Before:

After:

Before:

After:

Master Bathroom:

Doorknobs are also starting to be installed!

Kitchen:

Hall Bathroom:

Master Bathroom:

All the backsplashes will be in travertine tile that matches the other tilework in the house.

Bathrooms: I chose remnants for both the bathrooms that looked very close to this (remants save you a lot of money):

Kitchen: And for the kitchen I chose Santa Cecilia:

Either picture is not really accurate, but it gives you an idea of where I’m going - very neutral. The granite is a solid 3cm (the good stuff), and has a very simple flat edge. (I didn’t want anything too fancy.) They’re coming to do the measure/”template” for it tomorrow morning.

Kitchen Pendants: These will go above the island and above the sink.

Dining Room: This Chandelier matches the pendants, and both are a part of an Energy Star collection of lighting.

Stairwell: The stairwell will get a simple sconce. You can see some more of the detail of the glass and metal (this matches the other two lights above)

Hall Bathroom Vanity Light:

Master Bathroom Vanity Light:

Porch Lighting: Since I’m going with the clean lines of a Mission Style, and some accents are going that direction, I thought I’d commit with the light.

Secondary Bedroom Lighting: As far as bedroom lighting, each one has a “boob” light that looks like this (this is a picture of it already installed):

Master Bedroom: And the master has the 4 can lights, and a ceiling fan in the middle. I couldn’t find a picture of the fan we got, but this one is similar. We will be NOT putting a light kit on the fan (I detest those - yuck!)

The door will also have a “dentil shelf” that is included just below the windows that gives it that traditional craftsman style look. I like how the bottom part of the door looks similar to the interior doors, and the upper part echo’s some of the roundness of the other doors and kitchen cabinets. Here’s what the shelf will probably look like:

There’s always the risk with ordering something site-unseen. Let’s hope it works out well this time.

We picked the faucet for the kitchen. It has a nice basic shape, but will look good with the other brushed nickel hardware and granite countertops.

We picked some interesting heat registers to go over the areas of wood floor. (We could have just used white ones… but I guess I cared a little too much what it would look like.)

Door hardware is brushed nickel, with knobs that are rather shallow and flat. I think they’ll match nicely with the doors and trim.

The cabinet hardware is long and thin. A mixture of traditional and modern. It will add some real “bling” to the cabinets and correspond with the other brushed nickel around the house.

And toilets. Man, I never knew how difficult it would be to shop for toilets. There are so many things to compare and all of them seem different. Low flush, eco-friendly, chair-height, etc. I ended up choosing two different toilets styles, one for each bathroom. The winner will also be put downstairs.

Can covers. Now how exciting are those?

Kitchen backsplash. Since the kitchen is the center of this home, and the big selling point - I decided on a glass tile for the backsplash. It has a brick pattern that picks up the floor and cabinet colors. (It’s the one on the lower right.)

This is the new trim I had mentioned in an earlier post (Above). Since I didn’t have the ceiling height of the example I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to make the wall board slightly shorter. We had some tricky points on making it work on the inperfect walls, but I think it’s looking rather sharp.

We went with a simple craftsman style trim on the windows and doors and chose a door with a “Santa Fe” style. Since most modern builder-grade homes don’t use window trim, I thought by trimming out the windows in this house we could give it a more traditional charm.