The Bois Bungalow

We are in full kitchen renovation mode at The Bois Bungalow. I have been looking forward to this reno for years now... We have added an upper cabinet, microwave/range hood, moved cabinetry, removed some counters and backsplash. We are beginning the finishing of the butcher block counters and have several other small projects going. Here is a sneak peek of some of what will be going in the kitchen: New cabinet and microwave/range hood. We will build doors to match our existing cabinets. We are moving the stove under here. Our solid oak butcher block counters Ikea Hammarp Butcher Block The countertops before being treated: This is the underside of the counters. We are sealing them with Waterlox. We will finish the tops when they are installed.  Our apron front sink from Ikea and faucet from Amazon Links: Ikea Domsjo Sink Delta Cassidy Faucet (chrome) Garbage disposal! I am so excited for this...  Waste King Garbage Disposal ...

Happy winter! It has been a horrible winter here this year and we have been buried in ice and snow... We are 8 cancelled school days in and the snow is still here. I'm hoping this melts soon!  I have not posted in a while, but there has not been much to blog about. We have done a lot of gardening and some woodwork around the house. I will update with pictures and hope to have some big updates in the next couple months. For now, here are the pictures from the past year.  The house in the spring. I am longing for sunny days like this again.  We purchased a lot of compost this year to create additional garden beds on the property. This was just one load.  We installed a new basketball hoop for our wisteria. Thomas has to break the concrete off of the old one.  We built a new door for the shed. Here is the before picture from years ago: ... and after! It is so satisfying seeing this project complete.  We fostered 5 kit...

We finished up the woodwork in the parlor and now just have two windows left before we are done with woodwork! Finishing sanding the woodwork after stripping and scraping it. Staining Another finished window! We had to replace several boards around the dining room windows because of damage and radiator holes. We also had to fill in the gaps from where the colonnades and bookshelves were removed in the 30's. The previous owners had filled the gaps with plywood, so we matched the original oak with new oak. This November, we finally refinished our main living area floors! It was a lot of square footage, but was pretty simple compared to our previous experiences (kitchen, bedrooms, and bathroom). These floors are original to the house and are fir and oak. We knew we wanted to go with the same dark walnut color that we have done all of the other floors and woodwork in. Here are the floors before sanding: First we sanded the floors down ...