Parade of Homes - House #2 - Favorite Kitchen!

I took so many pictures of this kitchen, that I'm devoting a whole entire post just to this space.

It is beautiful! I don't even think the pictures do it justice (especially because I freaking had my camera on manual focus instead of auto focus and didn't notice it right away, ugh - sorry!)

I really love the countertops. They are "Alpine White" granite. I think this may be what I want to do in my kitchen! Slightly more durable than marble but same overall impact. Even my dad approved :)

What do you think?

This barn door kills me. I LOVE it!

I will share the rest of this house with you in my next post! Stay tuned!

Parade of Homes 2013 - House #1

This house I pretty much call the "Restoration Hardware" house :) I loved the furnishings and decor, The gray kitchen cabinets = AMAZING! I also really loved the paneling. What do you think?

Basement:

Bathroom and office nook off of the hallway leading to the garage:



Parade of Homes 2013 - Sneak Peek!!

My wonderful father (and sister!) and I spent Father's Day trekking through 13 beautiful houses during our city's Parade of Homes!

I have a lot of photo editing to do (mostly because during some point I accidentally  switched my camera from auto focus to manual focus without knowing it, and some of the pics are a little blurry, blah!)

But here is a sneak peak of the kitchen in my favorite house:

Stay tuned this week for more! You will LOVE these houses!

Memorial Day & Home Tour!

Happy Memorial Day!

Words cannot express my gratitude to those who serve our country and fight for our freedom <3 Our community does an amazing job of commemorating this day with a parade that happens to go right down our street! It's pretty awesome. 

In addition, Evan and I took advantage of this three day weekend by working on the house (what else!) Mostly a little spring cleaning that we've fallen behind on, but we also mulched the beds in the front yard, trimmed the hedges, and planted flowers. Since the house was looking so nice I decided to snap some pictures! It's been awhile since I've done a "whole house tour". 

We kept commenting this weekend how far our house has come in a year! Last year at the time, we had only JUST started demolition of the walls in the kitchen, the mudroom and half bathroom downstairs hadn't been demolished and re-tiled yet and we hadn't even touched the second floor bathroom! What a difference a year makes!

(I love this dining room table more and more every day!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!