paired with our gold faucet. I even went as far as having our towel bar and TP holder powder coated in gold to match!

Vanity Colour – Benjamin Moore Silver Song

Wall Colour – Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain

Vanity – Custom – similar here.

Faucet – Delta

Sconces – Wayfair

Hardware – here – similar

Stairwell

Instead of carpet I opted for hardwood stairs with white risers. I shifted away from the thick and heavy spindles and selected thin rails and posts. These white oak posts are only 4” wide.

Flooring (European White Oak) – Dansk Mount Shasta Collection “Frost” – similar here.

Handrail Stain – Sansin Silver Birch.

Loft Landing

I love the rustic feel here with the beams and cowhide rug!

Rug, Desk & Chair – Valley Direct Furniture – similar: Rug, Desk & Chair.

Black Croc Head, Plant, and basket decor – QLiving.

Wall Art – Design Lighting – Other Beautiful Artwork: here & here.

Girls Bedroom

Our two girls share a room and they requested a pink wall! We added diagonal tongue and grove cedar feature panels above each bed to make the illusion of a larger headboard.

Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Driftscape Tan” (It’s pink)

Feature Wall Stain – Sansin Silver Birch

Artwork: here & here – similar

Beds: here – similar

Jack & Jill Bathroom

I put a lot of thought into designing our kids’ bathroom cabinet. The pull-out drawers on the bottom function as footstools for the kids!

Cabinet Colour – “Benjamin Moore Silver Song”

Son’s Bedroom

I created a mountain mural wall for our 3 year old son. It took me 20 mins to tape and prep this mural plus an hour and a half to paint!

Wall Colours – “Benjamin Moore Newburg Green”, “Benjamin Moore Classic Grey” and  “Sherwin Williams Repose Grey”.

Bed – Wayfair

Master Bedroom

Our master bedroom feature wall, with its vertical slats and moody jewel toned colour, makes me smile every time I see it.

Dark Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Essex Green”

Light Wall Colour – “Sherwin Williams Pure White”

Bed: here – similar

Bedding: here – similar

Beuatiful Nighstands: here, here, here, here & here.

Bench: here – similar

Decor

The gold lamps and art give contrast to our “Essex Green by Benjamin Moore” wall. Huge thank you to Langley Decorating Centre for supplying the Benjamin Moore paint for this fun project!

Lamps: here – similar

Color Scheme

When we built our house the trend towards natural wood tones was just emerging but I thought I’d give it a try on our master vanity and I’m so happy I did. Our shower glass seamlessly leads into the frosted glass of the toilet room. We went open concept on this bathroom…no doors!

Chandelier: here.

Master Bedroom Lounge

We have this little corner of the bedroom where I like to lounge and read. Kidding…I don’t have time with four kids!

Master Bathroom

The custom floating vanity and the curb-less shower bring a sleek feel to this spa-like bathroom.

Beautiful Vanities: here, here, here & here.

Sconces: Wayfair.

Tub

I kept our tile floors simple so that our black bathtub and vanity could be the focal points. While we don’t often use our tub, it’s a beautiful sight to look at!

Tub – Costco – similar here.

Bathmat – Homesense.

Shower

Take a closer look at our shower and you’ll see the simple yet gorgeously textured white chevron tiles paired with grey penny tiles. Double shower heads were a must.

Faucets

These bold black vanity faucets tie in nicely with the black hardware and tub!

Faucets – Wayfair

Theatre Room

I have to admit; this is a pretty cool room with its 3-tiered seating and 120” screen! Our brass wall sconces compliment our navy blue walls and ceiling.

Wall Colour – “Benjamin Moore Hale Navy”

Power Recliners – Costco Abbie Black Top-grain Leather Media Power Recliner – similar here, here, here.

Sconces: here – similar.

Projector – Amazon

Gym

The first question people ask when they see this room is, “do you actually use your gym?” Why yes, yes we do! We added 3 large glass panels, so this room doesn’t feel closed off from the rest of the basement.

Artwork: Ikea, BJÖRKSTA Picture, Jungle Journey.

Laundry Room

 Marble hex flooring adds character to our laundry room.

Marble Hex Tile: Local store – similar here.

Mudroom

Dark large-scale herringbone floors with light grout distract from the dirt that is ever-present in our mud room. Believe it or not, the kids actually do use these shoe drawers so the mud room stays decently organized! Shiplap on both sides for fun!

Cabinet Colour – “Benjamin Moore Classic Gray”

Tile Flooring – 12” x 24” Black Slate

Exterior Back

I don’t know what’s more impressive, the front or the back! We love the classy look of the black windows and the impressive size of our 17’ x 33’ deck. Our East facing lot also allows for some beautiful sunrises through our master deck in the mornings.

Windows – Morrison Windows Ltd.

Deck

 The beauty that surrounds us is all the decor I need in this space!

Outdoor Furniture: here – similar

Roof Inspiration

I just love the sloped roof!

Thank you for stopping by and checking out our home!

  Many thanks to Christy for sharing all of the details above.

Make sure to follow @centrestagedesign to see more photos of her beautiful home!

Photography – White Cloud Productions.

Architect – Su Casa Design.

  Best Sales of the Month:

Thank you for shopping through Home Bunch. I would be happy to assist you if you have any questions or are looking for something in particular. Feel free to contact me and always make sure to check dimensions before ordering. Happy shopping!

  Wayfair: Up to 70% OFF – Clearance!!!

  Serena & Lily: Up to 30% Off on Bedding & Beds!

  Joss & Main: Warehouse Clearout – Up to 70% off!

  Pottery Barn: Huge Sale! Save Up to 75% Off!

  One Kings Lane: High Quality Design Decor for Less.

  West Elm: Up to 70% off clearance!!!

  Anthropologie: See the super-popular Joanna Gaines Exclusive line!

  Urban Outfitters: Hip & Affordable Home Decor.

  Horchow: High Quality Furniture and Decor. Up to 30% off the entire site!

  Nordstrom: Up to 40% OFF. New Decor!

  Posts of the Week:

Reinvented Classic Kitchen Design.

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: Fixer Upper.

Empty Nester Townhouse Design Ideas.

Small Lot Modern Farmhouse.

2019 New Year Home Tour.

Modern Farmhouse with Front Porch.

Florida Beach House Interior Design.

Small lot Beach House.

Coastal Farmhouse Home Decor.

Beach House Interior Design Ideas.

Home Bunch’s Top 5: Cabinet Paint Colors.

Tailored Interiors.

Florida Home with a Cottage Farmhouse Twist.

Dark Cedar Shaker Exterior.

Classic Colonial Home Design.

Family-friendly Home Design. Grey Kitchen Paint Colors.

Follow me on Instagram: @HomeBunch

You can follow my pins here: Pinterest/HomeBunch

See more Inspiring Interior Design Ideas in my Archives.

“Dear God,

If I am wrong, right me. If I am lost, guide me. If I start to give-up, keep me going.

Lead me in Light and Love”.

Have a wonderful day, my friends and we’ll talk again tomorrow.”

with Love,

Luciane from HomeBunch.com

Come Follow me on

Come Follow me on

Get Home Bunch Posts Via Email

Contact Luciane

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